Frustrated while cubing?

Do you get frustrated when you get bad times consistently?

  • Yes

    Votes: 93 62.4%

  • No

    Votes: 16 10.7%

  • Sort of

    Votes: 40 26.8%
  • Total voters
    149
fatboyxpc said:
Oh wow Rowan, I think you need some Anger Management classes! Goosfraba is a phrase you might want to learn :P
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Apparently that's an Inuit word used while having sex.
I'll give it a go!



But seriously, I really chuck my cubes around, mostly when they pop in the middle of a good solve. Usually at my bed, but sometimes there are casualties :P I take the phrase 'broken in' literally...

I've actually strongly considered completely quitting cubing so many times because it gets me so annoyed. The feeling of having dedicated thousands of hours of practice and thought and effort to something and still not be consistently good or whatever is so crushing :P

It's why I refuse to practice anything above 3x3, because the time put in vs improvement ratio is so terrible for me.
 
At least you're sub15 Rowan (well technically sub10 but whatever). I'm nowhere close to that yet, I've had less than 20 sub15 solves, and I'm still not completely sub20 yet I've been on the verge of it for months (and have had quite a few sub20 avg5's but no avg12's).

Care to talk about who is more annoyed? :D:D I don't like big cubes either, but I just need a lot more practice with those (but I don't care to practice them if my 3x3 suffers lol).
 
fatboyxpc said:
At least you're sub15 Rowan (well technically sub10 but whatever). I'm nowhere close to that yet, I've had less than 20 sub15 solves, and I'm still not completely sub20 yet I've been on the verge of it for months (and have had quite a few sub20 avg5's but no avg12's).

Care to talk about who is more annoyed? :D:D I don't like big cubes either, but I just need a lot more practice with those (but I don't care to practice them if my 3x3 suffers lol).
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Well, to be fair, for about 8-12 months I was doing over 500 solves an evening, and that doesn't include solves in school with friends, and on top of that I still had time to find f2l algs, practice LL algs, think about technique and do plenty of reading and learning. And practice other puzzles.
This isn't showing off btw, it's actually quite depressing for me.

So like, whenever I fail I think about how much effort I've put into cubing and it makes me so angry. It's why competing always makes me want to quit :P

If you send me a PM (and give me some decent time to respond, I'm about to get very busy over the next few days) I'll be happy to give you a few tips, hopefully to get you over the sub 20 barrier :)
 
You sir, have yourself a deal! I'm doing nowhere near 500 solves a day but before I was house sitting this week I was doing 200+ solve a day, so I guess I'm kind of in the same boat. I know my F2L needs a lot of work (but so does my LL). I can 90% of the time LL in < 8 seconds, so I'm trying to get F2L consistently to 12s (which would put you pros at 16-17s LL). I guess I'm at the point to where I know what I need to improve, but I'm just not being patient enough to see results (such as if I have a good cross + first pair, I know I can usually sub12 cross/f2l).

I've got a goal for sub20 official average and sub18.02 (my current official single) for DeVry Open, if I don't make it...I'm gonna be REALLY frustrated lol
 
I get super mad when my average goes up a second and keep solving until I'm back at my normal times.
 
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fatboyxpc said:
You sir, have yourself a deal! I'm doing nowhere near 500 solves a day but before I was house sitting this week I was doing 200+ solve a day, so I guess I'm kind of in the same boat. I know my F2L needs a lot of work (but so does my LL). I can 90% of the time LL in < 8 seconds, so I'm trying to get F2L consistently to 12s (which would put you pros at 16-17s LL). I guess I'm at the point to where I know what I need to improve, but I'm just not being patient enough to see results (such as if I have a good cross + first pair, I know I can usually sub12 cross/f2l).

I've got a goal for sub20 official average and sub18.02 (my current official single) for DeVry Open, if I don't make it...I'm gonna be REALLY frustrated lol
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I'm also trying to get my cross+F2L to 12 seconds (well I was while I cubed)
Because my LL was usually ~5/6 seconds, so ~12+~5/6= 17/18, which was a good solve for me. (I was averaging 20-21ish, with a 14/15ish second cross+F2L)
 
Joker said:
I'm also trying to get my cross+F2L to 12 seconds (well I was while I cubed)
Because my LL was usually ~5/6 seconds, so ~12+~5/6= 17/18, which was a good solve for me. (I was averaging 20-21ish, with a 14/15ish second cross+F2L)
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There's no reason you're not sub20 :O With a 5-6s LL, 12/13s F2L is not hard by any means. Have you tried solving with a metronome?
 
The V-cubes are bothering me.....
I've stopped 3x3 as well...stupid sup 20 solves, haha.
(not a very compelling post, but oh well)
 
when i get frustrated i try cut corner 60 degrees to make a very big pop ahahah
 
I usually get a little huffed up when i get overe 19... But I know getting pissed is only going to screw my concentration up some more, so I chillax a bit, take a break and try again for another session, it usually works, i get decent times. And I tell myself this:

1- cross
2- f2l, lookahead, few cuberotations.
3- quick Oll recognition, slow down for pll
4- AUF, recognize pll.

it sounds stupid, but rembering myself of the steps usually makes me more alert... because at certain points when solving, i get so zoned out i usually lose concentration over it... so i kinda have to refresh myself and come back to reality... I have ADDs.... :(
 
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