Manual

The thing where people are saying to practice getting into 1st without using any throttle have it spot on.

But I'll explain what the transmission does.

They're something called synchromesh. Know how you CAN'T go into Reverse without stopping? That's because it's not synchromesh. Remember in those B&W movies where people suddenly stopped in their century old cars and got out and got mad? That's because their 1st gear wasn't synchromesh, so if they were slow enough that they HAD TO get back into 1st, they were screwed and had to stop.

Synchromesh is where the gears are always engaged, but the shafts are not. There's synchronizers that bring the shaft and gears into speed with each other, then they lock with teeth. So, that's catching the wheels and internals up with the internals and the clutch.

Now the wheels and all of the transmission are caught up. Now it's YOUR job, with the gas and clutch pedal, to synchronize the engine and the rest of the driveline.

Do you have a basic idea of lower gear gives you better acceleration, but you gotta upshift to get to some sorta speed?

Yes it's not hard at all
Just watch a few techinque/instructional videos before you do and as long as you're not retarded it's easy, and seriously do it barefoot the first time you do, much better pedal control

Best tip - first thing you do, put it in first, let off the clutch verrrrryyy slowly, there will be a point the car will grab and start rolling forward, that's your bite point

Next time with that point in mind, give it a bit of gas, if you stall give it a bit more gas

My first time driving manual was when I went to buy my first car- a 90s weeb machine, wasn't even expecting to drive it, didn't have a license

Dude tosses me the keys and says "don't break it"

Did the no gas start, was golden on the rest of the test drive through downtown Denver, really not that hard if you know the technique, translating it into movement is just a matter of adjusting to what the car likes

I didn't even think about that with no synchros. The trucks don't have synchros, but the low gears are so low that you can always pop it into a gear from N even going 2mph.

But if the car has a longer 1st gear and you end up in N with at a speed lower than idle in 1st gear, you just gotta stop.

>step 4. Clutch, neutral, clutch, shift, gas.
>2017
> not double clutching like you should

>not floating the gears
Git gud

>Baiting this hard

The clutch is what connects the engine to the wheels. If the wheels are stopped but the engine is moving (i.e. on), you can't connect them (meaning you have to have the clutch pedal pressed down). pretty simple once you understand what the clutch actually does, as others have said

I literally learned on my grandpa's racing sim.

However he's a typical grandpa who, instead of model trains, builds flight simulators and race ones. He has these insanely accurate hydraulic pedals so they feel like real ones.

But honestly it isn't too hard to learn. YouTube has taught me everything.

Yeah I did it a week ago. Watch youtube vids. It should take you a week to git gud.