Do you see yourself cubing in the very long future?

[fanwuq]

I don't care if whether or not I will be cubing in the long term. Life is short; I've probably spent over 20% of my life already. I'll keep on trying to make (non-trivial) and interesting discoveries, whether they will be related to cubing or not. I suspect that eventually I will realize that my marginal benefit for cubing will decrease significantly enough that I will stop cubing. For now, I'll have to go through introductory group theory by myself in my spare time first.

I've already quit part of cubing. I no longer actively memorize algs or care about which cube is the fastest. They are trivial problems that I have solved many times already.
Making a system for multiBLD is interesting, but I don't know if I can commit the time to it.

This is what I suspect:
Take a look at Guus and Mirek. They were great at speedcubing when they were young. Then they quit for a few years. Then they came back doing almost exclusively FMC. That will probably happen to me.

 

[V-te]

I sure hope so..... It is a big part of my life right now considering how much I spend my time cubing.... I just can't see myself in the future without a cube.... And I really hope I never get to that stage in my life.... Makes me sad just thinking about it....

 

[4Chan]

Ever since college, i've been cubing three times as much, even more.

I go to class for 2 hours, attend lecture, do homework. 3-4 hours at most a day, except for labs.

All the rest of the day is mine, and all i do is cube. All day long.
I LOVE IT.
In around ten years from now, i will have mastered ZB!

 

[TEGTaylor]

yes

I love it!

 

[TMOY]

Do I see myself cubing in the very long future ?
Well, who knows. Only 2 years ago, 25 years after having stopped cubing, I didn't see myself cubing again in the near future at all

 

[AvGalen]

As someone who's made it past the 10 year mark, I can say that cubing has not really lost any of the "spark" for me, though my interests and focuses within cubing have certainly changed quite a bit.

I hope I'm still cubing in 10 years. In 10 years I forsee that I'll be married (or at least engaged - I hope) and might not have the same amount of time to dedicate to the hobby, but I will of course still set aside time to practice each week.

I certainly hope I don't lose interest in cubing, but I guess that is always a possibility :-/

Chris

10 years from now you will still be only one of select few that can do a 1x1x1-11x11x11 blind relay (you will have done a 2/2 multi )

I do hope your other forsight will be true, but hoping isn't going to make it happen.

 

[StachuK1992]

I see myself cubing for at least 5 years from this point.

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[teller]

I've been cubing for 25+ years...don't think I'll ever stop...new students keep it fun too...

 

[krazedkat]

If you're like me you don't move from hobby to hobby. You accumulate hobbies. I've been collecting coins for years, yoyoing for years and now one of my latest hobbies is puzzles. With a brain like mine you have to keep busy otherwise you get extremely bored. (no I don't have ADHD, I do have tourettes though, not the shouty kind, I twitch often in the toes)

 

[Ranzha]

If you're like me you don't move from hobby to hobby. You accumulate hobbies. I've been collecting coins for years, yoyoing for years and now one of my latest hobbies is puzzles. With a brain like mine you have to keep busy otherwise you get extremely bored.

Nothing can be truer about me.
Speedsolving (or just puzzle solving if speed isn't acquired yet) is a great hobby to have, as most people have a cube tucked somewhere in a box under items they thought they'd never see again either in the corner of a closet or in the garage under a pile of boxes.
Once you learn to solve it, there's nothing that can stop you.
Once you learn to lube it, learn advanced methods, acquire more knowledge, et cetera, there's NOTHING that can stop you.
In ten years, I'd have just graduated from college, and I would think I would still be solving.
By then, I bet I could do a sub-20 (minutes) 2x2x2 through 11x11x11 relay.
At least I hope so.

 

[gpt_kibutz]

I think that I wont quit cubing, but in some way it's role in my life will become smaller. I definitely think I will teach my children how to do bld; and I will let to them to decide if they like speedsolving. I think cubing is a fun thing to do, as you can be really old and still enjoy to solve the rubik's cube once or twice in a week. In my opinion there are two types of cubers:
The real cubers (who may stop cubing frequently, but will never forget the pleasure of solving a cube)
The fake cubers; who learned how to solve the cube in order to impress the people around them and only like to show off. This is the people that will eventually quit cubing when they feel they are not getting any attention.

 

[guitardude7241]

Nothing can be truer about me.
Speedsolving (or just puzzle solving if speed isn't acquired yet) is a great hobby to have, as most people have a cube tucked somewhere in a box under items they thought they'd never see again either in the corner of a closet or in the garage under a pile of boxes.
Once you learn to solve it, there's nothing that can stop you.
Once you learn to lube it, learn advanced methods, acquire more knowledge, et cetera, there's NOTHING that can stop you.
In ten years, I'd have just graduated from college, and I would think I would still be solving.
By then, I bet I could do a sub-20 (minutes) 2x2x2 through 11x11x11 relay.
At least I hope so.

That's 1:49 per cube. Good luck with that.

 

[qqwref]

By then, I bet I could do a sub-20 (minutes) 2x2x2 through 11x11x11 relay.
At least I hope so.

Nobody will ever do this.

 

[Kian]

By then, I bet I could do a sub-20 (minutes) 2x2x2 through 11x11x11 relay.
At least I hope so.

Nobody will ever do this.

That is a fact.

 

[Lorenzo]

By then, I bet I could do a sub-20 (minutes) 2x2x2 through 11x11x11 relay.
At least I hope so.

Nobody will ever do this.

That is a fact.

Even though it is highly unlikely that he will get sub-20 minutes, it is still not good to limit ourselves. Especially since Speedcubing is relatively new.

 

[Kian]

By then, I bet I could do a sub-20 (minutes) 2x2x2 through 11x11x11 relay.
At least I hope so.

Nobody will ever do this.

That is a fact.

Even though it is highly unlikely that he will get sub-20 minutes, it is still not good to limit ourselves. Especially since Speedcubing is relatively new.

We're not saying that just he won't. We're saying it's impossible. Consider the times required.

 

[4Chan]

Consider the turns per second, thats simply impossible.

 

[JTW2007]

Yeah, even if you went Rowe Hessler speed, that's still absurd.

 

[LNZ]

I am a very late starter (at age 39), so there is still a lot of life yet in this area for me.

In time I'll own a 9x9x9 cube (either a real V9 or a knockoff, but would prefer a real V9) and a gigaminx and big cubes will always be great boardem busters.

And there's still alot to be achived from my newly owned megaminx and 6x6x6 YJ cube too.

 

[fundash]

I see myself cubing to Bed, bath, and BEYOND!!! (maybe its infinity and beyond???)