ColeTen99
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Got my first sub 20 average of 5 this thread has helped get my times much faster in a short amount of time
cool story. Now let's see what Roux, ZB, and ZZ solvers have to say about that.
You have probably already heard this, but practice. Seriously, practice is the only thing to help you improve greatly among most puzzles.How can I get faster at lookahead?
Search the forums. In fact, just reading it should be enough, if you don't know how to search. This topic gets discussed pretty much every week.How can I get faster at lookahead?
Try it while doing slow solves, then work up to being able to do it at higher TPS. After that, just incorporate it into your solves and practice. The rest should come naturally.How can I get faster at lookahead?
I have problems doing the cross without looking at it. If I plan it out I still need to look at it. I tried doing it with my eyes closed, but it is not doing it for me. I am still concentrating on the cross pieces and where they need to go and where they are on the cube when I am turning to solve the cross. It would be helpful for some tips on this. I would also like to show some practice solves, but I am not sure how to set up my phone to record at a good angle so you cubers can see.
Try to track an F2L corner piece while you solve cross with eyes closed. Concentrating on that forces you to not concentrate on the cross (and makes it 10x harder IMO ).I have problems doing the cross without looking at it. If I plan it out I still need to look at it. I tried doing it with my eyes closed, but it is not doing it for me. I am still concentrating on the cross pieces and where they need to go and where they are on the cube when I am turning to solve the cross.
For practicing BLD crosses, if you can't do all four edges, just try doing two, then three until you are able to do all four quickly. It just takes some practice.I have problems doing the cross without looking at it. If I plan it out I still need to look at it. I tried doing it with my eyes closed, but it is not doing it for me. I am still concentrating on the cross pieces and where they need to go and where they are on the cube when I am turning to solve the cross. It would be helpful for some tips on this. I would also like to show some practice solves, but I am not sure how to set up my phone to record at a good angle so you cubers can see.
To solve the first problem, drill your algs. Find which ones are slowest and repeat them again and again, trying to get them faster. Look at algdb.net to see if you can find better algs for the cases you don't like.- I am too slow executing OLL / PLL algs
- I have some very bad PLLs
First thing: slow down and look ahead; it always helps, even if your F2L is already good.
To solve the first problem, drill your algs. Find which ones are slowest and repeat them again and again, trying to get them faster. Look at algdb.net to see if you can find better algs for the cases you don't like.
To solve the second, once again, look at algdb.net. It's a great website where you can see how popular algs are, which makes it easy to see which is best. You'll definitely want to find a better V perm from there; you can look past the first few algs on there too. Even if only one or two people use it, it could be good!