What to Practice Next?

[Johan444]

Also if you see yourself practicing a whole lot (like you said, 100 solves each day for a week or something) but not improving too much, try taking a little break. Go for a few days, maybe a week, without timing yourself. When you come back, you may see more improvement.

Yea, but not timing himself doesn't make his improvement bigger than it would be if he timed himself.

 

[Chapuunka]

Also if you see yourself practicing a whole lot (like you said, 100 solves each day for a week or something) but not improving too much, try taking a little break. Go for a few days, maybe a week, without timing yourself. When you come back, you may see more improvement.

Yea, but not timing himself doesn't make his improvement bigger than it would be if he timed himself.

Well it seems for me that my biggest improvements come when I stop worrying about being really fast and just work on improving, although I shouldn't assume the same for others.

 

[Litz]

Also if you see yourself practicing a whole lot (like you said, 100 solves each day for a week or something) but not improving too much, try taking a little break. Go for a few days, maybe a week, without timing yourself. When you come back, you may see more improvement.

Yea, but not timing himself doesn't make his improvement bigger than it would be if he timed himself.

I don't agree. Some people train better without timing their solves simply because they feel pressured when solving and rush it, not training what they need to at all. Someone who uses CFOP and is training look-ahead for instance will most likely forget about it and solve all the pairs as fast as possible if he's timing himself.

 

[mr6768]

I believe you should learn PLLs. Seriously its not hard. and then get back to you Cross and F2L,Especially F2L

 

[Lorken]

Hah! I'm at exactly the same point as you. I was thinking of learning some new OLL's especially for the ones where there are no LL edge pieces. Is that a good idea?

OR maybe advanced F2L, whatever that is?

 

[XXGeneration]

I would say learn the OLLs for the ones without edges. Then before learning full OLL or PLL, concentrate on F2L.

 

[Kynit]

Faz did a 2-look OLL average and it was under 10 IIRC... probably pretty close to 9. You don't need full OLL very badly.

 

[Zyrb]

I think i might learn some odd case f2l algorithms, does anyone suggest the best ones?

 

[ArcticxWolf]

Go here:

http://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/F2L

and make sure that without looking, you remember how to solve every case immediately. If you can't, set up the case and solve it following the algorithm given, then think about it. What did they do to fix it? By doing that, you aren't simply memorizing each case, but instead, you're memorizing what to do. After you understand each individual case, then you can begin to work on your lookahead, because IMO, it's really hard to lookahead while you're fixing a pair you don't instinctively know how to. You should be comfortable with each of the cases such that, when you see it, you should have an understanding of what you have to do to fix it. If you can't do that, you have to think about how to solve the current piece while looking for the next pair at the same time. Compared to when you know each case, this is:

a) Confusing and
b) Slow

 

[Zyrb]

wow, yeah. I never thought of it like that.