Particularly good solvers are able to see potential skips or favorable arrangements and alter their solve to "force" a particular arrangement in a later stage.

Particularly good solvers are able to see potential skips or favorable arrangements and alter their solve to "force" a particular arrangement in a later stage. Preserving an F2L pair during the cross, or choosing a better OLL algorithm during F2L. It's pretty neat to watch breakdowns of solves.