Do you believe in the P-word?

[Innocence]

I am getting really bad grades at school, and all anyone ever tells me is "study more." I am somewhat skeptical.

Is this really true? I feel that after two months of studying your brain will have absorbed all the knowledge it ever could possibly absorb, and any further studying will have no results.

Do you all really believe in the S-word?

I think there's good ways to study and a bad ways to study.

Mindlessly staring at a text book OR over-studying= bad studying
Focusing only on the task of studying, taking good notes, and quizzing yourself=good studying

While I believe even bad studying will eventually get the job done, I also think that if you want the best results, good studying is best.

:O IT WORKED FOAR STUDIYING 2!!!!!!!!!!

epic mad skillz.

It's all practice though. I don't think the OP believes in ANY practice.

 

[souljahsu]

practice "praticing"

 

[Edward]

I personally don't believe in practicing.

Good luck with that.

 

[Chapuunka]

So what does this guy even average?

 

[waffle=ijm]

have fun being slow.

 

[JeffDelucia]

Until you reach the point where you turn so fast the friction causes your cube to melt by the end of the solve you can always improve by practicing...

 

[Chapuunka]

Until you reach the point where you turn so fast the friction causes your cube to melt by the end of the solve you can always improve by practicing...

Wouldn't you hate to have to buy a new cube after every solve?

 

[vgbjason]

Until you reach the point where you turn so fast the friction causes your cube to melt by the end of the solve you can always improve by practicing...

Wouldn't you hate to have to buy a new cube after every solve?

At that point you'd be able to scare people into giving you a free supply of all the cubes you need by finger-ninja-ing them into submission

 

[Erdos]

I'm sure that if you're going that fast, you'd probably break your fingers first. At least that would be the first of many things to go wrong.

 

[PeterNewton]

i was so sure that this thread was about punani... darn it.
also, for such a stupid question, there is a whole lot of replies. the whole damn point of practicing is to improve. some mod should just close this thread. geez.

 

[Andreaillest]

I don't see how one cannot practice and expect to be better. Really? How can you not practice cubing at all? Just stare at it and hope it magically solves itself in under 20 seconds?

 

[Dene]

LMAO this guy is actually an idiot. I mean really... how stupid must he be? I think Edward summed it up nicely:

Good luck with that.

Have a nice life working at a checkout in a supermarket.

 

[PeterNewton]

LMAO this guy is actually an idiot. I mean really... how stupid must he be? I think Edward summed it up nicely:

Good luck with that.

Have a nice life working at a checkout in a supermarket.

but you have to practice for that...

 

[JTW2007]

Practice is important. It's easily possible to get a decent average (say sub-15) by pra–WAITWAITWAIT. Is there seriously a thread debating the merits of practice? How is that even subject to opinion?

 

[PeterNewton]

Practice is important. It's easily possible to get a decent average (say sub-15) by pra–WAITWAITWAIT. Is there seriously a thread debating the merits of practice? How is that even subject to opinion?

have you read a single comment? there is no "discussion". just a collection of rants and raves. raves about practicing is good and rants about the thread's pointlessness/the OP's stupidity. argg its 2am. time for me to sleep. i wonder if this thread will still be on the front page tomorrow morning.

 

[ssb150388]

Read the signature.
Explains it all.

 

[Andreaillest]

This reminds me of an old discussion my friends had in Biology.(Aww, the sophmore years...) anyway, we were debating about the statement, "Practice makes perfect." Someone inquired that it really should be, "Perfect practice makes perfect." And this lasted almost the whole class time. Ha, that discussion really went no where because we found it useless trying to make sense of it all. Kinda like this one right here!

 

[nck]

So in like every thread where the opener asks how to get faster, I mainly read the answer 'Practice', 'Practice' and... 'Practice'!

Some cubers even claim that you can average 30 seconds with ANY method. However, what I don't understand is; what exactly is it that makes you better by practicing?

For example, a cuber knows all algorithms by heart and can perform them blindingly fast, what exactly will get better by practicing, then?

I personally don't believe in practicing. Well, it will help you, for the first two months, but I think that your time will no longer decrease if you already know all algorithms by heart and recognize patterns almost instantly.

Does practice really lower your times, even after like a year?

new WR. gratz

but seriously how much p----- do you think it will take for someone to "know all algorithms by heart and recognize patterns almost instantly"?

 

[ribonzz]

"Practice makes perfect"

 

[theace]

but seriously how much p----- do you think it will take for someone to "know all algorithms by heart and recognize patterns almost instantly"?

Depends on how long you practice and you're brain's awesome quotient.

I got my times from "under a minute" to sub 30 with a few months of practice (Go Friedrich!) So, yeah, go practice.