Mistakes Made as a Noob

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Well, kinda weird post. Post your mistakes u made as a noob in cubing here xD
My mistakes-
Thought L was L'
Thought M' was M in Z perm
Used middle finger for U (not rly mistake but meh,still use this)
Focused on LBL too much. ( went all the way to a 22.05 single...)
 
I thought that because my first cube (a modded Rubik's brand) was slow... my solve were slow, which they were. So I went and bought a Zhanchi, only to find my solves were still averaging 45s :D
 
As a beginner, I thought it would be useful to learn lefty mirror of some OLL and PLL, instead of a right handed alg. It meant I finished learning sooner, but the constant regrips probably delayed progress for a long time. Learning right handed algs for all cases was probably the best thing.

When I was judging at a comp last week, there were so many times I wanted to tell some of the brand-newbies to "you really don't have to turn that fast" after their ~1min solves.
 
I turnt at sonic speeds and got 45 avg and and started turning with control and sorta fast and now i avg 30.
 
Eh I average ~17 and I still turn super fast.
Some fast cubers said they never tried to go slow and look-ahead particularly and it still worked out for them as look-ahead came naturally.

As for my noobish mistakes, I didn't want to order a real speedcube because I thought I'm not able to lube it.
 
At first, I thought M and M' were the opposite direction that they actually are. As a result, when I was learning the Z perm, when the alg has M' I did an M instead (which still works actually). Only problem is that Ms are a lot more akward than M's. So I decided that instead of doing the akward M move, I would do M'3 in the other direction. It took me a solid month before I had a eureka moment and realized that all my M'3s were for naught.
 
BenBergen said:
At first, I thought M and M' were the opposite direction that they actually are. As a result, when I was learning the Z perm, when the alg has M' I did an M instead (which still works actually). Only problem is that Ms are a lot more akward than M's. So I decided that instead of doing the akward M move, I would do M'3 in the other direction. It took me a solid month before I had a eureka moment and realized that all my M'3s were for naught.
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I also have trouble identifying ho to do Primes and regular turns
 
I still haven't learnt to turn fast...
I average like 12 with about 4 tps and find it really hard to go over that even though i can think faster... I'm pretty sire i could always turn at like 3 tps at least (at least i can see quite a few skips and cancellations coming).
 
I also had a Rubik's brand cube, but my problem was, I THOUGHT IT WAS AWESOME. I broke it in so much, got 30 second averages, until a friend of mine showed me a zhanchi, so I got a real speed cube, an Aolong.
 
TheFearlessPro said:
Well, kinda weird post. Post your mistakes u made as a noob in cubing here xD
My mistakes-
Thought L was L'
Thought M' was M in Z perm
Used middle finger for U (not rly mistake but meh,still use this)
Focused on LBL too much. ( went all the way to a 22.05 single...)
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Don't worry about that last mistake too much, I'm almost averaging sub-20 and still don't know but 2-3 f2l algs.......
 
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