Im quitting BLD forever.

Derrick Eide17

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Yeah im not sure if anyone here actually even really know THAT much who i am or if they even care but i have decided to quit BLD Forever. i dont know if anyone even cares if am but if anyone does then if you wanna say something, then sure thanks. Something just happened recently and i just dont really wanna talk about it but i realized a lot of things now and i just know there is no point in even doing BLD anymore, so im Done.

Thanks for reading this nonsense.

Derrick Eide.
 
hehe out of all people i would never have expected you to be the one to post here hehe. but yeah im just really discouraged and hard to explain but something happened lately that made me realize that im just never going to be good enough and It's just too much for me and i cant take it anymore so why even bother? of course you should NEVER quit OH. Congrats on the sub 20 avg man! beat Takumi and Higo man.
 
Ehm, I don't understand why you want to quit BLD. It is very good you know!! I want you not to quit. I am not a blindfolded player btw, but i am learning and it is like the idol is just left the competition. You understand what I mean? I you do then don't quit!!

Thank You
 
Well my sub-20 is good but I mean come on Takumi has a 16.19! and Higo is close behind, don't be discouraged by others times! Anything they can do you can do better! I was pretty down on myself when I saw Takumi's 16.19 since at the time I was at around a 21 average but I didn't stop when I saw Rama and Gilles averaging sub23 and I was barely sub60 so Im not going to stop now!
Never give up never surrender!
p.s. I will keep harassing you until you keep BLD solving
Edit: We are both number 9 in the UWR in our respective fields :-) race to number 1?
 
Lofty said:
Well my sub-20 is good but I mean come on Takumi has a 16.19! and Higo is close behind, don't be discouraged by others times! Anything they can do you can do better! I was pretty down on myself when I saw Takumi's 16.19 since at the time I was at around a 21 average but I didn't stop when I saw Rama and Gilles averaging sub23 and I was barely sub60 so Im not going to stop now!
Never give up never surrender!
p.s. I will keep harassing you until you keep BLD solving
Edit: We are both number 9 in the UWR in our respective fields :-) race to number 1?
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oh wow.. Thanks for the inspiring words Brian. I cant believe your actually making me consider NOT quitting BLD!! :eek: still not sure yet but wow, that really did help make me feel better about the whole situation, i may have to change the title of this topic from Quitting BLD forever, to Quitting BLD "For a bit". Thanks. :o
 
yea me neither, I am thinking of taking a break from OH for about a week after Stetson tho because the past two days I have had to stop due to pain in my pinky joint and surrounding muscle...
Maybe I will pick up BLD that week :-) I don't remember your speedsolve times but maybe you could try that to get your turn speed up?
 
And speedcubing isn't pointless? Come on - the only thing that makes any of this worthwhile is that there are multiple people who enjoy it. And there are plenty of people who don't feel like you do about BLD. As long as people who enjoy BLD are around, BLD is no more pointless than speedcubing, or juggling, or any of a number of other things that I also enjoy.

Derrick, I don't have a chance of ever getting in the top 50 at BLD, but I doubt I'll ever give up on it. It's fun, and that's all that matters. (Especially big cubes BLD.) I believe that 50 years from now, if I live that long (I would be 96 then), I'll still be regularly doing 4x4x4 BLD solves at least, even if there is no world cubing association anymore. If nothing else, it should help ward off Alzheimer's. You're 14th in the world, and you're improving. So why give up?
 
Okay if I follow what you're doing Derrick, I may as well quit just about every puzzle I solve. What's the point? I'll never beat these Yu Nakajima, Erik Akkersdijk, Edouard Chambon guys.

I mean come on I haven't seen anybody do a faster solve than you with old pochmann, I can't imagine what would happen if you moved to M2!
 
Lofty said:
yea me neither, I am thinking of taking a break from OH for about a week after Stetson tho because the past two days I have had to stop due to pain in my pinky joint and surrounding muscle...
Maybe I will pick up BLD that week :-) I don't remember your speedsolve times but maybe you could try that to get your turn speed up?
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speedsolving in what OH? yeah sadly im horrible in OH too and i quit that just a few weeks ago too but then i decided to give it one more try but just ended up doing even more horrible again. maybe you could be my tutor? :p



masterofthebass said:
Derrick, I too have basically quit BLD. I find it kind of pointless, so I just do it once in a while. W/E your decision is, good luck, and I wish you well.
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Thanks :)





Mike Hughey said:
And speedcubing isn't pointless? Come on - the only thing that makes any of this worthwhile is that there are multiple people who enjoy it. And there are plenty of people who don't feel like you do about BLD. As long as people who enjoy BLD are around, BLD is no more pointless than speedcubing, or juggling, or any of a number of other things that I also enjoy.

Derrick, I don't have a chance of ever getting in the top 50 at BLD, but I doubt I'll ever give up on it. It's fun, and that's all that matters. (Especially big cubes BLD.) I believe that 50 years from now, if I live that long (I would be 96 then), I'll still be regularly doing 4x4x4 BLD solves at least, even if there is no world cubing association anymore. If nothing else, it should help ward off Alzheimer's. You're 14th in the world, and you're improving. So why give up?
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not speedcubing just the thing that i keep failing and failing at and i dont see my ever being good enough (BLD, OH), its just REALLY discouraging for me and lately I just kinda hit rock bottom on BLD and i am just too fed up. Brians words have been very inspiring though to me :) and the fact i thought no one would even care if i quit BLD and yet people are stiill showing their support. so HUGE thanks for that. :o
 
Leo said:
Okay if I follow what you're doing Derrick, I may as well quit just about every puzzle I solve. What's the point? I'll never beat these Yu Nakajima, Erik Akkersdijk, Edouard Chambon guys.

I mean come on I haven't seen anybody do a faster solve than you with old pochmann, I can't imagine what would happen if you moved to M2!
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I know its just, theres kinda more to it then that, and i like really practice ALL the time and when i see people like Nakajima, and others practice an event for like just literally a few months they almost instantly become better then me, and i've been waiting for something that i could be the best at and i just dont see it happening. i would never quit cubing in general because it really is my LIFE but BLD perhaps, although im feeling a little different now after everyone's great support.

so thanks for that :o
 
Of course I could help you with whatever you need in OH :-)
And yes Nakajima is just good at everything... Maybe we should all practice speedsolving to the point we are sub-12 so our look-ahead and turning speed are that high. I blame Yu's advantage on the fact he has really good people in each event to help him. With Najakima practicing all events and us only practicing one event we'll get faster eventually :-)
I wonder if you practice BLD more than I practice OH?
 
Lofty said:
Of course I could help you with whatever you need in OH :-)
And yes Nakajima is just good at everything... Maybe we should all practice speedsolving to the point we are sub-12 so our look-ahead and turning speed are that high. I blame Yu's advantage on the fact he has really good people in each event to help him. With Najakima practicing all events and us only practicing one event we'll get faster eventually :-)
I wonder if you practice BLD more than I practice OH?
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hm who knows, but not just Nakajima in particular but its just always like everyone always becomes better then me no matter how much i practice.

and yeah i dont know about BLD lately cause like i said i've been REALLY discoraged,but cubing in general i practice all day, every day :D i just can never stop cause i wanna practice to be the best, but when i practice so hard, and im not rewarded like now, its VERY hard for me to keep going.

Also i've never gotten a single sub 20 OH solve ever :( and so many people have. how long did it take u too get a sub 20 single solve OH? maybe it might lift my spirits :o
 
Well I started cubing over a year ago and have been solving OH ever since like two weeks into it.. I don't remember how long it took to get to my first single but to get to this average over a year... so one year to Yu's few weeks but its not quite teh same Yu was already a master at the method when he started OH.
I literally practice only OH and at times would do 100-200 solves a day. I think I will take a break after Stetson to practice speed and BLD...
ahhh oh no i am going to be late for class!!!
 
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