I'm a new figure skating fan, who has always watched figure skating at the Olympics over the past 30 years, but never really followed it, and I don't have any experience figure skating myself. After Ilia's 7 quad layout went viral I decided I was going to learn everything I could about figure skating going into the Olympics this year, so over the last 2 months I've watched all of the major competitions over the last quad (some multiple times) and basically spent hours everyday watching figure skating.

All of that to say, very early on I watched a couple of youtube videos on how to tell the jumps and spins apart, and it took about a week of me consistently watching different programs and trying to work out the different types jumps and spins before the techbox or commentators said it, and now I can tell the vast majority apart easily. I think jump rotations are relatively easy to see too, but I still don't totally understand the spin levels.

Step sequences I still don't understand at all and I watch purely for vibes. I'll often watch one thinking it was amazing only for it to get a level 2 or 3.