VIBE_ZT
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We all have that event that we cannot seem to get good at.
We all have that one puzzle that feels so foreign in our hands, no matter how many times we have turned it.
We all have one.
For me, that event is Pyraminx.
Now, I am not amazing at any event by any means. I'm not one of those people that expects success with minimal effort, believe me. However, I know what effort and hard/smart work does. I have watched myself get sub-5 on Skewb, sub-20 on 3x3, sub-20 on Square-1, and finally get a sub-3:00 mean on 3BLD. All these were very tough goals for me, and barriers I simply could not seem to break. But, I broke through them. And I consider my improvement to be adequate, considering the event! But....I broke through a lot of barriers in literally every other event.... besides Pyraminx.
I started Pyraminx right around when I started cubing seriously - around 2017. It was one of my favorite events, besides of course 3x3.
I got sub-15, then sub-10. And that's where the improvement stopped for a while.
After trying maybe 4 differents methods and combinations of them, I settled on 1-Flip. I quite enjoyed it for a few years. It got me down to about 6 seconds.
but..... that was it.
I watched Drew Brads solve, deconstructed everything from his algs to his fingertricks to his unique turning. I practiced it. And grinded solves. And sat there, meticulously experimenting with tops and centers and intuitive solving.
And no matter what I did, I stayed at 6 seconds.
So I switched to L4E. Because Drew Brads and his top-first methods were clearly not cutting it anymore, in a community where the world-class solvers mostly used V-first.
I gave myself time. I gave myself reassurance. I knew that I wouldn't get good with it for a while, since I had just switched to a completely different method. So I did the same thing I had done for 1-Flip. Analyzed Tymon, DG, and Dominik Gorny's solves, tried them myself, saw what I could do myself.
And still. Stuck.
6 seconds isn't bad. It's not bad by any means. I mean.... most people are at that point.
But I'm stubborn. I wanna be good at it lol.
So I'm honestly unsure where to go from here. All these years of doing it and it still doesn't work well when it's in my hands. All these years, and I still cannot really figure out how a Pyraminx moves. All these years, and I'm still stuck at the biggest cubing plateau I've ever experienced. I honestly just think that I should leave it as "that's just the way it is, you'll never get better at Pyraminx." But god, I can't bring myself to accept that lol.
Do you have an event in which greatness evades you to this day? Tell the forum about it!
We all have that one puzzle that feels so foreign in our hands, no matter how many times we have turned it.
We all have one.
For me, that event is Pyraminx.
Now, I am not amazing at any event by any means. I'm not one of those people that expects success with minimal effort, believe me. However, I know what effort and hard/smart work does. I have watched myself get sub-5 on Skewb, sub-20 on 3x3, sub-20 on Square-1, and finally get a sub-3:00 mean on 3BLD. All these were very tough goals for me, and barriers I simply could not seem to break. But, I broke through them. And I consider my improvement to be adequate, considering the event! But....I broke through a lot of barriers in literally every other event.... besides Pyraminx.
I started Pyraminx right around when I started cubing seriously - around 2017. It was one of my favorite events, besides of course 3x3.
I got sub-15, then sub-10. And that's where the improvement stopped for a while.
After trying maybe 4 differents methods and combinations of them, I settled on 1-Flip. I quite enjoyed it for a few years. It got me down to about 6 seconds.
but..... that was it.
I watched Drew Brads solve, deconstructed everything from his algs to his fingertricks to his unique turning. I practiced it. And grinded solves. And sat there, meticulously experimenting with tops and centers and intuitive solving.
And no matter what I did, I stayed at 6 seconds.
So I switched to L4E. Because Drew Brads and his top-first methods were clearly not cutting it anymore, in a community where the world-class solvers mostly used V-first.
I gave myself time. I gave myself reassurance. I knew that I wouldn't get good with it for a while, since I had just switched to a completely different method. So I did the same thing I had done for 1-Flip. Analyzed Tymon, DG, and Dominik Gorny's solves, tried them myself, saw what I could do myself.
And still. Stuck.
6 seconds isn't bad. It's not bad by any means. I mean.... most people are at that point.
But I'm stubborn. I wanna be good at it lol.
So I'm honestly unsure where to go from here. All these years of doing it and it still doesn't work well when it's in my hands. All these years, and I still cannot really figure out how a Pyraminx moves. All these years, and I'm still stuck at the biggest cubing plateau I've ever experienced. I honestly just think that I should leave it as "that's just the way it is, you'll never get better at Pyraminx." But god, I can't bring myself to accept that lol.
Do you have an event in which greatness evades you to this day? Tell the forum about it!