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Hi, can someone give me some tips or videos on looking ahead. Many people just say 'look ahead' but it doesn't help me. I currently use roux and I average in the 40s. Any help is appreciated.

Basically what Yttrium said - once you know what moves you need to do to solve the current step in the solve, be trying to look ahead for new pieces. It's not really something that can be explained in great depth, because you just do it; it takes practice. But if you're looking for a video, this video does a pretty good job of explaining how to go about thinking about look-ahead, although it is targeted to CFOP users.

I would recommend that you do untimed solves. Move as slowly as you like through them, but try to keep turning the cube constantly throughout the solves (just don't cheat yourself into thinking that U U U U U' U' U U y x z' counts as constantly moving), looking for the patterns and then solving them as you look ahead for the moves in your next step. Another thing that some people find helpful but I don't really is metronome solving; turn on a metronome, starting at a slow bpm (beats per minute) rate, doing one turn per beat (unless you're executing algorithms, in which case I don't think it really matters how fast you go), trying to keep a steady beat throughout the solve.

It'll take a lot of practice, but eventually you'll just be able to look ahead without having to think about it. Good luck!
 
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Is there anything that can provide scrambles for 4x4, but with the centers solved? I would like to focus on my edge pairing.
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You could just scramble the cube, solve edges(centers do not have to solved to do this) and then either scramble and solve edges again OR solve centers , edges(this will give you a 2:1 ratio of edges/centers[you have to practice centers too at some point] and 3x3x3 stage before scrambling it again.
 
Hi, can someone give me some tips or videos on looking ahead. Many people just say 'look ahead' but it doesn't help me. I currently use roux and I average in the 40s. Any help is appreciated.

I am currently working on my look ahead as well, I can't help as much with the roux part but I found kind of incrementally working on looking ahead has been helping me. I started for 1-2 days during F2L (again not familiar with roux) and as soon as i see a corner-edge pair I close my eyes and insert, and repeat for each pair. After I felt pretty comfortable with my ability to quickly recognize each case from multiple angles and such I started trying to follow one piece while inserting the corner edge pair I spotted earlier, giving me something more constructive to do than to simply insert it blind. Once I felt pretty comfortable with that I started trying to either follow two pieces (a corner and edge pair) around the cube while inserting the previous one or I would follow one piece while searching for the other one during the execution. I am currently still working on this, but in a bit I will probably just be working on increasing my speed while doing this.
 
When do you consider yourself sub X. Would it be when you get an average of 5/12 under X, get multiple averages of 5/12 under X (in a row?), get a large average (50 or 100) under X, almost never get times above X etc.? And in case you didn't realize X = any under that you are currently aiming for, eg. 1 min, 45 sec, 30 sec, 20 sec, 15 sec, 10 sec etc.
 
When do you consider yourself sub X. Would it be when you get an average of 5/12 under X, get multiple averages of 5/12 under X (in a row?), get a large average (50 or 100) under X, almost never get times above X etc.? And in case you didn't realize X = any under that you are currently aiming for, eg. 1 min, 45 sec, 30 sec, 20 sec, 15 sec, 10 sec etc.

Hm... I haven't had many sub X goals yet, but I think I would consider myself sub X if a large majority of my solves and averages are subX (~>85%?).
It's definitely not just an average of 5/12, because some sessions are just good, and others are just lucky. As for large averages, most of mine extend over a week or more, so I don't really pay attention to them.
 
When do you consider yourself sub X. Would it be when you get an average of 5/12 under X, get multiple averages of 5/12 under X (in a row?), get a large average (50 or 100) under X, almost never get times above X etc.? And in case you didn't realize X = any under that you are currently aiming for, eg. 1 min, 45 sec, 30 sec, 20 sec, 15 sec, 10 sec etc.

I consider myself sub-X when sup-X solves feel like "bad solves".
 
When do you consider yourself sub X.

Hmm, well previously I've heard people say it's when you can get an average of 100 under the number. Though in the Race to sub-30 thread it's when you can get three non-rolling Ao12's (which you've decided ahead of time) under the number. Personally I think you just kinda know what your real average is.
 
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When do you consider yourself sub X. Would it be when you get an average of 5/12 under X, get multiple averages of 5/12 under X (in a row?), get a large average (50 or 100) under X, almost never get times above X etc.? And in case you didn't realize X = any under that you are currently aiming for, eg. 1 min, 45 sec, 30 sec, 20 sec, 15 sec, 10 sec etc.


I consider myself subx when I get an average of 12 under that time. For me that means I was able to do 10 solves in a row. One subx is lucky, five subx's is also a litty lucky. average of 12 is pretty secure in my eyes.

Why is it bad to use water on a cube to clean? Besides sticker wear, of course.

Note: Double posted on purpose. Didn't want my question to be missed.
 
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