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

[LucidCuber]

Leaving cubes out at competitions. Thieving little ships

It's not really practical though to put everything away and carry your bag around with you at all times. Although fortunately I've never been a victim :/

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

starting speedcubing so late.

When did you start?

 

[guysensei1]

Not starting 6x6 earlier. My chances at NR are fading. I don't think I can get that fast by February.

 

[DavidCip86]

I wish I had practiced my left hand more, so that I could solve ambidextrously

 

[JasonDL13]

(MBLD) Staying on 2 cubes after I got 2/2. I was scared to do 3.

(2BLD) Learned orient-first, bad T-Perm method for 2x2. I rarely sub-1'd. Now, using OP and verbal memo, I can average 29.

(3BLD) Do my first solve without learning all of Old Pochmann, including parity. (Surprise: It was a DNF)

(General) Buy a Rubik's Clock, when I got it one of the knobs was jammed I just wanted to try it blindfolded.

In the future I might regret not switching to another BLD method. I don't plan on learning M2. I'll learn TuRBo one day.

 

[GuRoux]

When did you start?

close to 2 years and one month ago.

 

[Iggy]

Wasting my first year of competitive speedcubing on magics. And that was the year with the most Malaysian comps -_-

 

[MirzaCubing]

Not being color neutral, and wasting so much practice time over the years (never tried to learn new things :/ )

 

[Chree]

I wish I had practiced my left hand more, so that I could solve ambidextrously

I actually wish I had NOT practiced with my left hand as much. I wanted to be full ambidextrous, and was for a while, but all the regrips cost me time, so now I focus on my right hand.

 

[mark49152]

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?

Haha, ferry funny!

 

[penguinz7]

Convincing my parents to buy me a crappy shengshou 6x6 for my birthday, two weeks before the moyu one came out.

 

[mDiPalma]

all those dumb PCMS algs

ugggghhh

 

[grel1234]

Deciding to wash my very first cube's core with soap because it seemed a little dirty. Bad decision.

 

[CubeToast]

"I'm going to buy a Rubik's Brand 4x4 for $20, because how bad can it be? It can't be as bad as people say it is."
I was sure wrong. Turning was painful, and being the stupid curious person I am wondering about the mechanism, I decide to pop an edge off. I didn't know about the new ridged anti-pop edges, so I broke a center piece and lost it. I then got a SS v5 for $7. It was awful.

 

[natezach728]

Buying a shengshou 4x4 v4 and then rush modding it. That was bad. Also, not practicing before Nisei Week 2014.

 

[confusedcuber]

Started CN for my first week, then forced myself to white cross because i read it was better..

 

[TraciAG]

"I'm going to buy a Rubik's Brand 4x4 for $20, because how bad can it be? It can't be as bad as people say it is."
I was sure wrong. Turning was painful, and being the stupid curious person I am wondering about the mechanism, I decide to pop an edge off. I didn't know about the new ridged anti-pop edges, so I broke a center piece and lost it. I then got a SS v5 for $7. It was awful.

I'm sorry for your wallet but this made me laugh out loud

 

[waffle=ijm]

Probably getting used to white cubes. I wish I stuck with black cubes since I can't see the dirt build up. nowadays I can't even bring my black cube times down to my white cube times.

 

[GuRoux]

Probably getting used to white cubes. I wish I stuck with black cubes since I can't see the dirt build up. nowadays I can't even bring my black cube times down to my white cube times.

you can still see the dirt build up pretty easily

 

[waffle=ijm]

you can still see the dirt build up pretty easily

but it's not as bad as white cubes. especially around the stickers. Disgusting.