Oliver1010
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This was last year, and I procrastinated on talking about it, but I learned full 1 look OLL in two days. My goal was one day, and I almost succeeded, but there were THREE ALGORITHMS that made me fail. If I hadn't overslept that night, I probably would have succeeded.
The next day, I spent 15 minutes with those three algorithms, and then tested myself on all the algs and succeeded first try.
One of the algs, I applied the right sequence of moves, but at the wrong angle.
Prior to this, I knew 2 look OLL. I planned this out very thoroughly beforehand and began learning ways to memorize algs quickly. For months, instead of doing solves, I watched youtube videos about learning algs. As a result, my improvement suffered. This was something I was going to be prepared for, and I was determined to succeed. From the moment I started with the first alg, I went into another state of concentration. I did very few timed solves the entire day. Instead of doing solves, I learned a few algs, reviewed my previous algs, learned a few more, and continued doing this. The reviewing stage steadily began to increase, and my recall time was suffering significantly. Eventually, I reached a point where I had to constantly review algs without learning any new ones. If I tried to learn some new algs, I would forget old ones. At this point, I had a few hours and ~7-10? algs remaining. In these few hours, occasionally, I just barely managed to squeeze one more OLL case into my head, without forgetting any previous ones. After a while, I stopped reviewing so frequently, and tried learning a new OLL. This came to the point where I wasn't learning new algs, I was just re-learning old ones, then re-learning the algs I recently learned, then re-learning the old ones, and so on. Eventually, the 24 hour mark started approaching. In the past few hours, I had magically picked up a few more cases. I had 3-5? algs remaining with 30+ minutes left. It was so frustrating, that after I had come so far in these 24 hours, after learning so much about the cube, after leaning 50+ algorithms in less than 24 hours, I was going to fail because of these few cases. My brain felt like it had just been fried, and it refused to pick anything up. At this point, I was extremely desperate. I had spent so much time and effort into this, and I was so successful in the first 16 hours, that I basically assumed that I would join corenpuzzle as the second person to learn OLL in one day. I already had an idea forming in the back of my mind, but it would be my last resort, as I still was clinging on to the hope that I could learn the remaining algs in 30 minutes. At around 10-15 minutes, after not making any progress, I decided I would have to use my last resort. It was all or nothing at this point(spoiler alert: it was nothing). I reviewed all my algs one last time, and to my surprise, I recalled all but one. The plan was going as I hoped so far, so there was still a chance that I would succeed. I had a MASSIVE document with all the algs, and at the bottom, I had a special place for those few algs. The one that I didn't recall correctly, I added there. A few hours earlier, I was taking a safe approach, which was to learn one alg, review everything, and if I didn't memorize everything correctly, re-learn them, review, and keep going. Now, I had no choice, but to learn everything at once, and hope that I didn't forget any of the previous algs. Ok, I lied, my brain had been able to pick up those last few algs, but then I forget them in a matter of seconds. I looked at each alg once, then moved on to the next. I had 2 minutes until the 24 hour mark had left, and finished looking over those last remaining algs. I spent those 2 minutes mentally preparing myself for the test to come. That moment when I started learning my first ever OLL, seemed like years ago. My brain wanted nothing other than to rest. But I had one last thing to do. Once those 2 minutes expired, and I could no longer learn any more algs, I went to Sarah's cubing website, and put myself to the test. I looked at the OLL case, disassembled my cube and reassembled it in that position, then spent minutes trying to recall that algorithm. Once I was fairly confident that I had recalled the right one, I applied it. If I didn't recall something, or wasn't sure about it, I skipped over it, and saved it for later. Eventually, after one and a half hours of recalling, after I had looked at each combination of Yellow and Gray stickers, I had 5 remaining that I skipped over. Surprisingly, only ~1 or 2 were from the last page of my document. After about 15 minutes of staring back and forth between each one, I suddenly remember one of them, and I applied it, and it was correct. After many more minutes, I knew that I wasn't going to suddenly recall any more algs. I had one alg in mind, but I barely remember learning it, I wasn't sure which case it was for, and it might have even been for one of the previous algs that I had applied. There was one case that seemed vaguely associated with it, so I applied it, and it was wrong. I had failed, but I didn't get disappointed immediately, because I already was expecting this. The next day, I found out that it was the right alg for the right case, but it was the wrong pre-AUF. With the 3 remaining algs, a burden was taken off, and I knew that I had failed. With no pressure, I spent another few minutes, and remembered 1 more case. After that, the same alg I had in mind, I applied to the 2 other cases(which I knew how to recognize and recalled which angle to hold it from), and they both failed. After an hour or so with nothing coming to mind, I gave up. It was 3 algorithms. 3 Sequences of moves. That was it, that was all that had made me fail. After I had come so far in 24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86400 seconds, it was just 3 strings of characters that left me here, with months of preparation and high expectations, after I had shoved hundreds, thousands of seemingly random moves into my head, and associated them with seemingly random combinations of yellow and gray squares, it was 3 strings of characters that put this all to waste. I had hyped every cuber I knew up for this, and they genuinely believed that I would do it. They genuinely believed I would be able to say that they knew someone who has learned full OLL, an alg set that all the world record holders took months to learn, in one day. They thought they could say that their friend posted a video with thousands of views, and is now placed second in the world. But they can't.
What a disappointment.
The next day, I spent 15 minutes with those three algorithms, and then tested myself on all the algs and succeeded first try.
One of the algs, I applied the right sequence of moves, but at the wrong angle.
Prior to this, I knew 2 look OLL. I planned this out very thoroughly beforehand and began learning ways to memorize algs quickly. For months, instead of doing solves, I watched youtube videos about learning algs. As a result, my improvement suffered. This was something I was going to be prepared for, and I was determined to succeed. From the moment I started with the first alg, I went into another state of concentration. I did very few timed solves the entire day. Instead of doing solves, I learned a few algs, reviewed my previous algs, learned a few more, and continued doing this. The reviewing stage steadily began to increase, and my recall time was suffering significantly. Eventually, I reached a point where I had to constantly review algs without learning any new ones. If I tried to learn some new algs, I would forget old ones. At this point, I had a few hours and ~7-10? algs remaining. In these few hours, occasionally, I just barely managed to squeeze one more OLL case into my head, without forgetting any previous ones. After a while, I stopped reviewing so frequently, and tried learning a new OLL. This came to the point where I wasn't learning new algs, I was just re-learning old ones, then re-learning the algs I recently learned, then re-learning the old ones, and so on. Eventually, the 24 hour mark started approaching. In the past few hours, I had magically picked up a few more cases. I had 3-5? algs remaining with 30+ minutes left. It was so frustrating, that after I had come so far in these 24 hours, after learning so much about the cube, after leaning 50+ algorithms in less than 24 hours, I was going to fail because of these few cases. My brain felt like it had just been fried, and it refused to pick anything up. At this point, I was extremely desperate. I had spent so much time and effort into this, and I was so successful in the first 16 hours, that I basically assumed that I would join corenpuzzle as the second person to learn OLL in one day. I already had an idea forming in the back of my mind, but it would be my last resort, as I still was clinging on to the hope that I could learn the remaining algs in 30 minutes. At around 10-15 minutes, after not making any progress, I decided I would have to use my last resort. It was all or nothing at this point(spoiler alert: it was nothing). I reviewed all my algs one last time, and to my surprise, I recalled all but one. The plan was going as I hoped so far, so there was still a chance that I would succeed. I had a MASSIVE document with all the algs, and at the bottom, I had a special place for those few algs. The one that I didn't recall correctly, I added there. A few hours earlier, I was taking a safe approach, which was to learn one alg, review everything, and if I didn't memorize everything correctly, re-learn them, review, and keep going. Now, I had no choice, but to learn everything at once, and hope that I didn't forget any of the previous algs. Ok, I lied, my brain had been able to pick up those last few algs, but then I forget them in a matter of seconds. I looked at each alg once, then moved on to the next. I had 2 minutes until the 24 hour mark had left, and finished looking over those last remaining algs. I spent those 2 minutes mentally preparing myself for the test to come. That moment when I started learning my first ever OLL, seemed like years ago. My brain wanted nothing other than to rest. But I had one last thing to do. Once those 2 minutes expired, and I could no longer learn any more algs, I went to Sarah's cubing website, and put myself to the test. I looked at the OLL case, disassembled my cube and reassembled it in that position, then spent minutes trying to recall that algorithm. Once I was fairly confident that I had recalled the right one, I applied it. If I didn't recall something, or wasn't sure about it, I skipped over it, and saved it for later. Eventually, after one and a half hours of recalling, after I had looked at each combination of Yellow and Gray stickers, I had 5 remaining that I skipped over. Surprisingly, only ~1 or 2 were from the last page of my document. After about 15 minutes of staring back and forth between each one, I suddenly remember one of them, and I applied it, and it was correct. After many more minutes, I knew that I wasn't going to suddenly recall any more algs. I had one alg in mind, but I barely remember learning it, I wasn't sure which case it was for, and it might have even been for one of the previous algs that I had applied. There was one case that seemed vaguely associated with it, so I applied it, and it was wrong. I had failed, but I didn't get disappointed immediately, because I already was expecting this. The next day, I found out that it was the right alg for the right case, but it was the wrong pre-AUF. With the 3 remaining algs, a burden was taken off, and I knew that I had failed. With no pressure, I spent another few minutes, and remembered 1 more case. After that, the same alg I had in mind, I applied to the 2 other cases(which I knew how to recognize and recalled which angle to hold it from), and they both failed. After an hour or so with nothing coming to mind, I gave up. It was 3 algorithms. 3 Sequences of moves. That was it, that was all that had made me fail. After I had come so far in 24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86400 seconds, it was just 3 strings of characters that left me here, with months of preparation and high expectations, after I had shoved hundreds, thousands of seemingly random moves into my head, and associated them with seemingly random combinations of yellow and gray squares, it was 3 strings of characters that put this all to waste. I had hyped every cuber I knew up for this, and they genuinely believed that I would do it. They genuinely believed I would be able to say that they knew someone who has learned full OLL, an alg set that all the world record holders took months to learn, in one day. They thought they could say that their friend posted a video with thousands of views, and is now placed second in the world. But they can't.
What a disappointment.
The scramble is from this weeks Weekly competition (2018-27)
