PLL Recognition Help??

elliotsherrow

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I'm wondering if anyone has any tips to increase my recognition on a couple plls.

The most difficult for me are the cases with no blocks or headlights. Does anyone have tips on how they recognize Gc and Ga from the back quickly? Let's take Gc for example. First, I look for bookends to check if it could be an E, Y, or V perm, then I look for what I like to think of as a "broken bar", basically a 3 sticker checkerboard across the corner. Then I have to compare the color of this "broken bar" with the color of the bookend, if it's opposite, then it's a g perm, if it's not, it's an r perm. If I conclude it's a g perm, then I think okay, the bar for the g perm is on the opposite of the this broken bar, and then I can execute the g perm. This takes me about 3-6 seconds of recognition, which is an insane amount of time.

So basically, recognizing Ga, Gc, R, E, Y and V perms are very difficult for me when looking from the back with no bars or headlights. Any tips would be appreciated!
 
I'm wondering if anyone has any tips to increase my recognition on a couple plls.

The most difficult for me are the cases with no blocks or headlights. Does anyone have tips on how they recognize Gc and Ga from the back quickly? Let's take Gc for example. First, I look for bookends to check if it could be an E, Y, or V perm, then I look for what I like to think of as a "broken bar", basically a 3 sticker checkerboard across the corner. Then I have to compare the color of this "broken bar" with the color of the bookend, if it's opposite, then it's a g perm, if it's not, it's an r perm. If I conclude it's a g perm, then I think okay, the bar for the g perm is on the opposite of the this broken bar, and then I can execute the g perm. This takes me about 3-6 seconds of recognition, which is an insane amount of time.

So basically, recognizing Ga, Gc, R, E, Y and V perms are very difficult for me when looking from the back with no bars or headlights. Any tips would be appreciated!
Simply Put:
T Perm: 2 pièce blocks connected to the headlights, Middle centers horizontally switch
R Perms: Only one 2 piece block connected to headlights, the position of this block tells you if it is Ra(front) or Rb(back)
G Perms: Headlights with no block connected, instead there is a separate 2 piece block somewhere.
- Back - Gc Perm
- Front - Ga Perm
- Side Back - Gb Perm
- Side Closer - Gd Perm

E - All edges in right order, corners needs to vertically swap
Y - Two two piece blocks with an incorrect corner separating them
V - A perm with no headlights

If you have a picture on the side while reading this, hopefully it should help

You can do one or two U moves while recognising, it will definitely be faster than 3-6 seconds with U moves for inspection (one U move essentially lets you see at least one headlight pair / all sides almost)
 
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