The "I quit / pause / return / change / etc." thread

[5BLD]

I think that you can roux, fight the cancer :/
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[emolover]

You shouldn't ask for view and thumbs up because most will thumbs down and post spam. I didn't because you look cool.

 

[Skullush]

Is that you in the video?

 

[kinch2002]

A few days back I quit cubing properly for a month (as opposed to the 'not properly' quitting I was doing for the previous few months). No solves until 4th July, except for tomorrow, when I have a meetup .

My desire to do solves has diminished greatly, and combined with becoming busier with other things, this has led to me 'practising' for less than an hour a week over the last few months. I hate to use the word practise, because it makes it sound too arduous. I used to solve for many hours each week on many different puzzles because I enjoyed doing it - not because I wanted to be faster and therefore felt I had to practise. Now that I have little time, and I don't get the same enjoyment out of it, it's time to take a proper break and see what happens.

 

[CubeRoots]

A few days back I quit cubing properly for a month (as opposed to the 'not properly' quitting I was doing for the previous few months). No solves until 4th July, except for tomorrow, when I have a meetup .

My desire to do solves has diminished greatly, and combined with becoming busier with other things, this has led to me 'practising' for less than an hour a week over the last few months. I hate to use the word practise, because it makes it sound too arduous. I used to solve for many hours each week on many different puzzles because I enjoyed doing it - not because I wanted to be faster and therefore felt I had to practise. Now that I have little time, and I don't get the same enjoyment out of it, it's time to take a proper break and see what happens.

This is a great shame Daniel, i guess i will witness some of your last solves for a while!

 

[Ollie]

My desire to do solves has diminished greatly, and combined with becoming busier with other things...

I can empathize with this. I only get enjoyment out of BLD solving, and when you've been at work for 8 hours a day and come home you just don't have the energy to memorize 10+ cubes or even a few 5BLD attempts. This was partly the reason why I've just sold most of my cubes to Laurence today! Just a 3x3x3, 4x4x4 and a 5x5x5 are left, even then most of my solves are on the 5x5x5.

It's just a shame I never got to see your solves in person, since I learnt from your videos!

 

[Noahaha]

This is my last day with internet before six weeks with very little access to it. I'll obviously be posting very infrequently, but I will still be improving. Hopefully by the end of these six weeks my memo will be around 15 and my execution will be around 35.

Brb guys.

 

[aminayuko]

I RETURN
after 8 months, i probably forgot majority of my plls and all my olls.-_- *sigh*

 

[Systemdertoten]

Well, it's been a while.

 

[jeff081692]

I quit the forum for a while.

 

[Tj2OY]

This has happened to me as well.I started cubing about 2 years ago and I got really into it,but then I gave up for one whole year;now im back and looking to hunt down that sub 10 or 15

 

[Cheese11]

This has happened to me as well.I started cubing about 2 years ago and I got really into it,but then I gave up for one whole year;now im back and looking to hunt down that sub 10 or 15

Good luck! What kind of cube are you using?

 

[Ollie]

I'm quitting the forum.

People only seem to care about achievements if they're up in the WR/UWR region. On top of that, "constructive criticism" seems to consist of people putting others down purely to try and gain some intellectual high ground and not actually be productive/helpful at all.

Don't get me wrong, this is only a few people, and doesn't apply to my own experience. It just pisses me off massively to see this sort of thing every single time I log on. It makes me dislike speedcubers whenever I see it.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Ollie, I would like to say I have been very impressed with your recent big BLD achievements. Unfortunately, with my family's big vacation surrounding US Nationals, I seemed to never have time to say much about it, but I thought it was quite impressive. Congratulations for them! (I hope you see this before you disappear.)

 

[KCuber]

I return to solving pyraminx after many months of not solving one.

 

[camdenyoyo]

Taken a Break

So, I took like a 3 month break and my times went up to 25-30 from 15-20 .
So, has anyone have this happen before?
I would like to know what I should to do get my times to improve again(tried practicing for hours).

 

[AustinReed]

Not Practicing = Not improving.
Practicing = Improving.
Derp.

 

[antoineccantin]

Not Practicing = Not improving.
Practicing = Improving.
Derp.

Some people are faster after having taken a break.

 

[AustinReed]

Some people are faster after having taken a break.

My statement is a general theory.

 

[PandaCuber]

Im taking a break from 3x3. Im improving, but i just wanna get better at 4x4. I have a lot of room for improvement there.