What do you do when you are having an "off" day

[Faz]

Basically, when you have a day when you are not doing well, and solve slowly, what do you do?

Because, recently, I noticed I have days when I solve really well, and others when I solve really badly.

My question to you guys is:
What do you do on the days you are solving badly?

Personally, I just keep solving, but it usually doesn't help.

Any tips/ideas?

 

[Thomas09]

I just learn some algorithms. Although, I find that I'm slower when I haven't cleaned my hands. When I do, I can get sub 30 again.

 

[blah]

I do OH or PLL time attacks. That's pretty much the only practice I get for OH and PLL time attacks.

 

[Lorenzo]

I stop cubing and take a nap.

 

[RainbowBoy]

I stop cubing and take a nap.

That's what I would do too

 

[ManasijV]

I do BLD.

 

[Tim Major]

I cube until my fingers bleed. Then all the sides are red, so it isn't scrambled.

Quote on "magic cube" box: The idea of the puzzle is to get all the sides one colour. WTF?

 

[RainbowBoy]

To be honest:
I never have ''off'' days -_-

 

[rubiknewbie]

It happened to me recently! I have no idea what happened it's like I can't look ahead anymore. I plan to sleep and wake up and try again. It helps when the mind is fresh.

 

[Cuber3]

This happened to me just now. I am solving about 10 seconds above my already embarrassingly bad average. When I am solving slow, I roam around these fourms, or I might play some video games or look up a tutorial on how to get better.

 

[phases]

Work on my cross (trying to solve BLD which I can rarely do) and do the "going slow/tilt" to work on look ahead for F2L. Eventually if I ever get comfortable enough with those, I'll then use that downtime to work on my LL algs and try to find my best way to do them - and just practice those.

 

[mazei]

Do other cubes or events basically.

 

[elcarc]

usually im solving at night, so ill just go to bed, and try again tommorow.

i also found warming my hands up helps (lancetheblueknight told us all about it, go watch the videos)

 

[MichaelErskine]

My question to you guys is:
What do you do on the days you are solving badly?

That's just a normal day: I never solve well - not even for me

 

[rubiknewbie]

I also found some common situations that coincide with poor timing:

- poor lighting (eg can't differentiate yellow and white)
- night time (start to have visions)
- sleepiness (50s to 1 min+ timing, sometimes due to dozing off and didnt stop timer!)

 

[Muesli]

Let's have a little think about one of Felik's off days...

15 seconds?

Anyway, I just solve the Rubik's 360 or play with the 7x7x7.

 

[(X)]

I change puzzle

 

[Jani]

i just learn some new algorithms, well i got still 30 OLL algos to memorized

 

[enigmahack]

To be honest:
I never have ''off'' days -_-

Same here. All of my days are "off" days lol

 

[jazzthief81]

Put the cube away for a while (an hour, a day, a week or even longer) and try to improve some other areas of your life during that time: read about a subject you don't know much about, exercise, spend time with friends/relatives,...

When you get back to cubing, you will feel refreshed.