Puzzle calling

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kahman10

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Although i am fairly new to cuing, i had this theory one time. it was that every speedcuber has an assortment of puzzles and can solve all. but the seem to have one that they can solve much better than the others. has anybody felt the same? and if so, what is your puzzle calling?
 
OH BLD Magic ItA.

I suck at bigcubes, so def. not one of them.
I'm 'alright' at 2x2 and 3OH.
I suck at FMC.
I suck at BLD.

I'm decent at regular magic (I was top 100 at one point, but that's really easy with magics).

But OH BLD ItA Magic seems to be my calling.

Either that, or being able to use a large number of methods during the same comp, and get a fairly decent average.
For example:

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2008KORI02

Look at my times at UPenn, before I somehow got worse at 3x3
Times:
22.03 27.46 26.18 22.78 22.94
Salvia, Petrus, CFOP, Petrus, ZZ

That's right. My PB official time is with Salvia.

And during OH, I switched between ZZ, Petrus, and CFOP.
 
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For me it is not the 3x3 cube. In the 1980's and early 1990's, I got very good at solving a Missing Link and a 3x6 Whip it puzzle. I brought these puzzles again from Ebay between March and May 2009 and so by that definition, these are my calling puzzles.

And in the early 1990's I could get right up to the last layer of a Megaminx by using only ititutive methods (ie no algorithms) very well. But in all that time, I could not solve the very last layer of that puzzle.
 
according to my NRs past and present it's magic/pyraminx/feet solve

in reality i suck at feet solving, just nobody else had done it. terrible time anyway, i ruined the pll and it was on the stage at EC with a lot of hot lights and a lot of people watching. horrible experience.

magic i just went a bit crazy with in my first year of cubing because it's easy to get quick at and i just wanted an NR. it seems a lot of people do that in their first year :P there appears to have been a lot of magic solving since the uk masters! i also got 1.50 three times, which was the NR single at one point, about four times in competition.

pyraminx i love and is definitely my best event. top achievements were coming third at the EC '08 and being 7th in the world for average at one point. i haven't got a good single in competition yet, which is very annoying.

i'm "okay" at most things i suppose, though the slower end of "okay". i just like doing all events at competitions. i suppose i'm quite good at BLD by national standards for example.

i am TERRIBLE at OH.
 
4x4x4 Fewest moves.
I'm OK at OH and pyraminx too.
I fail at square-1, megaminx, and 2x2x2. Magic isn't a puzzle, so that doesn't count.
 
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I enjoy 4x4x4 BLD the most, and I guess you could argue that it is the event I am "best" at out of all the events I do.

I don't think it's necessarily my "calling" though. I think I am better at 4x4x4 BLD than all the other events I practice because I practice 4x4x4 BLD more than any other event.

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Actually, now that I think about it, what I said above is not true. I practice 3x3x3 speedsolving the most, but I practice 4x4x4 BLD solving the most actively. By actively I mean, trying new things, improving my method, doing drills, etc.

I practice 3x3x3 speedsolving pretty passively, I mostly just do solves without learning new things. That kinda sucks, I need to stop being so lazy with my 3x3x3 and start learning new things! :-)
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Chris
 
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