When were you first able to track your first pair in inspection most of the time?

Title says it all. I'm sub-15 and still can't do that unless the pair is trivially easy.

guysensei1 said:

Title says it all. I'm sub-15 and still can't do that unless the pair is trivially easy.

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15ish is when I started to force myself to track a pair everytime, I think, or was it 14ish? :/

I'm sub-14 and I sometimes (although not often) don't even plan the entire cross. But I usually plan just the cross, and maybe the pair, but only if the cross is very easy.

TDM said:

I'm sub-14 and I sometimes (although not often) don't even plan the entire cross. But I usually plan just the cross, and maybe the pair, but only if the cross is very easy.

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I also still can't fully plan the cross occasionally. If there aren't any edges attatched to the centers I just panic and fail the solve

guysensei1 said:

I also still can't fully plan the cross occasionally. If there aren't any edges attatched to the centers I just panic and fail the solve

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Trying to solve them all so that a D move solves the cross is useful if none of the edges are attached to their centres, because it isn't important where the centres are for that. But if I get a really hard cross, I'll usually ignore one of the edges and just plan three of them. I'll try to track the fourth as I solve the cross, but usually that fails

guysensei1 said:

Title says it all. I'm sub-15 and still can't do that unless the pair is trivially easy.

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I'm only a bit slower than you, and I usually don't do the pair either, but I find that I can more often than I think. I have this perpetual fear of running out of inspection time, and it makes me afraid to look too long on every solve I ever do. If I didn't have to worry about DNFing by overinspecting, and didn't only use 5 seconds of inspection time because of that, I bet I could find cross +1 in 15 seconds at least half the time. On the occasional solve where I'm like "I have 10 seconds left, let's find a pair" I find that it's easier than I think.

At sub-13 I am getting better at it. When I do predict the first pair with discipline (which is the hard part!) I solve a lot more easily at the top of my range. Without predicting the first pair, I average the normal 13s.

I started being able to see the pair regularly in inspection around 14s.

Rarely, but whenever I do, my times are always sub-15. I average around 15 seconds right now.

I can't be bothered. If I press the 15s I can probably do it > 90% but it's annoying. Might try next comp but when I do 50+ solves it's too straining to do every solve, combined with my awful short term memory

I was able to track two pairs during the inspection pretty early (I don't know, sub40?)

The last two weeks I see the pair 80% of the times. I also went from 60% of solves being 18-24 secs to 16-21 secs just from better look ahead.
I do still have low tps however.

And I only know what pair I am starting with. I rarely have a plan on how to build and insert. Just where the pair will be roughly(Always where corner is and sometimes where edges will be).

Sub13.

Renslay said:

I was able to track two pairs during the inspection pretty early (I don't know, sub40?)

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Well yeah... but you don't do cross. The first thing you look for are pairs.

I still can't
im sub 20

I typically track a corner and in the last few moves of the cross try to locate it's edge. Really close to sub 15 with what most people describe as 'Why do you turn so slow?'.

I dont track anything. I just see the cross pieces and make a cross solution and viola, that is my use of inspection time.
And I have a huge delay in f2l and one of the reasons why I cant improve my f2l to sub 8 in solves

Tracking is quite easy actually. All you're doing is keeping track of the pair while executing the cross. Solving the first pair while executing the cross is a different sorry.

Around 12ish, but I've never really put effort into it.

I avg like 8 or 9 and I still can't like 80% of the time

I still dont track my pairs in inspection, I think it wastes time trying to preserve the pair... I typically look ahead when I have the cross solution for my first pair. My F2L is pretty sloppy though so im not the best person to get advice from lel