Sudden Increase in Speed?

[JTW2007]

So, I just got done with timing a lot of solves, and my average somehow dropped by five seconds within the past two days. I don't know why, it just did, and since I killed my DIY last week, this was on a pretty bad storebought. My avg. of 25 was at 33 and dropped to 28. Does anyone know what could lead to a drop like this?

 

[*LukeMayn*]

Luck...
Unless you can continuously do that average.

 

[edwardtimliu]

i say its because of ur mood
"if ur happy and you know it"... "drop five seconds" drop drop lol

 

[IamWEB]

As soon I download the CCT timer and started doing averages of 12, I dropped almost 10 seconds off of my average compared to my times on cubetimer.com!!!

*Drop Drop*

 

[cmhardw]

I think cubing is very susceptible to a plateau-followed-by-sudden-drop type of improvement. I also get long periods of little to no improvement, followed by noticeable drops over a short period of time. I think weight-lifting and other dexterity or strength types of training might be susceptible to this as well. I wonder if this is a characteristic of human learning in general, or only as it applies to certain things.

[/random rambling]

Chris

 

[Derrick Eide17]

It is VERY strange indeed.
thats how cubing goes.
Just last week I NEVER got a sub 13 average EVER and I struggled over 2 years to just get one.
And now in just the last 4-5 days... I have gotten 4 sub 13 averages now

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Not strange at all. I basically had that exact same drop. I went from a few seconds over 30 to sub 30 in about 3 days. It was also a +-5 second drop.

 

[Scigatt]

I think I'm on one of those plateaus right now. My averages are hovering just above 1 minute...yeah, I know, not great.

 

[jackolanternsoup]

Similar here. But I blamed it on me finally switching to cross on D.

 

[Rama]

If I learn a piece for my bass-guitar, the first day I play it sloppy and the second day I play it more smooth(er). Depends on the difficulty though.

I also had this for 2H cubing, when I was around 20 sec average.

 

[nitrocan]

Sadly, that happens to me the whole time. When I average 30 seconds, I just solve for a week, and no improvement. I wake up some day and I start getting 26-27 second solves.

Hope that happens again so that I can go sub-20 the whole time

 

[Escher]

i completely agree.
im at around 17-22s with fridrich.
yes, i know that kind of range is ridiculous at around 20s... but its true!
if ive had a rubbish day, for example, cubing rarely cheers me up. in fact, i generally just get angry and throw it around... and i average sup 20.
whereas on a good day, when im not too hot or cold, and ive been warming up for a while, i can bust out very consistent 15-19s times.
i think technique also has an underrated influence on cubing - even if i lookahead well, if my turning isnt accurate then ill just pop and lock, and that distracts me, and ill get like a 24. but then if ive been doing it for a while, and feeling confident my technique just goes through the roof, and with roughly the same lookahead i can happily bust out a sub 15... its very peculiar.

 

[ImNOTnoob]

Lol, same happened to me.

Im on a plateau, haven't improved from my sub 25 averages for a while now..

I remember my times had a sudden drop from 40 - 35s, then stayed there for a few weeks, and another drop from 35s to 28s.