Hi everyone! I'm new to speedsolving and cubing in general, I will be turning 30 this year so I suppose I am a late bloomer in the cubing scene.
Here's a quick intro to how I got started...
I've been aware of the Rubik's cube and various other twisty puzzles for most of my life, but I was just never really interested in them, none of my friends had them, and I was mainly into video games. I've lived the vast majority of my life never having touched a Rubik's cube.
December 2017... My girlfriend's sister gets a knockoff cube for Christmas and upon being able to physically hold a puzzle cube for the first time I became obsessed with trying to solve it. It was really stiff and hard to turn (I still don't know who made it), and after a day of playing with it I'd only managed to solve a single face.
The cube was so horrible to turn I decided to go to the nearest toy shop and buy a "proper" Rubik's cube for £10. Probably about 3 days of messing around with it and I still could only solve a single face, so I gave in to the evils of YouTube and learnt the layer-by-layer beginners method. This is also the time when I came to learn about the cubing community and the various speedcubing products, up until now I'd assumed all cubes were inferior to Rubik's, especially since the first cube I tried was a shockingly poor knockoff and by comparison the Rubik's cube turned so smoothly... now imagine how I felt when I tried my first speedcube... it was a £1.99 Shengshou Legend and it blew the Rubik's away immediately.
I pretty much mastered the beginners method before Jan 2018 and have spent the time since then learning F2L the RiDo's Hunting Story way, after watching quite a lot of videos on F2L this video really made learning F2L a breeze and now I just have to get better with recognition and speeding up the intuitive parts of my solve. I can achieve a sub-60 with purely beginners method, however because I am only learning F2L my solves are barely sub-90 when I integrate F2L (Cross-F2L-Beginner's Last Layer).
Here's a quick intro to how I got started...
I've been aware of the Rubik's cube and various other twisty puzzles for most of my life, but I was just never really interested in them, none of my friends had them, and I was mainly into video games. I've lived the vast majority of my life never having touched a Rubik's cube.
December 2017... My girlfriend's sister gets a knockoff cube for Christmas and upon being able to physically hold a puzzle cube for the first time I became obsessed with trying to solve it. It was really stiff and hard to turn (I still don't know who made it), and after a day of playing with it I'd only managed to solve a single face.
The cube was so horrible to turn I decided to go to the nearest toy shop and buy a "proper" Rubik's cube for £10. Probably about 3 days of messing around with it and I still could only solve a single face, so I gave in to the evils of YouTube and learnt the layer-by-layer beginners method. This is also the time when I came to learn about the cubing community and the various speedcubing products, up until now I'd assumed all cubes were inferior to Rubik's, especially since the first cube I tried was a shockingly poor knockoff and by comparison the Rubik's cube turned so smoothly... now imagine how I felt when I tried my first speedcube... it was a £1.99 Shengshou Legend and it blew the Rubik's away immediately.
I pretty much mastered the beginners method before Jan 2018 and have spent the time since then learning F2L the RiDo's Hunting Story way, after watching quite a lot of videos on F2L this video really made learning F2L a breeze and now I just have to get better with recognition and speeding up the intuitive parts of my solve. I can achieve a sub-60 with purely beginners method, however because I am only learning F2L my solves are barely sub-90 when I integrate F2L (Cross-F2L-Beginner's Last Layer).