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What should I learn next?

What should I learn next? I know beginner OLL and PLL. Also F2L.
You should first try to learn advanced cross techniques and learn to predict your cross in inspection.

From there, you can drill your OLL and PLL algorithms so you can get your recognition and execution times town.

At this point, if you know intuitive F2L and are comfortable with it, and are decent with cross and last layer, I’d recommend that you’d learn advanced F2L and start learning full PLL.

After learning advanced F2L, you should learn lookahead.

After learning full PLL, you should start learning full OLL.

This should be more than enough to get sub-20

From there, you should learn to plan cross+1, and at the same time you should also try to get better at your lookahead.

You should also learn better finger tricks so you can turn faster.

Improving from then on is pretty much about perfecting very specific aspects of the solve that you could be better at.
 
After learning advanced F2L, you should learn lookahead.
I've heard this phrase being thrown around a lot, and it doesn't make too much sense to me. You don't learn "advanced F2L", you just make sure you have good solutions for all of your F2L cases. You can figure out which of your solutions are bad by watching example solves, and you can also learn new solutions from those videos. There is also a video from Lazer0monkey that I'm too lazy to link right now, but he basically just shows the best solution for all of the standard 42 F2L cases.
As for "learning" lookahead, there isn't really a way to do that. There are drills you can do to improve your lookahead, but those are quite advanced and shouldn't really matter at all until the 8-9 second stage. You should learn what lookahead is, but you won't be able to do it in solves, that only comes with time and practice. Once you get faster, it should naturally just be a part of your solves. It's a skill that you gain over time.
 
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