Could vision therapy improve speedcubing, especially look-ahead?

5BLD said:
Yeah. Online surveys will work; maybe surveymonkey.com?
If you do do a survey, please update results regularly.
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Ah, good idea. Thank you.

But I should really go to bed. It's 3:40am where I am and I've been monitoring this thread like a hawk since I'm itching so badly to get past my 6+ month-long plateau. (It's my hard-headed "If Feliks can do it, so can I, but I don't know how, so I'll have to find out how" attitude.)
 
I have extremely good eyesight. I am a very fast reader. I only do things like skip lines or merge words when I'm very tired. I am not a fast cuber despite years of practice.
 
DaKrazedKyubizt said:
Ah, good idea. Thank you.

But I should really go to bed. It's 3:40am where I am and I've been monitoring this thread like a hawk since I'm itching so badly to get past my 6+ month-long plateau. (It's my hard-headed "If Feliks can do it, so can I, but I don't know how, so I'll have to find out how" attitude.)
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But don't try too hard to be like faz... He was a slow cuber too, remember. Although to be inspired by people is always helpful.
Hm... I'll probably hit a plateau soon too. I've been improving fairly quickly (6 ish months sub-15)... But possibly I'll need to start pushing myself as I get faster (I've really been letting my times slip down without really caring...). Oh, and for the first time in my life work on algorithm execution.

Anyway, good night... Although it's morning already :)
 
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Hehe. I get this sometimes... I sometimes can't get to sleep, and just chat to my friends who either stay up as late as me, or are from a different country... And cube. And watch TV. Until I actually get sleepy...
 
i have never read a book in my life and failed all my english gcses (im also autistic probably why i fail so much with english) I'd say my reading speed is fairly decent though but i've never related reading to cubing because they seem like two completely differn't things to me.
 
Hmmm... I initially wanted to criticise the OP alot for some of the proposed correlations (such as between cubing and finding shapes in a jumble), but it's only logical to assume that problems with your eyes (such as keeping focus, or colour blindness) as well as difficulties for your brain to process information quickly enough must surely affect your cubing. But be careful not to think it's the be all and end all of your problems... there are sooo many other factors that are very important. Is your F2L optimised for speed and look ahead, is your execution times for all your PLLs and OLL's up to snuff? There are many many factors that you can improve on before you hit a 'my eyes/brain aren't good enough for me to get any better' barrier.
 
chrissyD said:
i have never read a book in my life and failed all my english gcses (im also autistic probably why i fail so much with english) I'd say my reading speed is fairly decent though but i've never related reading to cubing because they seem like two completely differn't things to me.
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Yay autism. I'm have Asperger's Syndrome. We could be autism buddies! :P

You failed ALL of them? wow. you must be uber right-brained. You're brain is probably just a swelled up right-brain taking up the space the left-brain is supposed to use. jk, of course. but seriously. ur probably uber right-brained.

you should try learning to speed read. you might get better at speedcubing that way. who knows?
 
DaKrazedKyubizt said:
Yay autism. I'm have Asperger's Syndrome. We could be autism buddies! :P

You failed ALL of them? wow. you must be uber right-brained. You're brain is probably just a swelled up right-brain taking up the space the left-brain is supposed to use. jk, of course. but seriously. ur probably uber right-brained.

you should try learning to speed read. you might get better at speedcubing that way. who knows?
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yea im not actually that bad at english, i can read and write which is all you need in english tbh but the exams were just about poetry so i failed. At the same time though i'm really good at science. And you'll know that people with aspergers can be very good at one particular thing such as cubing and can become good at it with little effort also at the same time we can be terrible at another thing, in my case english. I think sight may play a fairly big part in cubing since vision is the first part of solving the cube, without it you're pretty much screwed. Of course there is other factors such as turn speed, my average tps is actually really bad compared to everyone else, maybe thats because of the shape and size of my fingers.
 
chrissyD said:
yea im not actually that bad at english, i can read and write which is all you need in english tbh but the exams were just about poetry so i failed. At the same time though i'm really good at science. And you'll know that people with aspergers can be very good at one particular thing such as cubing and can become good at it with little effort also at the same time we can be terrible at another thing, in my case english. I think sight may play a fairly big part in cubing since vision is the first part of solving the cube, without it you're pretty much screwed. Of course there is other factors such as turn speed, my average tps is actually really bad compared to everyone else, maybe thats because of the shape and size of my fingers.
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ZOMG I HAD A TEACHER WITH THAT WAS OBSESSED WITH POETRY!! The curriculum was supposed to be different for 10th graders, but he went NUTS on poetry instead, so I UBER failed that class with MUCHO pride because that teacher was (excuse my language) a complete douchebag and wouldn't help me at all. Nothing he ever said made sense. And it wasn't just me. By the end of the year, there was a conversation between the other kids in my class, and they had quietly dealt with his teaching style because they wanted a good grade, but they were pretty fed up with that guy, too. They were able to pull Bs in his class, but I always got Ds on my papers without fail. (lol, I failed without fail. chyeah.)

EDIT: and of course you can read and write. Those are logistical things. It's the non-concrete things like "what did the afghani table mat symbolize?" What horsecrap. THEY'RE JUST EATING FOOD ON A TABLE MAT. WHAT'S THE FREAKIN' DIFFERENCE?
 
Jorghi said:
Readers think simple and wide, Scientists make the simple wide.
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Touche. And I couldn't even find that quote in google. Did you come up with that yourself?

But you should have been in that class. it was torture. He didn't just ask the simpler english questions like...

"What does the afghani table mat represent in this poem?"

...but he asked the most obscure and ridiculously confusing questions known to the English world. These questions included ones like...

"So what does the iambic pentameter in this poem feel like? What does it represent? How is the feeling you get from the meter in this poem different these other two poems with iambic pentameter? Okay, now, daDUM, daDUM, daDUMda, DUMDUM, daDUM! Oh wait, there was a change-up in the 3rd and 4th pair of syllables! What's that trying to represent?"

Well, heck, idk, discord and chaos? What do you want me to say?

Seriously, WTF is that supposed to mean? The guy had just come back from teaching at Columbia University. He was teaching 10th graders (who barely know how to write well) like college students (who are expected to know how to write well already). He wasn't really giving us anything to work with.

More important, who CARES what that crap means?
 
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DaKrazedKyubizt said:
Touche. And I couldn't even find that quote in google. Did you come up with that yourself?

But you should have been in that class. it was torture. He didn't just ask the simpler english questions like, "what does the afghani table mat represent?", but he asked the most obscure and ridiculously confusing questions known on the face of the English world. These questions included ones like:

"So what does the iambic pentameter in this poem feel like? What does it represent? How is the feeling you get from the meter in this poem different these other two poems with iambic pentameter? Okay, now, daDUM, daDUM, daDUMda, DUMDUM, daDUM! Oh wait, there was a change up in the 3rd and 4th pair of syllables! What's that trying to represent?"

Seriously, WTF is that supposed to mean? The guy had just come back from teaching at Columbia University. He was teaching 10th graders (who barely know how to write well) like college students (who are expected to know how to write well already). He wasn't really giving us anything to work with.
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Yup, my teacher was exactly like that last year. At least I now know what the iambic pentameter is...
But lessons were torture! Or great fun!
Ok leme explain... half the lessons were watching movies based on old books like great expectations etc... FUN. And I could actually follow that when we had to analyse them.
And the other lessons were so confusing because our teacher basically thought we knew everything that he was meant to teach... Like your teacher.
Nonetheless, I got a good mark :D
 
5BLD said:
Yup, my teacher was exactly like that last year. At least I now know what the iambic pentameter is...
But lessons were torture! Or great fun!
Ok leme explain... half the lessons were watching movies based on old books like great expectations etc... FUN. And I could actually follow that when we had to analyse them.
And the other lessons were so confusing because our teacher basically thought we knew everything that he was meant to teach... Like your teacher.
Nonetheless, I got a good mark :D
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You got a good mark? HOOOOOWWWWWW????
 
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