Worlds 2025 in Seattle next July will be my first major competition. It's the first Worlds in the US since 2013, and with an opportunnity like this, I want to set some big goals, with a plan to achieve them.
My goal for Worlds is to make 3x3 and 4x4 finals. Difficult, but I think I can do it. Looking at the results of previous majors such as NAC 2024 and Worlds 2023, the cutoff for finals will probably be ~ 6.3 for 3x3 and 26 for 4x4. With a year until worlds, I am confident that I can drop my times to match these requirements.
At the start of every week, I will make a post that recaps the previous week, has with my goals for the new week, and explain my overall plan for the week. I will also try to update this thread with daily recaps.
With that being said,
WEEK 1:
My main focus for this week will be to continue learning U ZBLL. I want to finish this set in the next two weeks, and my goal is to learn half this week. I am already finished with two subsets (24/72 cases), so it is going well so far. Today, I will just practice these cases, and start learning new cases tomorrow.
I also want spend ~ 1 hour per day practicing my inspection, mainly cross + 2. I want to become somewhat proficient in this before my next competition (September 8), which gives me around 1.5 months to practice this.
I will spend around an hour per day doing solves, with the goal of at least 100 solves every day.
For 4x4, I won't practice quite as much as 3x3. I want to do solves for an hour a day (40 solves goal), and also spend some time doing untimed solves to improve my efficiency/decision making. My main focus will be to improve my 3x3 stage, since right now I tend to try and rush it which results in poor turning and efficiency.
Wish me luck!
. Maybe I could get sub 1 first on 3BLD though
