SpartanSailor
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I know the feeling.... improving at glacial speeds and setting PBs by the smallest of margins. That said, it’s still improvement.Did an Ao50 as a check-in today. I don't really track those often, I'm not out to drop it a few tenths, more interested in when I'm comfortably set to get it sub 25. Still not quite there, still bleeding too much in mistake solves with botched crosses, clobbering solved pairs, CFOOOP solves, etc. Not too far off now though, the meat of the bell curve is glacially moving the right direction. Full OLL continues to pay off more as my recognition improves and some recent F2L refinements are starting to pay dividends.
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I decided after this weekend’s comp that I need to find more efficient F2L algs for some of variants. I’m not going to set out to learn every possible variant, but there are a few cases that take a lot of moves and are not efficient. I expect the typical, “I just learned something so my times will slow down...” business, but in the long run it’ll be more fun to learn more stuff.
I don’t do ao50 much either. In fact, I’ve only done an ao100 a couple specific times in a single session. Usually that’s several days of solved times for me. I consider that to be a pretty good indicator of where I’m at.
Good work to you for learning full OLL. That will certainly pay off.