Rubiks cube: Tips to break 1 minute wall

Hi guys, I have been absorbed into cubing for a while. lol.

Today I'm back with some tricks for solving the rubiks cube in less than one minute.

Here are some tips and tricks:

1. Do the algorithms without a pause.
   You should memorize the beginner method algorithms, and execute them without a pause. I mean when you do the algorithms, you should be able to do it without thinking. In order to be able to do this, you should do the algorithms over and over again until the muscle in your hand memorizes the algorithms. That way, even though sometimes you forget the algorithms' notations, your hands have already memorize the algorithms, and able to do it without thinking.
   I think that most of cubers don't even remember the notations of the algorithms, but their hands can execute the algorithms without thinking what the moves are. If someone asks me to write down my algorithms, I will not be able to do it without trying it on a cube first and then write it. In conclusion, let your hands memorize the algorithms in order to do the algorithms without any pauses.
   
   
2. Learn how to do basic fingertricks.
   To be able to break the 1 minute wall, you should use your fingers to turn the cube. I don't mean use all fingers to turn only one face. I mean use one finger to turn one face. For example, to do a U turn, use your right forefinger to turn U. In order to turn R or L, of course you can use your all fingers there. For D turn, you can use your left ring finger, so that you don't need to change the position of your hands. The point is that use your fingers efficiently.
   Here's a link to a website of Joel Van Noort, there are some useful tutorial about fingertricks and some other cubing stuff: http://solvethecube.110mb.com/fingertricks.html
   
   
3. The 'p' word.
   Practice! People say that practice makes perfect! lol. Don't give up! A lot of people can pass the 1 minute wall, of course you can do it to!

Good luck!

How to memorize algorithms for Rubik's cube?

Hi guys! For those who are also into speedcubing and wondering how to memorize the algorithms, I have a way to memorize the algorithms. My way is actually very simple, but according to my experience, it's effective.

I memorize the algorithms by doing them for minimum 40 times in a row. That way, your fingers will remember how you do it.

Here are the steps:

1. Prepare a solved cube
   Preparing a solved cube has something to do with the cycle. I have noticed that if an algorithm is done several times, the first pattern will always come back. For instance, we have a solved u face, and we do an algorithm 4 times, and at the end we'll have a solved u face too. Some patterns will come back after being done 4 times, some patterns 6 times, and other patterns might need 7, 8, 10, etc.
   A solved cube will help you to indicate that we are doing the algorithms correctly, because when we do it correctly, at the end it will always a solved face.
   
   
2. Do the algorithms slowly, look at your fingers, and feel the turns
   We have to start slowly because when we are doing the algorithms, we would be able to see the fingers and feel the turns. Personally, I do the algorithms slowly for the first 10 times, and if I feel I have memorized the algorithms, I'll make it faster and faster eventually.
   
   
3. Use finger tricks(optional)
   This might not suit very beginner cubers who do not know about finger tricks yet. I am not an expert cuber, but I know some finger tricks. When we do the algorithms using the finger tricks, we automatically divide the algorithms into several fragments. The fragments would be useful by reducing the number of movement we have to memorize. For example, if we are doing RUR' , if we are doing the finger tricks, we will automatically remember those movements as one continuous movement. Thus, reducing the number of movement we have to remember. By doing it over and over again, our finger will get used to the algorithms.
   
   
4. Do the algorithms minimum 40 times, write how many times you have done the algorithms
   Personally, I do the algorithm minimum 40 times. I still do it 40 times even though sometimes I have memorized the algorithms after the 25th times. The reason is that I am making my muscle to memorize the algorithms. We have something which is called muscle-memory. This memory is used when we move our body without thinking, just by feeling. For example, a pianist will play the piano without thinking what fingers he should use to push the tuts, if he has gotten used to the playing the song. Another example is a martial artist who can respond to a sudden attack just by relying on his reflexes. His body will respond according to what he has trained. The training makes his muscle to memorize the movements.

Those are the steps I do to memorize algorithms. I hope that it will help those who are having a hard time memorizing algorithms.

Good luck in memorizing your algorithms!

Speedcubing

Hi guys! Right now I am addicted to speedcubing. I am trying to solve a rubik's cube 3x3x3 as fast as possible, but I am still not that good.

If you want to try to do speecubing, just buy a cube and try to solve it by beginners solution first. Then later try to learn more advanced solutions. I've written some articles about Rubik's cube on this blog.

You can try these websites too:

www.cubestation.co.uk

or

www.cubefreak.net

Here is a video of...

Rubik's cube official world record 7.08s Erik Akkersdijk

How many dogs does each child get?

17 Dogs?!

One day, Bob, a father with 3 children, wants to give his dogs to his children. He has 17 dogs...
Bob wants the first child to get 1/2 of his dogs.
Bob wants the second child to get 1/6 of his dogs.
Bob wants the last child to get 1/9 of his dogs.

How many dogs does each child get?

Remember, dogs can't be cut...

Give comments please...
Thank you, ^^

A Climbing Snail

I have a new brain teaser:

There's a snail which is at the bottom of a well. It wants to get out of the well.

The well is 30m tall. The snail can only climb in the morning. In the evening, the snail slips down.

Every time the snail climbs, the snail climbs for 3 m. Every time the snail slips down, it slips for 2m.

How long will it take the snail to get out of the well?

What color did he wear?

Hi guys! This is a brain teaser about hats and colours.

The story:

There are 3 people who want to wear hats. Next to them, there was a box, and inside the box there were 3 black hats and 2 white hats. Their eyes were closed by a piece of cloth, and every person took the hat without knowing the colour of his own hat.

A few minutes later, they were lined up and the cloths were removed. There was only one rule for each person, that every person was allowed only to see the hat of the person/people in front of them. The 3rd person could see the hats of the 2 people in front of him, the 2nd person could see the hat of the 1st person, and the 1st person couldn't see any people's hats.

A friend of them came and asked them one by one:

He asked the 3rd person, "Do you know the colour of your hat?"

The 3rd person said no.

He asked the 2nd person, "Do you know the colour of your hat?"

The 2nd person also said no.

He asked the 1st person, who was the person who couldn't see any people's hats, "Do you know the colour of your hat?"

The 1st person said, "Yes"

The questions for you:

What was the colour of the 1st person's hat?

How did he know the colour of his hat?

Answer this by commenting on this post.

Good luck!

Where is the plane now?

Hi guys, today I'll post a brain teaser for you.

There was a plane departing from an airport located in the North pole. The plane flew 40 miles to the south. Then, it changed its direction and flew 30 miles to the east and stopped there.

The question: How far was the plane from the North Pole?

Answer the question by giving comments to this post.

Good luck! In a few days, I'll give you the answer.

Life is about Making the Right Choice

Hi guys, I have been busy and lazy to be precise, therefore I have been taking a break from blogging.

This time, the topic is about Life and making choices.

Goal of life?

What does it mean to live? It means to be able to breathe, to eat, to move, to reproduce, and other things. What kind of measurement do we use to measure our standard of live, to decide whether our lives is a good or bad lives? We usually use our happiness to measure it, although sometimes people use wealth. Why happiness? My friend told me that according to Aristotle, our goal of live is happiness. People work for money, and the money is used to buy things that satisfy their needs, which will give them happiness. People do things to be happy.

What does happiness have to do with making choices? The answer is simple, we have to make choices, a lot of choices, in order to achieve happiness. How many choices do we have to make to achieve happiness? We have to make almost infinite choices to achieve happiness. Every second, even every millisecond, we have to make choices. Among the choices, we have to choose one which is the best.

For example, every time we want to move, we have almost infinite combinations of possible moves, we can move our arms, hands, head, eyebrows, eyes, leg, feet, or any other body parts. Combined with the possible directions, the number of combinations approach infinity.

Another example, when we see a person, we have a lot of possible actions we can do, varying from slapping that person, kicking him/her, shouting at him/her, or even kill him/her. A decision we make will affect our future. If we choose to kill that person, we will be chased by the police and put into jail. We will also have some kind of feeling which tells us that we are wrong, we made the wrong decision.

We, humans, are able to make decisions better than computers(of course, we are the ones who program computers). We are able to immediately remove choices which are bad for our future, i.e. killing people. We don't even think about that choice(killing people), but computers have to analyse every possible choice and then measure the impact on our future. Therefore, it's wrong to have computers choose for us.

Factors that affect our capabilities to make choices?

There are a lot of factors that can affect our capabilities to make choices, I will explain about one of them, which is knowledge.

Knowledge has a great role in our lives, actually it's something that control almost all our way of thinking, the other small part is controlled by our inner child. It is important to have the knowledge about the choices we make, to predict the effect of those choices.

People with great amount of knowledge will make better choices, not all, but most of them. For example, we have the choice to have drugs or to be addicted to drugs. Most people with knowledge would consider the future effect, when they will lose their health, their money, their social life, and most importantly, their life.

People with less knowledge will make worse choices, most of them. Why? The reason is obvious, their lack of knowledge. They don't have the knowledge to predict the effect their choices will have on their future. For example, to beg for money at the corner of the street. It's not a solution for their financial problem, as it will not improve their standard of living. Beggars will beg for the rest of their lives, as they don't have the money and skills to start a business. In fact, they will lost their interest in gaining knowledge and trying other occupation. Why? They think that they can get enough money to eat by begging, so why should they try another occupation? It would be better for them to work as labours at factories. They can even work as mechanics, with the knowledge they will eventually gain, they can open their own business.

Making the right choice is not a skill you can get in an instant or by reading a book for dummy, it's a skill you will get as you grow up, gain knowledge, and gain experience.

I'm sure that we have the capabilities to make the right choices for our lives.

Good luck!

Learning The Calendar

This is one of the brain improvement which you can use to amuse your friends! Learning the calendar means to know what day it is every time you see a date. When your friends ask you what day is it on 1 January 1987, you'll be able to tell them that it's Thursday!
Other examples:
3 March 1865 : Friday
27 October 2066: Wednesday

Your friends will definitely say, how did you do that?!

It's easy, but it's also difficult. I mean, you have to memorize the codes first, then you can amuse your friends! There are some codes to memorize.

For the explanation, I will use the date 29 May 2057

There are 3 things you get from a date: day, month, year, and century. Thus, there are 4 kinds of codes:

1. Day Code
   The day code is easy, in fact, you don't have to memorize anything! We are working with the basis 7 here, so subtract the day number by 7 until it can't be subtracted again.
   Example: 29 you get from 29 May 2057, subtracted by 7 for 4 times leaves you with 1. So here, the code is 1.
   
   
2. Month Code
   Here, you have to memorise the code for each month:
   
   1. January : 1
   2. February : 4
      
   3. March : 4
   4. April : 0
   5. May : 2
   6. June : 5
   7. July : 0
   8. August : 3
   9. September: 6
   10. October : 1
   11. November : 4
   12. December : 6
   For the example, it is May, so the month code is 2.
   
   
3. Year Code
   Year code is the most important part of this method. You have to memorize the code for each year, to make it easier, I divide them into 7 categories:
   I will present them just straight to the year, for example: 57, 68, 99
   
   Year code: 0
   The year: 00, 06, 17, 23, 28, 34, 45, 51, 56, 62, 73, 79, 84, 90
   
   Year code: 1
   The year:01, 07, 12, 18, 29, 35, 40, 46, 57, 63, 68, 74, 85, 91, 96
   
   Year code: 2
   The year: 02, 13, 19, 24, 30, 41, 47, 52, 58, 69, 75, 80, 86, 97
   
   Year code: 3
   The year: 03, 08, 14, 25, 31, 36, 42, 53, 59, 64, 70, 81, 87, 92, 98
   
   Year code: 4
   The year: 09, 15, 20, 26, 37, 43, 48, 54, 65, 71, 76, 82, 93, 99
   
   Year code: 5
   The year: 04, 10, 21, 27, 32, 38, 49, 55, 60, 66, 77, 83, 88, 94
   
   Year code: 6
   The year: 05, 11, 16, 22, 33, 39, 44, 50, 61, 67, 72, 78, 89, 95
   
   For this example: 2057 means that the number is 57 with the code 1.
   
   
4. Century Code
   For the century code, it has a series: 6, 4, 2, 0, ...
   Starting from 1600s : 6
   1700s : 4
   1800s : 2
   1900s : 0
   2000s: 6
   and so on...
   For this example: 2057 means that it's in the 2000s with the code 6.
   

To sum up: 29 May 2057 has the code:
Day code: 1
Month code: 2
Year code: 1
Century code: 6
Sum the codes you have : 1 + 2 + 1 + 6 = 10
Again, we are working with the basis 7, so subtract all 7s, that leaves you with 3.

Translation code:
1 : Sunday
2 : Monday
3 : Tuesday
4 : Wednesday
5 : Thursday
6 : Friday
0 : Saturday

Thus, 29 May 2057 falls on Tuesday!

Leap Year:
For leap years, subtract 1 from the total.
IMPORTANT : Do this only when the date is between 1 January and 29 February!

Example: 24 January 1912
Day code : 3
Month code : 1
Year code : 1
Century code : 0
TOTAL: 5
It is a leap year. Thus, subtract 1:
The total is 4, means that it's Wednesday!

I think that's all, just memorize those codes and you'll be ready to amuse your friends in no time!
Good luck!

Why Should We Dream?

Dreaming can be defined as the state where we are imagining or fantasizing about something. It usually happens at night while we are sleeping. Everyone dreams. We often dream about some situations in the past, fantasizing about things, imagining that we are the owner of the world, and even things which are impossible.

We can dream all day, it is called day-dreaming. We often day-dream, either we realize it or not. We fantasize about things want, things we could've done in the past, or imagining something impossible.

The dream we are talking about here is a dream of our future, a dream of a future we want. I know that it's ridiculous for a dustman to dream that in the future he would be a billionaire. It seems impossible, but I know some people who got rich in a blink of an eye. Some people in my country suddenly got rich when their children won a competition.

2 principles to choose your dreams:

1. Don't be afraid to dream as high as you can.
   It is really important to dream. The dreams would motivate us to keep on working towards the goal. If you have a dream, your body will unconsciously do things which help you to reach the goal.
   
   Lots of people feel that having a really wild dream will hurt them when they couldn't reach their dreams. The higher the dream, it will hurt you more when you fall. This is wrong. Don't be afraid to fall, just dream! A strong person is a person who can get back up after falling down. Don't burden yourself with the failure, turn the failure into something positive, think that the failure means that you need to try again with more effort. The higher dream you have, the more motivation you will have. Motivate yourself with the dream!
   
   
2. Push your dreams to the limits, but not off the limits.
   Dream as high as you can doesn't mean that you can dream for something really impossible. An example: a dustman who wants to be an astronaut. We have limits for our dreams.
   
   Push our dreams to the limits, but not off the limits. Choose dreams which are impossible to do now, but might come true in the future! Let's put it like this, dream something which has 1% probability of coming true. For example: an ordinary student who wants to be the king of property business. It's really difficult to be a property king, to be a property king, someone has to have some money to buy some properties first and he/she has to have the knowledge. Thus, the ordinary student has to work really hard to be a property king, but it's possible, even though the probability is only 1%.

Have your own dreams! Motivate yourselves, work hard, reach your dreams, and live happily!

Good luck!

2 Basic Reasons to Fake Smiles

Everyone knows what smile is, but not everyone knows what it really means. Smiles can mean lots of things, it can even change your life. Often, not smiling can cause much trouble to us. In contrary, smiling can give you lots of things you could never imagine.

Sometimes we fake smiles, why? It's obvious that we fake smiles to get what we want. For example, sometimes we fake smiles in front of our business partners to get a deal. Another example, we fake smiles to get some bonus from our bosses. Those examples are the examples of fake smiles for bad, don't do it.

These are the 2 basic reasons why we fake smiles for good, not for bad:

1. We fake smile to give ourselves some spirit.
   We have to fake smiles when we have no spirit, when we are sad, and when we need some spirit to stand up. Fake smiles can give
   
   Most people don't realize that smiles can be used this way. Even though the smiles might be fake, it really affects our feeling. When we have no spirit, we have to smile. The smile will help us to get some spirit. Most people think that it's useless even though we smile, but it's wrong. All you have to do is to open your mouth, stretch your cheeks, show your teeth, and raise your eyebrows. It might be a fake smile in the beginning, then start to put in some feeling in and think about positive things.
   
   If you really put some feeling in, you'll be able to feel the difference. When you think about positive things, you get even better! Think that everything which has happened can't be repeated. All we can do is to learn from the mistakes we have done, and try not to do it again next time. At the end, we will have a real smile!
   
   
2. We fake smiles to give other people some spirit.
   We often see people around us get some problems. They are sad, they have no spirits, and they need us to give them the spirit. Fake smiles is one our weapons to cheer people around us.
   
   Smiles are contagious. When people are happy, they smile, and when we see them smile, we also feel that we are happy too. We could also bring happiness to other people by faking smiles. When we want to give other people some spirit, we should smile. I'm sure that most people would rather choose a smiling person to give them spirit rather than people who don't smile. How could you get some spirit from people who don't have spirits. That's why, we should fake smiles, even if we feel some empathy. We have to show our smiles, to make them feel better!
   

The point is, fake smiles if you think that it's for good. Fake smiles first, make real smiles next^^!

Good luck!

New category: Self Improvement

Hi friends! I'm going to add a new category, about self improvement. There, you'll find some tips to improve yourselves and some other things, excluding brain improvement.

Have fun with new articles!

Ben Pridmore Interview and Demonstration

24.68 seconds, other records:

Ben Pridmore holds these records according to recordholders.org:

• 930 binary digits in 5 minutes
• 4140 binary digits in 30 minutes
• 364 playing cards in 10 minutes
• 1404 playing cards in an hour

Mnemonic: Roman Room System

Hi guys! Roman Room System is the system which was used back in the Roman period. Back in the Roman period, they had to memorised all poems and documents in their head, because there was no paper. Mnemonic itself was named after the Roman God of Memory, Mnemosyne. They used this Roman Room System.

Roman Room System means that the system uses rooms as the loci(location where you memorise something).

When a Roman wanted to memorise something, he/she put the things at certain locations.
For example:
Memorising:
book
sword
lion
axe
wine
The Roman made his/her Roman Room System first, he/she imagined a house which had lots of rooms. The rooms were filled with details, and all he/she had to do was to put the things he/she wanted to memorise at those locations.
For example: He/she had a beautiful garden, and also a beautiful door made of pure gold. When he/she entered the house, on his/her right there was a library filled with cabinets and there was also a fireplace. The next room was his bedroom, there was a bed in the middle of the room, and also a TV.
Associating things: At the garden, he found a book. He/she wanted to put the book at the library, when he/she entered the house, he/she saw a sword on the floor. He took the sword, turning right to the library. At the library, he saw a lion, then stabbed the lion with the sword. To cut its head, he took an axe and cut off its head. Then, he went to his bedroom, to relax by drinking wine.
That way, you'll be able to memorise things quickly.

Make your own Roman Room System:

1. Get a piece of paper.
2. Get a pencil, colour pencil if possible.
3. Draw the map of your house, fill it with lots of details, like the colour, and also adding things like lamps, chandelier, vases, carpet, and other things.
4. Imagine your house with all its insides. Walk through your house to know your house inside out.

When you are ready, associate things to your house, remember the key point: wild imagination! The wilder you get, the more memorable they will be.

The advantage of this system:
You'll never run out of places! Because you can always extend your house! Add some more rooms, details, gardens, escalators, and other things! It doesn't always have to be a house, you can make a castle, hotel, and even your own town! Just make sure to know its inside out!

Good luck!
Have fun^^!

Mnemonic: Alphabet System

Hi guys! Alphabet system here is a mnemonic system using letters as the pegs. Therefore, we have 26 pegs here. Same as other mnemonic systems, we have to translate the pegs into memorable images, where we can associate things we want to memorise with the images.

Making your own alphabet system:

1. Write down the alphabets from a-z on a piece of paper.
   Write down a-z, fill only each row with one letter, or you can divide them into several columns. Later, you'll have to write a word for each letter, so leave space between your columns.
   
   Example: 2 columns:
   
   A M
   B N
   C O
   ... ....
   
   
2. Translate each letter into a word.
   Write a word beside the letter.
   Guidelines:
   
   1. All letters which are also words, have to use the words.
      There are letters which are also words, for example: B-Bee C-Sea J-Jay
      
   2. Other than those letters, use only words with slight difference only, and you have to use words with the same first syllable pronunciation.
      For example: G-Giraffe
      A-Ace
      D-Demon, but not Devil, because of the pronunciation.
      
   
   
3. Translate each word into images in your mind.
   Imagine those words in your mind, make wild imaginations. Test yourself by asking yourself a random letter. For example: G! H! L! X!

Now you have your own alphabet system!

How to use the alphabet system?
It's basically the same with other mnemonic systems, use associations! It's the same with the number-shape and number-rhyme systems. Associate each thing you want to memorise with each peg(the word), starting from a.
For example:
A-Ace
memorising:a bear
association: A bear, it plays cards, then it loses, it throws cards at its friends and it went wild.

Now you have a collection of mnemonic systems, if you only got them from this blog, then you now have 4 systems: link system, number-shape system, number-rhyme system, and alphabet system.
Total pegs you have:
Number-shape: 10 pegs
Number-rhyme: 10 pegs
Alphabet: 26 pegs
TOTAL: 46 pegs
In conclusion, you can memorise 46 things in a go! You can do 50 or more with the help of link system.

Train your memory everyday! You'll eventually get better and cut your memorising time. In addition, you can amuse your friends with this incredible feat of memory!

Good luck^^!

Andi Bell Memorising Cards

Hi guys! I have been posting about mnemonics systems, but I think that lots of you are not interested in it. Here I post a video to give you a demonstration about the mnemonic system.

It's a video of Andi Bell, 3 times World Memory Champion, he's memorising 10 packs of cards:



Good luck^^!
If you want to be like that, just train your memory! I still can't do it, but my current record is about 183 secs for a pack of cards.

Mnemonic For Studying

Hi guys! I'm going to explain mnemonic for studying now. As we know, mnemonic systems can help you memorising things. If we can use it for studying, we would be able to save our time by studying quicker.

Advantages you get:

1. Make most of your studying time!
   Using mnemonic systems will help you in memorising things. As the result, you are able to memorise things a lot quicker than you ever before. Thus, it can shorten your studying time. You can use the rest of time time reviewing again and again.
   
   For example:
   Usual studying time: 2 hours.
   Using mnemonic: 1 hour, 1 hour for reviewing.
   Thus, you will get better results!
   
   
2. Memorise quickly, evaporate slowly.
   Using mnemonic systems, you can memorise things quickly. There's a myth about memorising things quickly, and they will evaporate quickly too, like easy come easy go. But, by using mnemonic, all you have to do is to review the images you've made. It's easier for us to remember images rather than plain words. That's why it will evaporate slowly, it might even stay in your mind for years, or forever!
   
   
3. Get a free memory training.
   Using mnemonic system also trains your brain, it trains both sides of your brain. Thus, you'll be able to memorise things easier the next time you study.
   

How to use it?
There are 3 main points in mnemonic:

1. Association
   Means that how you associate things with other things.
2. Location
   Means where you store the images.
   
3. Imagination
   Means how you symbolise those words into images.

It is easy to memorise those points, think about moh. Ali, the boxer.

Example question:
What did Adam and Eve eat which gave them sin? Apples

Steps to use mnemonic:

1. Read the question, find the keyword.
   In this case, the keyword is 'Adam and Eve'.
   
2. From the keyword, find a location.
   Location here: Eden, why? Because Eden is the place where Adam and Eve did bad things.
   I suggest you to use keywords from the question as the location, why? Because the location is the place you store the images, it would be better if the question reminds you of the location, and you can start looking for your images in that location.
   
3. Imagine the keyword and location:
   Imagine Eden, which was so beautiful, and you saw Adam and Eve are running naked.
   
4. Imagine the answer:
   Imagine that they were running toward an apple tree.
   
5. Associate them:
   Imagine that they climbed up the tree and eat the red tasty apple. Imagine the tase of the apple, sweet, watery, and fresh. Use all of your senses. Then imagine that they come down, wearing clothes like a someone you like, movie stars, or anyone. Try to make it funny, or weird. The weirder you get, the more memorable it is.

You can use this technique to study! If you have to memorise a long sentence, just pick up the keywords, imagine them, put them at a relevant location, use your senses, make it weird, and it will stay in your memory for a long time.

Have fun^^!
Good luck^^!

5 Tips to Study Effectively

Hi guys! Are you tired of long studying time? Are you bored of looking at your books, memorising the words? Do you want to know how to study effectively? This article is what you're looking for!
If you are having difficulties studying, you are not alone! Studying for an exam has been a problem for most students. Students often say that they don't have enough time to study. Studying time varies from one student to another, some can study in an hour for an exam, but some say that a day is just not enough. This could be a serious problem, when the students who need a long time to study fail an exam, and this happens occasionally, it might give them a shock. The shock can give them stress, this leads to a depression, and the final destination is a life-time regret.

5 tips to study effectively:

1. Manage your time!
   
   Time management is always a crucial point, not only in studying, but every aspect of our lives. When you have to ability to manage time, you'll be able to do things at the right time and in an effective way. When it's your time to take a rest, take a rest! When it's your time to study, study! Don't take a rest when you are studying and don't study when you are taking a rest! We need a rest to stay fit when we are studying. When you are studying, concentrate on your study.
   
   When I have an exam the next day, I usually spend my evening by playing games, watching T.V., reading comic books, surfing the web, and other fun things. Mostly, I start studying at half past 7 and finish before 10 o'clock. My average mark: 80 out of 100. I do whatever I want before I study.
   
   
2. Concentrate!
   Concentration is a crucial point in studying. When you don't have the concentration, you won't be able to study quickly. Concentrating helps you to memorise things quicker. Therefore, speeds up your study.
   
   There are lots of ways to develop concentration, it varies from one to other students. Some students say that listening to music helps them to concentrate, some say that studying at a really quiet place helps to concentrate, I personally like to study while I listen to music. When I am bored, I sing(though my voice isn't that good), lol.
   
   
3. Believe in yourself!
   
   Believing in yourself is one important matter. It is a matter of passing and failing. Believing in yourself prevents you from panicking. Sometimes, before we start, we feel that there's too much to memorise, it cause us to panic. By believing in ourselves, we prevent panicking and help us to stay calm. Thus, speeding up our studying time.
   
   
4. Take little breaks!
   This is also crucial, for taking little breaks prevents us from ringing the boredom-bells. It is ideal to take a 5 minute break every half an hour. Use your breaks to drink, stretch your body, and you can even scream to release the stress.
   
   What if you've already rung your boredom-bells?
   It would be better to study when you are not bored, as boredom might slow you down. Stop studying for a while, have a longer break, 15 minutes maximum, then study again. Never stop too long, a long stop will not help you study quicker, it's a waste of time. When you stop too long, you become too lazy to study again.
   
   
5. Smile!
   A little smile will definitely help you. Little smile, but big effect. Smiles give you the spirit to study. Even if it's a fake smile, they can give you some spirit. Smiles are signs of positive way of thinking, and positive thinking gives you the spirit to study. Smiles can also reduce your boredom alarm time.
   

Hope that my tips are useful for all of you, they are my personal tips. I suggest you to use mnemonic systems, it really speeds up your studying time. I will write a post about how to use mnemonic systems to study, just wait for it.

Have fun^^!

Why Should We Train Our Memory?

Having a good memory means a good life. How can this happen? It's simple, a great memory helps you in lots of aspects of life.

Some examples:

1. Memorising people's names and faces. Have you ever met someone you know, but he/she forgot your name? How did it feel? Bad, huh? When you remember people's names and faces, it makes them feel that you appreciate them, and feel that they are meaningful in our lives. It can sometimes be crucial to remember people's names and faces, it's crucial in situations such as meeting business partners or important people. Business partners sometimes feel that it's impolite to forget their names, as they are your business partners. They might cancel the business deal, etc.
2. Memorising phone numbers. In this modern world, we have a great thing called mobile-phone which helps us to save phone numbers. But sometimes, it would be better for us to save the phone numbers in our brains, as we might forget to bring our mobile-phones. It's also more practical to save phone numbers in our brains, as we don't have to take the mobile-phone out, open it, and input the numbers. All we have to do is to remember those numbers.
3. Job Interviews. In job inteviews, you will need a good memory to memorise the company's profile, etc.

Memory trainings also help us to be a smarter person by improving our concentration and our observation skill.

Train your memory with mnemonic systems, feel the difference in your life!

Good luck!

Why Should We Train Our Brain?

Hi guys! Why should we train our brain?
The answer is simple, to survive in this world. Nowadays, jobs are getting tougher and tougher to get. Being smart helps you get a job. It's pretty obvious that companies would prefer employing smart people to stupid people.

Smart here is to be able to respond quickly to situations, especially problems. The responses given also have to be sensible. A smart person has to be able to think logically, make comparisons about the advantages and disadvantages of a decision, think quickly, and of course make decisions. Why should we think quickly? Because life's about taking chances, second chances hardly exist. Training your brain will help you to develop the skills needed to be a smart person.

We now know that we have to train our brains, but why do people don't want to train their brains?
Most people say that brain training is boring. Nowadays, we have lots of games which train our brains. Games such as chess, go, sudoku, rubik's cube, etc. They have the ability to develop your brain power. Chess and go help us in many aspects of your brain, especially the decision-making aspect. In chess and go, we need to make decisions, and we often stand between the winning and losing line. Rubik's Cube, especially whe we are speedcubing, trains our brains to make decisions quickly. Speedcubing means that solving the cube as fast as we can. We also have to memorise the algorithms to solve it quicker. There are lots of other games which train our brains.

In conclusion, why don't we start training our brains now?
You can't be too late to start, start now and feel the difference!

Good luck^^!