Dex's Progression Thread | Sub 10 in 1 month? (NOT CLICKBAIT)

[Dex]

After a long break from cubing (like a year), I've gotten myself swirled back into it over the past month. Previously I had only one sub 10 single (an 8.821) but as of picking it up again I've gotten two more (both with caveats like smart cube but even adding my avg pickup+putdown time would still be sub 10).
Regardless this has really motivated me, as before I assumed I was stuck at a sub 16 ish average, but now the route seems very clear.
I have also been using the case drilling tool on cubeast to practice OLL and PLLs and they seem to be relatively consistent with no clear outstanding slow cases.

My goal is to have a sub 10 Ao5 in one month (by July 6th)

I plan to do an Ao100 tomorrow with Cubeast to obtain splits and ensure I'm focusing on my worst segments but right now it seems to be Cross, F2L and the transition between.
I will spend at least 30 minutes each day doing blind cross+1 solves from inspection (as my efficiency doesn't seem to be the problem), or focusing on looking ahead during F2L with slow solves (that are fast enough to be difficult).

Later when I have problems I will look at this list:

• Infinite Inspection for cross+1 but timed (splits) to see progression
• Ensure you're picking fingertrickable crosses
• Good F2L Habits (Don't move until you know exactly what you're doing, therefore no random U moves)
• More Lookahead, never stop turning untimed solves
• Drilling last layer algs/changing ones if they are too slow
• Look at why bad solves are bad
• 2 Sided PLL Recognition (probably post this challenge)
• OLL/PLL time attacks to practice all algs?

My other goal is to learn Full EG for 2x2, as CLL is cool but EG is cooler and I've put it off for too long.

 

[Exmestify]

After a long break from cubing (like a year), I've gotten myself swirled back into it over the past month. Previously I had only one sub 10 single (an 8.821) but as of picking it up again I've gotten two more (both with caveats like smart cube but even adding my avg pickup+putdown time would still be sub 10).
Regardless this has really motivated me, as before I assumed I was stuck at a sub 16 ish average, but now the route seems very clear.
I have also been using the case drilling tool on cubeast to practice OLL and PLLs and they seem to be relatively consistent with no clear outstanding slow cases.

My goal is to have a sub 10 Ao5 in one month (by July 6th)

I plan to do an Ao100 tomorrow with Cubeast to obtain splits and ensure I'm focusing on my worst segments but right now it seems to be Cross, F2L and the transition between.
I will spend at least 30 minutes each day doing blind cross+1 solves from inspection (as my efficiency doesn't seem to be the problem), or focusing on looking ahead during F2L with slow solves (that are fast enough to be difficult).

Later when I have problems I will look at this list:

• Infinite Inspection for cross+1 but timed (splits) to see progression
• Ensure you're picking fingertrickable crosses
• Good F2L Habits (Don't move until you know exactly what you're doing, therefore no random U moves)
• More Lookahead, never stop turning untimed solves
• Drilling last layer algs/changing ones if they are too slow
• Look at why bad solves are bad
• 2 Sided PLL Recognition (probably post this challenge)
• OLL/PLL time attacks to practice all algs?

My other goal is to learn Full EG for 2x2, as CLL is cool but EG is cooler and I've put it off for too long.

all the best!

 

[Gecko777]

going from a 16 second average to sub 10 average (both Global ?) seems virtually impossible, but i think you can do it.

 

[Dex]

yeah 16 was a very conservative guess, my times today were averaging about 14(?) Plus I have a lot of the ideas/framework for getting faster, my problem is I haven't taken it seriously or stuck to it.

also

My goal is to have a sub 10 Ao5 in one month (by July 6th)

 

[Dex]

So update, I did an ao50 (I'm too tired to keep going but this is honestly enough for data), with the smart cube (ofc using keyboard) and it went alright. I have the gan i carry which gets pretty locky sometimes (and messed up a handful of solves, along with the 4 Nb perms I got ) but I think overall the splits are accurate.
It was also cool to see my ao5 and ao12 both be ~0.1 off PB.
Using the avg session time (and adding avg pickup to cross and putdown to PLL) I calculated the splits and percentages:

14.97 average

	Cross (12.0%)	F2L (50.0%)	OLL (16.5%)	PLL (21.5%)
Ideal	1.796	7.485	2.470	3.218
Me	1.68	7.99	2.21	2.88
Diff	+0.116	-0.505	+0.26	+0.338

So clearly my F2L (and cross to f2l transition) needs the most work! Time to start grinding lookahead and planning first pair always! I did specifically notice a few cases in F2L I often panic on, or places where I hazily remember something with better fingertricks, so that's also something to look at.

 

[espeed]

Here is my opinion in which improvements should be looked at first/most (i average mid 12)

• Look at why bad solves are bad
• Good F2L Habits (Don't move until you know exactly what you're doing, therefore no random U moves)
• added: dont look at your current pair; More Lookahead, never stop turning untimed solves
• added: Make sure you actually do efficient crosses
• added: F2L Fingertricks, push push push dont regrip
• 2 Sided PLL Recognition (NOT post this challenge)
• Drilling last layer algs/changing ones if they are too slow
• Infinite Inspection for cross+1 but timed (splits) to see progression added: and drill cross+1 to 15 seconds
• Ensure you're picking fingertrickable crosses
• added: Maybe ROLL? It helped me more than expected
• (OLL/PLL time attacks to practice all algs?): Drilling single algs is better imo

Good luck!