brian724080
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Practice 3x3 first. Earlier this year, my 5x5 times dropped a whole minute even though I haven't even touched it for about 4 months.
I will, but the only thing I need to get sub 20 now is Full PLL which I am learning. As for the other cubes, my times are so off par of my 3x3 times. I average 23 seconds on 3x3 but 11 on 2x2 and around 2:40 on 4x4. I also want to get into BLD but after getting sub 20 on 3x3, sub 6 on 2x2 and sub 1:30 on 4x4 which I don't think should take more than a month.Practice 3x3 first. Earlier this year, my 5x5 times dropped a whole minute even though I haven't even touched it for about 4 months.
I think lookahead is something that IS learned, but not really specifically learned through training. It seems like something that naturally comes along as your current pair becomes muscle memory, you can naturally switch your focus to the next pair. The only training I've heard that kind of trains look ahead is blind solving pairs, but even that doesn't seem much better than just solving.
I do think you often come along with great points, DeeDubb, but I couldn't disagree more with this statement. Often times I will do poorly in solves because I am not consciously looking ahead. I was stuck at 26-27 seconds for a while about a month and a half ago, and since learning lookahead, and conciously using it in my solves, I have improved down to near sub-20. Lookahead was something that didn't just come naturally to me.