how can i train my turning speed?

ISuckAtCubing

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my average is about 20 seconds, and i think my looking ahead is ok, but my problem is turning speed, i have been telling to go slow, so i never really went really fast, so how can i get faster with my turning speed?
 
Use a metronome for F2L practice - keep making it go faster and faster. One move per beat. www.metronomeonline.com is good. For LL, it's really practice. I can't help you on LL - my F2L is 8-11 seconds while my LL is 10 seconds. (Pitiful!)
 
I'm not sure if this is happening in your case, but I used to have slow turning speed because I was turning too much with the wrists and less with the fingers. I'm getting better at breaking that habit, and have reworked a lot of my old comfortable "wristing" algs to be solely done by fingers. I would recommend to take a look at your F2L and see how often you use finger turns and how often you use wrist turns. Wrist turns are things like double layer d turns, cube rotations, doing U or U' turns with a thumb trigger and not using the other index finger, anything like that.

These wristing movements will slow you down. The other thing is like others have said I also recommend to try metronome practice. You might be surprised. It could be the case that your turning speed is actually a lot faster than you think, and because of that you are losing lookahead causing delays. I only get my fastest averages (sub-15) when I am concentrating very hard on not going too fast, allowing a balance between doing triggers but still being able to look ahead. If I trigger at full speed on every pair during F2L I get horrible times, becuase I have significant delays between pairs to find the next pair. Again I don't know if this is what is happening in your case, but it's just a thought to consider.

Hope this helps,
Chris
 
What's your current turn speed? It could just be that your F2L or LL is slow unless you do like 1 turn a second.
 
When I thought I needed to improve my turning speed, there was nothing that really helped other than doing algorithms with closed eyes and practice. The main thing is practice, but I wouldn't time myself and instead do the algs with my eyes closed. Why, you ask?

Doing algs with your eyes closed forces you not to base your turns on what you see (because your eyes cannot physically keep up at a certain point) but rather on muscle memory - the absolute fastest and most accurate way to perform any algorithm. It also works on the same principle as the closed - eye cross: it builds your confidence in your initial impressions and lets your fingers flick faster.

This cut my time 5 seconds in a week (32.xx to 29.xx), but I wasn't quite at the point you are at.
 
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