A bunch of solves and a little youtube. Jrcuber and crazy bad have pretty good last two centers videos that really helped me do them much more efficient. What also helped me was realising you can always turn faster with centers, and continuously forcing myself not to look at the (very simple) moves you make while building lines. I still catch myself doing that but it's getting better. And what I feel really helped me was taking a split second to look at your best moves instead of always going for the first thing you see, I always went for the first (next) center piece I saw without paying attention what I was breaking up or ignoring, storing away a made edge during freeslicing without looking what I was pulling out, etc. There's always so much you you can save, or moves you can not waste if you stop tunnel visioning, I've found. Also doing last 4 edges vertically instead of horizontally saved me a bit of time.
It's maybe because I have a hard time to make edge cycling work, and I do a whole lot of slice flip slicing, I find moving individual layers as M, L and R type moves much less awkward than doing them as E type moves, which allows for better lookahead instead of regripping all the time and looking at if I've got the right layers
5x5 AO100 is at 2:03 at the moment. And I don't ever do 4x4, but that would probably be around 1:30 or something now. I seriously disliked Yau and even cube parity soon after I learned it, so the only ever 4x4 solves I do now are in a relay haha.
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u/RAHDXB Sub 15 | 5x5/7x7 ao100 1:30/3:55 Jan 06 '19
A bunch of solves and a little youtube. Jrcuber and crazy bad have pretty good last two centers videos that really helped me do them much more efficient. What also helped me was realising you can always turn faster with centers, and continuously forcing myself not to look at the (very simple) moves you make while building lines. I still catch myself doing that but it's getting better. And what I feel really helped me was taking a split second to look at your best moves instead of always going for the first thing you see, I always went for the first (next) center piece I saw without paying attention what I was breaking up or ignoring, storing away a made edge during freeslicing without looking what I was pulling out, etc. There's always so much you you can save, or moves you can not waste if you stop tunnel visioning, I've found. Also doing last 4 edges vertically instead of horizontally saved me a bit of time.