[charcircuit]

>Is there no trade off where you flip the cube around to optimise for miniminimum inspection and solving time and totally forgo the inspection?

There is not an interesting trade off. You just look to see if there's an obvious good start. Even with 15s of inspection you are usually only planning like 10% of the solve. The majority of the solve is already figured out on the fly.

>On the second point, it seems like there is more room to push the skill ceiling.

Yes, being able to accurately and quickly track pieces under time pressure is a skill.

[Rastonbury]

Thanks for the insight