How do you drive stick shift smoother?

Answer 1

ease off the accelerator when you change gear, ease back on when you let out the clutch. keep the engine between 15k 25k rpm.

practice

Match the rpm that the engine wants to turn - based on speed and the next gear that you are putting it into - before you slowly release the clutch

With experience you wont even need to use the clutch to shift while you are moving.

^^^^ you Americans just cant drive manuals tbh lolsorry bit rude but true, in UK u cant take a gear out unless the clutch is engaged, many modern cars have a built in chip that keeps the revs high when the clutch is engaged in order to reduce wear on the clutch, but for older cars all you do is release the accelerator but at the same time the pedal is rising, push the clutch in, this has disengaged the engine from the drive wheels, then select your gear, slowly lift the clutch at the same time as pressing on the accelerator pedal, this will be nice and smooth. This is correct for gears 2-3-4-5 but if its into first from neutral, you will have to find the biting point, which is the point where the cluthc bites enough to move the car. to do this slowly release the pedal, when the car starts the ease forward, give it a bit of gas, too much and you will rev and sound like a fool, but too little and you will stall. Hope this helps, Cheers.:D

For more advanced drivers you can use double-declutching for moving down the gears. With this technique, when you want to change gear you:

depress the clutch

put the car into neutral

release the clutch.

blip the throttle

depress the clutch

push gear lever into lower gear

release the clutch

essensially it's the same as changing down normally, you just pause mid-way in order to spin the gear box up so it's spinning at the right speed for the lower gear before you engage it. If your off, you will still be smoother and with practice you can get the speed pretty much exact and have much quicker gear changes as a result. A more advaned technique still is heal-toe braking. For this you go through the above procedure whiel braking. I use the ball of my right foot for the brake and the side of my right foot for the acclerator. This will take practice and you should not try this on the open road with cars behind you until you have mastered the technique.