What's happened to me? (awesome results for just 1 day)

[Zarxrax]

A few days ago I had made a thread about how I seemed to be sort of "stuck" around 1:20 on my 3x3x3, and didn't seem to be improving.

Well here's the thing. Two days ago, my times suddenly improved dramatically. I was getting averages under 1 minute for the first time! I even got a new personal best under 50 seconds! I thought I had apparently broken some barrier and was finally past that "wall". Well... and then the next day came, and my times were right back up around 1:15~1:20... and they are still there today.

Anyone else ever experience something like this? It's got me seriously baffled!

 

[soccerking813]

Wow, I don't know. Were they computer generated scrambles? Or maybe lots of extremely lucky solves?
Very interesting...

 

[Calvin Rhodes]

Maybe the oxygen was purer two days ago. Congratulations on your new PB.

 

[Koen]

I had that with 4×4. Just keep practicing and you will be sub-minute again soon

 

[Zarxrax]

Wow, I don't know. Were they computer generated scrambles? Or maybe lots of extremely lucky solves?
Very interesting...

Yep, computer generated. And that PB was not even a lucky solve

 

[soccerking813]

Wow, I wish that this would happen to me. Dropping 20 seconds. XD

 

[Lord Voldemort]

Yeah...
That happened to me.
A few weeks ago, I was getting like, 25ish averages.
The next day, I had a 22.59 average 12 (non rolling).
I was quite happy. But the day after, I was right back to where I was...
Now, 2.5 seconds may not sound like much to you now, but it's huge when you're sub-25. Now, I'm almost at 23 seconds average, and hopefully I'll get hack to 22.5 again.

 

[dChan]

It is possible you were not as "warmed-up" as you were when you were hitting those sub-60 averages. I can get low times when I am not warmed up, but on average I never get below 18 second averages of 12 unless I am warmed up. That may be your problem. Of course, if you were solving the whole day and your times still did not drop to where they were it is possible you hit a lucky streak of solves or something of the sort.

I remember when I was practicing one-handed solving sometime last year, I dropped from 36 seconds to 33 seconds average for 30 solves with a PB average of 32 for the first 12 solves and then, then ext day, I could not get that average again. After I took a break for 6 months my times were suddenly able to zoom past the barrier but I don't know why(considering I hardly practiced during the break) they did.

 

[ExoCorsair]

Maybe you were just "in the zone" for that period of time.

 

[Benc]

A few days ago I had made a thread about how I seemed to be sort of "stuck" around 1:20 on my 3x3x3, and didn't seem to be improving.

Well here's the thing. Two days ago, my times suddenly improved dramatically. I was getting averages under 1 minute for the first time! I even got a new personal best under 50 seconds! I thought I had apparently broken some barrier and was finally past that "wall". Well... and then the next day came, and my times were right back up around 1:15~1:20... and they are still there today.

Anyone else ever experience something like this? It's got me seriously baffled!

I think I can relate my story to yours too; a similar experience happened to me about 3 weeks ago; though my sub-50 PB was actually kinda lucky Used to get stucked on 1:00~1:15; but now I'm always having sub-60 averages.

 

[JLarsen]

Often you get in "the zone" which I must say is my favorite state to be in. You're hands move quicker than they ever have before, and your reaction time is like lightning. Feels amazing.