). I would practise with unlimited inspection until you can find a good cross solution that you can execute so mindlessly that you can actively search for your 1st F2L pair. Also you have some long pauses at times between pairs, so lookahead can be improved but it looks like you turn at a speed that allows you to have decent lookahead most of the time. Finally, in LL you can also squeeze an extra 0.5 or more by drilling your algs a bit and working on recognition. I see you do U / U' at times to help recognition of both OLL and PLL. That should be avoided. For PLL in particular I would start learning 2sided recognition. It will not sink in all of a sudden but will help you recognize some cases faster over time and that will save you some tenths. Hope it helps and thanks again for running this and for sharing your solves with us.
I definitely need to work on look ahead. Watching the video I can see some of those pauses are way too long. I haven't drilled last layer algs in a long time, so I know I'm due to clean them up a bit. I do insert pairs in the back slots, but not as often as I should. I practice untimed rotation-less solves, but as soon as I get that timer out a lot of bad habits kick in.
It really is. I've cut way back on buying 3x3's. I know that any of the ones I own are more than good enough for sub20 solves. I don't think I even have a "main"... I kind of bounce around between them depending on what mood I'm in, time of day, or lighting quality. I think until I'm consistently sub20 I need to back off on buying any new 3x3's.
I think you're doing pretty good if you've been away from it for a long time. I just noticed you're from Cornwall. I grew up in Morrisburg, used to go to Cornwall all the time
