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Do you have an Android/Apple device? There's tons of excellent timer apps available online that have a myriad of features beneficial to keeping cube times. I personally recommend Twisty Timer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aricneto.twistytimer&hl=en
It's not a mat, but if you set it on a table in front of you it should be pretty close and get the job done at as budget of a price as you're going to find.
Twisty Timer on Android. I loooove it. My only issue is that I can't import from certain other timers (cough cstimer cough), so I lost all of my original times from when I first started.
Ah, I don't feel bad recommending Twisty Timer then. https://imgur.com/a/vywNv
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aricneto.twistytimer
Hop into the Beta for some sick chart upgrades.
I would recommend you the Twisty Timer app. It's free, open source, super customisable and ad-free.
Nevertheless, keep on cubing!
I like that this timer shows the scramble in the lower corner. My current one doesn't do that, although it does show the scramble sequence with each solve time.
EDIT: After messing with this app for a couple mintues, I think it's now my favorite. Glad I saw this post!
Check out cstimer.net and qqtimer.net for Desktop. No idea how good those are for mobile, but I guess they should be fine. For Android check out Twisty Timer if you want an app.
I shaved 20 seconds off my solves in a week by focusing on spamming F2L look ahead until my pauses minimized and my recognition got faster. F2L is a huge time sink. I went from 1:08 to 46s Ao12 in 7 days, it was ridonkulous.
I still use 2look OLL by the way, not sure if people usually learn full OLL before PLL but the reverse felt right to me.
I use Twisty Timer, the Beta is so great with the extra chart features. https://imgur.com/a/vywNv
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aricneto.twistytimer
Twisty Timer is a good choice.
Twisty Timer is far and a way the best timing app for Android, IMO.
SO I just spent a ton of time making this reply for a returning cuber and it took long because of the format getting links finding names and all but is helpful and I need to share before I have a mental breakdown
Cube Recommendations [Links are to cubicle.us for reference. Feel free to look at other shops]
2x2
*Moyu WeiPo
*MoFang JiaoShi
*KungFu YueHun
*Moyu LingPo
*Yuxin
3x3
*WeiLong GTS [GTS M^1 ]
*Valk 3 [Magnetic^1 ]
*GAN 356 Air [Advanced] [Ultimate] [Master] [Grand Master] [Ultimate Magnetic (UM)^1 ]
*Yan 3
*MoFang JiaoShi
4x4
*QiYi WuQue
*MoYu AoSu [Mini]
*Yuxin
Pyraminx
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*X-Man Bell Magnetic^1
Skewb
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*QiYi QiCheng
*DaYan
*YJ GuanLong
^1 Magnets are a thing in cubes; they help make the cube more stable and more controllable. They also give more of a clicky feeling.
Timers
Android/Google Play Store
*Twisty Timer
There's a ton of room for error in a lot of the formatting please let me know if something doesn't work.
Twisty timer on android.
Cube Recommendations [Links are to cubicle.us for reference. Feel free to look at other shops]
2x2
*Moyu WeiPo
*MoFang JiaoShi
*KungFu YueHun
*Moyu LingPo
*Yuxin
3x3
*WeiLong GTS [GTS M^1 ]
*Valk 3 [Magnetic^1 ]
*GAN 356 Air [Advanced] [Ultimate] [Master] [Grand Master] [Ultimate Magnetic (UM)^1 ]
*Yan 3
*MoFang JiaoShi
4x4
*QiYi WuQue
*MoYu AoSu [Mini]
*Yuxin
Pyraminx
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*X-Man Bell Magnetic^1
Skewb
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*QiYi QiCheng
*DaYan
*YJ GuanLong
^1 Magnets are a thing in cubes; they help make the cube more stable and more controllable. They also give more of a clicky feeling.
Timers
Android/Google Play Store
*Twisty Timer
There's a ton of room for error in a lot of the formatting please let me know if something doesn't work. This should be enough and holy fuck that took forever happy cubing :)
Edit: The bulleted list didn't work for some reason; asterisk still serve the purpose I guess.
From my experience most Android users like twist timer : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aricneto.twistytimer
now i think most andoid users prefer Twisty Timer. it has a great feature set and clean material design.
Twisty Timer Has graphs, and I think it's the best timer for Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aricneto.twistytimer
This is the best one imo
I use Twisty Timer and I love it. Looks great, works great, no complaints here!
Thank you!
The app is beautiful and have lots of features, as well. It's called "Twisty Timer" and you can find it on Google Play. It's made by /u/Geraffe_Disapproves -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/48imzh/android_twisty_timer_a_fully_customizable
Cube Recommendations [Links are to cubicle.us for reference. Feel free to look at other shops]
2x2
*Moyu WeiPo
*MoFang JiaoShi
*KungFu YueHun
*Moyu LingPo
*Yuxin
3x3
*WeiLong GTS [GTS M^1 ]
*Valk 3 [Magnetic^1 ]
*GAN 356 Air [Advanced] [Ultimate] [Master] [Grand Master] [Ultimate Magnetic (UM)^1 ]
*Yan 3
*MoFang JiaoShi
4x4
*QiYi WuQue
*MoYu AoSu [Mini]
*Yuxin
Pyraminx
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*X-Man Bell Magnetic^1
Skewb
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*QiYi QiCheng
*DaYan
*YJ GuanLong
^1 Magnets are a thing in cubes; they help make the cube more stable and more controllable. They also give more of a clicky feeling.
Timers Recommendations
Android/Google Play Store
*Twisty Timer
If this all went over you're head, feel free to check out the wiki for which cubes to buy
Also, these are only recommendations only for some of the most common cubes and timers. There's tons of other cubes and timers but hopefully this will work for now.
There's a ton of room for error in a lot of the formatting please let me know if something doesn't work. This should be enough happy cubing :)
Cube Recommendations [Links are to cubicle.us for reference. Feel free to look at other shops]
2x2
*Moyu WeiPo
*MoFang JiaoShi
*KungFu YueHun
*Moyu LingPo
*Yuxin
3x3
*WeiLong GTS [GTS M^1 ]
*Valk 3 [Magnetic^1 ]
*GAN 356 Air [Advanced] [Ultimate] [Master] [Grand Master] [Ultimate Magnetic (UM)^1 ]
*Yan 3
*MoFang JiaoShi
4x4
*QiYi WuQue
*MoYu AoSu [Mini]
*Yuxin
Pyraminx
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*X-Man Bell Magnetic^1
Skewb
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*QiYi QiCheng
*DaYan
*YJ GuanLong
^1 Magnets are a thing in cubes; they help make the cube more stable and more controllable. They also give more of a clicky feeling.
Timers
Android/Google Play Store
*Twisty Timer
If this all went over you're head, feel free to check out the wiki for which cubes to buy
Also, these are only recommendations only for some of the most common cubes and timers. There's tons of other cubes and timers but hopefully this will work for now.
There's a ton of room for error in a lot of the formatting please let me know if something doesn't work. This should be enough happy cubing :)
There's a lot of really great phone apps for running, I personally use this one
Hello, congrats! I see you Are using a phone timer, try this one you can learn algs etc. There
Hello, congrats! I see you Are using a phone timer, try this one you can learn algs etc. There
Looks like Twisty Timer
The dataset consists of about 2400 times from myself for solving a Rubik's cube since february 2017. They were recorded using block keeper and TwistyTimer. The visualization was done using the matplotlib, numpy and pandas libraries for python. Pandas and numpy for importing, selecting and processing data, matplotlib for plotting. You can find the raw data together with the code for making the plot here. Avgn is the average of the last n solves.
Mobile : Twisty Timer
PC: Block Keeper
This isn't quite what you asked for but heres some of the newest stuff.
Cube Recommendations [Links are to cubicle.us for reference. Feel free to look at other shops]
2x2
*Moyu WeiPo
*MoFang JiaoShi
*KungFu YueHun
*Moyu LingPo
*Yuxin
*Guoguan Xinghen [Xinghen M^1 ]
3x3
*WeiLong GTS [GTS M^1 ] [GTS2] [GTS2 M Lite^1 ] [GTS2 M^1 ]
*Valk 3 [Magnetic^1 ]
*GAN 356 Air [Advanced] [Ultimate] [Master] [Grand Master] [Ultimate Magnetic (UM)^1 ]
*Yan 3
*MoFang JiaoShi
4x4
*QiYi WuQue
*MoYu AoSu [Mini]
*Yuxin
5x5
*QiYi WuShuang
*Moyu Weichaung GTS
*MoFang JiaoShi MF5S
Pyraminx
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*X-Man Bell Magnetic^1
Skewb
*Moyu [Magnetic^1 ]
*QiYi QiCheng
*DaYan
*YJ GuanLong
^1 Magnets are a thing in cubes; they help make the cube more stable and more controllable. They also give more of a clicky feeling.
Timers
Android/Google Play Store
*Twisty Timer
If this all went over you're head, feel free to check out the wiki for which cubes to buy
Also, these are only recommendations only for some of the most common cubes and timers. There's tons of other cubes and timers but hopefully this will work for now.
There's a ton of room for error in a lot of the formatting please let me know if something doesn't work. This should be enough happy cubing :)
You should try out Twisty Timer.