... it took me about 12-14 PTs before I started seeing ... brute force until my 8.5 minutes are up, then move ... case scenario, your guess goes from blind, to fairly educated which ...
166 in December, not even remotely close. That's like an 8-10 percentile jump in score from 162. 166 gives you a reasonable shot at the bottom half of the top 14; good luck even getting a sniff there with a 162.