Cubing Advice for AutZeroOne

Disclaimers: I average barely sub-15, have only been cubing for 3ish years, and am not full CN, but dual CN. This is also aimed towards CFOP solvers. Other methods are indeed very good, but this isn't aimed at those.

At your speed, the main thing you can do is practice and do solves. Try to do untimed solves where you just mess around with F2L and try to find more efficient ways to do things. Watching some example solves from fast cubers can help with this (Feliks has a ton of them!) as well, but try not to get caught up in the uber-advanced techniques. Focus on your efficiency for F2L and not having super big pauses trying to figure out how to solve each case each time (some pauses are inevitable though)

For algs, you can totally learn PLL now, although make sure you get good algs and do good finger tricks; you don't want to be averaging 15 seconds and find out the finger tricks you've got engrained into your muscle memory are horrible. More algs beyond 4LLL (2 look OLL and 2 look PLL) won't decease your times by that much at all, so it's far from necessary at this point, but there's no harm in starting early as long as you learn them well. Full PLL only becomes super helpful around 20 or so seconds, and OLL becomes helpful at around 15 seconds or so (varies a *ton* between different solvers). But again, there's no reason to not get started early as long as you learn them properly; just don't expect to drop a ton off your average from learning them.

Becoming color neutral would be a great decision, and the earlier you do it the easier it is. I definitely wish I had become color neutral early on. There's many ways to learn color neutrality, but I'd recommend looking around in inspection (make inspection untimed if you need to; that's totally fine. You'll get faster the more you do it) to find the easiest cross and then go with that one. Try to primarily do colors you're not very comfortable with (example: if you're really comfortable with white and yellow then try to do the other colors more often, but don't completely ignore white and yellow)

Here's a great resource on color neutrality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rbb2H8A7ms it's aimed towards faster solvers, but can still definitely be helpful to you.

And here's a link to J Perm's "How to be Sub-X" playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI24ciRbl8BVh6cuX4UMgfbqOTZqb8eNf it has great videos on tips to break the sub-30, 20, 15, 12, and 10 barriers.

Actually, here's a link to J Perm's entire channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JPerm he's got incredible resources for basically everything you'd ever want to learn about in 3x3, any other NxN, and he even has a couple resources for the side events. Check out his F2L improvement videos, cross planning, and more.

The only warning I'd give is try not to get overwhelmed. There's a ton to learn in cubing, but you don't need to memorize all of it. Focus on one thing at a time, and try not to get ahead of yourself. Resources on how to become sub-10 aren't gonna be that helpful for you, because they assume knowledge and speed that you may not have. Look for resources at your level, because those are gonna be giving you the most helpful info and tips.

Happy cubing!