Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma...
by borroka on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:19PM
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I think I got my jiu jitsu black belt with about 2,500 hours on the mat, say 5 hours a week on average for 52 weeks for 10 years.
With a more effective teaching model, I believe one could achieve the proficiency needed for a black belt in 2/3 of the time. However, this does not mean becoming a name on the world stage, for which much more talent and possibly more hours of practice are needed: talent saves many hours of practice that are instead needed by less talented practitioners, assuming that the latter can reach the level of talented people even in the limit of infinite time and youth.
Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma...
by balfirevic on Saturday August 13, 2022 @01:56PM
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Congratulations on your black belt! I'm a white, but won't be even advancing to blue with my training (in)consistency, haha.
Yeah, competitive scene is a whole different beast.
Interestingly, it might not be the that significant of a commitment in terms of raw hours although it certainly is in terms of consistency and persistence. Quick googling reveals that it might take around 2500 training hours to get to BJJ black belt (I guess if you're pretty talented). Over 10-year period, that's just under 5 hours/week. And BJJ black belt is a pretty big deal.