The advice I am following, which a lot of top speedcubers agree with for the most part is this:
- Practice and improve beginner CFOP until you average around 45s.
- Work on doing INTUITIVE F2L more efficiently. This is something you should work on continuously but this is where you should start to do it.
- Work on finger tricks, but don’t learn anything too crazy. At this point I would recommend getting down to about 30 seconds before the next step.
- Learn full PLL and get down to around 15 to 20 seconds
- Learn full OLL and get to around 10-15 seconds, while still working on finger tricks, efficiency, lookahead etc.
- Learn more advanced things like X cross and work on lookahead and other fundamentals.
You’ll notice that memorizing F2L algs is nowhere on that list, and by the time you’ve mastered all six of the above phases, you’re doing solves in under 10s and can then decide whether to pursue other more esoteric skills like color neutrality, pseudo-slotting, and memorizing F2L algs.