Flan Rees-Haughton, 23.26 single. Tips are welcome.

flan

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Ok so this is an ok solve for me, I would have done an average but I had to steal my mums camera to video thisand I didnt have much time. And I thought I'd let it upload while I had breakfast because schools cancelled (snow<3)

Tips would be greatlly apreciated (I know I need to improve my cross, maybe I'll do cros BLD)

Btw my bro is filming and making some weired noises.

Thankyou all :D
 
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You've probably heard this many times but you need to lookahead. Trust your hands and look for the next pair and don't stare at the pair you're solving atm. LL needs fast turning.
 
Cross - Too many moves and executed very slowly. This just takes practice.
F2L - Very very stop start. Just try slowing right down and looking ahead. Again, practice practice practice.
LL - Surely you must be able to turn faster than that?! No point in holding back speed when it comes to PLL, it's the final dash!
 
Just as you stated, the cross needs some work. Your cross to F2L transition also needs a good bit of work. Your look ahead over all isn't that bad, but you had a 5-6s cross, so that definitely killed it. You finished F2L around 17ish (not too bad I suppose). Learn how to do the easy OLL cases from multiple angles to prevent the unnecessary AUFs (such as you AUF'd to lefty chameleon which would easily be done righty, although I often don't do the lefties when I should. If you don't want to do RH versions just learn other algorithms for the various angles). It took you a decent pause to finish that J and stop the timer, try to anticipate the end of the PLL and be ready to drop it and start the timer. PLL finishing AUF should be known before you even start the PLL, so as soon as you finish it you can AUF almost at the same time as while dropping the cube and your hands (it should be as quick as doing the U's in sexy move, and should flow like it was originally part of the PLL).

Your LL is not too bad really, 6-7s and that's using a 3LLL. Depending on my OLL/PLL case I average roughly the same. Take four seconds away from your cross, and you'll notice that your 16-17 F2L turns into 12-13, which with that same LL will turn into 18-20. Work on the first pair transition, that'll take off 1.5-2s, that knocks you down to around 16.5-18.5. Obviously the times will all vary, but if this was your average solve, this is what I'm basing it off of.

Everything toad says is right, especially the turn speed, but even still a 7s LL for not even sub20 yet really isn't bad.
 
Thank you for all the pointers guys :D They were very helpfull. I think now Im going to practice cross and transition because your right,that really lets down this and many solves, my lookahead seems to get better overtime because I'm always trying to improve it unlike other aspects I Ignore, and I dont really know how to increase LL tps. I guess that probably happens with practice so my cross is first priority especially since i may be able to get sub 20 only by improving that :D

(and yes this is pretty much average, most solves have worse PLL recog though, but Im working on that)

Cheers :D
 
Yeah, I suggest cross first. Also, work on getting all your PLLs sub2, and all your OCLLs near 1 flat or sub1. Since 2LOLL recognition is fairly easy (and easy to predict OCLL from OELL) then you should be able to pull off a sub2.5 OLL fairly consistently. The only way to get higher tps is practice man. Just focus on keeping your turning smooth though and slowly work up your turn speed. A lot of people make the mistake of learning to turn fast before learning to turn smooth.
 
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