I'm just going to clear a couple of things up:
@Mike (and Simon partly):
Yea, I know what you mean about only using a couple of algs for square-1. I actually only use about 10 EPs in total (including mirrors).
The reason why I recommend learning so many algs when the times are so high is because of recognition issues. If you can learn all EOs at 50s, when 3s recognition isn't THAT bad, then in the future, your recognition with those algs will be much better than someone who used only the 1-1swap and 2adj-2adj swap untill 20s, then suddenly having to learn a whole bunch of new cases, when even 1s of recognition is a lot. I just don't see the disadvantage of learning algs earlier other than the fact that it'll take longer for your times to improve.
This is especially true for myself because I use the alternate EO set that allows me to inspect CP while I inspect EO. This means that I want to be as familiar with the algs as possible so I can think ahead about the rest of the solve (namely CP) while I do the algs. While this may not be completely true for everybody because they may choose to learn other EO algs, "thinking"(looking) ahead is useful in general. This means lots of practice - I actually switched over to this alternate set at ~25s, and my times immediately rose to ~30s just because of recognition issues. I'm sure it's the same with lots of people - they don't learn algs, then when they do learn them, recog is the biggest obstacle - not the actual alg, but just knowing to do the alg, and how to hold the case. This is particularly important for sq-1 because sq-1 is quite "alg-recog-alg-recog-alg" based compared to other puzzles after cubeshape. I recommended learning a lot of algs early to eliminate (or at least reduce) the recognition problems. This is an attempt to improve slowly (timewise, i mean) at first, but then later on, they don't have to experience the recognition problems from new algs that plague many cubers (including me, i still can't recog a lot of EPs that I know fast). This allows them to have a much more "linear" timecurve instead of the logarithmic curve that most square-1 solvers have (this includes me too).
As for the second half, that's a mistake on my part. I'll fix that.
@jokerman:
I use this one, personally:
http://www.alchemistmatt.com/cube/square1list.html
I do see the usefulness of that link over this one though, I'll probably add both to the cubeshape section after I finish updating that (I have a really long section that I'm writing right now actually).
I actually have a lot of stuff to change / add atm, and webs.com's sitebuilder is really laggy for me, but this is what I plan to do in the future with this site:
a) Add a more advanced section (it's going to replace the sub20 page, which is currently useless)
b) Improve cubeshape section, including a detailed explanation of cubeshape theory and how it applies. This section will also answer why I made that (bad) generalization that mike caught a little while ago)
c) Clean up the rest of the site to match the "road to sub20" section.
Unfortunately, school is starting soon and I have homework already (QQ), so this might not happen for a while.
