One Tip for Sub 12 / Sub 10

[SpeedCubingLord]

What’s ONE tip you’d give to someone trying to reach sub 12 or sub 10?
Practical, simple, or philosophical—anything counts.
Basically what's the ONE tip you'd give anyone trying to reach it.

 

[coraleap]

Imagine the types of solutions and techniques you would see yourself doing if you were a world-class cuber, and critique your solutions to mirror those.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

if we are talking about just solving and no mindset:
sub-12:
Efficiency. Having decent TPS doesn’t matter if your solutions are 60+ moves (do note that some people have good efficiency but bad TPS)
Sub-10:
Lookahead. Sub-10 is very much achievable with good lookahead.

The problem with only being able to give one tip is that cubers have different solving styles, which means cuber A could have good efficiency but bad TPS while cuber B could have bad efficiency but good TPS. Something just as important is the mindset. Don’t expect to get sub-10 instantly after getting a few 9 second solves. Lower expectations = better results (plus you’re more humble).

 

[Cuberd]

Sub 12
- lookahead ( for example do slow solves)

Sub 10
- predicting cross + one f2l pair in inspection

 

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[Caleb Valenzuela]

Sub 12
- lookahead ( for example do slow solves)

Sub 10
- predicting cross + one f2l pair in inspection

cross + 1 isn’t needed for sub-10 (although good to learn early), so I would personally stick with improving lookahead.

 

[LBr]

I think most of what’s been said is true. I’m gonna add 1 thing:

-OLL/PLL recognition, avoid double recognition and try to recognise from almost all angles. If you have to look in the back or spam u moves no amount of turn speed will save you