Worst Decision/ Idea you've ever had during your cubing career?

[TDM]

ZZ is the most elegant and beautiful of the 3 major methods. It should be much more popular than it currently is. How do you like ZZ?

I prefer Roux I like ZZ because it's nice to always have oriented edges for LS+LL, which means you can do lots of stuff like WV/COLL etc. My LL is slow, ZZ makes it look faster.

 

[the super cuber]

I regret not continuing colour neutrality when I switched from beginners method to cfop, and also when I bought a ridge less megaminx intead of the ridged one.

 

[Ingo]

My worst idea was modding a SS 4x4. I tried to do it well and it was so much work, but the results were so disappointing.

 

[charmrence]

Not learning CFOP when I started cubing. I used the Dan Brown method for a year, practicing only very casually. I stopped cubing until college, and now I only have little time to practice. I wish I could have started cubing seriously when I still was in grade school and had all day to practice.

 

[rowehessler]

many regrets in my cubing career,
1. not having a 3x3 WR, my timing was terrible. I think if I switched to CFOP i little earlier and didn't rely on turn speed rather than lookahead, I may have been able to at least get average WR before Feliks came along
2. wasting so much time on BLD when I could have been getting better at speedsolving
3. not getting a third US title, had so many chances
4. using ring finger for OH instead of pinky, later on it was impossible to switch, and once the WR times got below 14 second, I couldn't keep up.
5. Not switching to yau for 4x4 earlier.
6. Caring so much about my results instead of just having a good time with friends.

These aren't really decisions/ideas, but whatever

 

[Artic]

many regrets in my cubing career,
1. not having a 3x3 WR, my timing was terrible. I think if I switched to CFOP i little earlier and didn't rely on turn speed rather than lookahead, I may have been able to at least get average WR before Feliks came along
2. wasting so much time on BLD when I could have been getting better at speedsolving
3. not getting a third US title, had so many chances
4. using ring finger for OH instead of pinky, later on it was impossible to switch, and once the WR times got below 14 second, I couldn't keep up.
5. Not switching to yau for 4x4 earlier.
6. Caring so much about my results instead of just having a good time with friends.

These aren't really decisions/ideas, but whatever

What method were you using before?

 

[Coolster01]

Getting into feetsolving. Could've got fast at 2x2 earlier and beaten records easier possibly.

 

[rowehessler]

What method were you using before?

i was a CN petrus solver until I was around 20 seconds. after a month of CFOP i dropped to sub15

 

[Robert-Y]

5. Not switching to yau for 4x4 earlier.

We've all been there... (Summer 2012 was when I switched and actually started using it in official solves)

 

[Deleted member 19792]

joining cyoubx's friends

 

[Coolster01]

joining cyoubx's friends

You can leave. People will gladly accept that. Or were you already kicked? XD

 

[supercavitation]

Switching back to CFOP.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Not really a decision but... wished I had known speedcubing was a thing at least ten years ago back when I had more time.

 

[Toire-Dakku]

Not coming to worlds 2011. That seemed to be the most accessible WC for me EVER, and i don't think WC will be in asia for a long time again.

This was because mid-2011 was actually one of the most depressing moments in speedcubing for me. (A close cuber friend of mine passed away. We were supposed to go to that WC together.)
And around this point, I lost quite a number of records, and was about to graduate college thus having to shoulder more responsibilities. and somehow it made me think that it was time for me to stop speedcubing.

But obviously i haven't stopped at all. And i'm still here )

To end on a lighter note, AC2014 was one of the happiest moments for me in speedcubing. I'm glad to have gone there, although I just wish more filipino cubers would have been able to go.

 

[TraciAG]

I can't really think of anything...but I wish I didn't wait so long to learn Yau for 4x4. Now I have a lot of trouble with it.

And I regret wasting all my money on 3x3s when I could've gotten multiple shape mods and other puzzle for the amount I spent on them.

 

[MatejMuzatko]

Changing springs on SS mini 7x7 to Dayan and also scrapping the screw so I can't undo... It's so loose and weird feeling
Wasting lot's of Yau5 time on 7x7 by doing center by center and not ubercuber's way...

 

[AlexTheEmperor]

Impulse purchasing a Rubiks 2x2 at a time when I was fairly new and had no other 2x2.
It cost me 78 Danish Kroner from a shop called Magasin in Copenhagen.
My hands were hurting from just using it on the way back to the flat, and when I got back, I remember feeling like the luckiest boy in the world when I went to my Zhanchi.

 

[AlGoreRhythm]

This afternoon. I stood out in the rain waiting for my Aosu for an hour. I have no idea what I was thinking, except "Just 5 more minutes..." again and again and again....

 

[rebucato314]

Wish I didn't buy a Zhanchi and a sticker-less Gans 3 version 3 (Zhanchi had some wacky tensioning problems) (I want to use Gans 3 as my main after my first impressions but is was sticker-less)

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

its to hard to learn now lol

It's always been hard to learn since some of them are poorly named, but it's probably too late to change that. Then again, we now sort of have J/L for a pair or mirror cases, so some progress has been made.