Are your times faster while people are watching or not?

[Yes We Can!]

I'm about 1-2 seconds faster when people are watching me and when I'm very nervous, because I look ahead more.

 

[d4m4s74]

Yesterday I was cubing in the bus, I did a great solve and looked up. A cute girl my age was looking at me cubing and smiled at me. I "scrambled" the cube again (using a practiced scramble for high speed) to impress her and started the solve. It felt as if all lubrication was drained from the puzzle and all screws were changed, I simply sucked.

got out of the bus to grab the subway, in there I grabbed my cube again, turned perfectly.

 

[JTW2007]

Fastest: alone
Pretty Fast: with people I'm comfortable around
Horrible: around people I don't know

 

[cubedude7]

My times are mostly better when people are watching.
But, what I was wondering, at a competition, do your times get better when somebody is recording you? For me, yes, you can check that here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaGj4ojVNz4

My normal avg there was around 35 sec.

Maybe I should start a thread about it, hmm :confused:

 

[sarank14]

i get nervous and my hands shakes so usually it's slower than normal

 

[PEZenfuego]

When I get nervous in front of people, things seem to slow down and even though solves aren't very enjoyable, I do seem to be a little faster.

Adrenaline maybe...

 

[Zubon]

I always get nervous when people are watching. I often insert F2L pairs in the wrong slot or screw up the cross without noticing it.

It's pretty rare that other people ever watch me cubing as I don't do it outside my home. However the other day when a few people wanted to watch me, I misinserted 2 pairs and screwed up the OLL getting an abysmal 48s...

 

[wrbcube4]

In Competition it doesn't really bother me. I usually average just as good as I do at home. The adrenaline helps me a lot because I get all hyped up and everything.

 

[Spyyder]

My times stay about the same, if im just cubing in public I don't even notice if ppl are watching, but if there's a group watching me and they asked me to solve it for them or something I'll slow it down a bit so i dont explode the cube which helps my look ahead so I get faster solves than normal sometimes.

I've had enough ppl witness my failures over time(most when learning pen spinning in class with ppl staring at me xD) that I dont really care what happens or if ppl are impressed or not.

Also, after playing in the finals of a local quake tourney where ppl were watching me play on a big tv screen in the lan center nothing really seems to make me nervous or get my adrenaline going, kinda miss it. =\

 

[reghrhre]

It's usually a mix, at times I'm faster and at times I'm just the same.

 

[miniGOINGS]

So recently, because I havn't practiced in a few months, my times are around 25-ish. Today at school, someone handed me a storebought during spare. They scrambled it (at least 50 turns) and timed me twice. With no lookahead time, and on a new storebought I got 30 and 28 seconds which is good for me under the circumstances. I think I do better under pressure because I have to.