My post was sort of unclear, I agree with what you said. When I said use what you're more comfortable with I meant when in a competition or something of that sort. Obviously when practicing you should be practicing recognition.
Ehh bad idea. How many do you know? Ten you said? Learning 11 new algs in under a month and then using them in a comp is pretty sketchy. I would recommend you learn them at a normal rate until you had about two weeks left before your comp and then don't learn any new ones. It didn't take me too long to learn PLL but if I had a comp coming up that soon I'd be hesitant. It's your call though.
I have a competition in like 3 weeks, I can probably down the remaining sune + antisune cmll set.(finished the L set in 2 hours and recognition is rather consistant.)
Bad idea to finish the last 12 (I got recognition for sune+anti sune down pretty much algorithms)