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

[GuRoux]

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

oh, didn't know anything about around the stickers. well, at least you know when your cube is dirty. us black cubers are in the igonrance bliss thing.

 

[megaminxwin]

Two years ago I wanted to be the best in the world at magic, so I practised incessantly. I quit cubing after I discovered that magic was being removed. Seriously.

 

[Genesis]

I wish I had a single worst one, but its hard to find which is the top....
Not starting speedsolving earlier, not continuing to practice after getting 7x7 and skewb nr(No chance of retaining them now), not learning full OLL despite cubing for like 8 years?

 

[brian724080]

Starting out with CFOP

 

[lorki3]

only learning ZZ now. I wish i had learnes it years ago, but I hadn't heard of it until nowv

 

[Cale S]

Not using F2L and 4LLL until a year after I started. Until last winter I used LBL for F2L and a stupid LL method (orient edges, permute edges with sunes, permute corners with niklas, orient corners with R' D' R D) and I averaged 30-35. Once I learned F2L and 2-look OLL and PLL I got an official 20.88 average within 3 months (first comp, March 29). A few months later I got my average down to 17.
Also, I've used regular reduction on 4x4 for so long that I think switching to Yau at this point would just slow me down.

 

[Logiqx]

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

I was the same but I decided to switch back to CN when I was averaging around 40s.

 

[Aussie]

Probably practicing 6x6 for about 3 months without any 3x3 practice at all. Once I got back to the 3x3 and learned CFOP, I got a lot faster at the 3x3 stage. I just wish I decided to go to CFOP before Nationals.

 

[TDM]

Your using roux as your main method now?!

I think so? I also practise ZZ/CFOP. I'm fastest with CFOP (13.5), then ZZ (16), then Roux (16.5-17.5). But I practise Roux the most.

 

[tomatotrucks]

Not practising look ahead when I was 20 - 30 seconds. Now I'm ~17 and my look ahead is terrible, and when I try to practise it I get sup 20 times and get discouraged

 

[Dene]

The worst idea I ever had was that I might be a top cuber at some event. Now I've wasted more than 7 years of my life and achieved nothing.

 

[Artic]

I think so? I also practise ZZ/CFOP. I'm fastest with CFOP (13.5), then ZZ (16), then Roux (16.5-17.5). But I practise Roux the most.

ZZ is the most elegant and beautiful of the 3 major methods. It should be much more popular than it currently is. How do you like ZZ?

 

[PixelWizard]

DNF in First Official Solve -.-

I also regret, that I didn't started cubing when I was younger...

 

[ryanj92]

Choosing awkward to turn puzzles as the ones I want to get good at... I get shaky in comps and get bad averages because I can't turn
I'm practising 5x5x5 a lot now though, so I guess I'm learning

 

[AlexMaass]

not having a good style solving pyraminx tips, I just solve them all at once at the end

found out how bad my tips were, and did a like casual 3.27 avg of 12 without tips.

gonna be hard to change my hard wired style

fml

 

[pdilla]

Being content with sub 20 for so long.
I've been cubing for nearly 6 years now and am barely sub-15 on average.

 

[guysensei1]

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.

Has it actually been shown that ring finger turning is slower? As a person who recently switched to pinky, I find that certain tricks are harder to do. Like the R2/L2 double flick now has this awkward regrip on it and F/F' moves with thumb now are harder to do whereas on ring finger turning it feels like there is more support. Maybe it's just that I'm not used to it but I feel like I could turn at the same speed with ring or pinky.

 

[~Adam~]

Switching to white cross when I learnt F2L from CN (thanks LTBK).

Us with left thumb.

Learnt OLL and PLL ~ 2 months then stopped learning algs.

 

[Escher]

Not being CN hurts me real bad whenever I think too hard about it.

And also stopping practising 2 years ago. Can still get 8.6-8.8ish averages of 12 whenever I do 40-50 solve sessions, that could be like 7.2ish if I just hadn't stopped ;_;

 

[Username]

I regret stopping color neutrality