Bad Cubing Habits?

[hic0057]

-rescrambling when there is a bad cross
-turning too fast for my look ahead in f2l
-looking at the timer. I usually do this during pll or on big cubes

 

[RTh]

Same as Tim. I reset the timer before scrambling, then again after and sometimes once again after inspection.

 

[Ezy Ryder]

1.:Sub-5 inspection (on average).
2.:Not planning full cross. It makes me look for the last cross piece instead of the first F2L pair.
3.:3-5 regrips during the solve (before LL).
4.:I don't know if it's bad, but I don't use corner nor edge bias. I look for both slot pieces at a time. At least I think so.
5.:Recognizing PLL by 3 sides. (At least not 4).
6.:Forgetting what AUF I'll have, doing the wrong one and getting +2.
7.:Forgetting to turn fast after the cross.
8.oing parity on 6x6 at the wrong side. (One axis is still not modded).

That's quite a lot of things. I've got to work on it, not just solve over and over again for hours.

 

[The Bloody Talon]

chatting while in a cubing session. Always results a bad average.

 

[chris w]

- using no more than 5secs inspection time
- not fully planning cross
- not practicing oll's/pll's

 

[mycube]

looking on the timer while cubing is bad!
do not use more than 3-4 secounds of the inspection time just to see the cross.
cross on the upper layer and not down.
should learn MGLS full or not :/

 

[pi.cubed]

I have a really annoying habit of starting the solve without working out the cross. I just see the pieces and think "yay ok I know how to do it" and then start. And then I fail. It's even more annoying because it would be so easy to fix, but for some unknown reason I just can't be bothered. :|

 

[Kirjava]

M3'

 

[Dacuba]

Not enough Inspection
Rotations (going to be worked on soon)
I sometimes forget which was my starting face on the 2x2x2 (ortega)
Daydreaming during solves
Looking at pairs I'm solving right now
Looking on tmer during solves

Oh and being horrible slow at F2L

At least I do cross on bottom and have a reasonable fast LL

 

[xavier45]

cube rotations during F2L.

I somtimes forget which slot to put the pair in. Which results in a lot of worthless U moves.

 

[antoineccantin]

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

Same as Thompson.

Also, not learning full OLL...

 

[Rook]

Starting solve only after finding my 1x2x2 without tracing the last 2 pieces.
F2L'ing my second block.
Leaving algorithm sets half-learnt.

 

[asportking]

Not making best decisions on what side to start the cross on. I'm opposite color neutral, but instead of just picking the easiest side, I feel like I have to "balance" out the white and yellow crosses. So if I solve the cross on white one time, even if there's a really easy white cross the next time, I end up doing yellow to balance it out.

 

[a small kitten]

When I get lazy (not wanting to find intelligent blockbuilding solutions), I tend to rely on my turning speed. Then my move count goes up and I get tired.

 

[somerandomkidmike]

Because I don't know how to recognize half the cases for CLL, I sometimes spend as much as 2 seconds just recognizing the case for CLL. That's bad considering I use Waterman.

 

[cuberkid10]

After I scramble, I tap the cube on the table before I start inspection. It's not really a 'bad' habit, but it's kind of annoying for me.

I also do cross on top, which is my worst habit. I lose the lookahead for F2L, and have to rely on seeing something as soon as I do X2.

 

[5BLD]

At least it's not as bad as me; I start inspecting immediately after scrambling...

 

[uberCuber]

-For 3x3, using roughly 3 seconds of inspection on average
-Doing stupidly large movecount things sometimes, particularly during centers of bigcubes. (I average ~80 moves for centers on 5x5)
-Saying I'm going to learn something and not doing it:
....I still don't know Antisune COLL cases even though I started learning COLL long before I even knew full OLL
....I still haven't learned the rest of the L2E cases for 5x5 even though I said I was going to before I got sub-2 (I now average around 1:30....)
....I actually did learn all of EG-1, but never really started using it, and I now know very few of them and just use pure CLL for 2x2 solving.
....There's more that I don't feel like listing.

 

[ben1996123]

Not learning OLL. I've known full PLL for 3 years and still don't know full OLL.

 

[buelercuber]

I'd say doing a U3 for AUF is a pretty bad habit....