2016 New Years Resolutions / Goals

[Kaleb]

2x2-sub 5 avg currently dont do

3×3- sub 20avg currently 33sec

OH-sub 30avg currently just over 1min

4×4- 1 min avg currently just over 2 min

3bld- place at a comp, currently cannot do bld

FMC- place at a comp, currently never done fmc.

 

[Penspinner]

Only goal for 2016: Don't quit speedsolving... again.

This.

 

[qwertycuber]

My only goal is to teach my dad how to solve a rubik's cube.

 

[asacuber]

2x2: Learn CLL(if possible Eg-1?) and sub 3
3x3: Sub 12
4x4: Get serious, learn yau and sub 1
5x5: Get sub2 min avg, learn some advanced method like L4E or so...
Pyra: Learn 1 flip, avg 6 or so
Mega: Learn Balint Bodor method, 2min avg
OH: Sub 30
Everything else: Be serious

UPDATE
2x2: Learn EG 1 (Posted the above when I knew like 3/4ths of CLL lol)
3x3: Sub 10.5
4x4: Sub 57 w/ yau(or another method like hoya or whatever)
5x5: Sub 1:55 and learn advanced centers and edges
6x6: Care, Sub 5 min
7x7,Skewb,squan,clock etc: Get one
BLD: Get a success ,3 min avg
Pyra: Sub 6 w/ L4E or 1 flip
Mega :Balint bodor, 2 min
OH: Sub 27, Learn ZZ?

 

[JamesDanko]

2x2 Finish CLL
3x3 Sub 15?
5x5 Sub 2:30
Squan Sub 30
OH Sub 30
FEET Practice. Sub 2:00??


These are the only events I currently am really interested in. This could very well change though.

 

[TheSixthSide]

Well, I realise I'm late here, but I'd like to make a note of my goals anyway.

3x3: sub-10 global average, national champion. Actually learn more algs, hopefully full ZBLL and finish becoming colour neutral.
2x2: sub-3 global average, learn full EG. Do well in comp too.
4x4: sub-40 global average. I guess learn Rob's last three edge algs too, and PLL parity tricks.
5x5: sub-1:30 global average. Learn last two edge cases.
6x6 & 7x7: Start caring, and stop being embarrassingly slow.
OH: Sub-20 global average, and learn at least full OH PLL, if not full OH OLL.
BLD: Practice 3style, and get a sub-1 global average. Actually give Tom (CyanSandwich) some competition.
Sq1: Sub-20 global average. Learn optimal cubeshape, and most if not all of EP.
Skewb, Mega, and Pyra: Stop sucking in general.
FMC and MBLD: compete in comp, practice, generally just get good at them.
4BLD and 5BLD: actually do them, get successes.

I think that's it. I'd like to organise a competition too.

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

I see this thread a lot so I'll just post I guess. I don't have as much cubing time as I would like, so I'll be realistic.

Sq1: Master parity + cubeshape, finish tutorials and make some more videos about it. Also, learn more tricks and algs for post-cubeshape.
BLD: Stop experimenting with variations of weird memo systems after finding one I like. It's been my goal for a couple of years now, the end might be in sight.
444: Finish working on some OLL parity tricks I've been developing.
Bonus: Find a cool way to do sq1BLD and get an AO5.

 

[CyanSandwich]

BLD: Practice 3style, and get a sub-1 global average. Actually give Tom (CyanSandwich) some competition.

It'll be cool if you get this one

 

[Jaysammey777]

Lets make this year count... probably only gonna get 50% of this list:

3x3x3: relearn good olls/plls, tricky rotationless f2L algs, COLL, nice ZBLLS. sub- 11, If sub 12 by May the 10000 cube marathon in may. global low 12. Did half of Marathon regardless.
4x4x4: learn awk last edge algs, learn pll pairity tricks, sub-45 sub-50
5x5x5: learn l2e, sub-1:40 sub-1:40
2x2x2: Learn CLL, sub-3 lol
BLD: Comp Success 9:48.49 Check
OH: do an average of 12, sub 30 sub-25....
FMC: 5 total sub-30s, nonofficial or official (sitting at 1, which is official ) 4/5
feet: sub -4 sub-2
Megaminx: sub-1:10
pyraminx: learn 1-flip, a few more little tricks, sub-5 avg:5 secs
squan: learn a new alg, sub-40 avg 25, know a bunch of algs now
clock: sub-17, State Record (cause thats a thing) lol sub-10 SR ftw
Skewb: lol, learn the inverse of the alg I know, if I'm lucky Sidewayz
6x6x6: sub-3 didnt even make nats cutoff
7x7x7: sub-5 kachow
4BLD: Comp Success 1 move off...
5BLD: Learn never attempted though.
MBLD: perfect in 5 or more cubes. Well I don't qualify for nats...

other cubing goals:
teach 10 or more people 4
host 4 comps 4+? I dont even know
go to nats and do well Went to nats.. Did awful
go to more comps overall Double the amount in 2015
really track my pbs from now on in sig
get the GA community really active I hope...
podium 5 times 5 in 2016 on the nose.
Make top 100 in 1 event world wide 186....
Make top 100 in 5 events US 8
time every puzzle in my collection 2 many

off cubing goals:
keep scholarships
get my own place
have better relationships
.... Ill add more later lol

22.5/45 = 50% Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

 

[newtonbase]

This year I want to be sub 2 mins in 3BLD and get a competition success. I want sub 30s in 3x3 and sub 2mins in 4x4. In general I want to do more focused practice and not let real life get in the way.

I have unofficial sub 2 mins in 3bld but not global. I do have comp successes. Achieved my 3x3 target but not 4x4 as I haven't really practiced it.
Real life is still getting in the way.

 

[cuberkid10]

2x2: Learn CLL and EG-1. Nice official single and average
3x3: Sub-10 at home and officially (probably closer to sub-9 maybe?). Sub-8 single officially. Finish OLL
4x4: Sub-40 official average
5x5: Sub 1:25 at home, sub-1:25 official average and sub-1:20 official single. Finish last 2 edge cases
6x6: Sub-3:30
7x7: Sub-7? (Not happening) - official solve and not get cut off
OH: Sub-23 - finish PLL's and learn more OLL's
Pyraminx: Sub-5.5, learn some L4E and some L3E
Skewb: Sub-7
Megaminx: Sub 1:23?
Squan: Sub-20 - learn CP Parity, more EO's, and EP's
Clock: Sub-20
Feet: Sub-3:30. Learn my algs. Get an official mean.


Other cubing goals:
Organize more competitions here
Attend more comps
It'd be cool to set a female record, but I doubt that will happen
Legitimately, I think my main goal for 2016 is sub-10 average in comp.

Life Goals:
Get into the music business school at my college
Get back in touch with people that I lost touch with this year
Get back into music

Almost all my goals regarding learning algs I didn't meet, because I absolutely hate learning algs.
2x2: I guess my singe and average are nice.
3x3: Hoping to beat my 9.72 average this weekend and I average like ~9.65 at home, so I would say I'm sub-10 And I got my first sub-8 single a few months back. And I SWEAR I WILL GET MY LAST 1 OLL BEFORE NEW YEARS
4x4: Well I achieved that one pretty good. I average nearly sub-36 now.
5x5: I'm low 1:20's now, but I think I've gotten worse because I never practice. And last 2 edge cases... lol no
6x6: I'm ~2:45 now.. getting a cube that's not a Shengshou helps quite a bit
7x7: Well I did that, but I'm still horrific at 7x7
OH: Sub-20 now. Learning how to flick U's instead of pushing dropped me by around 4 seconds. Very important, since OH is one of my weakest events.
Pyraminx: That 4.38 average though... with that LOL scramble that I messed up on. I will probably never learn any more algs for Pyra.. ever
Skewb: Yep, but the South hates skewb so....
Megaminx: The X Man made a huge difference for me. Now around 1:08 average and I have a quite nice 1:05 official average, which I'm still pretty happy about!
Squan: Sub-16 now... yay. I learned some more CP parity cases, but I didn't finish.
Clock: Rubik's brand helped a lot. Quite happy with my 9 single
Feet: Well.. I got that officially, but probably don't average that.

 

[WACWCA]

2016 Official goals 1/5
2x2:1.2/sub 2
Make 2x2 finals at nationals 2016
Podium at least twice this year
3x3:sub 9/ sub 11
3rd round at 2016 nationals
OH: sub 20/ sub 25
4x4: sub 40/ 45
6x6 sub 3:30/sub 4
3BLD sub 2/ sub 4
4BLD: Official success, I've done it twice at home

2x2: no yes yes yes
3x3: yes yes no
Oh: yes yes
3bld no yes
4bld: r2 away
4x4 and 6x6 I didn't practice

 

[mark49152]

Can't remember this year's goals, but it took a twist anyway - I started going to comps, which I had never intended to do. Friends and family now have more respect for the hobby. And I found a passion for BLD, which I had no interest in before. So the best things I achieved weren't in my goals list anyway

For 2016:-

Go to lots of comps.
3BLD official sub-2 (and learn corner comms).
4BLD official sub-10.
5BLD official success.
MBLD add one point to PB per comp attempt.
5x5 official average.
Be a good dad.

EDIT: met two of these already before 2015 was over, so here's some tougher targets...

3BLD official sub-1:30
5x5 official sub-2 single, then average
4x4 official sub-1 single, then average

Bit early to revive this thread, but why not. Everything above achieved, except for MBLD (only advanced 1 point since January despite 4 attempts), and sub-1 4x4 and sub-2 5x5 averages, although I got the singles. Those averages will remain targets for 2017.

I'll save other 2017 goals for the 2017 thread once it appears.

 

[TDM]

Easily beaten some of my goals but I've come nowhere near others. These two:

3BLD: At least switch to Advanced M2/3-style
Multi: Top 100, 10/10

I've not made much progress towards but might be achievable (unofficially) by the end of the year.

 

[DGCubes]

Goals:

• Sub-4 on 2x2 Sort of? Not really though.
• Sub-12 on 3x3 Nope. 13.2 or so.
• Sub-50 on 4x4 Nope. 56-ish.
• Sub-1:40 on 5x5 1:50-ish
• Sub-3:15 on 6x6 3:40-ish
• Sub-5:00 on 7x7 5:30-ish
• 3.3 avg on Pyra Very close. 3.4 or so.
• 1:00 avg on Mega Close, around 1:05-1:10 depending on the day.
• Sub-20 on Square-1 Basically yes. Around 19!
• 5-ish avg on Skewb No, more like 6 to 7.
• Switch to M2 on 3BLD; 1:30-1:45 avg No lol, I'm so lazy...
• 4BLD success (which will likely happen before 2016) Yeah, before 2016.
• 5BLD success Nope.
• 8-10 MBLD, 100% Nope, still 5/5.
• Care enough about OH to get sub-30 No. I tried caring and did a solid 300+ solves; didn't improve at all. Average around 32-33.
• Maybe practice Clock and get sub-20 Yeah boiiii, around 18-19.
• Sub-2:00 feet avg YEAAAAHHHHHH, averaging very very close to sub-50 now.
• Sub-40 FMC single (so lame) Yeeeeeee, 26 single!!!
• Learn full COLL A decent amount of it. Full U, H, Pi, some L and T, and little S and AS.
• Learn a decent amount of ZBLL NololwhywouldIcare
• Learn some sort of OLL skip method; maybe VLS or Winter Variation? NololwhywouldIcare
• Go to Nats 2016 (doubt it, but y'never know) No
• Podium in Pyraminx at Nats 2016 No
• Get an official sub-3 Pyraminx average Yes!!
• Get an official sub-2 Pyraminx single No...
• Get an official sub-9 3x3 single Yes!!!
• Get an official sub-11 3x3 average No.
• 25,000 subscribers on YouTube (wishful thinking?) Relatively close... does 23.1K count?
• Do all events officially 16 out of 18; 17 if you count a 4BLD DNF, which I wouldn't count.

By the way, I made these super hard on purpose, but hopefully I can achieve at least some of them. Good luck to me!

7/29 achieved. 8/30 if you count the goal of achieving at least some of them.

 

[Chree]

Last years goals were easy. But I improve slowly. I shall challenge myself.

2x2: Actually practice, improve. Maybe learn Ortega algs from different angles. More CLL.
3x3: sub8 single, sub13.5 Ao100. This will be tough.
4x4: sub35 single, sub50 Ao100.
5x5: sub1:10 single, sub1:35 Ao100.
6x6: sub2:30 single, sub3 Ao25.
7x7: sub4 single, sub4:30 Ao12.
OH: sub14 single, sub21 Ao100.
Mega: sub1:20 single, sub1:35 Ao25.
Pyra: sub4 single, sub8 Ao100.
Skewb: Why?
Clock: Sure.
Square-1: Why not?
3BLD: Get an Official success.
FMC: Get comfier with NISS. Learn insertions. Get sub35.

Competition goals:
- Hold more competitions in more places.
- Get a few more podiums.
- Improve all records.

IRL:
- Get more into programming/computer sciency stuff
- Continue learning Piano.
- sub200 lbs by summer.

Failed all of my goals for single except for OH and Mega, but they were much more ambitious than last year.
Demolished all of my goals for average, though.

Also, somehow, running competitions got in the way of being able to practice for sake of practicing. Still, succeeded in all of my competition goals and records.

Life goals were alright. This was the first time in 3 years I didn't list "get a promotion", and of course, in February, I got a promotion. Still a fatty though.

 

[Torch]

All right, this will be fun. I didn't set too many goals last year, so I'm going to make up for it by making a really big post this year.

Cubing time goals:
2x2: sub-3 ao100, sub-2.9 official average Lol I'm bad at 2x2
3x3: sub-10 ao100, sub-10 official average Lol I'm bad at 3x3
4x4: sub-42 ao100, sub-43 official average Lol I'm bad at 4x4
5x5: sub-1:35 ao50, sub-1:40 official average
6x6: Official mean
7x7: Official mean
BLD: sub-1 ao12, sub-55 official single, improve my official mean Lol I'm bad at BLD
OH: sub-19 ao100, sub-19 official average Lol I'm bad at OH
FMC: <=25 official single, sub-30 official mean Lol I'm bad at FMC
Feet: sub-1:30 ao100, sub-1:35 official mean
Mega: sub-1:20 ao100, sub-1:20 official average Lol I'm bad at Mega
Pyra: sub-5.2 ao100, sub-5 official average Lol I'm bad at Pyra
SQ-1: sub-20 ao100, sub-20 official average Lol I'm bad at Squan
Clock: sub-13 ao100, sub-14 official average Thanks Jacob
Skewb: sub-6 ao100, sub 6 official average Lol I'm bad at Skewb
4BLD: success in comp
5BLD: success in comp
MBLD: better than current NAR (21 points in 56:53) at home, >17 points in comp Lol I'm bad at Multi

Alg/method goals:
Finish CLL and learn EG-1 I forget a couple CLLs every once in a while, but I still say that I know it
Full OLLCP Why did I think this was a good idea???
L2E for bigcubes I've forgotten about a third of it, but I did know it all at some point
Comms for BLD At this point I'm probably never going to switch
More structured letter pair and loci system Nope, still haphazard and bad
Optimize my LL algs for OH Surprisingly yes
Learn how to do insertions better Lol I'm bad at FMC
Learn other FMC stuff like EO first Lol I'm bad at FMC
Mega 4LLL No, but I CAN DO KILO 2LLL JACOB ARE YOU PROUD OF ME
L4E for Pyra Why
Advanced cubeshape, CP Parity, faster EP Why
Good solutions to all Skewb L4C+CLL Why

Misc cubing event goals:
Figure out why my feet times go up over a minute when I use a stackmat Technically, I never "figured it out", but I did fix it
Get a 6x6 and 7x7 And kinda ruined them too!
Get a better clock "better"

Other cubing goals:
Podium in 3x3 at a comp I actually did this like 4 days after I posted this
Join the all events completion club And I think I have NAR for fastest time from first comp to joining
Do the weekly comp every week except for the ones I'm not cubing So far so good
Get into top 100 for KinchRanks Currently 82nd
Go to Nationals And it only ruined my sleep schedule for about a month afterwards!
Organize a 2 day competition in the summer (counting on y'all Georgia cubers for help on this one!) I'd like to count the fact that I was staff at Athens Summer Omega, but that's stretching
Increase the number of states I've competed in to at least 10 (current: 7, so probably Maryland, wherever Nationals is, and some other state) Louisiana, Oregon, and (upcoming) Virginia

Goals in red for fail and green for success, comments in bold

Overall comments and thoughts on goals and the year in general:

I generally failed my time goals in events that I already did and practiced a lot a year ago, but met them in events that I wasn't really doing or didn't have the hardware for then.
I apparently can't force myself to learn algs or switch to better methods, ever.
The less specific a goal is, the better my chances are of meeting it.
From a year's distance, my noncubing goals looked so silly and inapplicable to my current life that I deleted them.
Overall, this was definitely not the best year ever for me, in a life sense (it probably was my best year in a cubing sense though). However, I think that when I look back in the future, I probably wouldn't have 2016 any other way.

 

[aybuck37]

danggg looking at this thread getting me depressed hahahahhahhahaha. Alot of you improved so much this year! GJ everyone!!

 

[Cale S]

skewb - NAR average, learn all the 4+ sledge case algs, learn 1-looking cases, win Nationals almost NAR, learned algs, not much 1-looking, failed Nationals
5BLD - sub-5:30 official hopefully next week
4BLD - actually win Nationals this year -__- yes
FMC - official sub-28 mean, sub-27 avg50 on weekly FMC, podium at Nationals 26.67 official mean and Nats podium
MBLD - actually do some practice at home and get NAR lol when NAR was reasonable, I had 1 decent attempt at home
3BLD - official sub-40 single, sub-50 mean yes to both
3x3 - learn full OLLCP, official low 12 average lol 10.35 average, full OLLCP is dumb
2x2 - official sub-4 average, maybe learn EG-1 just for lulz and then forget it got a lot of sub-4 average, not many algs
4x4 - once I get a decent one, get consistently sub-50 and sub-50 official average yes
5x5 - official sub-1:40 average yes
6x6 and 7x7 - compete in them officially? no
clock - official sub-11 average yes
feet - official sub-1:20 mean maybe next week
pyra - learn some decent methods/algs, official low to mid 6 average 6.24 average with no algs
mega - do some practice and get sub-2 1:32 official average
OH - sub-30 official average (if I ever compete in it again) 26 average
sq1 - official sub-28 average lol 18 average

 

[Loiloiloi]

I'm a newbie so I'm gonna make my goals list now for next year

Goals:
2x2 - Sub-6 average officially, sub-5 average unoffically, learn full CLL
3x3 - Sub-20 average officially, sub-18 ao12 unofficially, sub-15 PB
4x4 - Be able to speedsolve
5x5 - Be able to speedsolve
6x6 - Be able to solve
7x7 - Be able to solve
Pyraminx - Sub-9 average officially, sub-8 unofficially
Square-1 - Sub-40 Average official, sub-30 average unofficial, know at least 20 algorithms
Skewb - Sub-10 Average official or unofficial
3x3OH - Sub-30 Single Unofficially Sub-40 Official Average
3x3BLD - Learn 3BLD
FMC - At least 5 Sub-40s
Clock - Compete again and do decent, sub-10 ao5 unofficial
Other - Learn at least 3 non-CFOP methods for 3x3, Get driving license, Attend 10 total competitions, 10 events competed in, Have at least 10 youtube videos, Get to at least 2nd round in something