so many advices, so few questions about you...
so what is your goal? 60s in next year? 15 sec. in next month? somewhere in between? how realistict and obsessive/perseverant are you? how old are you (the young have it a bit easier).
do you have a speed cube at all? lubed? Just get rid of the obvious brakes if any.
do you hope to do finger tricks like a master pianist? Not everyone can articulate extremely fast, it takes a long time to get the tiny muscles to do what you want like a reflex.
are you doing F2L with algos? your head is likely way too full and you could be pausing too much, or worse, making errors.
all right, my turn to dump my personal experiences:
you can learn most of the 21 PLL (I skipped the 4 G perm) at a pace of 1-3 per week. It crucial that you experiment with many if not all the variant algos of all the PLL, and find the algo you prefer. Take the time to recognize/identify the permutations too (don't skim of that!). Those little weekly goals are satisfying and kept me interested for months!
PLL will be useful even for roux because some do roux for the F2L, then finish with a regular LL.
I didn't learn the nasty 61 OLL nor the 42 F2L yet. Just the F sexy F' or the f sexy f' is good enough for me, and I use the keyhole method (mixing the corners and edges opportunistically).
Perhaps the most unblocking at your stage, like it was for me, would be to learn the keyhole method instead of dealing with the 42 algos of F2L, not for its speed (ultimately keyhole is possibly limiting) but for it's intuition. You would intuitively learn to deal with 3-turns which is the basics of longer F2L.
Doing coarse math, 5s cross (use plenty of inspection), 20s keyhole, then a generous 5 seconds for each of 4 looks, gets you a 45s solve. I can't guide you below that, I don't know what it is like yet!
Whatever you learn is not a waste. just fight the reflex to do what you know and try what you don't know as much. It will sink in.
so what is your goal? 60s in next year? 15 sec. in next month? somewhere in between? how realistict and obsessive/perseverant are you? how old are you (the young have it a bit easier).
do you have a speed cube at all? lubed? Just get rid of the obvious brakes if any.
do you hope to do finger tricks like a master pianist? Not everyone can articulate extremely fast, it takes a long time to get the tiny muscles to do what you want like a reflex.
are you doing F2L with algos? your head is likely way too full and you could be pausing too much, or worse, making errors.
all right, my turn to dump my personal experiences:
you can learn most of the 21 PLL (I skipped the 4 G perm) at a pace of 1-3 per week. It crucial that you experiment with many if not all the variant algos of all the PLL, and find the algo you prefer. Take the time to recognize/identify the permutations too (don't skim of that!). Those little weekly goals are satisfying and kept me interested for months!
PLL will be useful even for roux because some do roux for the F2L, then finish with a regular LL.
I didn't learn the nasty 61 OLL nor the 42 F2L yet. Just the F sexy F' or the f sexy f' is good enough for me, and I use the keyhole method (mixing the corners and edges opportunistically).
Perhaps the most unblocking at your stage, like it was for me, would be to learn the keyhole method instead of dealing with the 42 algos of F2L, not for its speed (ultimately keyhole is possibly limiting) but for it's intuition. You would intuitively learn to deal with 3-turns which is the basics of longer F2L.
Doing coarse math, 5s cross (use plenty of inspection), 20s keyhole, then a generous 5 seconds for each of 4 looks, gets you a 45s solve. I can't guide you below that, I don't know what it is like yet!
Whatever you learn is not a waste. just fight the reflex to do what you know and try what you don't know as much. It will sink in.
