newtonbase
Premium Member
I targeted hard cutoff for 4x4 in my first comp and scraped it. Tomorrow is my 4th comp and soft cutoff would still be a big PB but competitions are about much more than that. For me they are about socialising, learning, beating PBs and messing up blind solves.I learned Yau about 6 or 7 weeks ago, and started practicing 4x4 almost to the exclusion of everything else just over a month ago when I found out about the competition I will miss tomorrow. I haven't recorded DNFs, and I've done a reasonable number of untimed solves, but since I started Yau I have recorded times for 603 4x4 solves. After 50 solves my Ao12 was 3:29, so that's a reasonable approximation of where I started. My pb single in those solves is 1:44.16, and my current Ao100 is 2:17.76. Sure, it's possible to get there, but in the last month I've spent over 27 hours of cumulative solve time on 4x4 alone, probably closer to 30 hours, and I'm nowhere close to 1:30. I'll get there someday, I'm sure, but I'd like to compete sooner rather than later.
PS I'll also be missing 5x5 and OH cutoffs.