when you averaged 35s, how hopeful were you to get to sub 20 avg?

[killface]

@killface

35s is a tough plateau, because this is about where suppression of motor attention becomes important. The evil thing is that the harder you try to go fast, the harder it becomes to avoid watching what your fingers are doing.

A major sticking point for me at 35s was that I was relying on visual cues for solving the cross and all but the most basic F2L pairs. I fixed that by doing 8-look solves (/w 3-step LL) where I only looked at the cube between solving steps. This was especially helpful for forcing me to properly plan the cross. You might get an immediate 2-3 seconds right there. Transitioning to proper F2L look-ahead took a bit more work. Once I had confidence solving pairs without watching them, I gradually became better at searching the cube for the next pair while my fingers solved the current one.

PS: I'm going through all of this again now learning ZZ after a 2.5 year break (former CFOP solver). Building blocks without watching pieces is hard!

I have different obstacles depending on how I'm solving at the time, if that makes sense lol. Like, if I really concentrate on moving slow and looking ahead, I do pretty well but a lot of times I find myself solving pairs too quickly to see where the next one is which, obviously, creates pauses. And my cross could use some work, I'm sure. I guess it's just a matter of practice at this point

Sorry to hijack the thread.

 

[Mariah94]

I currently think, "Get faster at the cross and learn your PLL's." I tell myself this everyday Because I will, get to, sub 20. I will.

Current average: 35.42

 

[Inf3rn0]

Still hopefull , very hopefull to be sub 20 by NZ champs

 

[nck]

I'm now too lazy to practice...
zz f2l is quite hard to get used to