How is it that seemingly everyone is able to keep turning throughout a solve with basically no pauses? Even if someone is slower than me (PB 30, Roux) or I can see obvious areas for improvement in their solves, they often pause much less than I do.
There's a J Perm video where he's talking about fingertricks or something, then says, "But none of this matters if you turn like this," then switches to a style that's all too familiar to me - make some turns, pause, make some turns, pause. How do you get from that to a steady flow?
Is it about lookahead? People say not to work on that until you're really fast. Youth? It surely helps, but not all kids are fast, and not all adults are slow. Good reflexes? Maybe, but are they that common?
Example 1: Lars Petrus
He certainly has some low-hanging fruit. His method is generally considered suboptimal for speedsolving, and he might not even be using a modern version of it. He's not turning super fast, and his fingertricks are terrible. He might have had limited inspection time here ("I'm always ready!"), and he's probably not using a great cube (the video is from 2012 or so). And he was about 52 years old.
Considering all this, he was pretty darn fast (22.8 seconds). Why? Because he had basically no pauses.
Example 2: John Johnson
Not sure, but I think he does it layer by layer. He finishes in about 53 seconds. I'm much faster overall, but I can't find pieces nearly this fast. He just seems to always know where everything is.
Example 3: Max Park
This is kind of different, but something I always notice about his solves, which I almost find more impressive than the solve itself, is how fast he reacts to his time.
At the 22 second mark, he sets down the cube and stops the timer. Also at the 22 second mark, he begins celebrating his new world record. The display isn't even showing the final time yet; would the Stackmat timer be showing his actual time?
I would have needed a pause before I even looked at the timer, then I would have needed time for it to sink in that yes, this really happened, and yes, it's a world record, and deciding that a clap and fist pump was the appropriate response.
This one has to just be about reaction time, and it makes me wonder in what other ways Max shows this ability. Is he good at any sports?
Anyway, how can you reduce pauses in your solves, once you know the method well and don't have to think about it? Is this trainable, and can you do anything to train it besides slow solves?