Hey guys, I've been meaning to ask about this for a while and just recently decided to do so. I'm somewhat new to the forum and just got into the hobby this past summer. So far, my favorite event is 3x3. I've gotten my time down significantly by learning F2L, and I average anywhere between 35-45 (I don't do timed averages often, so I can't even give a solid number), but I'm starting to get really into speed solving and getting faster. I currently use a somewhat inefficient method to do last layer, which RedKB taught on his tutorial for the 3x3. The steps are get the cross, solve one of the 7 cases (I memorized alg's for all of those), permute corners, then permute edges. I plan on soon shortening that by learning full PLL, which I've been told isn't very difficult. Here is my actual question: is it possible to get as fast as 20 seconds or even sub 20 using 3 look last layer (first get cross, then OLL, then PLL)? For all I know, that could be the standard for people who solve that fast, but I have no clue. It just seems to me, since using my weird 4 look (sometimes 5 if fixing the corners takes more than one execution of that alg) takes me so long, then cutting that down a step or two wouldn't cut my times in half, even with practice. Sorry if this is worded funny or sloppy, but that's the best way I could ask this. I'm welcome to all advice/constructive criticism. Thank in advance guys.
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