MY FIRST SUB 10 3x3 AVG!!! | 9.95 Official Rubik's Cube Average and 7.74 Single (PR's)

FINALLY, it's been a VERY long time coming...
I can't believe I finally did my main cubing goal for the last 2 years... I always viewed the sub-10 ppl as 3x3 "Grand Masters." Now that I am sub-10, I have learned, I'm far from a master 😂
Going into this round, I didn't bring my main and decided to use a WRM 2019.
Somehow, I did well on it (I did have a few lockups though) I have tried and thrown sooooo many rounds of 3x3 with this burden of trying to go for a goal that felt mentally impossible. The last PR single I had was my first sub-10 BPA, and I had to get a REALLY fast time to get it. T
his time, solve 1 was bad but usable in dire circumstances.
The second solve, I got a 7.74!!! It was a decent F2L with Cross+1 planned and I got an OLL skip T-Perm.
On solve 3: I had an easy Cross+1 but had a 2 second lockup on the first pair
but the rest of the F2L was easy and had good LL exec, so I clutched a 10.00 flat 😂
On solve 4: I used Freefop and solved 3 edges and a first pair (And inserted the cross edge) The next 2 pairs were nice and pauseless, the final pair had a pause. Then I had a Locky OLL but a Good PLL exec (9.78!)
Going into solve 5: I just instinctively knew I needed a 10.20 in order to get sub 10. I was pacing back and forth in the waiting area and I was thinking about all the times I had failed and felt that this opportunity was no different. My patience has been on this for a year and I didn't know how much I could take. I was calling and telling my friends about how it was just impossible mentally for me to do it and I PHYSICALLY could not achieve it, the mind block was too hard... I had dreamed about clutching the solve out and this solve was the exact thing I had dreamed would happen, I had 1 chance, the FINAL solve..... The F2l Was flawless with a Cross+1, second pair, and last 2 cancelled into each other. I knew this was it, but at last layer I got an awkward case into a V perm and my hands were shaky, for a split second I looked down and thought I lost it, at the end of the V-perm. I saw the timer roll past 10 and I rushed the timer stop, Saw the time and looked at my cube, and IT WAS SOLVED!!!!!! 10.08 (Sub 10 by 0.13) The clutchest and arguably the greatest solve of my entire life, the exec was flawless for how my nerves affect me and I could not ask for a better way to reach my ultimate cubing goal.
Thanks to everyone who supported me and this ain't the end at all LOL...
Imma break from cubing for the most part and set new goals. Excited to see what the future holds for me in cubing.
Cya!!!!

[@heyiven]

let's go bro finally got sub-10

[@andrewwatkins4852]

Mark your calendars for sowega spring 2025

[@invinceicube2431]

I’m not traveling across four states to go a some comp that has mid events.

[@andrewwatkins4852]

@@invinceicube2431 ah well I guess that you won’t be able to get to meet Tommy cherry

[@invinceicube2431]

@@andrewwatkins4852 I've met him already :p

[@ReubenBBX]

@@invinceicube2431 Why would you go then?

[@connergd8505]

@@ReubenBBX literacy level 10000%