Help Cutting Times (Average Sub 20)

[Arcanist]

I am currently averaging sub 20 and I was wondering what I need to work on.
My cross is about 3-4 seconds.
F2L is about 9-11 seconds
LL is about 5
I know full OLL and PLL but I just learned OLL so sometimes I forget the alg. I can sometimes predict all of cross but I'm still working on that.
For F2L I have only learned

any help would be appreciated.

 

[Isaiah Scott]

Really try to speed up on f2l. 9-11 seconds is half your solves and getting into the 15-20 second range, f2l is probably the most important thing/ factor in your solves. Getting it down to like even just 1.5-2 seconds per pair will help a lot.

 

[ProStar]

I am currently averaging sub 20 and I was wondering what I need to work on.
My cross is about 3-4 seconds.
F2L is about 9-11 seconds
LL is about 5
I know full OLL and PLL but I just learned OLL so sometimes I forget the alg. I can sometimes predict all of cross but I'm still working on that.
For F2L I have only learned

any help would be appreciated.

Learn to plan your entire cross in inspection

Improve F2L. If you want specifics on how to improve it, post a YouTube video of a normal Ao5 for you for it to be critiqued

Drill your algs, and also get comfortable with all your OLLs

Learn 2-sided PLL recognition

 

[OldSwiss]

Learn to plan your entire cross in inspection

As sub30 i'm maybe the wrong one to give you tips but my cross takes about the same time and I also think that my cross is to slow ;-)

As far as I know, the cross should take no more than 10% of the full solve time.
Planing the full cross in inspection not only gives you the one or two seconds you win with this, but also a better start into F2L.
But it is hard to learn. I can do it for the easier cases but not for the 7 or 8 move crosses

 

[Cuber.Hello.com(:]

I am currently averaging sub 20 and I was wondering what I need to work on.
My cross is about 3-4 seconds.
F2L is about 9-11 seconds
LL is about 5
I know full OLL and PLL but I just learned OLL so sometimes I forget the alg. I can sometimes predict all of cross but I'm still working on that.
For F2L I have only learned

any help would be appreciated.

You're doing better than I am, so I think you should just keep working on F2L, memorizing OLL, and perfecting PLL. How fast you do the cross is amazing to me. When I'm unlucky, it'll take me about 10 seconds to do the cross. LOL

 

[Arcanist]

You're doing better than I am, so I think you should just keep working on F2L, memorizing OLL, and perfecting PLL. How fast you do the cross is amazing to me. When I'm unlucky, it'll take me about 10 seconds to do the cross. LOL

yeah i think now I have oll down ok but sometimes it takes awhile to recognize the case. jperm has some good cross videos.

 

[Cuber.Hello.com(:]

yeah i think now I have oll down ok but sometimes it takes awhile to recognize the case. jperm has some good cross videos.

I haven't watched those ones yet. /:

 

[Anthonycube]

Definitely improve cross. If you're not colour neutral I'd recommend it. Make sure you are not solving one piece at a time!! Try to get cross Around 6 moves on average and plan it all in inspection. Also try to improve f2l and make sure to have only one rotation at most per f2l case, and some solutions that you use one rotation for can sometimes be solved with none. Your LL is fast so I wouldn't worry about that. Also when you get your average to 17/18 and are comfortable with your f2l solutions try to implement lookahead. Best of luck!!

 

[Arcanist]

Definitely improve cross. If you're not colour neutral I'd recommend it. Make sure you are not solving one piece at a time!! Try to get cross Around 6 moves on average and plan it all in inspection. Also try to improve f2l and make sure to have only one rotation at most per f2l case, and some solutions that you use one rotation for can sometimes be solved with none. Your LL is fast so I wouldn't worry about that. Also when you get your average to 17/18 and are comfortable with your f2l solutions try to implement lookahead. Best of luck!!

im duel color neutral

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

If you can show a video of your solves (including scrambles) I might be able to help you out with tips specific to your solves if I can find the time.