PandaCuber
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Ya xcrosses are something I want to work on in a bit, gunna spend about a week on look ahead first though. I have like no experience with block building though so I may have to practice it for some time...
Also another question. I mentioned I am learning look ahead but I know I am still using many sub-optimal F2L cases (for example I ALWAYS solve cases with my cross colour facing up the same way (split up pair so cross colour stays up and pair using one of the 3 basic cases). I do this because it is easy to recognize and requires little thought, but often requires 1 or more cube rotations and is generally not very "finger-tricky"). So I was wondering should I stop learning look ahead and figure out better ways of solving f2l cases first? does it matter? would trying to learn both at once be too much?
Find more optimal solutions. Practice on making your solves efficient, then look into some algs, and once you got all that down, work on look ahead.
Look ahead wont help you at all if your move count is at 80.