Cubing schedule

Do you have a cubing schedule


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I think I'll pull a Stefan Huber.

Cubing is not something you should put on a schedule. You should cube when you want to cube and only when you want to cube. If it becomes a chore in which you have to say, "Oh, I'm going to do 100 solves today" then you really shouldn't be cubing. Cube for the love of the puzzle.

Of course, it's alright to balance cubing with other hobbies and activities such as school and sports, if that's what you mean.
 
I cube when I want to. With school and work(looking for some), I have my important things to think about.
There really isn't any need to make a cubing schedule, it's just something we do when we want too.
 
10:00am - Wake up, brush teeth etc
10:30am - 50 3x3 solves to start the day, then do an avg100
11:45am - Toilet Break
12:00pm - Lunch break
1:00pm - 4x4 avg100
3:00pm - Meditate for 1 hour to prepare brain for BLD
4:00pm - BLD avg100
6:30pm - Dinner
7:30pm - Daily 2.5 hours prayer to cubing Gods
10:00pm - Daily maintenance of cube (wash, lube, etc)
11:00pm - Sleep time
 
I've wondered the same thing. Do cubers like faz who can set multiple WRs how practice all their puzzles? Do you practice certain ones for a given comp? Like if Rowe wanted to get his 2x2 record back would he practice mostly 2x2 and then a little of everything else or keep it all even? Now that I have more than three puzzles I find the balancing act a bit rough since I'm also learning new methods for those puzzles. This makes me put things like OH, BLD, and OLL to the side since they're not particularly new and will take a lot of work.
 
I have a schedule, but it is not broken down specific enough that I know what I will be doing on each day of the week. I have a schedule of how many big cube BLD solves I like to do in 1 week, and I try to to always meet or exceed that number each week. I also plan time on a fairly regular basis to practice my memorization methods. This could be creating new journeys, maintaining old ones, or reviewing/changing my images with my flash cards or with my master list.

I don't agree with those who think that scheduling your practice means that you should tone it down, or quit cubing. I still cube "for the love of it," but I also keep a schedule so that I can improve. To be fair I did used to be unhealthy about my scheduled practice time back in 2005. Back then I held it as a requirement that I would practice for 4 hours every day to prepare for the World Championships, and that only after meeting that requirement could I start my homework. I still did well in my classes, but probably not as well as I could have and I definitely lost sleep because of it.

I have over time learned how to keep a healthy balance of life and other things as well as my cubing practice. Now, because my schedule is weekly and not daily, I sometimes go for a couple days at a time without cubing at all, then pick it up at the end of the week to make sure I meet my goal for that week. To each his or her own I guess.
 
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I'm in a puzzle store 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. Out of those 7 days I practice for maybe 1 hour total... I actually practice more frequently later at night.

I probably go on YT and Speedsolving more than I practice... so here I am, typing a post when I could be cubing instead.
 
I cube to get away from work and structure. As such, I don't plan anything around cubing but do make sure that I get my time in every week. My time will vary from week to week but, I always enjoy the time that I do cube.

Every part of my job is critical and it is nice to get a break from the grind.
 
When I failed at DeVry Open at getting a sub20 average, I was a bit peeved. I started doing a minimum of 1 hour of PLL practice a day. I would do each PLL that I couldn't sub2 until I could sub2 it "consistent enough." Consistent enough was basically when I felt like I was able to sub2 that particular PLL. I decided to a minimum of 100 solves a day. Often I ended up doing 150-200 solves a day because of this. In the end, I'd say it paid off: I got a 16.75 average the first round at Dayton. That made my day, I didn't care for the rest of the day how well I did. I'll admit, it somewhat felt like luck, because it felt like on that Thursday and Friday that I wasn't even going to sub19, much less meet my goal of sub18. I got sub17 though and was quite happy with my results.

After that I did less than 20 solves a day until this past week or so. I can't seem to put it down. I'm not doing extended lengths, but I'm doing a lot of random averages of 5 and 12. I seem to be getting a lot more 16's and 17's than I usually got before Dayton. I think Dayton was a good "breakthrough" for me. Maybe it's the excitement of another competition coming up this weekend that I can't put the cube down, I'm not sure, but all I know is it's an addiction again :P

I really should practice 2x2, as I really would like a sub6 average (it's not that with ortega, I just need more practice!).
 
I don't have a schedule, but I do systematically balance practice times per activity. For example, here is how I practice individual OLL/PLL algorithms:

* I use a very crude script for bookkeeping.

* For each algorithm I practice, I record the time for that session. E.g.: Bowtie, left hand, 15 minutes (900 seconds).

* For each algorithm, I use a concept of the number of "moves". This is not exactly HTM, but an action that can be done in one go. For example, (R' U2) is a single move. An algorithm with more moves needs more practice, so I normalize my time by the number of moves.

* I practice left hand 150% more than the right hand (well, I know assuming left hand and right hand can perform equally is arguable, and this way right hand gets only 40% of practice, but that's how I do it for now). To give left hand this advantage, I divide left hand practice times by 1.5.

* The program records the "pseudo time". For the Bowtie left hand example above, we have 900 seconds / 5 moves / 1.5 for left hand = 120 seconds.

* My script can run in one of three modes. The list mode (it just lists some algorithms for me to practice later), practice mode (it tells me what to practice and records time), and entry mode (for me to enter time for algorithms I practiced without using the practice mode).

* The script always selects the algorithm with the least pseudo time, and then prints more algorithms randomly if I ask for. The likehood of an algorithm being selected is inversely proportional to its total pseudo time so far.

Although this sounds complicated at first, this system is quite simple to use. I just ask the script to tell me what to practice, and I tell the script what I practiced.

If I am going out where I may get free time to practice, I run the algorithm in list mode and jot down a dozen algorithms it lists. Then I practice them as time permits, and later enter them using the enter mode.

I also sometimes practice algorithms that I feel like, but make sure to record and enter those times to make sure they go down the queue.

There are other things I do (like blindfold cross solving) than just practicing algorithms. I only used OLL/PLL algorithm example to show my balancing approach.

I am beginning to notice that I am gradually liking all algorithms I use (no more favorites like I earlier had), and my reluctance to use the left hand is also fading away. But I am not an expect to say anything more authoritatively.

To answer the original question, I don't have a schedule, but I have a properly managed "practice queue" which is attended as I feel like doing so.
 
I shouldn't make a schedule if I were you. I think you won't have a lot of fun when you HAVE TO cube. I don't have any either, but I do cube at the same time every day (after homework and dinner, like one hour a day). But, a SCHEDULE, no way, never!!!!!!!!!
 
Agree with the other poster, the day I start making schedules for this, I quit cubing.

I usually do one solve right after waking up in the morning though, lol. Other than that, I pretty much always do fingertricks when I have a cube around me and I have my hands free. When I can occasionally also look at the cube, then I'll do solves.
 
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