Real Life Benefits of Speedsolving?

[kcl]

I was playing a card game called speed with my friend. It's based on reaction time. And I TOTALY OWNED.

Hahaha that's awesome.


That happened to me in this game called Egyptian Rat slap or something. Apparently I'm really good at it because reflexes

 

[Mikel]

Hahaha that's awesome

You are right, isn't that awesome!?

 

[kcl]

You are right, isn't that awesome!?

I can tell this is definitely not sarcastic in the slightest.

I do have a few though.

Cubing has made me more ambidextrous.

I remember things a lot faster now.

And.. Third would probably be that it makes me keep my fingernails trimmed. I don't care how stupid it sounds, I hate long nails. Now I can't forget since they start to hurt.

 

[Mikel]

And.. Third would probably be that it makes me keep my fingernails trimmed. I don't care how stupid it sounds, I hate long nails. Now I can't forget since they start to hurt.

I rarely trim my fingernails. Once every year maybe? I do peel them though. It's kind of a habit for me to do so.

 

[Bindedsa]

I solve EOLine on the bottom, and use [L, R, U] to solve F2L.

How? All OH cubers that I've seen (Including me), Do a Z rotation for LU F2L Pairs?

 

[kunparekh18]

How? All OH cubers that I've seen (Including me), Do a Z rotation for LU F2L Pairs?

I don't do a full Z rotation, but something halfway through one. I use CFOP, btw.

 

[cc9tough]

If you practice blind even a little you will see great improvements in your overall memory. ( or at least I did)

 

[vigr0728]

I'm a pianist. I have noticed a significant increase in the speed I play (Helps in practicing faster pieces easily) I'm not entirely sure it's because of speedcubing but I stopped playing piano for a while, played again and that was the result. Cubing was the one thing I did in the break from playing the piano so I'm guessing it is because of cubing.

 

[Andreaillest]

Drunk people strolling through a Las Vegas hotel lobby in the late night might give you $40.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Jobs. I've gotten hired for like 10 different gigs over the years (product promotions, exhibition openings, eye-catcher at conventions) and the pay has definitely been way better than for normal occupations that a 15 - 18-year-old with no job experience can do.
Different but maybe also useful: Official accomplishments can't look all that bad on a CV.

Travel and people. I've met so many new people at competitions. I got to go to Hungary and Poland for Euro and Worlds in the US for free and I could never have afforded it myself.

I also think cubing may have helped finger dexterity with my guitar playing.

EDIT: Oh and once I started BLD, I realised how not hard it is to memorise stuff which can come in handy with other stuff, too.

 

[ThomasJE]

Those whom I have not befriended still recognize the "Rubik's cube guy"

I have had around 6 or 7 people ask me "Are you that Rubik's cube guy"?

I will go down in school folklore

 

[Jaycee]

"Rubik's cube guy"

Yeah, I know this feel.

Me too. I stopped bringing my cubes to my algebra/trig class because me teacher started calling me Rubik's cube guy instead of my name.

 

[Renslay]

It helped to improve my combinatorial view, knowledge and aspect; it raised my interests about combinatorics and discrete mathematics. Some of my published scientific papers contains combinatorial problems and results. Also I found Kociemba's algorithm one of the most elegant computer algorithms for handling paths in vast graphs.

 

[patrickcuber]

Jobs. I've gotten hired for like 10 different gigs over the years (product promotions, exhibition openings, eye-catcher at conventions) and the pay has definitely been way better than for normal occupations that a 15 - 18-year-old with no job experience can do.
Different but maybe also useful: Official accomplishments can't look all that bad on a CV.

Travel and people. I've met so many new people at competitions. I got to go to Hungary and Poland for Euro and Worlds in the US for free and I could never have afforded it myself.

I also think cubing may have helped finger dexterity with my guitar playing.

EDIT: Oh and once I started BLD, I realised how not hard it is to memorise stuff which can come in handy with other stuff, too.

Agreed.

 

[NottNott]

After cubing for a solid three weeks now, I've DEFINITELY begun to notice a massive improvement in my memory.

Take my GCSE French for example. Previously remembering a paragraph took at least an hour of sweat and dedication. Now it takes 15 minutes to get it relatively perfect. Then I can just drill it in for perfection.

More reasons to cube than ever. :3

 

[god of rubic 2]

Spatial recognition and memory

 

[brian724080]

How? All OH cubers that I've seen (Including me), Do a Z rotation for LU F2L Pairs?

Sorry for not seeing this post. I just use my left-hand, I'm pretty much ambidextrous. This is one of the primary reasons I use ZZ, I do at most one cube rotation during F2L, and that usually happens during EOLine.

Edit: Never mind, I thought you were talking about 2H solving. I don't really do OH, but when I do, I do a z rotation for LU pairs.

 

[guysensei1]

I'm right handed but I use right hand for OH. I'm not very good though. 40 ish seconds.

 

[Cubiquitous]

I realized that while I am at work, I typically scramble with my left and mouse with my right. Perhaps the scrambling helps keep up the dexterity in my left, but I definitely think that it comes from cubing in general. From playing piano, I have never been anywhere close to being evenly matched in both hands. But piano actual requires dexterity in your entire arm.

 

[Laradoodle4]

I play violin and piano and I've found that since I started solving with finger tricks (about 5 months ago) my playing has become like 10 times better

Also cubing relieves boredom