My relationship with cubing at the moment.

[TheSpeedSkewber]

I have been cubing for about a year at this point. I don't practice often but i am sub 20 on 3x3 and above average on nearly every event except for big cubes. I haven't been practicing much at all recently, and have been struggling with balancing school, cubing and other hobbies. All of my friends who once loved cubing and were eager to at least go to one comp have since quit and ghost me when i ask.

When i went to a comp about 2 months ago, i underperformed, and had nobody to talk to, because i was too shy. I still enjoyed it, but beat myself up (metaphorically) that i didnt have the courage to even talk to someone. I even saw my favourite cuber IN THE WORLD there, who judged me, and i got so nervous that i dnf'd on the clock wr scramble.

I don't think i will quit but i have stopped thinking about the dream i once had of being in the top % of cubers.


Please can someone offer motivation, or some sort of challenge to pull me back into the amazing community that is cubing.

 

[Arcanist]

I have been cubing for about a year at this point. I don't practice often but i am sub 20 on 3x3 and above average on nearly every event except for big cubes. I haven't been practicing much at all recently, and have been struggling with balancing school, cubing and other hobbies. All of my friends who once loved cubing and were eager to at least go to one comp have since quit and ghost me when i ask.

When i went to a comp about 2 months ago, i underperformed, and had nobody to talk to, because i was too shy. I still enjoyed it, but beat myself up (metaphorically) that i didnt have the courage to even talk to someone. I even saw my favourite cuber IN THE WORLD there, who judged me, and i got so nervous that i dnf'd on the clock wr scramble.

I don't think i will quit but i have stopped thinking about the dream i once had of being in the top % of cubers.


Please can someone offer motivation, or some sort of challenge to pull me back into the amazing community that is cubing.

Look at @Filipe Teixeira signature and the last hyper link.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I have been cubing for about a year at this point. I don't practice often but i am sub 20 on 3x3 and above average on nearly every event except for big cubes. I haven't been practicing much at all recently, and have been struggling with balancing school, cubing and other hobbies. All of my friends who once loved cubing and were eager to at least go to one comp have since quit and ghost me when i ask.

When i went to a comp about 2 months ago, i underperformed, and had nobody to talk to, because i was too shy. I still enjoyed it, but beat myself up (metaphorically) that i didnt have the courage to even talk to someone. I even saw my favourite cuber IN THE WORLD there, who judged me, and i got so nervous that i dnf'd on the clock wr scramble.

I don't think i will quit but i have stopped thinking about the dream i once had of being in the top % of cubers.


Please can someone offer motivation, or some sort of challenge to pull me back into the amazing community that is cubing.

I'm sorry that you got nervous at the comp and didn't enjoy it as much as you wanted

BUT

remember that you can have a better experience the next one

and if you are shy now, things change, I used to be very shy some years ago but now I am a little more extrovert (ofc not 100%)

about having motivation in cubing, what helped me was to get involved in other events and learn other algsets and methods.

I started cubing in 2010 and achieved my main goal that was to be sub20 in 1 year. I am very proud of that and I feel I succeeded at cubing by achieving that. But as I got a job in 2012 I didn't practice seriously until a few months ago.

But If you see my progression thread you will notice that since I started practicing again I broke a LOT of pbs and started learning new algsets and events, and that is so much fun.

there are tons of things to learn in speedsolving, you can always learn a new method or event and improve in so many ways.

right now I'm mostly practicing 4x4 and 3x3, but I want to practice megaminx, pyra and square1 soon when my cubes arrive.

and as @Arcanist mentioned, learn from the japanese guy that was harvesting clams at -1 °C, NEVA GIVUP!

 

[FenTheGoat]

Do 5x5. Doing 5x5 always makes me feel happy! (Insert 5x5 with an event that isn’t your main event but you like) trust me, it’ll get you out of your lack of motivation

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Do 5x5. Doing 5x5 always makes me feel happy! (Insert 5x5 with an event that isn’t your main event but you like) trust me, it’ll get you out of your lack of motivation

4x4 is cool tho

 

[Garf]

I have been cubing for about a year at this point. I don't practice often but i am sub 20 on 3x3 and above average on nearly every event except for big cubes. I haven't been practicing much at all recently, and have been struggling with balancing school, cubing and other hobbies. All of my friends who once loved cubing and were eager to at least go to one comp have since quit and ghost me when i ask.

When i went to a comp about 2 months ago, i underperformed, and had nobody to talk to, because i was too shy. I still enjoyed it, but beat myself up (metaphorically) that i didnt have the courage to even talk to someone. I even saw my favourite cuber IN THE WORLD there, who judged me, and i got so nervous that i dnf'd on the clock wr scramble.

I don't think i will quit but i have stopped thinking about the dream i once had of being in the top % of cubers.


Please can someone offer motivation, or some sort of challenge to pull me back into the amazing community that is cubing.

(Here we go)
I challenge you to solve a megaminx under 1 minute by the end of the year. I’ll guide you through it, along with any other events that make it a struggle for sub-1

 

[Anthonycube]

So, something about me is that I didn't really have the best experience at my first competition. I was too shy to talk to anyone apart from really only the people I judged and the people who judged me a little bit. But I didn't talk to anyone other than that. I was kind of disappointed because.... well, I'm sure we've all seen videos on YouTube of people having great fun at competitions and I didn't have that same experience. I of course also enjoyed it, but not as much as I could have. It really took until my 3rd or 4th competition to start talking to people and now I have so much fun at comps. Try to remember this and try to talk to people at your next comp. I'm writing this much because I really don't want you to quit and I want you to get back into this amazing community. My advice is not to stop solving! Keep going, don't be discouraged and remember the fun you used to have and remember why you started!!!!