CFOP users, your step breakdown.

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Estimating here...

Cross: 1-2
F2L Slots: 7-9
OLL: 1-2
PLL: 1-3

EDIT: I think my LL times are frequently worse than this... Maybe I'll actually time some splits.

A lot of you have absurdly slow crosses compared to your F2L...
 
After an average of 12;

Cross: 2.9-6.4, average: 5.10
F2l: 11.3-27.3, average: 18.69
OLL: 1.3-7.8, average: 4.45
PLL: 2.6-7.6, average: 5.42
Total: 24.6-43.3, average: 33.67

Using 4 look last layer, got some really non consistent times =S. Well some really high ones anyway =S.
 
Perhaps someone with who has travelled the road to sub 15 could collate this info into a useful form, perhaps merging it with the getting faster with Fridrich thread: http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?6085-How-to-Get-Faster-using-the-Fridrich-Method .

By this is I mean that for each stage in the Fridrich post, along with goal times you could have goal breakdowns too:

e.g.(from Fridrich post)

Step 2
Current Average: 1:00-1:19
Goal Average: 40-49 seconds
Learn 4 look last layer (4LLL). (Links to where to learn the algorithms will be at the bottom of this guide)

2 Look OLL

Edge Orientation - 2 algorithms
Corner Orientation - 7 algorithms

2 Look PLL

Corner Permutation - 3 Algorithms Aa/Ab and E/V/Y/Na/Nb
Edge Permutation - 4 algorithms - Ua, Ub, Z, H

Lots of really useful informatiom there, but if the "Goal Average: 40-49 seconds" were changed to Goal Average: 5-10 sec cross, 15-20 sec f2l, 5-10 sec oll, 5-10 sec pll, then people trying to follow the progression outlined in the docment would be better equipped to identify precisely where there weakness is. So for a cuber who has just learned 4LLL, they would have a clear idea of how polished each phase needs to be, and thus organise their practice time accordingly. I for one was frantically working to drop my f2l time, but realised from reading this thread that my cross is letting me down. If a set of sensible goals for CFO and P for each phase of the road to sub xxx were available, the dedicated student could organise their practice far more effectively.
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Also, having watched Felix's slowmo vids on youtube, I reckon he is roughly 1 sec cross, 3 sec f2l, 3 sec LL. Is a similar breakdown scaled up to the times of mortals a good one to shoot for? Should my f2l be roughly the same as my LL, and my cross be about a third of that? This would scale up to 4 sec cross, 12 sec f2l, 12 sec ll for a 28 second solve.

Anyway, my own contribution to the original thread:

Cross - 3-5
F2L - 12-18
LL - 10-18
 
Cross: 5-8
F2L:10-14(Maybe a little faster)
OLL:3-6
PLL:4-8
- Jorgi

F2l is never as fast as your LL. Its usually 400% slower at least. - Jorgi

If your F2L is at least 400% slower than your LL then taking your last layer as an example (7-14 secs overall), then the corresponding F2L at 400% slower should be 35 - 70 seconds.

Did you mean 40% ? (again going by your figures) 10 - 20 seconds for F2L? Still doesn't tally up, as your actual median F2L is 12, not 15 as your math would suggest.

If anyone could clarify a good "rule of thumb" ratio to measure progress and establish strengths/weaknesses, that would be great. Any advance on 1:3:3 ?
 
Jorghi, I am trying to establish a baseline for establishing what one sucks at, relative to the other elements of the solve. Judging by the last couple of posts, perhaps 1:4:2 is a better target.
 
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