How fast for competitions?

[byu]

Apparently, some people with times over 8:00 have gone, so...

My friend came to watch my first competition (San Francisco Open 2009), and his mother realized that she was able to solve it 12 years ago, and hadn't touched it for 12 years.

So, she signed up for the competition that same day, and she thought she would get time to practice before she got called up to compete. Turns out she was the first person to compete. After 10 minutes, of course, they disqualified her. I went and looked at how far she had gotten. She was a three-cycle off.

Not bad for not touching one for 12 years.

 

[cmhardw]

I would say as long as you can solve reliably in under 10 minutes (and thus the Stackmat won't shut off on you) then you will have an absolute blast at the competition. Even if you can't solve in under 10 minutes reliably, but enjoy puzzles, I think you would enjoy it. I mean the general you here, not necessarily just the OP.

Chris

 

[Kian]

ah ok, i can get like 30 seconds so i guess ill give it a try..seems like fun, and got to start some where

sweet, it will be like 2 hours for me haha! hope to see yea there

how exactly were people going to be 40 seconds faster than you?

 

[ThatGuy]

lol. nice finding, Kian.

 

[MichaelErskine]

"Turn up, tune out, join in"

I decided to put my pride on the back-burner and help pad out the lower ranks! I actually believe that my participation and poor performance helps some other cubers not come last

 

[andyt1992]

From what i've read in this thread. if you turn up expecting to come last with a smile you'll enjoy yourself and maybe be surprised when you dont come last.

 

[qqwref]

ah ok, i can get like 30 seconds so i guess ill give it a try..seems like fun, and got to start some where

sweet, it will be like 2 hours for me haha! hope to see yea there

how exactly were people going to be 40 seconds faster than you?

Two words:

Frank Morris.

 

[qazefth]

I got 44 sec solve on my solve in a competition which is few month ago..

 

[Kian]

ah ok, i can get like 30 seconds so i guess ill give it a try..seems like fun, and got to start some where

sweet, it will be like 2 hours for me haha! hope to see yea there

how exactly were people going to be 40 seconds faster than you?

Two words:

Frank Morris.

Touche.

 

[rahulkadukar]

Just go to the Competition but dont look at previous year times

 

[Logan]

I went to my first comp when I was at ~1:30. It doesn't matter how good you are, all that matters is that you have fun.

Go for SURE.