Merits of CFOP

[ottozing]

Wow, that's pretty impressive that you got that far with "corner bias" type of lookahead.
Do you know your tps during F2L?

I'm pretty sure my overall tps is just over 6.5 (Not too sure about just F2L tps though). If you want, you can check out some of my 3x3 solve videos I have up to get an indication of what my F2L solving style is like. My 10.54 official average and 9.9x avg12 are probably the best indications of my current solving style (I should really upload a faster avg12 now :3).

 

[kcl]

Maybe it's just me, but I avg 13 and I definitely can't do this with a "quick glance".

Eh probably because it's not something you're used to practicing. I used to practice that all the time so I can typically plan two pairs in like 5-10 seconds.

 

[ravenguild08]

And so it actually seems that "recog+drilled alg" steps are actually potentially slower than "lookahead+intuition" steps, due to the recog pause. (except for rare exceptions, such as Alex's 5.11, where his CMLL is 11.11 tps... I think it was either much faster, like his 14 tps perm vid, or that he was able to predict the CMLL).

That is absolutely fascinating; thank you for sharing. I'd also attribute the lower TPS during OLL and PLL partly to the algorithms being simply harder to execute than RU'R'URUURUURURUUU