How to be Sub X on 2x2 - Chris Olson

By "predicting where your bar will be" I basically meant figure out what type of face you will have. I just figured it would be common sense to understand that.

That's clear for me, but might not be for someone trying to be sub5.

As for OLL, I didn't mention that because I know almost no one who can predict OLL while trying to be sub 5/4. So I saved that tip for sub 3.

In my opinion predicting OLL is incredibely easy. But maybe I'm just "almost no one" and I feel we shouldn't discuss more about that. :)

sub3 and still talking about "OLL"? Well, I'll just wait for the video.
 
But this ia again a completely different thing and way harder then just figuring out OLL. You can't tell me that predicting OLL is as hard as predicting CLL in your opinion. :)
 
I will give you that. But, most people can't even one look the OLL. and it doesn't seem *that* much harder to add CLL on top of it. But then again, I've been doing this for ages :P I just remember my problem was not even being able to figure out the OLL and once I could do that adding CLL wasn't hard.

Edit: maybe I'm the nub here who wasn't capable of doing this and everyone else is XD
 
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I know how to solve it but not how to execute it quickly. I can do sub-10 but not too often.

Plan out as much as you can for the layer during the inspection time. Learn a good way to recognize your OCLLs and CPLLs really fast, assuming you use LBL. If you don't have good finger-tricks, you should learn some for the 2x2 because it is rather different from the 3x3. If you can't find anything useful, take a look at how fast speedcubers execute their algorithms as you may find some interesting finger-tricks. This one is very good and I find most, if not all of the finger-tricks fairly decent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE-JD9rqN7c. You can take a look at Chris' videos for some inspiration too: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRZHt_6umybxLek429d2OWo9PzInbzsWF. Since you stated that you know how to do it, I assume that you are very familiar with how the pieces of the cube move around, so the links I've provided are for finger-tricks only to assist you with turning.

In addition, I don't agree with Chris with his sub-5/sub-4 video. I was barely sub-5 with Ortega and I've been practicing for quite a long time. I took some time to learn all the CLLs and my first Ao12 was sub-5, I guess this only works because I'm good at memorizing things.
 
Struggle

I seem to get a 12 sub of 2x2 even though I've been cubing for a year, I learned now I am struggling, please help, also with 3x3
 
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