F2L Mastery

[Nighthawk14]

Please give me some tips on improving my time to finish F2L. I am not a color neutral cuber. I find it hard to find pieces during the F2L phase.

 

[That70sShowDude]

P ...

 

[RyanReese09]

inb4pword

 

[AngeL]

Go slow, look ahead, practice.

 

[theace]

Improve your look ahead. To do this, go as slow as you have to without needing to pause, even if it means taking 1 or more seconds per turn. But make sure that you take the same time for ALL your turns. Then, gradually increase your speed. This method made me drop 10 seconds off my time.

 

[RCTACameron]

Find the right speed where you are still going pretty fast, but at the same time can look ahead to the next pair. You might need to go quite slow to do this, but you'll get faster. Good luck.

 

[Radcuber]

I forgot where I heard this but here goes: after doing a cross, find a corner piece, find the corresponding edge piece, notice where they need to go, pair them up and insert it into its slot without looking/with your eyes closed. Keep doing this with your eyes closed until you get it right every time. Now just do the same thing with your eyes open while looking for another corner and corresponding edge pair. Sorry if I'm bad at explaining but I tried

 

[RCTACameron]

I forgot where I heard this but here goes: after doing a cross, find a corner piece, find the corresponding edge piece, notice where they need to go, pair them up and insert it into its slot without looking/with your eyes closed. Keep doing this with your eyes closed until you get it right every time. Now just do the same thing with your eyes opne while looking for another corner and corresponding edge pair. Sorry if I'm bad at explaining but I tried

No, you explained it well. :tu I might try this if feel like it. It's good advice.

 

[Faran]

Yeah, really the only thing you can do is to learn to look ahead. I'm learning it right now. There are also some good tutorials on YouTube.

 

[Dimeg]

move slow
look ahead
do a couple of solve's without timer but try to find optimal solution

and of course: the 4 p's of cubing.

gl.

 

[penfold1992]

Yeah, really the only thing you can do is to learn to look ahead. I'm learning it right now. There are also some good tutorials on YouTube.

could you link a few =D

 

[RCTACameron]

The F2L part in Faz's how to get faster series: http://www.youtube.com/fazrulz1#p/c/B27F958F0F882C07/3/TKs78QR-8Iw

You might also want to look in the cross part for information on lookahead.

 

[bluedasher]

familiarize yourself with your F2L cases even if they are intuitive. Try finding the most optimal way to pair you corner-edge pair and insert it, doing this should take no more than 8 moves.