I’m just wondering to any of you guys out there, particularly if you’re faster than me, how normal is my progression rate? To be clear, I’m not trying to brag or anything but I’m genuinely curious because it seems like it takes some people years to get to this point and today I just got my first sub 40 deck after only training seriously since August.
I mean, it DEPENDS. Thats the best answer I can give you.
I think your progress looks good btw. Explosive growth is seen if you put in the hours in an consistent basis.
You could take a look at the series of: “League Season XX - Best Personal Results:”
About ~500 Memory Athletes have participated in League.
Close to ~200 Did just participate in 1 Season.
Thus you could get a rough overview progress speed for some Memory Athletes.
Hi Wesley! I am not faster then you, but here is my progress history.
You can see that I have a different training approach. I do only full deck attempts and watch how the memo time decrease.
2/21 9:00AM
I created my first memory palace and my first memory system this day. It was a 1 card category system. I checked that I can retrieve each image by looking at card and started training the system by memorising deck of cards.
2/21 11:00AM
50 cards in 5:43 minutes (6.6 sec/card)
2/21 13:25AM
52 cards in 4:10 minutes (4.8 sec/card)
2/24
38/52 cards in 3:07 minutes (3.6 sec/card)
2/25
38/52 cards in 2:36 minutes (3 sec/card)
2/26
50/52 cards in 2:43 minutes (3.1 sec/card)
3/1
50/52 cards in 2:31 minutes (2.9 sec/card)
3/2
52/52 cards in 2:29 minutes (2.9 sec/card)
3/8
50/52 cards in 2:04 minutes (2.4 sec/card)
3/16
52/52 cards in 2:03 minutes (2.4 sec/card)
3/25
49/52 cards in 1:59 minutes (2.3 sec/card)
3/31
52/52 cards in 1:53 minutes (2.2 sec/card)
4/11
50/52 cards in 1:42 minutes (2 sec/card)
Then I quit training cards for 1 year. After this point I have trained cards only for a few weeks before each competition.
After 2 weeks of training I got 1:28 minutes. Then I quit for 2 more years, then I got 1:03 minutes. It is my personal best at the moment.
Your progress rate is great and inspiring! I will try to catch up with you
so in about four months, you went from about where i am (48/52, or a few cards short of a full deck, HEH) to a sub-40. when i think “could i get there from here in four months” it feels very plausible, but progress in this stuff definitely isn’t linear. i think your impressive progression is gonna be faster than someone who isn’t already national champion with a whole lot of cubing experience, but i think a big part of that is just that practicing every day is so rare even among enthusiasts. everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, don’t nobody wanna lift no heavy-ass weight.
This is from XMT 2015. Images Discipline released the same year (what i know of). Perhaps a few months training to reach this results? Amazing non the less!
Im curious to ask Lance, if you don’t mind me asking. But how long time did it take for you to reach that WR, a time of 13:91s in XMT Competition? And what was your best during that time (In training)?
