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@mafergut just take a break and after that you'll see if you can keep cubing with less implication, probably you'll even have more fun that way.

I myself almost never cube at home girlfriend is at home, sometimes I cube a bit while watching TV but not much. My practice time comes when she's not at home or she's still asleep or while I'm traveling. I'm just trying to avoid her hating the hobby. It works and I still improve a little.

@Lid you're just in another league, wow
 
mafergut said:
Hi guys! All of a sudden I realized (to be more precise somebody has made me realize) I'm spending way too much time cubing, basically ALL my spare time. And that's not a good sign. I have been obsessed with getting faster at this or that event, to the point that if I'm in the middle of a timed solve, my wife and son have developed the habit of avoiding any disturbance, which is frustrating for them. That's not good either.

I think it's time for me to take this hobby much less seriously. I don't want to forget how to solve but I don't want to be upset if I do not improve or if I can't find time to practice or whatever...

So if you start to see me around here much less frequently, if at all, now you know why. And if anybody has the time to take over the Race to sub-15 thread they will be welcome as I don't think I can keep running that either.

Happy cubing and I'lll see you around... from time to time.
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That is just the life of us older cubers.
I have been cubing for three years now.
I was in College. I quit during year 1 and 2 exam periods for roughly 2 months-ish each time with Zero solving.
Then July to December 2016, I didn't touch any big cubes or side event,just played around with 3x3x3, and I didn't have more than 500 solves for that half a year.

Every time I came back I had a renewed passion for it personally.
The 6 month of casual to no solving sucked the most.
I forgot so much. I had to relearn sq-1 and Mega LL algs. The worst was I knew 2GLL,H, Pi and was into AS when I stopped hardcore solving. I forgot most of it except H and most 2GLL.

Try doing an Ao-50 once every other day max or something when family is asleep and whatnot.
What really helped me focus on my wife and kids was not bringing a cube with me when we went out.

Now I mostly solve on lunch break at work and after 8pm on weekdays. I barely cube on weekends now.
I have missed a ton of comps and am not going to NATs anymore but I feel less stressed about trying to improve

I have still been improving(Although, I only solve 333, OH, 3BLD, FMC now), I don't think about cubing 24/7 any more but I still look forward to sitting down and solving, and I have relearned most of ZBLL again.
I am basically done, I just have to practice/drill algs, do some Ao100s for algs, and I am done.

I was able to find a happy balance and still go places with cubing.

I hope you figure out what you need.
Enjoy your time with your family and cube when you can. Good luck and hope to see you posting often still.
 
mafergut said:
Hi guys! All of a sudden I realized (to be more precise somebody has made me realize) I'm spending way too much time cubing, basically ALL my spare time. And that's not a good sign. I have been obsessed with getting faster at this or that event, to the point that if I'm in the middle of a timed solve, my wife and son have developed the habit of avoiding any disturbance, which is frustrating for them. That's not good either.

I think it's time for me to take this hobby much less seriously. I don't want to forget how to solve but I don't want to be upset if I do not improve or if I can't find time to practice or whatever...

So if you start to see me around here much less frequently, if at all, now you know why. And if anybody has the time to take over the Race to sub-15 thread they will be welcome as I don't think I can keep running that either.

Happy cubing and I'lll see you around... from time to time.
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I have similar feelings at times, but sounds like you're a more balanced person at me at being able to set aside an obsession (good for you). :) For me it's basically come down to I can't keep up with my wife of Netflix shows anymore!

I also have cut back on being obsessed with this thread which has saved me some time. Now I just read through to catch up every two or three days and don't feel too bad about not posting as often. ;)
 
@mafergut

Good luck, and may you find the balance in your life, that you want. With or without cubing. The cubes are only pieces of plastic with some metal... Humans, family, co-workers, friends are what matters :). I think you've got plenty of the latter in this thread.
 
smashed 3 PB's today in the 3 events I was practicing for comp this weekend.

3BLD -- 1:32.69, previous was 1:44.18. Really easy scramble, 9 edges, 5 corners. I did have a 1:36 DNF 2 days ago on a non-easy scramble.

4BLD -- 7:41.45, previous was 8:24.66. Average scramble, 16/23/8.

clock ao5 -- 8.06, previous was 8.24. Also ao12 8.64, down from 8.69.

Also doing 5BLD and MBLD at the comp but don't feel like practicing those, maybe I should while I'm having a good day.
 
chtiger said:
smashed 3 PB's today in the 3 events I was practicing for comp this weekend.

3BLD -- 1:32.69, previous was 1:44.18. Really easy scramble, 9 edges, 5 corners. I did have a 1:36 DNF 2 days ago on a non-easy scramble.

4BLD -- 7:41.45, previous was 8:24.66. Average scramble, 16/23/8.

clock ao5 -- 8.06, previous was 8.24. Also ao12 8.64, down from 8.69.

Also doing 5BLD and MBLD at the comp but don't feel like practicing those, maybe I should while I'm having a good day.
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Really nice results. Good luck at competition.

I'm practicing mbld very hard. I do 1 hour attempt with 9 cubes everyday. I never liked mbld but now I'm addicted. I test my rooms, images and order of memorization. I hope it will pay off soon.
 
@h2f, good to hear you're also into MBLD. I enjoy it but it's time consuming to practise large attempts and my memory would get exhausted if I did one every day!

This week I did one full attempt, 15/16 in 71 mins. It was DNF (7/16) at 1 hour. It was a mess because I had to redo memo on two cubes then had long pauses in execution. I also did some 4-cube attempts to work on memo speed.

MBLD at comp this weekend.
 
mark49152 said:
Go for it! :) My target is 20 by end of 2017. I have enough locations for 20, but need more because I also use them for other BLD events and like to rotate them.
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It's too early to try. I was only told to have places for 60 cubes. During my tests this week I tried to make 6 specific locations for 4 cubes every. I can connect them. Plus I have 12 other rooms for 6 cubes - not used so far or used very seldom. I use 2 rooms for 1 cube - one for edges one for corners. I was told if I make attempts every day it's neceserry to not use same location every day. So I switch between 3 of them and now I'm figuring out 4th. This leads to using every location once per 4 attempts. It's enough time to feel comfortable with it.
 
Enjoying all the blind on here. Well done on the PBs @chtiger. I have only one 3BLD solve quicker than that (EDIT: make that 2, just got my 2nd sub 1:30s). I'm spending too much time on comms when I should be working on memo for WCs. 4BLD is my target after that.
MBLD is very enjoyable and rewarding but it's exhausting and I can't find time to do it but I've beaten my 2017 target of 4/4 which I'll attempt in comp when I get a chance. Very impressed with your improvement @mark49152.
 
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Thanks @newtonbase.

@h2f, that's what I mean by rotation. I have 20 rooms. 12 of those have 3 locations each, enough for 1 cube. The other 8 have 4 locations, enough for a 4BLD, or an MBLD cube with some inefficiency.

If I do a large MBLD attempt, I only have enough locations to do a handful of 4BLD or 5BLD the next day before I have to start reusing locations, and I do find old memo lingers sometimes.

My plan after Crawley is to split those 8 rooms and add 2 locations each, to double the number of MBLD cubes I can fit in to them. After that I will have to find some new buildings :)
 
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mark49152 said:
Thanks @newtonbase.

@h2f, that's what I mean by rotation. I have 20 rooms. 12 of those have 3 locations each, enough for 1 cube. The other 8 have 4 locations, enough for a 4BLD, or an MBLD cube with some inefficiency.

If I do a large MBLD attempt, I only have enough locations to do a handful of 4BLD or 5BLD the next day before I have to start reusing locations, and I do find old memo lingers sometimes.

My plan after Crawley is to split those 8 rooms and add 2 locations each, to double the number of MBLD cubes I can fit in to them. After that I will have to find some new buildings :)
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How do you use your locations? I only ever have 2 per cube.
My last 5 solves of my lunchtime 3BLD session were all sub 2 including 2 consecutive sub 1:30s. Unfortunately I had a couple of close DNFs so no mean or Ao5 but I was not happy about my lunchbreak ending.
 
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