Feels real loose and smooth whenever I do it, then I go back to 26-32. I guess it was efficient, but I didn't even plan out full fb, just kinda knew where the pieces were.
How's it go for you guys when you can see the next summit, but know it's still a ways away?
Been mucking around a bit with slow solves in front of the TV for a few weeks and decided to get back into my push to get to sub-20 (again, for the 10th time... haha). Last time I solved regularly with the app + smart cube was over 9 months ago and my Ao1000 was 22.5s at that point and improving as I'd just finished learning full-CMLL and recognition was taking "some time". I have been (just) sub-20 in the past.
Clearly after that time I've forgotten 90% of CMLL (again!) - can remember all the H and Pi cases and a few random T and others albeit I occasionally forget in the middle of an alg still but that's easy enough to work on. Yet again however, my absolutely *horrible* second block is ruining my solves.
Did a quick 24 solves for an average of 26.1 with the overview graph appearing to give me the finger as usual. Pretty inefficient as expected with 2L CMLL and just general rustiness but the highlight was the last solve above - I think this is the first time I've ever spotted and 4 move first block that's as nice as that in a real solve - ie. making two lines simultaneously and solving. Of course, I marvelled at my own genius and screwed up the rest of the solve but 19.41 is pretty good for me in general let alone after an extended break so I'm not complaining too hard.
I've asked this question I don't know how many times over the years but again - anyone have any tips as to how to actually PRACTICE finding pieces for the second block? I kinda feel like even though I can typically either fully see the FB solution or at least the first pair and track the second pair, I have a big black hole after that where I simply lose sight of everything and have to pause to find pieces to continue. My feeling is that if I can "simply" track a couple of the SB pieces whilst executing FB that my times will improve MASSIVELY.
Cubeast says that for this session, my recognition time for SB is 1.39s. This is only to find the down-edge or whatever I'm solving first however as there are pauses after that - my execution for SB in a 26s solve is 9.15s!
Is it a matter of just spamming solves and then eventually you'll "get it" - I think not as I've been doing exactly that for a number of years albeit with a pretty large break this time. There's got to be some kind of drills / practice routine that will enable you to lookahead more effectively - any ideas anyone?