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How long do you spend solving while practicing?

Matt11111

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Over my winter break, I practiced 3x3. A lot. More than I ever had before. I did 1,000 solves with a mean of about 17. So when I got back to school, my homeroom teacher/advisor/science teacher calculated that I spent over 4 hours solving the cube (i.e. excluding scrambling, inspection, and all the time in between sessions). So my question to you is, when was the last time you practiced a lot (let's say a few hundred solves at least over a few days), how many solves did you do, and how many hours did you spend solving the cube?
 
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Reading the title, I thought the question would be how much time we spend doing timed solves vs how much time we spend learning new stuff.
 
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My sessions are usually limited to 1-2 hours. If I take out scrambling, inspections, and short breaks to look at stats and stuff, I'm probably solving about 60-75% of that time.
 
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The most I've ever done is an ao100 in one sitting and I average about 22 seconds right now so 22X100=2200 seconds and subtract 10X100 for inspection (I never use the full 15 seconds) is 2200-1000=1200 and assuming it takes me about 7 more seconds to do a scramble each solve, 1200-700=500 seconds divided by 60 is about 8 to 9 minutes which is crazy since the full ao100 takes me almost an hour :p
 
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Joel2274 said:
The most I've ever done is an ao100 in one sitting and I average about 22 seconds right now so 22X100=2200 seconds and subtract 10X100 for inspection (I never use the full 15 seconds) is 2200-1000=1200 and assuming it takes me about 7 more seconds to do a scramble each solve, 1200-700=500 seconds divided by 60 is about 8 to 9 minutes which is crazy since the full ao100 takes me almost an hour :p
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Your math is off. You're subtracting the inspection and scrambling and such from the 2200 seconds you spend solving.
 
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Ordway Persyn said:
It's a lot harder for me to figure this out because I practice many events. During times I practice 3x3 a lot I do 70-500 timed solves a day. During times I don't I do about 0-50.

I generally cube for 1-4 hours a day total.
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holy muffins dude. You cube a lot
 
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