First critique les go

[lone quartz]

Basically a 15.88 solve somehow
Scramble: U R F2 R2 D2 L2 D L2 U B2 U' L2 R F R' U' F L B2
Reconstruction: I forgor 💀
Here’s the vid.

It also has funni cube drop

[twilit helm]

what jperm did you use?

[jolly cloud]

The scramble you provided is not the same as in the video

[slender cove]

dont rotate so much in f2l

i saw at least 2 y2s too

hard to critique without a recon though

[forest sleet]

It is, but he scrambled it with blue front yellow top for some reason

So yeah, first thing: make sure you always scramble the cube with a standard orientation which is green front white top

I’m going to do a full critique in a moment

[forest sleet]

@lone quartz

You did an xcross, but it was very inefficient, and it looked like you were just finding ways to preserve it during the solve, not planning it before. Xcross is an advanced thing and you should only do it if you're sure you can plan it entirely in the inspection and perform quickly, otherwise it will probably slow you down actually.
A good cross I would probably do: y' U L2 B D' F' R
An xcross I found while experimenting but would never find in an actual solve (I'm not good at xcrosses): L2 D' L2 D R D2 F

Your F2L was really good, the only thing I noticed is that for the last pair you did an unnecessary rotation, as all the cases with a solved edge never require a rotation, you should learn ways to do this case from every angle. Nothing wrong about LL too.

Idk what about these fingertricks and lockups you talked about, everything seemed good in this solve, but also I can see it's a very good one with your ao5 PB being 20.99 so a more average solve would probably give more insight

*ok not a good cross I would probably do because I would do a yellow cross but let's say the best one I could find on white

[jolly cloud]

@forest sleet When you are talking about the cross is the y' from his starting position or the scramble starting position?

[slender cove]

he did 2 y2s in cross and more rotations in f2l, + the oll fingertricks didnt look that good

• its better to do antisune R U2' R' U' R U' R' or back sune R' U' R U' R' U2 R over lefty sune

• useless U moves before OLL

• it didnt look like you predicted auf, as you paused before you put the cube down

[slender cove]

(yeah also a small thing try to put the cube on the mat before stopping the timer so you dont end up with a +2, +4 or a broken cube 💀)

[forest sleet]

I think you mean the rotations during the cross, I didn’t notice any y2s in F2L

[slender cove]

oh yeah that was a really long cross

hard to see without a recon mb

[forest sleet]

Yeah, reckons make everything much easier

*recons

[slender cove]

really need to work on cross, its not just inserting pieces, you need to move other cross edges while solving others to reduce movecount (and dont rotate in cross)

[forest sleet]

Although if the video quality is good you can see most things when you slow it down

[slender cove]

yeah

[forest sleet]

Yeah but also I think his cross is not so bad usually but here it was because he tried to preserve the d cross which led to inefficiency

*xcross

[slender cove]

yeah xcrosses arent worth it if theyre that long

[lone quartz]

Got you

[lone quartz]

I predicted AUF
I was a bit nervous there ngl

[lone quartz]

I forgor that

[lean crypt]

if you already have a good look ahead try with more tps

[real cape]

@lean crypt has reached level 1. GG!

[ashen plaza]

bro was so exicted that he dropped the cube

and said go away i got a pb

[slender cove]

also yeah its not really an average solve if you average over 20

[golden hollow]

dont use regrips also do u2

[dense jewel]

That is actually a +2 because he put his cube on the timer

[slender cove]

that doesnt matter

[forest sleet]

You only need to start with the cube on the mat, after the solve it could be on a timer as well, you could as well throw it to the other side of the room and, unless it breaks, the solve counts

[dense jewel]

nahh

[slender cove]

either way it doesnt matter in this critique lol