4Chan
Premium Member
[video=youtube_share;CK2Z6dsEQQw]http://youtu.be/CK2Z6dsEQQw[/video]
I was hoping to surprise everyone the community until I got better, but cat's out of the bag.
You may notice that I'm struggling in the video because I'm extremely frustrated with my progress. I know that I can do better than this.
I returned to cubing at the end of January, and I've since relearned ZBLL in ONE month.
All whilst balancing a 17 credit hour class load, working in a research lab 25 hours a week, working on my master's thesis, and dating.
How did I do it with such a busy schedule and in a SINGLE month?
I kept really good notes and I've got a good mass memorisation system.
Back in 2009, when I learned ZBLL for the first time, wrote down notes on how I'd do it if I ever had to relearn it over again. Luckily, it came in handy 5 years later when I decided to go back to speedcubing. I'm back again because I suck at pretty much everything else in life. I failed out of a top university, I suck at sports/fitness, and the only thing I was good at was memorising algos.
I'm still struggling with ZZ and recall, but I honestly think there are going to be dividends a year down the line.
This time around I'm not using optimal algs. 40% are old algs that I deemed decent, 5-8% are compound OLLs, 10-15%? are from Alg.db, and the rest were generated by myself.
I'm also back because last month I had dinner with Chris Hardwick and Andrew Kang. We all had our cubes out and hearing Chris talk about cubes kinda inspired me to pick up some cubes that night and I got hooked. Thanks to Andrew for inviting us to dinner, and thanks to Chris for the inspiration!
I was hoping to surprise everyone the community until I got better, but cat's out of the bag.
You may notice that I'm struggling in the video because I'm extremely frustrated with my progress. I know that I can do better than this.
I returned to cubing at the end of January, and I've since relearned ZBLL in ONE month.
All whilst balancing a 17 credit hour class load, working in a research lab 25 hours a week, working on my master's thesis, and dating.
How did I do it with such a busy schedule and in a SINGLE month?
I kept really good notes and I've got a good mass memorisation system.
Back in 2009, when I learned ZBLL for the first time, wrote down notes on how I'd do it if I ever had to relearn it over again. Luckily, it came in handy 5 years later when I decided to go back to speedcubing. I'm back again because I suck at pretty much everything else in life. I failed out of a top university, I suck at sports/fitness, and the only thing I was good at was memorising algos.
I'm still struggling with ZZ and recall, but I honestly think there are going to be dividends a year down the line.
This time around I'm not using optimal algs. 40% are old algs that I deemed decent, 5-8% are compound OLLs, 10-15%? are from Alg.db, and the rest were generated by myself.
I'm also back because last month I had dinner with Chris Hardwick and Andrew Kang. We all had our cubes out and hearing Chris talk about cubes kinda inspired me to pick up some cubes that night and I got hooked. Thanks to Andrew for inviting us to dinner, and thanks to Chris for the inspiration!
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