I found something interesting...

Isaiah Scott said:
I wish running translated to cubing back me up @Garf and @Cubinginatree
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Running honesty changed my whole perspective on the world, including cubing. As some of you know last summer I decided that I wanted to get good at running and stop sucking at improvement. So 320 miles later and I dropped my 5k by 3:27. This really helped me realize that the only way to get good at something is to really by the work in. Since summer I have been way better at not procrastinating, and focusing on work. Cubingwise, I haven’t had some insane progress but I have finished OLL after 1.5 years of procrastination. I’m still only beginning in running and I always will.
 
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jburrito75 said:
So I know most of you don't care but I've been gone for a while. That is because I've been focusing on chess, not just to get good at the game, but also for a special purpose. I can finally confirm that after becoming an advanced chess player and returning to cubing after practically giving it up for a few months, it helps with solving! The repetition and patterns in chess over time help you to recognize things faster and easier, which I've found translates to cubing. First off, I feel like my solves are a lot smoother and I am averaging about 1 second faster than usual because I can look ahead better and predict pieces with ease. Now I will say that I had to get used to cubing again and at first I had awful times. But if you can hop over that first hill it gets better. It might just be me, but I say you go ahead and try it! Also if you do try it please tell me how it goes :)
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Sudoku did much the same for me. I didn't really turn away from cubing, but I noticed that quickly recognizing patterns on a sudoku grid was surprisingly similar to seeing the cube. I'm looking forward to making my first three, different, sudokubes in the near future. Obviously the solves won't help either true puzzle, but the sudokubes should be a fun thing to figure out.
 
unirox13 said:
Sudoku did much the same for me. I didn't really turn away from cubing, but I noticed that quickly recognizing patterns on a sudoku grid was surprisingly similar to seeing the cube. I'm looking forward to making my first three, different, sudokubes in the near future. Obviously the solves won't help either true puzzle, but the sudokubes should be a fun thing to figure out.
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That's cool, I might try that. I've only dabbled in sudoku and I'm not the greatest but my sister is amazing at it so I'ma ask her for some advice.
 
jburrito75 said:
That's cool, I might try that. I've only dabbled in sudoku and I'm not the greatest but my sister is amazing at it so I'ma ask her for some advice.
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Try the website sudoku.coach it's an amazing resource. The campaign made has helped me so much. A lot of the beginner stuff I already knew, but the campaign explains it all so well that I was surprised by some of the basic stuff that I had been missing.
 
I have a theory that as your body and mind grows, your overall ability to solve the cube grows too.

That's why you'll get better after a long pause or by just practicing something that doens't have a direct connection to cubing.

I remember coming back to megaminx after a really long pause and being able to understand the overall theory of block building a lot better than in the past.

Sometimes we must just let our mind and body to grow and not force our organism into doing something we can't at the moment.
 
Filipe Teixeira said:
I have a theory that as your body and mind grows, your overall ability to solve the cube grows too.

That's why you'll get better after a long pause or by just practicing something that doens't have a direct connection to cubing.

I remember coming back to megaminx after a really long pause and being able to understand the overall theory of block building a lot better than in the past.

Sometimes we must just let our mind and body to grow and not force our organism into doing something we can't at the moment.
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Well said. Honestly I think that this applies to a lot of things. I remember juggling patterns that were nearly impossible, I took two weeks off from trying to do them, came back and they seemed easy. Almost like my brain had finally absorbed the necessary info and muscle memory.

Might actually be a helpful tip for OLL and PLL in some way.
 
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