...and it went even better today!
I think by now, I'm getting the cross and F2L down pretty consistently. By any competitive standard, it's still comparatively slow, but thankfully I wont be entering any competitions soon. Ironically, I actually had a moment where I initially forgot the "diagonal" algorithm, but even though I took the time to remember, I still managed to get a faster time.
By my standards, 41.75 is a great improvement from where I started, even compared to yesterday it's a great improvement.
Tomorrow, I'm hoping to revisit 2 look OLL, because with the "diagonal" and "headlights" memorized, I have most of 2 look PLL algorithms down.
2 look PLL:
(Diagonal) R U' R U R U R U' R' U' R2
(Headlights) R2 U R U R' U' R' U'