You’re grinding gears not because you’re in the wrong gear, you’re grinding gears because you’re not rev matching.
You need to practice more on the balance of clutch release and gas given. Different for each car, you just learn how to find it faster as you become more experienced driving manual.
AsymmetricalReward t1_je2m5ix wrote
Reply to eli5: driving manual by guacgawd
You’re grinding gears not because you’re in the wrong gear, you’re grinding gears because you’re not rev matching.
You need to practice more on the balance of clutch release and gas given. Different for each car, you just learn how to find it faster as you become more experienced driving manual.