PJKCuber
Veteran
Yeah, thanks for the comment. It's not that I buy them JUST to break my PB. In fact since I got my current main (AoLong) I hadn't bought any new cubes for a while and I have been consistently beating my PB all the way down from 21.xx to 17.xx over time, some tenths of a second at a time.
But it is curious that every time I try a new cube I almost always make my best time with it on the 1st day and only much later I finally beat that again (but it can be like two or more weeks later). The fact that this time I took a whole second and a half (almost) off my PB on my 1st 10 solves with the ChiLong is just anecdotal and it won't necessarily convert it in my new main. Just wondering if there is some scientific reason behind this fact.
I also buy cubes because:
1) they are dirt cheap, compared with other things, at 4 to 10 $ each
2) I have a collector inside of me
3) I like the sensation of waiting for the new cube to arrive in the mail
I also cannot help but notice that you are faster than me and your signature says OLL 7/57 (that's 2-look OLL and nothing else) and PLL 9/21. I'm like OLL 50/54, PLL 21/21 even if I hate one of my PLL algs and would like to change it.
Ya, I still use 2Look OLL and PLL with 3 PLL's learnt(T perm, J perm and Y perm). I am learning Full PLL right now. F2L is what matters the most. I think this is more of a psychological thing. I felt happy when I upgraded from a Chilong to an Aolong and therefore got better times with it.
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