What is the worst/most annoying thing in speed cubing?

[ThomasJE]

The pieces of the WitTwo's corners aren't really held together that well, they like to pop out every once and a while for me, and it's pretty annoying to get them back in.

Happened to me earlier today as well. If that happened in a competition, would you need to put it back in for it to be considered solved? It isn't a functional part of a cube, so you shouldn't need to.

 

[Lanttikasa]

lock-ups!!

 

[Jakethedrummer]

lock-ups!!

I agree! I just started cubing last week Wednesday, but my average is down to about 2:00, it used to be like 4:00. Either way lock ups really annoy me

 

[qqwref]

Just wait until you're somewhere near good times. Lockups become a lot more annoying :x

 

[Jakethedrummer]

Just wait until you're somewhere near good times. Lockups become a lot more annoying :x

I can imagine

 

[sneaklyfox]

I change my mind. Dropping the cube is more annoying than not breaking time barriers.

Poor execution in general... more annoying than just not having very good look-ahead.

 

[pdilla]

When a big cube pops. End of story

 

[CHJ]

Paranoia that i wont make OH finals at UKO, i practice it between 2-3 hours a day alone, other than that wondering why i can't get a decent blindsolve

 

[Isaac Paurus]

When you're wearing a sweatshirt and a piece pops and you can't find it so you Think you lost it, but it's actually in your sweatshirt

 

[hipsterlover]

That feel when you're a really fast turner but use an incredibly inefficient method that makes you slow because you're too lazy to learn a more efficient method.

 

[cubingawsumness]

Parents who think cubing is a total waste of time.

 

[applemobile]

But it is?

 

[uberCuber]

So is life, from a certain point of view.

 

[Branflakeftw]

I hate when I practice really really hard and my times end up staying the same..

 

[NaeosPsy]

Modding big cubes and restringing magics.

 

[balloon6610]

A people that say i cube to get a girlfriend WHAT???

 

[erikoui]

all of the above

 

[rubixwiz031]

-Restringing magics
-Internal pops (even cubes)
-Assembling
-Stickering
-Accidentally stopping the timer with your wrists mid solve
-New algs
-OH algs (ALL OF THEM)
-Bld memo
-Petrus (users)
-People who hate on Roux
-People who think Jessica Fridrich invented Fridrich
-Intuitive F2l
-40 bucks for a speedstacks timer [/rip off]
-Solving anything higher than 6x6 (holy crap thats tedious and frustrating. so much, in fact, that i quit speedsolving higher than 5x5)
-PARITY
-DOUBLE PARITY
-Tensioning megaminx
-Lubing magics, sq1's, and clocks
-Dayan 6x6 not released
-Noisy comps during bld
-multi bld
-big cube bld
-pretty much anything to do with bld
-CLL
-Oretga (method)
-Ortega (users)
-DAN BROWN (not the author)
-Fillets too small (ex. Helicopter Dodec)
-Teraminx pops where pieces go inside the cube
-G perms (except Ga and Gc, which I actually like)
-Starminx points
-Skewb pops
-4x4x6 pops
-ss 6x6 pops
-ss 7x7 lock ups
-cutting custom stickers

i could go on and on.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Not having enough time to cube. Terribly annoying.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Being a noob

Not being a noob.

I miss the times when I was overly enthusiastic about anything cubing-related like when I got a new puzzle. I used to care about all events, wanted to practice everything and didn't ever get bored. I used to be like "omg new megaminx brand out, I'm gonna get one and practise until I'm sub-3!" and used to look forward to competitions like four weeks in advance, buy all cubes that I could get hold of, cube my heart out every day and get super excited when I could meet other cubers. Now I'm just not that passionate about it anymore. (maybe that's also got something to do with the fact that I'm not 13 anymore...)

On the other hand, of course I didn't want to be a noob back when I actually was Who does? I guess it's like kids wanting to grow up and vice versa. ^^

1. OMG SUB 10 FULL STEP WITH ZBLL!1!1!

>Used COLL.

IMO, it just kinda belittles the work of cubers like Michal Pleskowicz or Mats Valk who actually know a lot of ZBLL and when they say they used ZBLL in a solve, it's probably not a basic COLL algorithm and actually an algorithm which they've learnt to solve a specific ZBLL case.

But what if I happened to know/see that the COLL alg would solve the entire LL? What's that called? Just an EPLL skip? I mean, I still anticipated the skip and knew that the cube would be solved. That's ZBLL imo.