I've stopped improving.

[Lotsofsloths]

Thing is my look ahead isn't that good
I guess I know what to practice, but what should I actually DO to practice look ahead, and I don't want that metronome crap, I solved metronome for like 30min each day for a week, and no improvement showed -.-"

 

[Speedy McFastfast]

Dan, here's what I recommend doing. Go find other hobbies, some that require some athletic skill. Get a girlfriend. Go to school, then come how and go right to work, then come home and go to bed. Then cube again. You'll then realized how fortunate you are to be getting 15 second times.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Dan, here's what I recommend doing. Go find other hobbies, some that require some athletic skill. Get a girlfriend. Go to school, then come how and go right to work, then come home and go to bed. Then cube again. You'll then realized how fortunate you are to be getting 15 second times.

I program in Flash MX, and I also am trying out for soccer this year and trying out for the Cross Country team next year. I do have a girlfriend, PM me and I'll send you a picture. I do go to school, and unfortunately I only have like 30min of homework each day. I do go to bed, about 9:45 each night. And I still cube. Yet I find that I am not improving. How's that?

 

[Vulosity]

When I stop improving, I re-read every alg I've ever learned, cube for a few minutes and I get 2-3 seconds faster. But it doesn't work anymore now that I am averaging 22 sec.

 

[waffle=ijm]

When my improvement just stalls like now (trying to break sub 16), I just cool down a bit, chill out. Usually my improvement standstills are just a result of tired hands and the mentality that you want to go faster. Don't overwork yourself or you'll die from the mentality that you can't go faster.

 

[HelloiamChow]

Take a break. I cube best when I care the least. When I'm doing basically a random average while watching How I Met Your Mother, I dip sub15 pretty often. But when I decide to sit down and take an average, things just don't go as smoothly. Don't forget to enjoy what you're doing. Try and not cube for like a week, and just fill your time up with random other stuff. It could work.

 

[McWizzle94]

Dan, here's what I recommend doing. Go find other hobbies, some that require some athletic skill. Get a girlfriend. Go to school, then come how and go right to work, then come home and go to bed. Then cube again. You'll then realized how fortunate you are to be getting 15 second times.

I program in Flash MX, and I also am trying out for soccer this year and trying out for the Cross Country team next year. I do have a girlfriend, PM me and I'll send you a picture. I do go to school, and unfortunately I only have like 30min of homework each day. I do go to bed, about 9:45 each night. And I still cube. Yet I find that I am not improving. How's that?

Cross Country is cool =] Whats your mile time? (and 2 mile if you know)?

btw Speedy McFastfast, people can have other things outside of cubing that you probably don't know about, so don't imply that he has no life.

 

[krnballerzzz]

Im backing up everyone when I say, go for another puzzle for a bit. When you go back to the 3x3 after a while, you'll most likely start improving your times again.

Your brain just needs a break from the same 3x3 cube every single day ;P.

 

[MistArts]

Try clock! Look-ahead is easy and you can try going extreme on look-ahead. It helped me go from 21 to 20.

 

[guitardude7241]

What I did is got a eastsheen 2x2, only cubed with it for 2 days straight, then I got 2 new PB's in the day after that. Just don't do the 3x3 at all for a while, bigger cubes usually help with look-ahead.

 

[ScottKidder]

Learn VB ZB, MGLS, Multi-Slotting, Petrus, Roux, Something new to give you an extra edge. Work on a few new special F2L cases. Just learning something new to get you really interested again would help you out I think.

 

[Cyber]

Still no improve? Or is this just an old thread?:confused:

 

[Escher]

no! naughty cyber! bad cyber!

dont bump old threads...

 

[ajmorgan25]

I've been having the same problem as well. I've been stuck at the 25ish sec average for awhile now. I mean, I didn't cube much during the summer because I held a job, but now I'm back into it.

Hopefully I get a break soon.

 

[fcwy1]

Everone will always get stuck at some point.
I'm stuck at 14-27average.
av.14 is after alot of warm up.
av.27 is when i just woke up or in a freezing place.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

... 14-27 is an unrealistic range.

 

[fcwy1]

it takes me super long to warm up.
In the morning i can't look ahead, slow finger tricks, hence getting a 27average.
As i warm up thriugh out the day, my look-ahead becomes better.
Finger tricks become fast after an hour of warm up.

 

[rachmaninovian]

i've always found you kind of mysterious...
everyone else here pretty much averages perhaps just a tinge slower in the morning. maybe at most 30 min of warm up we should be averaging consistently already.

 

[Escher]

lol it takes me a while to warm up too... but i only go from around 22, to 18, or ~17 on a good day.

 

[Me]

Yeah, I've basically stopped improving for the last year and a half or so, get used to it Daniel