In your opinion, what is the most negative thing that cubing has affected you?

[GAN Lover]

In your opinion, what is the most negative thing that cubing has affected you?
For example: I can’t just stop it.

 

[Caden Fisher]

In your opinion, what is the most negative thing that cubing has affected you?
For example: I can’t just stop it.

The hundreds of dollars that I’ve spent buying puzzles. I’m 15 and don’t have a job so I’ve spent at least half of my life savings on cubes. I wouldn’t do it differently though

 

[Lio2010]

The about 400$ i used for buying cubes (i am 12)

 

[GAN Lover]

I agree. At first, I was a big fan of collecting, so most of my cubes are budget non-wca puzzles. But soon, I started to do more speedcubing, which made me abandon most of my puzzles except 3*3. Just think about how much I have spent on puzzles that I don't play.

 

[OldSwiss]

I can't stop. I cube all the time.
When I watch a movie, I dont cube during the whole movie but when I think I don't need to see the screen and sometimes miss something important because i'm still cubing.

The costs are not a problem for me because I am a little older and have a good job, Cubing is one of my cheapest hobbys I had so far.

 

[lucazdoescubingstuff]

In your opinion, what is the most negative thing that cubing has affected you?
For example: I can’t just stop it.

too much cubing, too much cubes, but ill admit, it is fun, i just have to make studies first, that's all (its hard xd)

 

[d---]

The trouble I get in at school for doing 5x5 when I'm bored


Which is most English lessons

 

[imapickle07]

The trouble I get in at school for doing 5x5 when I'm bored


Which is most English lessons

bro i swear its always the english teachers sometimes the math ones which don't make sense but yk

 

[Arcanist]

Definitely the cost for people who aren't adults

 

[Cuber.Hello.com(:]

For me, cubing is like an escape from social interactions. I'm not proud of it, and I definitely am super bad at making real friends because of it. There was this one kid that was my friend, but after a while I realized that he just wanted to hang out with me to use my Rubik's cube. I stopped hanging out with him.

 

[LBr]

The need to feel competitive even though it’s good like making friends I can’t stop comparing myself to everyone around me and sometimes it can get unhealthy

 

[vodam]

I'd say mostly the pain in my hands that it causes
I use my computer a lot too, so that isnt helping a lot

 

[ruffleduck]

I still lament the 3 years' loss of focus on a silly rainbow spinny toy as a hobby. Chess is clearly superior; it's a shame I didn't get to have those 3 years for it instead. Well, having quit cubing for good and switching back to chess, I can proclaim "Good riddance" to cubing with glee.

 

[Cubinginatree]

Doing cubing not homework

 

[Ayce]

Doing cubing not homework

In my case, currently reading the cubing forum not homework!

 

[d---]

Also cubing my holidays away

 

[Caden Fisher]

In my case, currently reading the cubing forum not homework!

Same. doing it right now

 

[hyn]

I still lament the 3 years' loss of focus on a silly rainbow spinny toy as a hobby. Chess is clearly superior; it's a shame I didn't get to have those 3 years for it instead. Well, having quit cubing for good and switching back to chess, I can proclaim "Good riddance" to cubing with glee.

I quit chess because my rating was going down
Probably should've played less bullet

 

[unirox13]

I still lament the 3 years' loss of focus on a silly rainbow spinny toy as a hobby. Chess is clearly superior; it's a shame I didn't get to have those 3 years for it instead. Well, having quit cubing for good and switching back to chess, I can proclaim "Good riddance" to cubing with glee.

While this state of mind may fit for being solely focused on speedsolving, there's far more to the twisty puzzle world than just going fast on the WCA basics. Perhaps, were you to look into more complicated twisty puzzles, you may actually be able to find a companionship between the more complicated puzzles and the chessboard. If she moves, he can't, unless I move that first, which might block that.

Don't shame twisty puzzles to just the basics.

 

[cuberswoop]

I've "wasted" a lot of time cubing. But let's look at the bright side. Cubing helped me find friends and (one could argue) that it helped me through some depression a couple years back.