My path to a quicker 3x3x3 solve took the route of learning 2-Look OLL and 2-Look PLL techniques from the great YouTube videos from badmephisto. I summarised my version of the algorithms in nice little OpenOffice diagrams...
![[big 2-look image]](/mick/2-look.png)
The OpenOffice drawing can be downloaded here: 2-look.odg and a nice printable PDF here: 2-look.pdf