Does uniform TPS guarantee improvement in lookahead?

[abunickabhi]

I stumbled upon this realisation while cubing during a public talk. I had to maintain slower speed in order to have less cube sound, it led to uniform TPS and good lookahead. My slow speed global is 14 seconds.

When I switched to my normal solving speed of 9 seconds, I deliberately maintained uniform TPS (no metronome app as it is hard to follow at 5+ TPS), and voila my lookahead improved and I started implementing better solutions.

Do you guys also relate to this path of improvement?

 

[gsingh]

I stumbled upon this realisation while cubing during a public talk. I had to maintain slower speed in order to have less cube sound, it led to uniform TPS and good lookahead. My slow speed global is 14 seconds.

When I switched to my normal solving speed of 9 seconds, I deliberately maintained uniform TPS (no metronome app as it is hard to follow at 5+ TPS), and voila my lookahead improved and I started implementing better solutions.

Do you guys also relate to this path of improvement?

Has happened to me so many times, I currently don't turn as fast as I did 6 months ago, but my lookahead and solutions are better.

 

[quanloh]

I am not as fast but I will try to rationalise the situation.

1. "Maintain Uniform TPS" basically means slowing down your fast turn while maintaining the slow turn, rarely the other way round. (If one could speed up his/her slow turn he/she would have done so already)
2. With TPS slowing down, we naturally have a better visual on the pieces, and a little bit more time to process these information, slightly less pauses, slightly better execution, and at some point we earn time in this "Trade TPS for less pauses" game.
3. Basically this is still the "Turn slower for better lookahead" thing that many of us wasn't practicing.

If my CMLL was executed as slow as my FB, my lookahead for EO will be improved.
If my FB was executed as fast(not true but you get my point) as my CMLL, my transition to second block will be worsen.

So my opinion is: No, uniform TPS does not always mean better lookahead. It does not work when you speed up your slower turns.

 

[Cuberstache]

Definitely not. If you're solving one pair and you can already fully see the next pair, there's no reason to go slower than your peak speed to solve the current pair. Lookahead is not about turning slow enough to completely eliminate pauses, it's just about not looking at the pieces you're solving. It sounds like your idea is based on incorrect (but very common) notions about what lookahead is and how it should be done.

 

[abunickabhi]

Definitely not. If you're solving one pair and you can already fully see the next pair, there's no reason to go slower than your peak speed to solve the current pair. Lookahead is not about turning slow enough to completely eliminate pauses, it's just about not looking at the pieces you're solving. It sounds like your idea is based on incorrect (but very common) notions about what lookahead is and how it should be done.

There are no notions in my idea, just practical know-hows. Or in other words, no assumptions and external information.

Getting uniform TPS does not mean slowing down. Both are completely different things.

You can get uniform TPS at your current speed, and speed up is only "stable" when you know the PLL+AUF and you want to end the solve.