Mar 1 2010, 07:05 PM
QUOTE(cleave @ Feb 27 2010, 11:14 AM)
Yup, that's the metronome method. Your X-cross around 10s is pretty good and the LL is you can do it 10s using beginner's method is quite impressive. Now we need to focus on your F2L to bring your time down. 
Common pitfalls for F2L lag are these:-
1) Cube rotation - This is where you turn the whole cube looking for pairs or positioning the cube for slotting.
2) Pausing - This is where you pause to plan for your intuitive setup and slotting. This is the bane of intuitive F2L. Algorithm users wont suffer from this much as they usually can muscle memory the algorithms much faster than an intuitive users.
To minimize point #1, you need to learn how to slot from different angles. Dont do x, y, z rotations unnecessarily. It's ok to have one or two of those, but dont make it a habit. For point #2, the metronome method comes in handy. Set it to 60 BPM first which would translate to 1 turn per second. The trick is to train yourself to turn at a constant pace. If you miss a beat, scramble, do the cross and start over with F2L. At 1 tps would allow you to do an ample lookahead. You need to force yourself to look for next pair while slotting the current one. Once you're comfortable with 60BPM, you can gradually increase it to 75BPM, 90BPM and 120BPM. At 120BPM, you'll be turning 2tps. Let's say your intuitive would take 10 turns at average per pair. That would be like 40 turns for 4 slots. If you're turning at 2tps, it'll be around 20s for your F2L to complete. Your average solves should be around at sub-40s. For a sub-20s average, you'll need to cut down your F2L to 11s at most.
Getting sub-20s using intuitive F2L is very achievable. The question is how much practice are you willing to put in.
Hello, thanks for replying. Just got back to KL yesterday and morning till just now got class so not able to reply. Common pitfalls for F2L lag are these:-
1) Cube rotation - This is where you turn the whole cube looking for pairs or positioning the cube for slotting.
2) Pausing - This is where you pause to plan for your intuitive setup and slotting. This is the bane of intuitive F2L. Algorithm users wont suffer from this much as they usually can muscle memory the algorithms much faster than an intuitive users.
To minimize point #1, you need to learn how to slot from different angles. Dont do x, y, z rotations unnecessarily. It's ok to have one or two of those, but dont make it a habit. For point #2, the metronome method comes in handy. Set it to 60 BPM first which would translate to 1 turn per second. The trick is to train yourself to turn at a constant pace. If you miss a beat, scramble, do the cross and start over with F2L. At 1 tps would allow you to do an ample lookahead. You need to force yourself to look for next pair while slotting the current one. Once you're comfortable with 60BPM, you can gradually increase it to 75BPM, 90BPM and 120BPM. At 120BPM, you'll be turning 2tps. Let's say your intuitive would take 10 turns at average per pair. That would be like 40 turns for 4 slots. If you're turning at 2tps, it'll be around 20s for your F2L to complete. Your average solves should be around at sub-40s. For a sub-20s average, you'll need to cut down your F2L to 11s at most.
Getting sub-20s using intuitive F2L is very achievable. The question is how much practice are you willing to put in.
Erm, my X-cross is only for 1 color... if swap color I'll slow down a lot. Not color natural. =(
Then the LL also got mix 2~3 non beginners method la. Haha. But for OLL only la (4 corners). PLL still using beginners'.
Will try the metronome. Thanks for the hint.
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and you're way faster than me... gg.
was that a bottom pa*m? 
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