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My sub 20 Roux quest (i have returned :D)

Will I get sub 30? and in what timeframe?

  • a week

    Votes: 4 12.9%
  • half a month

    Votes: 8 25.8%
  • a month

    Votes: 6 19.4%
  • more than a month

    Votes: 13 41.9%
  • Nope

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    31
  • Poll closed .

moh_33

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yeaaa... really want a yuxin little magic m, but i dont have the money, and my parents wouldnt like their savings spent on a cube, even though its like 8 bucks...
 

moh_33

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After re stickering my guanlong for the third time, I only did 12 solves, not a total disaster as I got a 32 second solve, but 2 1minute solves and a dnf ;-;
Best time: 32.15
Best ao5: 45.66
ao12: 53.34
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You're complaining about your parents not buying it for you when you yourself can't even afford it? I have not once asked my parents to buy me cubes because I know they don't like it. I don't have a paying job so it's hard to come by money but I still manage to have a lot of cubes. This includes paying for taxes and shipping. The only time my family ever spent money on my hobby was when my sister got me a gearball. Before I got into cubing. If you don't have any money I'm sure you have something valuable you can sell. I'm currently short on money (Only $20, I blew $50 on 3 cubes from this expensive toy store, bad decision.) So what I'm doing is going thru my old Pokémon collection and finding prices for them so far, based on my current research (which isn't very much) I have $1300 in cards. My estimate is that I have a total of $5000 dollars worth of cards (one of them is worth $700 dollars alone).

And I'm not going to spend it all on cubes (kind of obvious you'd have to be pretty stupid to do that) because I don't want to get to the point where I have to ask my parents to buy me stuff, stuff they don't even like. That's their money and you specifically said saving which is even more absurd to ask for a portion of it to buy a toy. "Savings" money is not spent on toys, it is spent on big purchases, which is the whole reason you need to have savings. Your parents aren't being "mean" or "restrictive" they aren't trying to take away your fun, their just being smart with their money.
OP isn’t exactly complaining, or saying their parents are being ‘mean’ or ‘restrictive’, and not everyone has valuable stuff they can sell. It really depends on OP’s life though.
 
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OP isn’t exactly complaining, or saying their parents are being ‘mean’ or ‘restrictive’, and not everyone has valuable stuff they can sell. It really depends on OP’s life though.
It probably does sound a bit harsh. But I don't like the idea of expecting your parents to buy stuff for you and if they say no then you start complaining or thinking "It's not even that much" etc.
 

moh_33

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It probably does sound a bit harsh. But I don't like the idea of expecting your parents to buy stuff for you and if they say no then you start complaining or thinking "It's not even that much" etc.
ah, i may have phrased things a bit weirdly, i never expect my parents to buy stuff for me, as since i was at 3rd grade i just got scared to even talk to them about buying stuff, even food, even clothes, even nowadays im still scared to ask my parents to buy me stuff, if i wanted something i usually hold it to myself and not talk about it, my father had changed jobs 4 times since i was 1st grade up until now so im scared to ask him to buy me something i like, my mom doesnt like me playing, and prefers me studying all day instead, so i dont ask her about something to buy that i like, the only times they would 100% say yes to me wanting to buy stuff, is if its linked to me studying, or something sports (a bike and a few balls)

and ive never go complaining if they dont want me to have something, i just keep it to myself
 

moh_33

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You're complaining about your parents not buying it for you when you yourself can't even afford it? I have not once asked my parents to buy me cubes because I know they don't like it. I don't have a paying job so it's hard to come by money but I still manage to have a lot of cubes. This includes paying for taxes and shipping. The only time my family ever spent money on my hobby was when my sister got me a gearball. Before I got into cubing. If you don't have any money I'm sure you have something valuable you can sell. I'm currently short on money (Only $20, I blew $50 on 3 cubes from this expensive toy store, bad decision.) So what I'm doing is going thru my old Pokémon collection and finding prices for them so far, based on my current research (which isn't very much) I have $1300 in cards. My estimate is that I have a total of $5000 dollars worth of cards (one of them is worth $700 dollars alone).

And I'm not going to spend it all on cubes (kind of obvious you'd have to be pretty stupid to do that) because I don't want to get to the point where I have to ask my parents to buy me stuff, stuff they don't even like. That's their money and you specifically said saving which is even more absurd to ask for a portion of it to buy a toy. "Savings" money is not spent on toys, it is spent on big purchases, which is the whole reason you need to have savings. Your parents aren't being "mean" or "restrictive" they aren't trying to take away your fun, their just being smart with their money.
im just a 13 yr old brat, i dont have anything to sell, hell my parents wouldnt like me selling stuff, and i know their not being mean, i know they arent trying to take away my fun even though they sometimes feel like it, just a tiny bit annoying to know that i dont have anything to get what i would like, basically im just waiting until i graduate and can get a job so i can buy the things ive been keeping to myself since 3rd grade
 

moh_33

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The first day of the second week is here, and the solves arent that bad :D
on the 15th solve, i messed up LSE twice... yikes :v
Best time: 30.62
Best ao5: 41.97
Best ao12: 43.86
ao25: 47.47
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moh_33

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Here ya go, what i think its because i use weird finger tricks, i do not know full cmll, and i cant really do lookahead on roux
 

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Here ya go, what i think its because i use weird finger tricks, i do not know full cmll, and i cant really do lookahead on roux
Your main issue isn't lookahead or knowing full CMLL (although you should probably work on those too). You should focus more on fingertricks and movecount. The main advantage of Roux is its efficiency, so be sure to take advantage of that!
 

Dan the Beginner

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Keep it up, moh. I am going to try a little bit of Roux soon, just to see what it's like, now that I have already had a taste of Beginner CFOP, and finding myself at the crossroads, trying to decide if I should continue and learn the more advanced CFOP :eek: and sink in a huge amount of time, or go with Roux.

Best of luck with Roux but get well first.
 
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moh_33

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Keep it up, moh. I am going to try a little bit of Roux soon, just to see what it's like, now that I have already had a taste of Beginner CFOP, and finding myself at the crossroads, trying to decide if I should continue and learn the more advanced CFOP :eek: and sink in a huge amount of time, or go with Roux.

Best of luck.
Hey hey you found my thread, and thanks!
Roux is an intuitive method, which means even with advanced solves, you'd only need to know a smaller amount of algorithms.

Its fun if you hate memorizing like me.

Also, im feeling better today, ill do 15 solves :p
 
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