How long did it take you to learn?

It was summer and I was 16...

...this should really be erotic, but...

...took me two weeks with about an hour of practice a day.

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JJuggle said:

*It was summer and I was 16...

...this should really be erotic, but...

...took me two weeks with about an hour of practice a day. *

Wait, that wasn't erotic?

Well, it took me a little more then a week with a little more then an
hour of practice a day.

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There have already been plenty of threads about this and Klaas Bil has
done some great tudies on the subject of learning time - here's some
very interesting stuff...
http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/uni_statistics.htm .

I learnt on the 2nd of May, 2002 when I was 16. It took me about 2.5
hours to learn to ride (which is generally accepted as being when you
reach the 50m mark).

You'll like this one...I was at a bike trials competition 'competing' on
the unicycle the other day and one of the bike guys who'd never learnt
to unicycle hopped for as long as he wanted on his second attempt.
Before he could ride! This is quite common with bike trials riders.
What's ever more amazing is that after about 30 minutes of practise with
hardly any aid at all he could ride it as long as he wanted and did a
50cm drop successfully! He's going to join the other two of us in the
unicycling category of the national trials comp on my unicycle with only
30 minutes of experience! 🙂 I was surprised to hear he that he's not
going to compete in it on his bike as he's really good but he's been
having bike problems apparently or something like that.

Amazing stuff.

Andrew

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i got my uni x-mas of 02, and practiced diligently for 1.5 hours a day
on it. for about 2 weeks. then, when i still couldn't ride the $#@!
thing, it sat in my room, collecting dust. then, just 6 weeks ago, i
learned to ride the thing in 2 days. go figure. that's partly the reason
im so sick of people saying "practice, practice, practice..." HEY,
NEWSFLASH!!! THAT WORKS FOR SOME PEOOLE, BUT FOR US WITH NON-SUPER-HUMAN
LEARNING CAPABILITIES, *IT AIN'T THAT EASY!* *whew* im ok, im ok...

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Sheesh..maybe if had been more dedicated......like 30 minutes a day or
something

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took me about 3 days of 30-60 minutes of practice.

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I think I got multiple revolutions of the wheel on my third day,
practicing about an hour a day, but it was five days to a week before I
reached the fifty meter mark. I don't remember exactly. Freemounting
took another week or two.> Carpe Diem!

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Took me 20 minutes to learn

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That's amazing Peter.

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30 minutes per day, riding over 50 meters somewhat confidently by day 11

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3 or 4 weeks, probably only about 5 or 6 hours over that amount of time
tho. i was just a little tyke then and i had zero attention span.

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Three days, 2-3 hours per day is what I think it was...

I had the same experience as Andrew with another trials biker. Then, I
met a freestyle biker who self mounted and rode 12' on his first try (on
my trials uni, too!). He went over to a pole and mounted with that for
his second try and got well over 50m. He then self mounted and rode a
figure eight. Two minutes he ahd ridden up a wheelchair ramp and ridden
off a curb. He basically broke level 1 in about a minute! He was
somewhere around level three by the 15 minute mark. He even hopped up a
curb. No wonder he could, though, he was coasting his front wheel of his
bike standing on the pega and then doing pirouettes. Clearly he already
had the balance. He showed me his favorite trick. He ridesa wheelie on
his back wheel and pedals himself into pirouettes. Crazy.

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I learned during final exam week, so I studied for an hour unicycled for
10 minutes for an entire week. By the end of the week I could go about
20metres. After another week I could go all the way around my block.

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it took me about 1 or two hours, and that was with a bent rim.

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Took me ages. I got a uni at Christmas, and put it away for a while
since it was too cold out. In March or somewhere, I took it out again,
and learned in about a month.

I find that people who bike a lot learn to ride really quickly.
Trials/BMX Bikers can often do it instantly, I find.

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Sigurd said:

By learning to ride, I mean being able to make multiple revolutions of
the wheel, not just one or something. It took me two summers, but I
wasn't at it everyday. Maybe every third day for 15 minutes or so. I
keep hearing reports of people learning in a matter of days or even
hours in some cases.

If a summer is three months, then by my calculation it took you about
15 hours to be able to ride multiple revolutions. Not all that bad.
But you shouldn't have spread your practice hours so thin. I bet it
was frustrating.

Unfortunately the responses in this thread were not specific enough to
be input into my second round of processing (which is still waiting).
If you don't know what I mean, check the link that Andrew Carter so
kindly provided.

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no_limit said:

*I learned during final exam week, so I studied for an hour unicycled
for 10 minutes for an entire week. By the end of the week I could go
about 20metres. After another week I could go all the way around my
block. *

Haha! Thats exactly how I learned to freemount a giraffe. Except it was
more like 30 mins trying to freemount the giraffe per hour of studying
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better than me. I sopent 10 minutes studying for every 30mins learning
to freemount the giraffe😄

I don't really know how long it took me to learn. I'd only ever spent
about half an hour on one at my local juggling club, and I'd never read
any books on it, or found any sites on the internet, like this one. I
think it took about a week, dunno how long i practised for each day
though.

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2 months, 16 hours of total practice time, I can freemount and ride
about 20 meters.

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