Newbie Naivety.

[Muesli]

Don't you sometimes look back at when you started speedcubing and think how much you have come on? I sometimes wish I still had that old sense of "Wow" when someone did a 3x3x3.

I want to be confused by them again. I want to wonder how they did it, and then learn and be able to say "YES! I DID IT" instead of meh, sub 30's not bad.

I want to be astounded by someone's minute solve on youtube.

I want to think that nothing is more complicated than a 3x3x3, then stumbling over Tony Fisher's youtube channel and having my mind blown.

I want to be able to look at a 3x3x3 and not know what I'm looking at, instead of seeing that F2L pair or that X-cross.

I want to be able to sit there for hours on end, randomly turning and watching tentatively to see if I accidentaly solve it.

To put it simply, we took advantage of our ignorance when we were confused by Rubik's Cubes. Speedcubing is a curse, a curse that takes away one of modern life's great mysteries.

So here is my question for you Speedsolving.com. If you could, would you go back that 'x' amount of time and learn again? To experience that thrill and that confusion for a second time?

 

[guitardude7241]

Yes. Yes, I would.

 

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[AvGalen]

Nope, I wouldn't want to go back at all.

If you want to have a puzzle that will confuse you the rest of the life, find a girl (or two)

 

[hawkmp4]

Nope, I wouldn't want to go back at all.

If you want to have a puzzle that will confuse you the rest of the life, find a girl (or two)

Two would shorten that 'rest of your life' considerably

 

[amostay2004]

Hell NO! God knows how many thousands of hours I spend practising to reach my times..I'm never going back there EVER!

 

[AvGalen]

Nope, I wouldn't want to go back at all.

If you want to have a puzzle that will confuse you the rest of the life, find a girl (or two)

Two would shorten that 'rest of your life' considerably

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It might be worth it

 

[edd5190]

I miss the excitement I had when I had my first solve, emailing everyone in my contacts list in all caps...

I miss the excitement I had when I had my first sub-60 solve...

I miss the excitement I had after my first BLD-solve, shaking on the floor...

I miss the excitement I had at my first competition... 33.71 average, about 7 seconds under my regular average at the time, and getting the record for youngest BLD solver...

I miss the excitement I had after my first sub-20 average, screaming at my dad while he was asleep (I now realize he probably hated me for that )

I would definitely go back in time to when I started cubing. That 2.5 year journey was definitely an amazing one... and after thinking about it, being fast isn't 0.0000000000001% as fun as getting fast.

You were right. Speedcubing is a curse that takes away one of the greatest mysteries of life.

 

[fanwuq]

Musli4brekkies, great post!
That is why I love the puzzle theory section. That's one of the places left on here where I continue to discover new things and get that sense of "wow".

 

[Boz]

I remember being amazed by people solving the cube, and am still amazed by the fastest guys. I wouldn't take anything back though, I enjoy being the person that people are now amazed at

 

[AvGalen]

I guess one of the reasons I still enjoy cubing so much is because after all these years I am STILL not fast. I keep breaking my personal records without much training, especially when I go to several consecutive tournaments in a short period. I still get that feeling of excitement, for example when I did my first sub 6 solve ever on 7x7x7 (Polish) or when I got 2nd in the world for FMC (Brussels). And travelling and meeting people.....I don't think I will ever get tired of that.

I am not one of those people that sits down and does several hours of cubing a couple of times a week. All I do every week is my solves in the weekly competition. Maybe some of you are just overtrained and have reached the point where cubing becomes boring. In that case I would like to recommend stopping for a little while and/or learning a new method/event/puzzle.

 

[Kian]

Nope, I wouldn't want to go back at all.

If you want to have a puzzle that will confuse you the rest of the life, find a girl (or two)

Two would shorten that 'rest of your life' considerably

off-topic warning

Spoiler

It might be worth it

Two? God Bless you if you can put up with two.

 

[cookingfat]

I want to be able to look at a 3x3x3 and not know what I'm looking at, instead of seeing that F2L pair or that X-cross.

I want to be able to sit there for hours on end, randomly turning and watching tentatively to see if I accidentaly solve it.

To put it simply, we took advantage of our ignorance when we were confused by Rubik's Cubes. Speedcubing is a curse, a curse that takes away one of modern life's great mysteries.

So here is my question for you Speedsolving.com. If you could, would you go back that 'x' amount of time and learn again? To experience that thrill and that confusion for a second time?

I've had these same thoughts many times myself. I knew as soon as I first ever solved the cube that I would never look at a Rubik's cube in the same way ever again, and it would no longer be a mystery. It was a little deflating to be honest and I didn't get the magical feeling of the first solve as I was thinking this instead. Sometimes I take a scrambled cube and pretend I don't know how to solve it. It's really hard as you see things like cross edges and F2L pairs etc.

Would I go back? It would be nice for a day, but I've put too much into cubing to lose it all forever and start again.

great post btw.

 

[Forte]

I would like to go back in time and actually figure out the 3x3x3 by myself. I don't care too much about being amazed, because there are always other things in the world to be amazed about. This is why I like mathematics, because even if you master a certain topic, this opens up the doors to hundreds more which still amaze you.

 

[waffle=ijm]

nope. I may switch to fridrich in the process of learning everything again.

 

[Chuck]

So here is my question for you Speedsolving.com. If you could, would you go back that 'x' amount of time and learn again? To experience that thrill and that confusion for a second time?

Get some new puzzles

Or just start to learn BLD
It will give you the same thrill and confusion, if not greater

 

[Toad]

Nope, I wouldn't want to go back at all.

If you want to have a puzzle that will confuse you the rest of the life, find a girl (or two)

Boy are they confusing!! :confused::confused:

 

[Escher]

I would like to go back in time and actually figure out the 3x3x3 by myself. I don't care too much about being amazed, because there are always other things in the world to be amazed about.

Yeah, my feelings are the same. I wish I had put in the effort to figure it out in the first place...

This is why I like mathematics, because even if you master a certain topic, this opens up the doors to hundreds more which still amaze you.

+1
I'm permanently amazed every time I read about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel's_incompleteness_theorems

It's a shame I never actually liked or did any work in maths in school though...

 

[Muesli]

So here is my question for you Speedsolving.com. If you could, would you go back that 'x' amount of time and learn again? To experience that thrill and that confusion for a second time?

Get some new puzzles

Or just start to learn BLD
It will give you the same thrill and confusion, if not greater

I was considering starting BLD, but I seriously don't have the dedication. I just got a Square-1 aswell, so I'm kinda busy

@ AvGalen: Girls are the most time-consuming, irritating, expensive and draining puzzles around. Even when you think you've solved the problem, it can come back and kick you in the face.

Girls=Parity in that respect.

 

[MichaelErskine]

So here is my question for you Speedsolving.com. If you could, would you go back that 'x' amount of time and learn again? To experience that thrill and that confusion for a second time?

I'm happy where I am on my journey but if had the opportunity to go back and the ability to take a little advice back with me then I would insist that I learned to solve the 3x3x3 on my own with no help from books, YouTube, web pages, etc. I think I missed out on some fundamental foundations by skipping that step and I occasionally curse my impatience!