Why is your F2L slow?

[eastamazonantidote]

My eyes pick up pieces and I keep track and I know where everything is but I always get so proud of myself that I don't actually do the case with 100% focus and screw it up.

 

[Reinier Schippers]

mostly bad cases screw up my f2l im around 8 seconds now...

 

[Schmidt]

U3 moves! 1st pair! The next white not in the U layer! Being indecisive!

 

[maggot]

for me, what kills my f2l is TPS. also, kind of related, during long session i am lazy to look for xcross. i just look for the easiest cross, not always the best cross. also i need to learn edge control. i try to learn it intuitively, but im a loser! hahah

anyone have a good partial edge control guide? all i can figure out intuitively is 2gen and sledgehammer to help, but i use sledgehammer inefficiently? help thanks!

 

[Chapuunka]

@maggot:

@Anonymous:
Thanks for all the useful ZZ advice you always seem to give. I'll definitely pay more attention to that.

 

[cubefan4848]

Mine is slow because I don't practice 3x3 enough.
I do too much pyraminx

 

[nlCuber22]

I suppose.

However he DID say he wasn't using f2l or whatever.

Yes, but it's not the same thing. His answer was legitimate; he said his F2L isn't good because he doesn't practice Fridrich.

 

[cubeslayer]

Pauses are what kill me...that and the fact my cube can't cut corners ( using a lubed Rubik's brand )

 

[asportking]

I'm way too indecisive about pairs. I'll figure out how to do one pair, and right before I start it, I'll be like "Oooh! That pair looks easier" and switch.

 

[Yuxuibbs]

my f2l is usually 20-30 sec and i get sub 40 a lot, i use intuitive f2l and end up using beginner's method for inserting edges sometimes

 

[Elbeasto94]

i use intuitive f2l and end up using beginner's method for inserting edges sometimes

When you are practicing try to force yourself to insert them using f2l and I can almost guarantee you will get faster.

 

[toastman]

Because I have to find, then choose the first pair after the cross. If I don't have any D stickers on the top layer on F/B/L/R I'm completely stuffed and at that point have wasted 5 seconds+ trying to find something favourable to start with.

 

[Chiv]

The reason my F2L is slow is mainly because I take so long looking around -- it's recognition which is the problem. I guess this will get better with practice.

 

[caseyd]

my f2l (including the cross) is 15 -25 seconds ( but almost consistently at 20) and I think my f2l is bad because of
incomplete lookahead
bad U2 rotations
not knowing one alg that takes 15 moves for me to do intuitively, but other than that im happily sub 30

 

[asportking]

My f2l's pretty slow, about 20 seconds. It's probably because I keep having trouble looking away from the one f2l pair I'm working on, although about a second before finishing one f2l pair, I can usually start looking for other pairs.