Feeling slightly un-motivated.

[Sneakykicker]

So I've been cubing on and off for several years, I think I started in 3rd grade, and then got into it a little bit in 6th, but now I've been going for about 6 months, and have gotten pretty fast. I went from around 40s in September to around 18s now, but I'm having trouble improving recently, and it's making me a little bit frustrated. I have learned full OLL, PLL, and I have fairly efficient F2L according to discord, but I just feel like I want to get better, but don't know how, so I'm not very motivated. Blind solving has gotten me more into cubing again but then I can't get it out of my mind that I should get better at 3x3 before I start learning something new.

 

[AlphaCuber is awesome]

Do more events, I do all events and I find I don't get bored as there is always a new thing I can do. If your only interested in 3x3 maybe try switching to a new method or do OH seeing as it is very similar to 3x3 and there is a lot of depths to it.

 

[Deleted member 51471]

You can always try other methods like roux, ZZ or petrus, or something more obscure like SSC or Waterman. CFOP was really boring for me, and I find ZZ a whole lot funner.

 

[PetrusQuber]

40s to 18s in 6 months is pretty good improvement, took me around 9. Sometimes learning new things won’t help your times. Solid solving will do that. I did an ao100 in a few hours a few days back, just concentrating for that time, and it got my average down by a whole second, just through becoming more familiar with, say, blockbuilding cases, and COLL algs. PS don’t expect too much of yourself, you’re doing a great job, and most people will never pick up a cube in their life

 

[Owen Morrison]

Try learning Megaminx. X-Man Galaxy V2 is a great mega for like $20. It made my times drop about a second(sub 11s to sub 10s) from just practicing Mega for a couple weeks. You really need great lookahead to solve mega, and it translates over to 3x3.

 

[CrispyCubing]

Blind solving has gotten me more into cubing again but then I can't get it out of my mind that I should get better at 3x3 before I start learning something new.

How about taking a small break from 3x3? It might not be a bad idea to practice blind or other cubes for a week. Also you don't have to be good at 3x3 before you do blind, you can learn blind when you're a total beginner or when you're sub 10.

 

[mukerflap]

Change To Roux

 

[Deleted member 36445]

HOW TO BE MOTIVATED TUTORIAL

step 1:
define a goal... there are so many things you can do, just some examples:

- become sub15 on 3x3
- learn roux/zz and be decent with it
- become color neutral
- learn a new subset like zbll, ell, cll, ollcp or other
- subX with blind solving
- FMC
- learn to solve other puzzles and become decent with it

step 2:
create a quest thread where you document your progress and get feedback from fellow cubers

having a thread with people who are following your trajectory helps you to get motivated and be serious about your goals

Spoiler: The quest thread

The Quest thread

All right, let's begin. So we've all seen PetrusQuber's quest for sub-8 petrus, and I've wondered : Why can't people with other methods do that too ? Like why can't a CFOPer track their progress to sub-8 too ? So I've had this idea. This is a thread where everyone can track their progress, and...

www.speedsolving.com

I'd say that watching fast cubers youtube channels helps you get motivated too

good luck!

 

[efattah]

What you are facing is very common; in 3x3 you progress very fast until you hit around 17-18 seconds average. Then progress slows dramatically until you reach around 15 seconds average. At that point your progress pretty much stops, unless you start to take a more rigorous approach to cubing and start doing drills and really analyze your solves to see where you are losing time. Just daily fun random solves has a limit of how good you will get.