2015 New Years Resoultions / Goals

[Chree]

Okay so goals I want completed in 2016:

2x2: Finish CLL and average sub-6.5
3x3: Be sub-19 and learn some more OLLs
4x4: Be Sub-1:20
5x5: Be sub-4
7x7: Be sub-7
3BLD: Average like 5-6 minutes
MBLD: Do a successful 2/2 or more
Skewb: Be Sub-8
Pyraminx:Be Sub-15
SQ-1: Be Sub-50
Megaminx: Do some solves
Comps: Get a sub-20 3x3 average
And get 500 Subscribers (or more of course) on YouTube, also 7,000+ Instagram followers

There will inevitably be a new thread for the 2016 goals you can post this in soon.

 

[supercavitation]

1x1: don't lose either of my 1x1s
2x2: learn CLL and maybe some EG
3x3: finish OLL, sub-15, learn WV, finish COLL, learn more random algs
4x4: sub-50
5x5: sub-2
6x6: pick up 6x6 more than once in the year.
7x7: maybe buy one at some point?
3x3OH: sub-35
3BLD: sub-4
4BLD: 2 or more successes
MBLD: attempt more than once?
Skewb: sub-15
Pyraminx: sub-14
SQ-1: Don't do more than 4 solves
Clock: Don't break my Lingao
Megaminx: Maybe do a few solves?

Comps: Hopefully there will be one I can attend?

1x1: yes
2x2: Technically, though most is COLL
3x3: yes, can still make it, yes, yes, yes
4x4: not even close
5x5: yes
6x6: yes
7x7: yes
OH: yes
3BLD: yes
4BLD: yes
MBLD: yes
Skewb: yes
Pyraminx: yes
SQ-1: not even close
Clock: yes
Megaminx: yes
Comps: yes

 

[ottozing]

2x2: 1.6x official avg or at least stay among the top 5 or so/world champ
3x3: sub 8 avg100/official avg/make worlds finals
4x4: sub 35 official avg
5x5-7x7: stay/get top 100 for single/avg
OH: sub 14 official avg (done)
Pyra: sub 3.4 official avg/podium worlds
Mega: top 100 for avg again
BLD: stop throwing away my scorecard and at least try and beat my 4:4x.xx official single
Clock: top 50 for avg
Feet: sub 1:10 global before worlds
Skewb: better official single/world champ
FMC: sub 29 mean
Sum of ranks: sub 1500 sum for average/stay ahead of Walker for single.

Year 12 goals: Get my act together in English and learn how to actually write essays.
Keep doing reasonably well in Math/Music.

Honestly, if I get half of these in the year I'll be pretty happy.

Only so I'm done with school and only have one comp left this year, and it only has a few events so my achievements for goals won't change much, if at all, so I'm considering this a final update. If I do anything at my next comp, I might edit this post.

2x2: Got 1.55 average, only as a result of easy scrambles though. I didn't actively practice 2x2 this year at all, even before worlds I didn't do anything. That might be why I messed up in the final, oh well.
3x3: Got to an 8.2x avg100 which is good enough. Sub 8 official average happened. Made worlds finals very comfortably, 6th seed
4x4: Nope, didn't even come close in terms of at home global averages either.
5x5-7x7: Happy with my results this year, especially 6x6. Most of them are top 100 right now and I think they all were at least once (except 7x7 single).
OH: Yeah, this goal I got ridiculously quickly. I'm happy to say that I'm now have a sub 14 avg100 at home as of like a month ago though
Pyra: Nope, didn't practice after I got 3.67 OcR avg. Missed worlds podium by one spot.
Mega: Yeah I got a 1:05 official average, cool.
BLD: Got down to sub 3:30 single officially, but I'll demolish that someday.
Clock: lmao
Feet: lmao
Skewb: Choked at worlds, but couldn't have won the final anyway because Daniel is too good, so I'm still happy with silver.
FMC: Only got 2 chances this year and best I got was 30.33. THANKS DENE ))))
Sum of ranks: Too many people got blind means so I was only briefly sub 1600. Walker is still a better cuber than me.

Year 12 goals were all successful

Happy with how I did this year, as I have been with previous years, but honestly having goals like these set in stone kinda goes against my laid back approach to cubing, so I'm done with cubing goals.

EDIT: Extra update because I ended up getting into BLD more than expected. Sum of ranks got way better as a result, although Walker is still a better cuber in my eyes :^)

 

[Rubiks560]

Cubing:
3x3 sub 8.5 AO100 at home and sub 8.5 average official

IRL:
Do well with my internship
get license (It's gonna happen this year...)
Stay in shape

lol I suck....I just barely got sub 9 average.

Thankfully my IRL stuff went great. My internship has allowed me to expand my video skills heavily and get me some very nice opportunities.

Still no license. Next year for sure.

 

[TDM]

Cubing:
4x4: don't suck no
BLD: don't suck no
Multi: Top 100, 10/10 definite no, got 5/9

Non-cubing:
Exams: don't suck yes!

New goals (in addition to unfinished ones above):

Cubing:
2x2: sub-3.5 no
4x4: sub-50 no
5x5: sub-1:50 no
3BLD: corner comms not yet
4BLD: sub-15/sub-10? no
Feet: sub-2 no

Non-cubing:
Learn 3-5 maths modules over the summer no

Slightly unsuccessful.

 

[penguinz7]

Slightly unsuccessful.

Seeing your 5/9 MBLD, do you want to race to 10 points or something? I have a 5/10, so we seem pretty close. I don't do attempts very often but maybe this would help with that..

 

[Torch]

Cubing goals:
2x2: Learn some EG-1, sub 3.5 Not much EG-1, but I do know basically all of CLL. I only average about 4 though.
3x3: Sub-10. Shoot for the moon! Um no. I average 12 but I'm okay with that.
All other events: Ignore so I can focus on 2x2 and 3x3 Not even close.
Host a competition Two, in fact!
Go to at least one competition that I don't host Six, in fact!

Real life goals:
Get used to running more than 30 miles per week Not yet, but my marathon training will get me there in a few weeks
Do well on SAT and Subject Tests 800 CR, 760 Math, 720 Writing = 2280 total ; 800 Math Level 2, 780 World History, 770 Latin. Meh, could have been better.
Be more serious about finding a job No, but I have started volunteering a lot

All in all, even though I didn't meet most of the goals I set for myself 11 months ago, I had a really good year, a lot of it due to a few unexpected opportunities coming my way. I met a whole bunch of great people and had unforgettable experiences, both in cubing and in other areas of my life. 2016 is going to have to be really good to even come close to 2015, in my book!

 

[TDM]

Seeing your 5/9 MBLD, do you want to race to 10 points or something? I have a 5/10, so we seem pretty close. I don't do attempts very often but maybe this would help with that..

Sure! I also don't do attempts often, but I might start doing 1 a week, maybe 2 for smaller attempts. Really need to work on my accuracy.

 

[cityzach]

Cubing:
3x3: sub 8 single, sub 10 avg official. Sub 10 ao12 at home.
4x4: sub 40 official single.
5x5: improve, sub 1:30 global avg
don't really care about other events

Non-cubing:
stop being a tool
go after the things I want
keep hitting the gym
do well in college, wherever I might go.

Cubing:
3x3: lolnope. Got the sub 10 ao12 at home though.
4x4: check
5x5: check

Non-cubing:
I'm still a tool. I hit the gym occasionally. I'm doing well enough in college.

 

[rj]

My goals:
2x2: finish quitting
3x3: global sub-14
4x4: sub-1
5x5: sub-2
6/7: buy some decent ones
Mega: sub-2

That's kinda all.

 

[penguinz7]

Sure! I also don't do attempts often, but I might start doing 1 a week, maybe 2 for smaller attempts. Really need to work on my accuracy.

Same.. My accuracy is quite terrible. Do you use any commutators?

 

[TDM]

Same.. My accuracy is quite terrible. Do you use any commutators?

Nope. One of my goals this year was to switch to them, at least for corners. I've had one day this past year where I've practised them I can barely do them sighted. Even if I do ever learn them, it will be quite a while before I'll feel comfortable enough to use them in Multi.

 

[penguinz7]

Nope. One of my goals this year was to switch to them, at least for corners. I've had one day this past year where I've practised them I can barely do them sighted. Even if I do ever learn them, it will be quite a while before I'll feel comfortable enough to use them in Multi.

Alright, I know corner commutators, but I'm quite slow with them so I still just use M2/OP for bld.

 

[Jaysammey777]

well since I didnt make goals for this year. How did I do with two years???

Cubing:
2x2: CLL, 1-look, Pay attention to other methods, sub-4 Nope; Nope; Sometimes!
3x3: Relearn OLL, Efficient cross, become very good at ZZ, sub-11 Indeed, need to have a few better algs thou; very intutitive; for OH yes, and ahhhhhh no
4x4: Learn More LL cases, Sub-1 no, did some final 2 edges; yes
5x5: Learn Last 2 edges cases, sub-2 no, yes
6x6: sub-3:30 sometimes
7x7: sub-5 well every blue moon
BLD: have a better success rate right now its looking pretty good
OH: Sub-30 nto very often... no
Megaminx: Sub-1 ahhaha OMG really???? who do I think I am. I am sub 1:20 which is amazing thou :3
Pyraminx, Sq-1, and Skewb: Learn better methods yes, no, and no
Find a puzzle that takes longer 2 months to solve (Helicopter cube took me that long) the last puzzle I bought was march 2016....
GO to more competitions. 6 this year

IRL:
Get accepted to a good college UGA aint nothin finer in the land
Get a Job ummmm working on that
Make stronger relationships with my friendspretty much

 

[Bindedsa]

Global Average goals.
2x2: Sub 2.5 close enough.
3x3: Sub 9 Done
OH: Sub 15 Done
Skewb: Sub 3.75 Done
Everything else: Improve and maybe actually practice other events. Nope
Go to more comps. 11 this year

Non-cubing:
IDRC, don't suck? eeh...

3x3, might be hard, but I'm pretty sure I can do everything else if I actually try.

I'll take it, in reality I wasn't that ambitious.

 

[TDM]

Alright, I know corner commutators, but I'm quite slow with them so I still just use M2/OP for bld.

I'll PM you now, this is getting a bit off-topic.

 

[TMarshall]

2x2: finish cll and sub 3.5 official (almost sub 3 global and 3.1x average)
3x3: sub 10 official avg (if feliks can do it in a little over a year i can do it in 2 ) (10.02 is close enough)
4x4: sub 50 global (I average 46 now)
5x5: beat official pb (lol this was way too easy)
6x6: sub 3:30 single (also too easy, I average 2:50)
7x7: actually practice (went from 6:30ish to 4:20)
3oh: sub 20 avg12 (I average 17)
3bld: sub 1:30 and learn m2 (lol nope)
other bld: a success (lol nope)
pyra:sub 5 official (globally 5.2 is good)
sq1: sub 30 official (I average 18-19)
clock: top 100 in world (clock is stupid)
skewb official gj avg, so sub 4.5 (4.04 average and nar single is cool)

Cool, I beat almost everything. In retrospect, this was way too easy.

 

[CyanSandwich]

3BLD: Sub-50 ao12, sub-45 mo3/ao5, sub-40 single. Sub-1 mo3 officially. Got the official mo3, not the others
4BLD: Sub-5 officially Yep
5BLD: Sub-10 officially No successes
MBLD: Sup-30 points at home, OcR Still time but I severely doubt it, and nope
Beat all current official PBs except square-1 single. Missed 5BLD, 3x3 single, 2x2 avg and didn't compete in square-1
Solve a megaminx. Yeah, came 2nd at nationals lol
Do a 6BLD. Several times, and 7BLD

Well it wasn't a total disaster.

 

[Iggy]

2x2: sub 2.3 global average lol no
3x3: sub 10.5 official average, sub 9 single yes for average, no for single
4x4: sub 45 global average yup
5x5: sub 1:40 global average yup
6x6: sub 3:15 global average yup
7x7: sub 5 global average yup
OH: sub 20 official average yup
FMC: NRs nope
Feet: smash the NRs lol no, lost the NRs
Pyra: sub 3.5 official average 3.51, pretty close, and without much practice lol
Clock: sub 7.5 official average loooool no
Megaminx: NR average nope
Square-1: NR average nope
Skewb: sub 5 global average lol no
3BLD: sub 30 official single and a sub 35 mo3 almost got the mean
4BLD: get close to the WR, maybe a sub 2:30 official single nope
5BLD: get a decent official success almost did
MultiBLD: AsR nope

Organise another comp
Get into the top 25 for sum of ranks nope

Non-cubing:
Play more piano not really
Exercise more yeah kinda
Learn a random language not really
Cube less LOL
Procrastinate less nope

Gonna fail most of these lel

Yeah I improved at big cubes this year, barely did any BLD

 

[DJ4Y]

Alright! Here goes nothing!

General goals
1. Actually do events other than 3x3.
2. Do less 3x3.
3. Learn new methods and algs
4. Get into FMC.
5. Finish off a full collection of WCA puzzles
6. Finish my homework before cubing
7. Learn how to git gud at stickering and lubing
8. Gain weight and exercise more nub

2x2: Sub 3-4 and actually practice, learn CLL and possibly some EG

3x3: Sub 10-11, with a year in my hands, I really think this is possible but school may get in the way, learn more random tricks and actually lookahead

3x3OH: Actually practice and sub 20-25 average? Possibly...

4x4: Actually do 4x4 and get a sub 50 avg

5x5: I've done three full 5x5 solves as of now, I only got one a few weeks ago. Get into the rhythm of things and learn kewl stuff

Pyra: Sub 10 avg, actually practice some pyra and not to leave it stuck in a box for the rest of the year

Skewb: Sub 8-9 average, again, like most of my other events, actually try to practice it

Square 1: ???? I'm getting one soon

Mega: I really don't know what to aim for since I have very little experience with Mega, possible sub 2 average? Idk.

JAY YOU BETTER GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND DO THESE!

Cool, thanks for reading


Edit: mfw I realised I'm an absolute idiot, I posted in the wrong thread, nobody saw this!