Worst Decision/ Idea you've ever had during your cubing career?

[Myachii]

After browsing through many reviews, I decided to buy a full size SS 7x7 instead of a Mini 7x7. Big mistake.
I can't get any better at it and the time it takes me to solve it has put me off 7x7 completely.
I'm getting a MoYu 7x7 for Christmas, but I've had to cope with this one for the best part of a year.

What bad ideas/decisions have you guys made regarding cubing? Did you buy a horrible cube, use Vaseline as a lubricant, or do anything that you regret?

 

[TDM]

I regret switching to Roux so late.
Another thing that I'm now thinking was a bad idea was getting a SS 6x6 last Christmas. Last Ao5 I did I got 6 pops. I almost never use it.

 

[Torch]

I tried to use superglue to fix a peeling sticker on my 7x7, and ended with two edges glued together. I had to stick a pair of scissors between the edges and twist really hard to separate them.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

Almost switched to zz.

 

[Sa967St]

I never learned a good way of pairing edges on 4x4x4, and since I've been solving a 4x4x4 the same way for 7 years, I have trouble switching to Yau.
I pair edges similarly on 5x5x5 (pretty much in whatever order I see them), but I don't think it hurts my times nearly as much as it does for 4x4x4.

 

[Myachii]

I regret switching to Roux so late.
Another thing that I'm now thinking was a bad idea was getting a SS 6x6 last Christmas. Last Ao5 I did I got 6 pops. I almost never use it.

As a not-very-proud owner of a SS 6x6, I agree, which is why I'm also getting a MoYu version ASAP.

 

[Chree]

Waiting so long to really speedcube was a pretty big mistake. I've been cubing for nearly 9 years. But for the first 7 years, I never learned anything new, never bought anything but a Rubik's Brand (I have 5 [1 was lost]), and my times never went much below 30 seconds. I've been speedcubing for the last 2 years and now I'm a 16 second solver. Can only imagine where I'd be if I was serious about it this whole time.

 

[Randomno]

I was talking to someone and putting my cube away, and tried to put it in my pocket without checking it would go in. It fell on the floor.

 

[Hssandwich]

I regret switching to Roux so late.
Another thing that I'm now thinking was a bad idea was getting a SS 6x6 last Christmas. Last Ao5 I did I got 6 pops. I almost never use it.

Your using roux as your main method now?!

Also, bringing my cube into school. Too much attention and my main (a zhanchi at the time) kept popping when other people used it.

 

[Ollie]

Leaving cubes out at competitions. Thieving little ships

 

[ComputerGuy365]

Neglecting other events so much when I had the chance to progress more...

 

[GuRoux]

starting speedcubing so late.

 

[XTowncuber]

Not being CN. I thought solving only one color was the cool thing that fast people did xD. Fortunately I realized my mistake in time to branch out to yellow.

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

MBLD in comp once, picked up a cube I'd executed already had forgotten to twist corners on. That was what was meant to happen. I had actually twisted them already already, so I picked up a solved cube and ... yeah ...

 

[Rocky0701]

Not doing Roux when I started. Also, stripping out a screw of my mini SS 7x7 and now I can't get it out to do the dayan spring swap mod.

 

[Andreaillest]

Been cubing for years now and I still too lazy to learn full OLL and New tricks. I should have learned them when I was younger, had more time on my hands and motivated.

 

[ottozing]

Turning with my ring finger for OH. I doubt I'll ever get much faster than a 13.x official average simply because of how bad my turning style is.

Another bad one was using keyboard for 2x2 so much that I had to actually learn how to pick up a cube fast, which really held me back earlier the year, and I've only been able to get nice comp averages as of the last few months (At my last 3 comps alone I got 4 averages faster than my 1.96 former OcR, 3 of which were sub 1.9x and one of which would have been without a +2).

Overall I can't really complain though, since my progress has been fairly constant and I'm a pretty well rounded cuber now if I may say so myself.

 

[CiaranBeahan]

Really should've learned blind when I was starting out, when I was 11 or 12.

 

[Petro Leum]

not having learned lefty U2 doubleflick when i started and not having learned U2 and R2 doubleflicks when i started onehanded... its so ****ing hard now...

also, having used CFOP for way too long, the CFOp thinking still affects my blockbuilding today

 

[qqwref]

Leaving cubes out at competitions. Thieving little ships

I was u-boat to say, you yacht to keep track of your puzzles if you want to be a destroyer of records. A lot of those frigate kids warship people like you, and will happily tanker cubes because they think it will be better than their junk. Canoe believe it?