Cubing and Eye Sight

[Incanumix]

Hey guys,
I just want to have a little discussion about how cubing affects human eye sight.

How many hours a day do you cube? Do you wear glasses? Has cubing affected your vision?

I personally cube 30 minutes a day atm, I wear glasses only when I'm doing close activities, and I'm pretty sure cubing has made me 15% more short sighted than I was before I started, been cubing for 4 months.

 

[kinch2002]

When I was 11 I had perfect vision. By the time I was 18 I was pretty short sighted. Going to school clearly made my eyesight worse.

 

[5BLD]

I cube for as long as I can every day... I started to have bad eyesight two years ago (I started cubing 7 months ago). I'm quite badly short sighted yet rarely wear glasses because they're not too bad to need them ALL the time.

 

[Rook]

I've been wearing glasses since I was 3, and my eyesight has been getting progressively worse every year since. I can't see anything clearly without my glasses unless it's right up to my face. At this point, I can't tell if cubing is making my eyesight worse or not. Either way, my eyesight is worse from when I started cubing 2 years ago.

 

[Ezy Ryder]

I started being short sighted about a decade ago (at least that's when I was diagnosed). I don't wear glasses only when I sleep and stuff. Lately I was cubing 1-1.5 hours a day, now I started to solve 2.5-3 hours a day. I don't know if cubing changed anything with my vision.
I also was curious about one thing, but didn't know who to ask. I've got this thing (that I think) that is called Monopsia. Basically I have two "working' eyes, but except for very short distances, I can see only with one eye at a time. And I wonder, does this affect my times?

 

[24653483361]

I've been cubing for about 4 years and I've never had the best vision in my right eye, but I recently went to an eye doctor for it. I have glasses, I don't need to wear them, but sometimes I like to. I personally think being on the computer so much is what made my vision worst (for the most part).

 

[RNewms27]

I have needed glasses and have them. Don't wear them though. My eyes will always get worse whether I cube or not.

 

[Andrew Ricci]

I had bad eyesight before I started cubing. I'm pretty sure it's just hereditary, so I don't think cubing has made it any worse.

 

[blakedacuber]

I've had cataracs since i was born but they only noticed it when i was three I've had lens implants in both eyes and laser on both.(actually I'm getting laser again in my left eye in october) but i dont think cubing has had any effect also I war glasses all the tie except when im asleep

 

[chrissyD]

always had good eyesight i know it will get worse but i don't care.

i only ever wear 3d glasses just for the crack

 

[cuberkid10]

I have been nearsighted in my left eye since I was 10ish. I've had astigmatism my whole life. I don't think cubing has effected my eyes, although I started to cube when I was 10... :O I don't wear glasses unless I have to. The nearsightedness doesn't make my overall vision bad unless I have to look out of 1 eye. Astigmatism has recently started to mess with me, as the edges of my vision are a bit burry. I've also found, if I cube with my glasses on, I get really dizzy.

 

[dimwmuni]

I've had bad eyesight since I was born. I have nystagmus, which is where my eyes move uncontrollably, and astigmatism. In the past few years since I've been cubing my eyesight has not really changed, so in my experience it has no effect. I wear glasses/contacts most of the time.

 

[Sillas]

I started cubing 1 year ago, I not use glasses and this does not affect my vision at all.

 

[Yuxuibbs]

i couldn't even see anything more than 3 inches away from my eyes in third grade.... i wear overnight contacts now and it works pretty well... cubing actually helped my eyes focus more because before i started cubing the doctor kept going crazy because one eye was always worse than the other so they had to change the contacts then 3 months later the other eye was worse etc. and now the difference between my left and right eye is much better. at least we aren't spending 400 dollars every single time trying to make my vision as close to 20/20 as possible....

 

[Sa967St]

I've been near-sighted since I was 10 or 11, but that's because I used to play a lot of video games up close to the TV.
It's gotten a lot worse since then (am 19 now) but I don't think it has to do with cubing, that stuff just happens over time.
Wearing glasses while cubing makes no difference to me because I'm used to seeing only things close to me anyway, in fact I don't bother to wear them at all unless I need to read something more than a meter away from me.

 

[Clayy9]

I started cubing 1 year ago, I not use glasses and this does not affect my vision at all.

Same here.

 

[Pandadudex96]

I've been cubing for almost 2 years and my vision is the same since, considering I don't wear glasses. My vision could of went bad a little bit but not because of cubing but because of video games...

 

[uberCuber]

My vision now is exactly the same as it was three and a half years ago when I started wearing contacts instead of glasses. Cubing definitely has affected nothing.

 

[Incanumix]

I also was curious about one thing, but didn't know who to ask. I've got this thing (that I think) that is called Monopsia. Basically I have two "working' eyes, but except for very short distances, I can see only with one eye at a time. And I wonder, does this affect my times?

Depends what method you use, but if you use CFOP, then it would probably affect your look ahead, and maybe your LL Recognition( only a very little bit), it shouldn't be that noticable.

 

[RTh]

Had perfect sight 7 years ago when I started using computers, had perfect sight 9 months ago when I started cubing. I have perfect sight now =]