New PB aswell, previous PB was 2:07:42.32

I got into cubing around 2019, I was obsessed for YEARS. It was genuinely all I did. I would sit on my couch for hours and hours every day spamming solves (I didn’t even listen to music or anything I was a psychopath).

it got to where I averaged 11-12ish seconds and my PB was 6.85 seconds, but then I slowly lost interest.

part of it was probably because my favorite YouTubers quit, most notably jperm. Anyways, cubing Just slowly fizzled out of my life for the next few years.

But recently, when I saw the new WR, I picked it up, blew off the dust like the drama queen I am, and tried a few solves. I was slow. I was averaging 15-20 seconds. And I forgot almost every OLL, and some PLLs which was infuriating, because i remember how long they took to memorize. But one weird thing kept happening, I would try a solve, finish f2l, and come across an OLL I did NOT remember at all, like genuinely if you showed me that case Iy mind would be a blank, but before I could register the fact that I didn’t remember the algorithm, it would already be solved. My fingers would just muscle memory and do the entire algorithm without me knowing what the heck I’m doing. It genuinely started to freak me out because I legit did not remember these.

But within day I relearned almost all the algs, and have been practicing when I can. My averages have been getting lower, around 13-14 seconds. Not as fast as I was, but I’m getting close.

then I got my first sub 10. I got a 9.17, the joy I felt was much bigger than I thought it’d be. it wasn’t even super lucky, it was full step, I just did it smoothly, and it was lowkey surreal.

I hope I continue to improve and reach what I once was at my prime.

So I'm currently learning ZBLL and after that full ZB and I barely have subset T case 6 (I got the subset from SCDB) and I'm still struggling to recognize the cases! I memorized all the algs but now I have to memorize practically every single piece on the 2 sides I'm looking at. Yes I know about the technique people use but sometimes it confuses other cases so I decided to learn my way. Anyway comment how you learned so many algs quickly if you have learned something like that or similar. And maybe some advice for me? 🥺

Cube: Gan 17 Magdrive
Method: Full CFOP
1st Scramble: D2 R D2 B' L' B' D R2 F2 R2 L2 F D2 L2 D2 L2 F D2 U B' Solve Time: 15.084
2nd Scramble: R F R' B R D2 F B' D B2 R F2 U2 R2 U2 D2 F2 R' B2 R2 D2 Solve Time: 17.690
3rd Scramble: R2 F' D B' L' D2 R U' F' U' F2 R2 D' B2 D' F2 D L2 B2 U F Solve Time: 18.022
4th Scramble: R' B U2 F' L2 B L2 F' D2 B D2 R2 F2 U F' L' R2 F' R' U B Solve Time: 15.561
5th Scramble: D' L2 U L B R' L' D R2 L2 B2 R2 U' R2 D L2 D' F2 U' F D Solve Time: 17.360
Ao5: 16.87

So my progression has been getting slower after reaching sub-20, what should I improve on?

I just got back into cubing after 6 years. I forgot the exact name of my Gan cube but it's one of the 356 magnetic ones, and as the title says, it's faded and very sticky on the outside. I'm not sure if this is a problem with just the frosted coating, but I was hoping someone had a fix for this in anyway. I'm planning to buy a new cube but it would be nice to restore this one as well.

how different does it feel? does it still have the issues with v10 and v11 where it snaps? i don't really see much complain lately abt the core, does that really fix the issue?