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Goals Thread

I've kinda stalled in practice and therefor improvement, so I'm going to make a goal in writing on here to get sub 15 by nats. I was hoping for sub 10 after a year of cubing but it's not going to happen. Sub 15 is easily doable though.

Besides 3x3, anything goes. I don't have any goals in specific in mind.
 
Fear said:
I've kinda stalled in practice and therefor improvement, so I'm going to make a goal in writing on here to get sub 15 by nats. I was hoping for sub 10 after a year of cubing but it's not going to happen. Sub 15 is easily doable though.

Besides 3x3, anything goes. I don't have any goals in specific in mind.
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I'm going to set the same goal for nats :)
Also for the Big Blue competition this saturday, I'd like to get a sub-15.5 ao5 on 3x3 and a sub-13.5 single
 
sqAree said:
Goals for Hamburg Open 2017:

2x2: sub5 average
3x3: sub15 average
4x4: pb average, pb single, second round
5x5: pb single, cutoff+average
OH: sub22 average, final
BLD: pb single, final
Feet: get a mean
Megaminx: sub2:00 average
FMC: pb mean
Clock: compete
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5x5 single and average are overall PB. Got two pops at Feet. Did my first clock solve ever and it was even sub time limit. Tons of PBs in general. Nice comp. :)
 
So I went to Atlantic Open 2017 today. Awesome comp, lots of good competition. Competed in every event held (10) for the first time. Lets see how all of my fairly unrealistic goals went:

2x2: Single: Sub-2 [1.47 0_o 7 moves (built layer)]
Average: Sub-3.5 [3.58 so no]
3x3: Single: Sub-10 [No I was too nervous]
Average: Sub-11 [11.65, too nervous]
3x3OH: Single: Sub-15 [15.3, not bad)
Average: Sub-18 [Sup-20! what was that lol]
4x4: Single: Sub-38 [Yes, 35]
Average: Sub-44 [No, but close, 44.41]
5x5: Single: Sub-1:20 [Yes, 1:17]
Average: Sub-1:25 [Yup, 1:23
6x6: Single: Sub-2:50 [Yes, like 2:40]
Average: Sub-3:00 [Yup, 2:50 something]
7x7: Single: Sub-3:55 [Yes, sub-3:45]
Average: Sub-4:05 [Yes, 4:03 I believe]
Pyraminx: Single: Sub-3.5 [No because I MESSED UP STOPPING THE TIMER this is the second time I failed at getting a sub-3 pyraminx single.
Average: Sub-4 [Not even close, 4.83, should of practiced more]
Skewb: Single: Sub-5 [Nopity Nope]
Average: Sub-7 [Nope Nope]
Mega: Single: Sub-1:30 [Sub-1:20...]
Average: Sub-1:40 [1:26. How even? My best average before this comp was like 1:40]

Place in at least 3 events [3, Megaminx 3rd, 2x2 second, Pyraminx 1st]
8th in Canada Sum of ranks [Pending... I don't think its going to happen but I think I'm back in the top 10]

So overall it went good and bad. pretty dissapointed in 3x3 and OH but I couldnt have hoped for much more in big cubes and megaminx.
 
dskids said:
ODU Big Blue Spring 2017 (March 3rd):
2x2: sub-6 single, sub-10 avg
3x3: sub-25 single, sub-30 avg
4x4: complete all solves before 2:00 hard cutoff
pyraminx: learn how to finish solving a pyraminx

Other general goals (1st quarter 2017):
2x2: become sub-8
3x3: 17.xx single, magnetize a Valk, learn 1-look OLL
4x4: become sub-1:45
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Competition results:
2x2: 9.xx single, 12.xx average. Did not meet goal, but did about as well as expected. Did not practice much so no complaints.
3x3: 19.xx single, 23.xx average. Did much better than I was expecting, pretty happy with this result for my first comp.
4x4: Did not compete
pyra: Never learned it so did not compete

Q1 2017 so far:
2x2: Not sub 8 yet, not really practicing 2x2 much, gonna focus on 3x3
3x3: Modded my Valk weeks ago, used it in competition, v nice. Prob won't have 1L-OLL done by the end of the quarter but I'm over halfway there. Gonna focus on getting sub-20 on 3x3 and finish learning OLL cases. Looking forward to next comp!
4x4: Focusing on 3x3
pyra: lol
 
For some dumb reason, around this time every year, I get inspired and I want to switch methods.
In 2015 was back to ZBLL, 2016 was ZZ-CT, and I think 2017 will be ZZ-C in combination with ZZ-CT.

When the two methods are combined, they complement eachother's weaknesses, and further amplify the benefits.
I'm gonna learn a bunch of ZZ-C algs to supplement ZZ-CT!
 
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4Chan said:
For some dumb reason, around this time every year, I get inspired and I want to switch methods.
In 2015 was back to ZBLL, 2016 was ZZ-CT, and I think 2017 will be ZZ-C in combination with ZZ-CT.

When the two methods are combined, they complement eachother's weaknesses, and further amplify the benefits.
I'm gonna learn a bunch of ZZ-C algs to supplement ZZ-CT!
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It is because you're too awesome.

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For Goals: I am going to finish ZBLL before my daughter is born is June and not quit for a 4th time because life and adulting gets in the way.

Also do an Ao100 once a week bare minimum till the end of the year.
 
sqAree said:
Goals for Schwandorf Open 2017:

3x3: sub15 avg (no, but very nice pb single 11.59)
4x4: pb avg and single (yes, WuQue is awesome)
OH: sub22 avg (yes, finally! also nice pb single 16.88)
BLD: pb single (no)
Skewb: get an average (yes, now second to last NR in single and average xD)
MBLD: 5 points (no)
4BLD and 5BLD: success (no)
FMC: pb mean (as always, DNF)
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Somehow I wasn't motivated at all for BLD events, happens.
 
Fmc sub-40 (learn not to suck at blockbuilding)

3bld sub-3 (and learn m2 algs so I could start practising with m2) maybe in 2 months

Square-1: I could learn 6 more ep algs and do sub-30 avg as soon as possible
 
I just have to make written goals for me

So, for Helsinki Open 2017:

2x2
At least sub-6 avg, sub-5.5 would be cool
Single doesn't matter much though, maybe sub-5

3x3
Really hoping for sub-20 avg, it requires plenty of warm-up and full concentration from me but definitely one of my main goals
Sub-18 single if I do well

4x4
I'm not happy with my 4x4 performance at the moment, I should practice more
Goals: sub-1:30 avg and maybe sub-1:20 single

OH
I'm not good at oh and it doesn't matter very much
Sub-45 average

Pyraminx
Sub-8 avg and reaching finals (main goal as well)
Sub-7 single

Skewb
Sub-9 single, sub-11 or even sub-10 avg

Square-1
I could try to learn few more EP algs before the comp
Sub-35 average and sub-30 single

3BLD
sub-3 single

FMC
45 mean of 3 (at least complete every solve!))
 
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Know Full U, T, L, and Pi (maybe H depending on how easy I find the recog) ZBLLs by Jan 1st 2018
All algs sub-4
Finish A and AS (and H if I didn't start it) by 4/1/2018 if I start them

Also if I can go
Cat and Mouse 2017 Goals
3x3
Sub-12 single
Sub-14 average
Finals
No sup-18
Use my ZBLLs

5x5
Sub-2 single
Sub-2:10 average

Mega
Sub-1:15 single
Sub-1:20 average
Podium? Idk whos going or how fast it will be
No sup-1:30

BLD
Sub-3 single
Sub-4 mean
Though I just really want a mean

MBLD
SR (6/7 54m), though success works too
I think 5/5 is possible, with lots of reviews and slow memo

Tentative (Cause I don't care)
2x2
sub-ray single
sub-5 i guess

4x4
sub-1:05 single
sub-1:10
 
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