How can i stay motivated to practice?

[Roux]

I often find myself completely forgetting or not being bothered to practice, sometimes for weeks on end and frequently feel very out of touch with cubing. Has anyone who’s experienced this before got any ideas on how I may be able to keep motivated?

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

Aa for forgetting to or not beng bothered to practice, force yourself to. I used to have the habit of not doing any solves during the alternate week I spend at my dad's, but when I decided to pick up a cube and mitigate distractions, I get the same hours long sessions that I have at my mum's.

 

[aintnoway]

Might help to make it part of your routine. I cube before bed, it's better than my phone. Practice is low quality, of course. But that's the idea... like how some people have game time or something like that.

If you don't have room for it, you might have to do some prioritization. Is cubing a higher priority than some other activity? Drop that other activity.

But also, what is your goal? And I don't mean just a goal time, but why do you want that time? Fun in chasing the target? Aspirations to be best in the world? The cube is a toy; you might not need to cube every day. I see you're a very fast solver already.

 

[Roux]

Aa for forgetting to or not beng bothered to practice, force yourself to. I used to have the habit of not doing any solves during the alternate week I spend at my dad's, but when I decided to pick up a cube and mitigate distractions, I get the same hours long sessions that I have at my mum's.

Thanks for the advice! I will certainly try to push through the boredom

 

[Adnylzz]

For practice or solving,dont practice or solve like 3 hrs a day ,try 30mins or 1hr a day,if you dont got anything to do just cube till you got something,try cube or practice consistently than cubing or practicing very long then burnout,unless if you want to then try to not get burned out

 

[Michael Wimberly]

For practice or solving,dont practice or solve like 3 hrs a day ,try 30mins or 1hr a day,if you dont got anything to do just cube till you got something,try cube or practice consistently than cubing or practicing very long then burnout,unless if you want to then try to not get burned out

To add on to that, something that I always do when practicing is to just go until I feel like stopping. Sometimes that's 10 minutes, sometimes that's an hour. But when you notice that you are getting tired of practicing, just stop.

 

[Jteddy]

Watching Jperm videos motivates me to practice more.

 

[Garf]

Honestly, you shouldn’t make practice a chore, but rather a habit you enjoy. If you aren’t enjoying it, then a break is okay.
During your sessions, you should prioritize making the session fun. But you should have the discipline to practice your bad habits of solves. For example, you can practice doing Cross+1 on 3x3 for 15 minutes, then do relays as a break (or moving around, whatever), then get back and practice it some more. By doing that, you aren’t focused entirely on one thing for a long time and break it up as needed.

 

[someone.]

That happened to me once, I stopped cubing and started doomscrolling more. Cubing just 'clicked' back into me and i just went back to cubing. I recomned you can break up temporarily at last resort, but first you can do things like having less but more time. For example try having a 10 min session or 20 min, then do what you want.

 

[cubemastery321]

One thing that worked for me when I kept drifting away for weeks at a time was lowering the bar for what counts as practice. Instead of aiming for a proper session, I set a minimum of just five solves a day. Five solves is so small it feels silly to skip, and most days I end up doing more once I've started. The point is keeping the streak alive, not the length of any single session.

The other thing is changing what I'm practicing when it starts feeling stale. If timed 3x3 starts to feel like a chore, I'll switch to a different event for a week, or pick one small thing to learn, like a single new algorithm. Having something fresh to work on makes me actually want to pick the cube up again.

And don't worry too much about feeling rusty after a break. It usually comes back within a few sessions, so it's better to ease back in with a few short days than to try to make up for lost time in one big session and burn out again.

 

[SpicyPotato3265]

I often find myself completely forgetting or not being bothered to practice, sometimes for weeks on end and frequently feel very out of touch with cubing. Has anyone who’s experienced this before got any ideas on how I may be able to keep motivated?

Maybe get a fast cube if your cube you use is slow also using CFOP would help

 

[blenser4]

Short, regular sessions work better for me than long ones. I try to set a small goal for each session, like one new drill, so it still feels like progress even on busy days.