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[–] Emanuel 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've gone a long stretch without cubing (think a bit less than a decade) and, while it was refreshing coming back to the hobby, with new hardware and seeing it becoming even more popular, I was forced to confront the fact that I don't have much disposable time to practice.

While this is argument enough, I think, to prioritise focused practice, I generally find that the opposite becomes even more tempting: I generally just do a bunch of mindless solves, and while I do see myself improving, I doubt I'll improve as fast as I could. It's probable, even, that I'm reaching a skill ceiling for mindlessly solving.

I don't know what this is, maybe just a cubing-related rant about getting older.

[–] thisisdee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I totally get it. I feel the same. Sometimes I only have a few minutes each day to cube and I’d spend them just doing random solves. I haven’t learned any new algs in months. My biggest improvement lately is in 4x4 and it’s solely because I bought the Aosu V7 and it works really well for me. It took my times down 5-10 seconds easily