Trusting myself

[DaveyCow]

I am one of those people that have to double (triple, quadruple...) check things (if I just locked the door, sometimes I'll go back to make sure I just locked it!) hints of OCD, as it were. In terms of cubing, this means that sometimes after cross I will, for example, check to make sure cross is done (ie, not trusting myself). I have been working at and am much better at just moving past cross without checking and trusting I did it ok (which usually is the case, great for my psychology). Similarly, when working on intuivite F2L, I will sometimes "double check" to make sure I got it there (tho getting better at trusting myself and just moving on!)

The question is: Even though you might not be OCD, was there a point in your early cubing career that you would "double check" to make sure "it got done"? If so, at what point do you think you started "trusting youself" that you got it done and moved on?

btw, I mean this to be more of a discussion than a "tutorial" or "beginner's forum" (if that makes any sense )

 

[cubersmith]

Nope, just stop doing it.

 

[RNewms27]

This kills my times as well, hence why I don't time my solves. Practicing bld seems to eliminate the need to look back because that's cheating... It might be grown out of after a certain period of time.

 

[5BLD]

Well I stopped checking when I was confident; when I knew i could solve it pretty easily. Yet it's not abnormal to check back even when you're fast. Many people do it and it's not a huge disadvantage.

I myself do that a little but usually I trust my first block to be correct as I plan the rest of the second block I didn't do in inspection. Needless to say, I occasionally get DNFs where I mispredicted the spot of an edge in the blocks and only see it during the last step.

 

[DaveyCow]

Needless to say, I occasionally get DNFs where I mispredicted the spot of an edge in the blocks and only see it during the last step.

I think this is (one of the things) that makes a good cuber! You just trust and go on and it might not work out. In that case, oh well move on! (tho I'm a noob, so can't really say what "makes a good cuber", but it makes sense to me in an epic way... long live ponies)

 

[5BLD]

Hehe, so you've gotten into the pony thing then...

 

[DaveyCow]

Hehe, so you've gotten into the pony thing then...

<blush>

 

[RNewms27]

<insert blushing pony pic here>

 

[Jorghi]

Faz said don't concentrate too much.

 

[5BLD]

Well in cubing you don't 'concentrate', you 'focus'.
If that made any sense.

 

[tx789]

trust yourself

 

[aronpm]

Faz said don't concentrate too much.

Did he tell that to you in one of your daily conversations because he is like totally your best friend and stuff?

 

[Ewks]

I don't remember a time when i did that. Nowadays i just move on and i will probably see the possible mistake soon enough.

As for your case, I think doing BLD would benefit you. 'Cause in BLD after memoing you can't just check, you have to finish the solve no matter how unsure you seem. This could also help outside cubing. When you find out that you can trust yourself in one area you can probably learn to trust yourself to have locked the door, for example.

 

[Bapao]

I check if my front door is locked multiple times before letting go and setting off for work. Don't have that handicap during solving though. I guess I just care more about my front door being left open and my house being robbed than I do about a potential DNF.

I used to have this extreme phase where a scratch on one of my tech things(cellphone, mp3 player ect) would eat at me to a point that I'd rather have thrown something away than live with a scratch. Glad that I'm out of that phase. I think the birth of my son made me focus on the "important" things in life more than I used to...Must remember to thank him when he's old enough to understand ...

 

[Dacuba]

I used to check cross and some F2L cases, but I am now in the times, where you have to avoid to look on pairs that are being solved, just looking away did help me to trust myself a lot.
So like said, trust yourself, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't work, just go on and keep practising.

btw i just noticed that I still check xcrosses though.

 

[MalusDB]

I think that this is a problem most people get, or maybe im one of the few also, but it feels that its natural to check for me. I think the main difference isn't necessarily the time wasted on checking but the fact it makes look ahead impossible if you are following the pair you are inserting, for example, to make sure its in. I've gotten to the stage where the confidence is kicking in, and my times have dropped from being in the 40's to 30's, having learnt no new algs and not feeling particularily stronger at executing the ones i know. It makes me feel like I have the potential to actually get respectably fast, and so now I have the drive to learn more algs

 

[bigbee99]

I used to have this problem as well, I just ignored the urge to check what I did, and I just stopped.

 

[Daniel Wu]

Only on clock if I have a dnf in the average already. Sometimes I check to make sure that the back is actually solved.

 

[caseyd]

I used to have this problem also, but what I do is when I do the indpection I not only plan out the moves, but visualize what will happen to them, that way I'm sure I do them right, and can go onto f2l, mostly its just getting used to the whole lookahead and not focus on the cross