YOYOing reminds me of the P vs NP problem

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Thats a great video to explain what P vs NP is but essentially P is a set of problems that have a easy/fast way to solve them. NP is the set of problems that when given a solution is easy/fast to check if it’s correct - we don’t know if the set of problems in NP are also P - if there is a problem that given a solution is easy to check, then is it also easy to solve and we just haven’t found the algorithm yet?

How does this remind me of yoyoing? With me, learning laceration bind took forever. I just couldn’t get it down. So I came here for help and with that I was able to land it. After landing it one time I was able to do it over and over. Ive found that to be the case with almost every trick. I spent hours attempting to finger spin to do the dna - took weeks. But the second I landed once it clicked and I was able to do it over and over. This reminds me of NP where its hard to solve but once you get the solution its easy to do. I wonder if it can be like P where a trick will be easy to learn where you can land it within a few attempts. Why is it easy to land only after you’ve landed a trick the first time?

I hope this was an interesting read its been making me think about the classic problem I learned awhile ago and all the other cool things that land in that realm like sudoku, chess and rubix cubes. Who knows maybe with Googles new quantum chip we can solve P vs NP and find out which one yoyo is in :joy: if it is at all.

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yeah just get to a higher skill level and you can sight read easier tricks like attempt a trick you’ve never seen and just do it in like 60 seconds. Also some tricks just stay hard like hard to figure out and then stay hard to execute unless you practice them for a long time. idk how that fits w this dichotomy also some tricks are easy to “do” but hard to make look good. one of the hardest parts of yoyoing is making simple things look really really good imo

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This comes more from the accumulation of muscle memory in training the trick rather than understanding/solving it really I think. E.g. sometimes when learning a trick you’ll fluke into landing it relatively early on into practice, but because you haven’t built up the muscle memory enough yet you still see slow progress in landing it again afterwards.

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that’s where I struggle I totally agree - making things look smooth is very hard for me to do and is where people who have mastered the tricks can really show it