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

[ottozing]

Dayan Guhong v2 / Davan Zhanchi / Davan Lingyin v2

 

[somerandomkidmike]

I am quitting cubing, indefinitely.

 

[uniacto]

i'm quitting cubing for 2 weeks in attempts to get my grades up. If they go up, I don't know if I'll go back to cubing, or wait until winter break to start again. I'll still be active on the forums though.

 

[PandaBeaarAmy]

Paused for about 1 and a half weeks now, cuz I'm doing some weird english class assignment where you give up one of your addictions for 2 weeks. Not the first time I paused. For about 2 months before my first comp (winter 2012), I stopped cubing because I totally forgot about it, and anyway I was too busy with my first year of high school. Found out AFTER I slowed my time from 21 second average to about 40, that there was a competition, and decided to go anyway... nothing over 33 seconds, luckily, while I was still getting over 45 during practice.

 

[Dacuba]

Gotta change back to stop-and-go style for a while as an experiment. Not a big deal, just posting cause I'm bored.

 

[Ollie]

Taking a break from cubing. I'm far too stressed - need to focus on upcoming reports, assessments and essays (yes, all plural) and due to some personal circumstances I'm not in the right frame of mind at all to keep pushing forward with BLD at the moment.

I am, however, getting more consistent memo times under 1:30 for 4BLD and nearer to 3:30 for 5BLD so hopefully there'll be something worth coming back for.

I will continue to answer any questions on my wings list since personal messages have copies sent to my email.

 

[Dylan]

Getting back into it!

Hey guys, I used to come on here a lot and I was wondering whether you guys think I should take up the fine art again? I whipped out the old guhong and managed some nice sub 20s and a 12.13 today, it felt good. I also re lubed it up and I've been solving for hours now! Back to the point, I really feel like I want to start again but I'm not sure whether or not I can re learn most or the whole of CFOP again considering I have forgot just about all of it! Ideas?

 

[Dene]

Go away, you're not wanted here anymore.










(I'm joking, in case someone doesn't pick up on that).

 

[Dylan]

ahaha, I (may) will be coming back whether you like it or not!

 

[Edward]

Back to practicing. Gained about a second on my 3x3 average ;_;

 

[Isaac Paurus]

i keep wanting to switch to roux, then give up and go back to CFOP. i can never stay with roux.

 

[PandaCuber]

So hey guys. I stopped cubing for a while. And now im back. Im getting into big cubes more. I have all but 6x6. Ill be making videos, but i wont be looking at this forum too often. yeahh.. happycubing

 

[SaberSlash49]

I return, after about 2 years of not cubing. And I'm glad I'm back. :3

 

[TheNextFeliks]

I switch to zz

Edit: 222nd post.

 

[RubikMouse]

I've returned after beeing inactive for a year or so? I don't see myself as a speedcuber, more as a perfectionist minded ( I am never satisfied with my look ahead, pll recognition and execution so I don't like to time my solves ) fun cuber. Currentely I am focussing on OH and getting CN which, somehow, gives me much fun to achieve

However, in the future I will time my solves and try to get averages, but only when i feel like to do so but if there is a cube event in my country (the netherlands) I will participate!

 

[RubikZz]

What to do if you cubed a long time not?

Hello,,

I did cube a long time, but in May cubing go's frustrated me and then I broke my arm.
I haven't bee cubed sinds may 2012, how can I restart the best way?
Also I Forgot a few PLL's and a lot OLL what's the best way to do?

I Hope you can help me.

Greetings Mathijs.

 

[MarcelP]

I guess, just start solving again. I think the forgotten PLL's and OLL's will have to be re-learned. But this time you will remember them much quikcker as when the first time you learned them. I wonder how long it takes for you to get at 28 seconds Ao100 again I think in less than a month.

 

[LNZ]

I was one of the many people who tried (without success) to solve a 3x3x3 cube in the early 1980's.

I enjoyed it alot then, but lost interest by early 1982. And by 2007, I had forgotten that these "toys" even existed and all the few algorithms
I had learned in 1981 until some coverage of the 2007 World Titles on a mainstream TV network. I brought a storebrought Rukik's 3x3x3
not long later and tried to solve it without any success.

Then I forgot all about again and then in May 2009, I brought a book on Ebay that my parents brought for me
back in 1981 to solve the 3x3x3 cube. Then I used it for a second time, and to my amazement I had solved a Rukik's 3x3x3 cube.
All I did wrong back in 1981 was to confuse the directions for D and D'. Apart from that, I did well then.

NOTE

If you look on places like Ebay, you can buy many books various people put out to solve the 3x3x3 cube and other puzzles
known in the era of the 1980's (ie pyraminx, megaminx, Rubik's domino, Whip It, etc). As there was no internet around then,
these books were of great value. And are a good reminder of how far we've come since then.

 

[mattch00]

I guess just jump right into it and start solving again.

 

[Ross The Boss]

im taking a week long 3x3 break. i have been able to get some amazing averages every once and a while, but for the last week or two it has been pretty much crap. every time i start solving i feel overwhelmed an frustrated so i think that its time for a break.