Bad Cubing Habits?

[Rocky0701]

Kevin Hays said on his Google+ Hangout with Felix that he "doesn't remember the last time he read an internet scramble for 7x7". So I think you're OK there. After hearing that, I stopped reading scrambles for 7x7 and 6x6. Although I do separate my records for hand scrambles from normal scrambles.

I still use scramblers for 5x5. But I think different people have different standards.

I do remember him saying that actually now that you've reminded me. I guess I will just keep using hand scrambles. Plus, it probably makes it harder, because if I see an easy center, then I just keep scrambling, while I would solve it if it was a computer scramble.

 

[Nilsibert]

I do remember him saying that actually now that you've reminded me. I guess I will just keep using hand scrambles. Plus, it probably makes it harder, because if I see an easy center, then I just keep scrambling, while I would solve it if it was a computer scramble.

True, but what I do is just scrambling without looking. If you do this for a time that's not too short, I think it's fair. Although when timing, I do use scrambles for 5x5.

 

[xsolver]

Wat, i found myself in so many of your habits. Main ones would be:

-Loosing concetration after 25 solves
-Still not having the ability to fully inspect my cross (it should come in time)
-Sometimes doing U3 instead of U' during solves
-Deleting my bad times and looking at the timer during fast solves
-One of the biggest things i hate about my F2L: (keep in mind i only am a white solver) i always tend to do pairs with the corner piece having white on top! I even do cube rotations to separate the pairs in order to have white corner piece looking forward. Now when im getting faster, its so frustrating.

 

[brian724080]

-Deleting my bad times and looking at the timer during fast solves

I used to do that for a long time

 

[ComputerGuy365]

I have this awful habit that I look at the timer while I solve.

 

[mns112]

If I get one bad solve, I redo the whole average.
I stopped doing that yesterday though, and funnily enough I seem to get better averages this way.

In CMLL I ALWAYS use my left hand to AUF. Yes, this means U', U' U', U' U' U' and U' U' U' U' as I can't double flick.

In inspection I tend to use either like 2 seconds, or 14 seconds. Both aren't good ideas...

I overuse weird moves like S or Fw. They are efficient sometimes but not fast... Again I started avoiding this yesterday.

Isnt that like the same thing as not doing anything

 

[Future Cuber]

Bad Habits :-
1.Search for a piece on the U layer by doing a(an) U4 but did'nt reliase that the pice was actually in fron of me
2.Cube rotations
3.Lazy to learn the G and the N perms
4.Going superfast and screwing up my solve

Good Habits :-
1.Do an AO20 every day
2.TRYING to inspect my cross
3.Watching other cubers

 

[uberCuber]

bad habits
practicing skewb

 

[QQW]

deleting all solves over 22 sec although I barely avg 19.4

DNFing once on 3 solves, delete solve

deleting pop, corner twist solves, even if they are good (they could have been better, I think at that time)

stop the timer 3 moves before the end of G-perm

keep force-corner cutting my Huanying for noise

quit after 5 straight solves over 21sec

keep doing T-perm(noise annoying)(loud Huanying)

putting my cubes in dirty places

never computer scramble for 4x4 or 5x5 or 7x7, never even tried except for 4x4, in WCA competition, failed my first 4 scrambles and I quit

overlubing my cubes with Traxaas 50k

even my stickers hate me they keep chipping........haha

overloosening my cubes by a lot (my Huanying pops, my SS5 pops, my Weisu pops like hell, my Moyu Lingpo 2x2 pops, my Dayan Zhanchi pops, my V cube 3 pops, My SS aurora pops)

not using and end up by forgetting my newly learned OLLs

too lazy at learning OLLs, like 3 a week, all gathered in one day, 10 minutes because I have motivation at that time.

being too lazy to practice CFOP other than doing solves over and over

 

[Ulbert]

Habit I want to fix: Stop hitting my cubes every time they pop or lock up and screw up a fantastic solve solve I guess. Or rather stop treating them like toys whatsoever... YOUR CUBES MIGHT BE TOYS BUT NOT MINE!!!

I don't know if it seems hard but it definitely is I mean to much ADHD duuuhh...

Counting down inspection time seconds instead of inspecting

Hahaha that made me laught hard! Thats definitely a good one...

 

[3LEVAS3]

Picking white as my cross.

Same.

Another is taking too long with F2L.

 

[Tom606060]

Stopping the timer and restarting everytme i think im done with cross and find that i messed up.