Carson
Premium Member
Carson: Maybe do some "bld stepwise" solves? Where you look at cross and do it bld, then find first pair and do it bld, etc. Do that until you can execute your F2L pairs without thinking about it (get it into muscle memory). Then you should be able to have pretty decent look ahead 4LLL or 2LLL?
It is true, I do "mismemo" the cross fairly often. Sometimes I don't realize it until I am almost finished f2l. I switched to cross on bottom a couple of months ago after having done cross on top for like 4 years. The transition has been giving me more problems than it should have.
Whether or not I have a decent f2l really depends on my cross. Even if I don't Mess it up, if the memo for it was incorrect and I have to give a lot of thought to it while solving, I am unable to look ahead to the first f2l pair, which doesn't allow me to look ahead to the seconds f2l pair... etc etc. While my actual cross times only vary by a couple of seconds, they can easily cause my overall solve times to vary by 10 seconds or more.
I am using 3LLL most of the time. I have known full PLL for a long time, but I'm only up to about 15 OLL's.
*Actually: I suppose that is kind of a lie. I often use 2LPLL when I get an N perm, not because I don't know the N's, but because a 2 look is faster than either of my N perms... perhaps I should learn some new algs. *