Nervous at washington dc winter 2011

OMGitsSolved said:
yeah that would be cool but im still nervous to just sit at someones table
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Start by looking around for anyone that has cool puzzles. Go over and ask them if you can try it out, it's an easy way to get to talking with someone.
EricReese said:
Why did you double post this when the previous post was 30 minutes prior? That doesn't even make sense. Thats not even an accident....
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Why did you post just to tell him he was wrong? At least he was on topic and not just telling someone they were wrong.
 
theanonymouscuber said:
Click the button that says "edit" on the post, then delete it.
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Lol Thanks!

cincyaviation said:
Start by looking around for anyone that has cool puzzles. Go over and ask them if you can try it out, it's an easy way to get to talking with someone.
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OMG! That is the thing I am most scared to do! Haha! That's why I asked for Skype or AIM because maybe if I knew them good online maybe in real life it would be easier and we could hang out and talk to more people.
 
Im 14 now but I went to my first competition when I was 13. I went to Barcelona, where most people did not speak the best English. I was nervous but people were really nice and you talk to them easily evens if they were older because we had something in common. If you don't think your that great it's ok. What I did was focus on a cube that wasn't 3x3 because I predicted I would only be sub 20 before the competition. So I learned cll for 2x2 and got 10th out of 60 people. It doesn't matter how fast you are after you go to a competition you will see how fast people are and you will want to get faster. I wanted to ask the guy who got second about how to get faster and I thought he wouldnt tell me but he was really cool and helped me. If you are nervous it doesn't matter definitly go. ;)
 
RyanReese09 said:
You should have went to SJC, would have liked to meet you.

What comp are you going to?
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I plan on going to the Cornell comp. I don't have my license so I'm limited to where my parents will drive me or if I'm allowed to go with my friend who drives. Once I get my license I'll go to more comps but right now I'm pretty much limited to comps that I can make it to and back in less than a day and only when I can convince my parents to let me go. I also plan on going to nats in the summer.
 
freshcuber said:
I plan on going to the Cornell comp. I don't have my license so I'm limited to where my parents will drive me or if I'm allowed to go with my friend who drives. Once I get my license I'll go to more comps but right now I'm pretty much limited to comps that I can make it to and back in less than a day and only when I can convince my parents to let me go. I also plan on going to nats in the summer.
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AH, that makes sense. I plan on going to Cornell also, basically any comp in the North East that doesn't have a bad event lineup, I'll go to :p.

Wish that a North East comp would host multi BLD :'(
 
n00bcuber said:
I don't have to have my own stackmat do I? Also I registered for the 3x3 but may be picking up a magic (I used to be pretty quick) is it ok to just sign up for that event when I get there? I am really excited BTW!
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No you don't need one. People only bring one to time themselves or to have races with other cubers.

They should let you sign up for magic the day of it.
 
Usually if you don't have a puzzle you want to compete in, you can borrow it from another competitor there. Most people are pretty cool with lending out puzzles. Please do your best though to return the puzzle to the original owner, it gets frustrating lending out your puzzles and realizing somebody didn't give something back. I had to hunt down my 2x2 before 2x2 Round 2 at Dayton Open 2010 (might have been for Round 3, I forget), and was a bit peeved at how I let somebody look at it / try it out, I got called to compete at a different event, came back to find my 2x2 missing. Mistakes happen, I know that (and I found my 2x2), but do your best to return it. It's the right (and courteous) thing to do, and keeps people being nice enough to lend out puzzles.

Thrawst let me use his 2x2 at Indiana Winter 2010 :P I was going to use Mike Hughey's, but he showed me how he had a different color scheme and it really threw me off :P
 
teller said:
I will be the oldest person there, and I will happily share wicked fingertricks with you if you introduce yourself to me...
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I WAS WONDERING WHERE YOU WENT! You were my first cubing friend. And you had insane fingertricks for every alg. I will certainly be happily saying hi to you, along with trying to get some fingertricks from you (now that I know a lot more cubing and am faster).

Ah, I'm so happy you are going, I was wondering if you were.
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RyanReese09 said:
I WAS WONDERING WHERE YOU WENT! You were my first cubing friend. And you had insane fingertricks for every alg. I will certainly be happily saying hi to you, along with trying to get some fingertricks from you (now that I know a lot more cubing and am faster).

Ah, I'm so happy you are going, I was wondering if you were.
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Ryan! Mr. Sub 10! Indeed...let's do some more, now that you have knowledge of the Force...
 
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