2013 New Year's Resolutions

Here's mine:

2x2: Learn more than half of CLL, change my Type-C stickers, Sub-6 average
3x3: Change my GuHong v2 stickers, Sub-20 average
4x4: (if it comes out) Purchase the V-cube 4, Sub-1:30 average
5x5: Change my V-cube 5 stickers, Sub-3:00 average
6x6: Sell or trade my supossedly modded V6 (any takers?)
7x7: GET GOOD
Magic/Master Magic: Also get good

IRL: Score a 25-27 on the ACT in Febuary, and go to another competition(hopefully there's another Hillsdale comp).
 
Start cubing again, learn some more puzzles, post on speedsolving every once in a while, relearn a bunch of forgotten cubing-related things, maybe enter a competition this year, be a better person, study abroad.
 
Yeah, I'm in NYC now. I haven't cubed much in a while, and I recently found all my puzzles and started playing with them, found my way back here.
 
Why does everybody say that? You are probably the 20th person who has said that to me.



That is what I will probably do. Though if I see that he softens up to gays than I will tell him. The good thing is that is not a bible thumper and he is intelligent.
Your dad is not an ATM. If you are going to take his money you should at least be honest to him. Good luck.

I hope to solve all of the puzzles that I own this year. 1 per day and I am already behind schedule ;)
I hope to improve on all puzzles that I will put effort into
4/4 in multiblind and FINALLY figure out how to do bigcubes blind
Become much better in commutators so I can actually use them during an official 1 hour FMC regularly
Be helpful again on the forum

Be good to my fiancée and become a great husband to her
Keep enjoying life
Start learning things that take effort again: Japanese, playing piano, modern programming
Keep enjoying life and don't become boring or bored
Organise a competition
 
Cubing Related:
2x2x2: sub-15, maybe BLD
3x3x3: finish memorizing all the OLL and PLL algs, reach sub-30 average of five, reach sub-20 single solve.
4x4x4: reach sub-three minutes

non-cubing related:
work harder in school, do more athletic stuff.
 
Cubing : Be consistently sub-14 on 3x3 by the end of the year, and manage cubing enough so that it doesn't become boring and not enjoyable. In other word, make sure it stays fun :)
Of course I have other goals for all events, but that doesn't really matter right now.

Life : Mend my friendship with my ex-girlfriend
Find reasons to be enjoy life more, and continue being happy
Continue living up to my own standards of what makes a good person
Advance my studies of music theory and prove to myself that I belong in my school's advanced chorus (My director told me he's decided I will be moved up sophomore year)
Get all A's this semester (I got 2 B's in first semester :/ )
Figure out what I want to do with my life, or at least the next few years of it.
 
Cubing:
2x2 - Sub 2.12 Average of 12, Sub 1.75 Average of 5; Official Sub 2.75 Average of 5, Official Sub 1.75 Single loluseless, Learn EG-1 (I've already done 16 so far) and EG-2

3x3 - Sub 10 Average of 12, Sub 9 Average of 5, Sub 6.5 Single, Official Sub 10 Average of 5, Official Sub 8 Single [EXTREMELY HARD GOALS], Learn COLL (except for sunes)

4x4 - Sub 50 Average of 5, Sub 37.5 Single, Official Sub 53 Average of 5, Official Sub 40 Single

5x5 - Sub 1:45 Average of 5, Sub 1:20 Single, Official Sub 1:55 Average of 5, Official Sub 1:45 Single

6x6 - Sub 3:45 Mean of 3, Sub 3:15 Single, Official Sub 4:15 Mean of 3, Official Sub 3:50 Single (I hate 6x6)

7x7 - Sub 6:30 Mean of 3, Sub 5:45 Single, Official Sub 7:30 Mean of 3, Official Sub 6:45 Single (Meh, I don't really care. I am making these quite hard because a Shengshou will help. These may be extremely easy though when I do get a SS.)

OH - Sub 19 Average of 5, Sub 15 Single, Official Sub 22.5 Average of 5, Official Sub 20 Single

BLD - Sub 1 Single, Official Sub 2 Single (Also pretty hard. I plan on practicing BLD a lot more this year, and already have started to.)

4BLD - Sub 13:00 Single, Official Success (A little hard)

5BLD - Sub 45:00 Single, Official Success

3x3 Multi BLD - At least 11 WCA points, Officially at least 6 WCA points (I can't estimate my limits; I've never really gotten near them [Most was 5])

Pyraminx - Sub 4.5 Average of 5, Official Sub 6 Average of 5, Official Sub 4 Single (Officials are hard, but almost every comp has Pyraminx anyway, so I'm good.)

Megaminx - Sub 1:20 Average of 5, Sub 1 Single, Official Sub 1:45 average of 5, Official Sub 1:30 Single

Square-1 - Sub 35 Average of 5, Sub 25 Single, Official Sub 48 Average of 5, Official Sub 35 Single (easyish, but I might not get one [missing corner cap and won't use it] for a few months.)

Clock - Sub 15 Average of 5, Sub 10 Single, Official Sub 19 Average of 5, Official Sub 15 Single (I may or may not get into clock. These are assuming I practice a small amount, like I do now.)

3x3 With FEET!! - Sub 30 Single, Sub 40 Mean of 3, Official NR Single, Official NR Average (EXTREMELY CRAZY HARD! I am probably only gonna have 2 chances: Worlds and Indiana 2013)

FMC :P - Sub 35 Moves, Official Sub 45 Moves (I don't care AT ALL)

In real life:

NOYB STALKERS!!!
EDIT: After reading some others, it did give me ideas that aren't "personal":
All A's (EZPZ at my school/grade that I'm in)
Stay fit (Not just cubing)
Maybe speedstack a bit again and get a cycle sub 7 3-6-3 sub 2.6 3-3-3 sub 2
Learn javascript programming + program websites
Get on the basketball team (in Novemberish I think will be my chance, as my current grade doesn't do basketball).
Next school year (7th) do 8th grade math EZPZ but I can't skip 2 classes so whatever.
I just realized these are so nerdy. Except for the second one. :P who cares these days.

For some reason I just realized these cubing goals are kinda ridiculous... :P I'll be proud if I get at least 1/3 of these.
 
I know it's already April but here are 2013 resolutions for the rest of the year.

Edit: Update...
Cubing:
- 2x2 get back to sub-6 before any comps got DNF at comp lol but at least one sub-6 single
- 3x3 get past sub-16 barrier not sure if getting past it but current Ao100 is about 15.5
- 3x3 OH get sub-25 Ao12 done
- pyraminx I really don't know what to expect by the end of the year because so far it's been going awesome. Is sub-6 too ambitious? I started pyraminxing about a week ago. done
- clean, re-lube, re-tension, and re-sticker all my favourite cubes with half brights done
- only make one more order of cubes (this is gonna be hard) failed (2 orders) not too bad I guess
- go to my first competition done
- get a sub-15 single during labour would have done but labour didn't happen

IRL:
- give birth to two healthy babies done
- do not get a C-section failed
- go to bed earlier, get more sleep did and then failed after babies arrived
- eat less junk food doing it
- make daughter practice violin and piano regularly doing the latter
- potty train son attempted and failed
 
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sneaklyfox said:
- pyraminx I really don't know what to expect by the end of the year because so far it's been going awesome. Is sub-6 too ambitious? I started pyraminxing about a week ago.

Assuming you keep practising, sub-6 is definitely reasonable. I got my first sub-6 avg12 three and a half months after getting my first pyraminx, so even if you don't improve quickly you should be good :)
 
2x2: Learn CLL, Sub 4 consistently, Possibly EG-1
3x3: Sub 15, Full OLL and PLL
4x4: Sub 1 and Color neutral
5x5: Sub 2
6x6: Get one :D
7x7: Sub 8
8x8 Get faster?
9x9: Get one :D
Pyraminx: Sub 6 consistently
3BLD: Solve a 3x3 Blindfolded

Current progress:
2x2: Nothing yet
3x3: Full PLL
4x4: Nothing
5x5: I don't really care anymore
6x6: Still haven't got one, and probably wont
7x7: Meh
8x8: Same as above
9x9: Will buy at some point, not sure when
Pyraminx: Sub 7 right now
3BLD: Success, I already have a 5BLD success.
 
Cubing:
- pyraminx I really don't know what to expect by the end of the year because so far it's been going awesome. Is sub-6 too ambitious? I started pyraminxing about a week ago.

Assuming you keep practising, sub-6 is definitely reasonable. I got my first sub-6 avg12 three and a half months after getting my first pyraminx, so even if you don't improve quickly you should be good :)

Ok, that happened a lot faster than I thought it would. About 3 weeks into pyraminxing, sub-6 Ao12=5.74:
6.51, 5.23, 5.40, 5.16, 5.38, 7.00, 4.93, 5.30, (8.68), 7.28, 5.21, (4.76)
 
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