I've stopped improving.

[dinki1968]

Waa, I feel that I'm having this kinda problem. I'm stuck at sub17 - sub18 average, think I just have to follow what you guys have said. Chill for awhile. weeee. ^_^

 

[Faz]

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

Got that right

No advice that i know can really help you............ except........... turn faster on F2L

 

[rachmaninovian]

no! naughty cyber! bad cyber!

dont bump old threads...

anyway i can't stop laughing at this XD

 

[blah]

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.

You're not alone dude. Especially when you've seen him cube in real life. I smell something yishy.

 

[fcwy1]

Actually, i'm also wondering why i can't get a stable average and need long warm up time whereas some people don't even need warm up.

Blah,
What is with my cubing in real life?

 

[Fusty]

Actually, i'm also wondering why i can't get a stable average and need long warm up time whereas some people don't even need warm up.

Consider yourself lucky. When i wake up I have 28 second averages, after warming up it drops all the way to... 27 seconds. At least you traverse 13 seconds over the course of warming up. What does it feel to warm up like that. Do you just watch the seconds fly off of your average. Thats like going from barely competitive to fairly darn competitive.
As far as stagnation goes in general... I've been stuck in the sub30 range since october of last year, ugh. Time to learn PLL and OLL I guess.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Actually, i'm also wondering why i can't get a stable average and need long warm up time whereas some people don't even need warm up.

Consider yourself lucky. When i wake up I have 28 second averages, after warming up it drops all the way to... 27 seconds. At least you traverse 13 seconds over the course of warming up. What does it feel to warm up like that. Do you just watch the seconds fly off of your average. Thats like going from barely competitive to fairly darn competitive.
As far as stagnation goes in general... I've been stuck in the sub30 range since october of last year, ugh. Time to learn PLL and OLL I guess.

sub-30 is quite a broad range.

 

[pjk]

Actually, i'm also wondering why i can't get a stable average and need long warm up time whereas some people don't even need warm up.

Consider yourself lucky. When i wake up I have 28 second averages, after warming up it drops all the way to... 27 seconds. At least you traverse 13 seconds over the course of warming up. What does it feel to warm up like that. Do you just watch the seconds fly off of your average. Thats like going from barely competitive to fairly darn competitive.
As far as stagnation goes in general... I've been stuck in the sub30 range since october of last year, ugh. Time to learn PLL and OLL I guess.

sub-30 is quite a broad range.

Indeed. Once you get down sub-15, warmup makes a good 1-3 second difference (at least for me), which doesn't sounds like much, but there is a huge difference between 17 and 14, or even 13 and 14.

 

[Lofty]

Yea.. I don't know how warm-up can have so much of an effect...
for me I might get 5 seconds better and most of the improvement of that 5 seconds is done in the first 5 solves. I might get a few 20-22 solves maybe 2 of them after that I'm at 17-18 and then after awhile I'll go down to 16 nothing like what you say happens to you at all. For OH its pretty much the same, only change the numbers up by 1 second.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Kenneth mentioned something about this once; maybe it's an effect that is generally more pronounced for older cubers? On some days, I'm fully up-to-speed with my first solve of the day. But on others, I'll start very badly, with times 10 to 15 seconds worse than my normal average. But as Kenneth mentioned, on a bad day, if I will just do a whole bunch of "warm-up" solves (sometimes it takes as many as 50), I will eventually get back to my normal average.

 

[brunson]

As far as stagnation goes in general... I've been stuck in the sub30 range since october of last year, ugh. Time to learn PLL and OLL I guess.

sub-30 is quite a broad range.

I think it's reasonably safe to assume that when someone says they're sub-40, they aren't sub-20 or sub-30. So, in this case I'd guess he's solving in the 25-30 second range, or else he probably would have said, sub-25.

 

[*LukeMayn*]

I got stuck at 22secs for about a month and a half. finally I'm getting sub 20 averages