"sub30 is easy"

[MarcelP]

.. I can do about 100 solves in an hour..

Michael, Out of curiosoty, what do you average in an A0100? You have better times than me in WCA. At home I can get an sub 29 Ao100 with no problems.. I just can't get that fast in competition.

I don't know how long my family will put up with it but we'll see!

Be carefull with that, cubing is not that important I have the same problem. I think I spend too much time out side my family every now and then because of cubing.

 

[MichaelErskine]

Michael, Out of curiosoty, what do you average in an A0100? You have better times than me in WCA. At home I can get an sub 29 Ao100 with no problems.. I just can't get that fast in competition.

I do fine in competition on an average of 5 unless I make more than one bad mistake - also I get to go to quite a few competitions and I'm often in a good mood! At home my AO100 is always 31-32 and I'll have streaks of bad solves in the sup-40. I very rarely record a sequence of 12 solves that are all sub-30 (EDITED: I'm usually sub-30 A012 but usually make mistakes (or stupid big pauses) within that group).

 

[mark49152]

Be carefull with that, cubing is not that important I have the same problem. I think I spend too much time out side my family every now and then because of cubing.

Good advice, I have the same problem. It's just not worth it!

 

[DaveyCow]

Its meaning depends entirely on its context. The context as stated in the OP is when someone genuinely struggling to get sub-30 is told "sub-30 is easy, just practice" by someone faster. In that context, it's flippant and annoying.

A lot of the debate in this thread is about whether sub-30 is absolutely "easy" or "hard". I really think that's irrelevant, as OP's point is about manners not difficulty. Most of us here find simply solving the cube easy (ignoring time), but when talking to someone struggling to do their first solve, it's generally better manners to agree with them that it's hard and congratulate them on their achievement when done!

^THIS!!

It's about a subtle aspect of manners that allows a person to acknowledge another's situation: empathy. It is a lack of empathy is what annoys the OP. Denial of a person's situation: that is pretty much guaranteed to annoy those in that situation. As you might imagine it can be quite exasperating.

To summarise the thread from my own POV: I don't really need negative messages telling me I'm basically stupid and lazy -- those messages are coming through loud and clear in my own head while I'm trying to solve!

lol Michael! We're one and the same!