Bad Cubing Habits?

[xavier45]

Hello, I wanted to know your bad cubing habits, for example if I am timing my self I will sometimes look at the timer and mess up my algorithm. Hope to see some very crazy responses from the community.


-xavier

 

[(R)]

cube rotations during F2L.

 

[emolover]

cube rotations during F2L.

This is the response that a majority of CFOP users will say.

I also take too long to recognize PLL's.

 

[Zane_C]

This is a habit, I definitely don't see it as being a bad habit though:
Before I start inspection I always tap the stackmat with both my hands, do avoid it turning off just as I'm about to start.

 

[James Cavanauh]

I do this weird thing, get ready, it's pretty crazy. I don't know if you've heard of it, it's called popping. But, jokes aside, my last layer takes a crazily long time and I always procrastinate learning olls.

 

[masteranders1]

Definitely looking at the timer while you're doing a solve. Always messes me up.

 

[Thompson]

Looking at timer doing solves.
Getting lazy and not marking plus 2 solves as such

 

[teller]

Picking white as my cross.

 

[Tim Major]

Related to Zane's, I always reset the timer even when it is at 0

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Doing H-Perms and Sexy Moves randomly...

 

[Riley]

If I get a +2/DNF in qqTimer, I won't change it.

Uh, U3 and U4's, even though it's getting less and less.

 

[goflb]

scrambling immediately after solving it. i do that sometimes. probably not going to work during a comp.

 

[hcfong]

Not looking ahead for next F2L pair.
Full wrist turns (sorry, I just can't do fingertricks)
Not using the full 15 seconds inspection time to work out the cross

 

[Ranzha]

Improvising.

 

[5BLD]

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.

 

[Andreaillest]

Looking at timer during solve and inserting things in wrong places. I can also get clumsy, especially on fast solves. I get excited and totally ruin any potential PB.

 

[CRO]

Definitely looking at the timer as I solve. And terribly slow LL.

 

[chrissyD]

if i get a good time but it turns out I've done the wrong pll then I just leave it when it should be a Dnf

 

[Eleredo]

Ouch, unfortunately I have a lot of them.

I...
* make my cross on the top
* do not properly use my inspection time and just start cubing right away which results in me having to look how to build the cross wasting valuable solving time in the process
* am not color neutral (well, I can solve the cube color neutral but way slower than when I pick white as my cross, the color I'm used to)
* move way too fast which results in bad look-ahead and lots of pauses
* do tons of cube rotations to make and insert F2L pairs
* do tons of U3's (or sometimes even U5's!) when looking for an F2L pair instead of rotating the cube
* have this weird way of doing D turns because I can't do the D fingertrick

 

[adragast]

I unfortunately have most of the bad habits mentioned:
- resetting the timer even if it is 0
- starting the solve before the 15s even though I am not ready planing the cross
- having planned the cross during inspection but going for another way to solve it when I start the solve
- rotating the cube during F2L a lot
- going too fast in the F2L for my look-ahead and then blame something else for my bad times (the cube, the light, bad luck, bad days...)
- using U a lot of times for PLL recognition, or just decide with feeling (hmmm this has to be a G perm... oh no, it wasn't....)
- using U a lot of times after my PLL (U' will be executed as U3, if the cube is solve I may do a UU' or do U and get a +2)