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With those splits, F2L is where the time is — 9 seconds is over half your solve, so that's the place to work first, and I'd leave last layer alone for now. A drill that helped me more than just doing slow solves: do a block of untimed solves where you force yourself to find the next pair before...

3x3 this week — I've been working on F2L look-ahead rather than just grinding timed solves. My routine has been: a few slow solves where I don't stop turning between pairs and try to spot the next pair while I'm finishing the current one, then a short block of timed Ao5s to see if the pauses...

Welcome — and good work getting this far, the last centers are the fiddly bit on a picture cube. The key thing is you can't just swap those two pairs directly — a two-piece swap isn't possible, so you need to cycle three center pieces instead. Try this: hold the cube with one of those centers...

One thing that worked for me when I kept drifting away for weeks at a time was lowering the bar for what counts as practice. Instead of aiming for a proper session, I set a minimum of just five solves a day. Five solves is so small it feels silly to skip, and most days I end up doing more once...

One thing that helped me was treating lookahead as a separate skill from speed, so I practiced them in different sessions. For lookahead, do slow solves where you turn at a steady pace, about one move per second, and never stop to think. If you have to pause, you're turning too fast for that...

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome — DuckDecoys, microchado, Powstick, FTONoob, acrystal, abunickabhi, someone. and Martyt7777! Glad to be here. Looking forward to learning from you all and helping beginners where I can.

Welcome to the forums, and good call checking before worrying too much — Michael's explanation is spot on. GAN did change those magnet rods over time, so round rods in the cube and round light-blue spares don't mean it's fake, just that it's a later production run than the ones in the older...

Hey Keenan — you're right, you don't need a bunch of new algs to get to sub-10. Your own numbers point to where the time is: about 6 seconds for LSLL, and 8-10 seconds for the rest. So the biggest win is making that last slot + last layer smoother, not learning more cases. A few things I'd...

Good news — you don't need to memorize F2L the way you memorize PLL. With 2-look OLL/PLL already in place, intuitive F2L is the natural next step in CFOP, and it's mostly understanding, not memorizing. Start with just three ideas: 1. If a corner and its edge are already paired together, just...

Hi everyone, I'm Hanif. I run CubeMastery, a free site with step-by-step Rubik's Cube tutorials, an online solver, timer and trainers. I joined to learn from the community and help beginners where I can. Looking forward to being around!