Why did YOU start cubing?

**MovingOnUp** · 06-19-2012

I saw the pretty colors and thought. If I could be anything...

**MadeToReply** · 06-19-2012

frustrated when the cube was scrambled and not perfect

**fundash** · 06-19-2012

Because I need to do something this summer, but I actually have not cubed for a year and am just restarting, I forgot the original reason I started, glad I did though, all my skills are coming back!

**cowabunga** · 06-20-2012

I started cubing after watching a documentary on TV about cubers.

**ellwd** · 06-20-2012

Originally Posted by Charlemagne

Cubing is now part of my identity. Love it!

Great comment

**Kattenvriendin** · 06-23-2012

A few weeks ago I was cleaning out the attic again and found this old cube. I put it back, then took it out again, somehow suddenly determined on learning to solve it. It had never been scrambled in its life.

Sat down at the computer, youtube'd my way around, and found the guts to get the first scramble going. Slowly I found methods that worked for me, then saw how a cube COULD turn (mine was like cement) and bought the Dayan. Then learned advanced white cross and F2L from Crazybadcuber's channel and that is where I am at, roughly about to get into the 2-look OLL now.

I used to have old puzzles, ones that I regret were ever tossed (they are RARE now!), and this one was the only one to make it from my childhood into my late thirties

So.. had I not kept that one cheapo 3x3 over the years I would not even be here!

Charlemagne: wow and kudos to you!

**CarlBrannen** · 06-24-2012

I knew how to solve the cube using RUR'U' and RU'R'U only. I figured this out on my own back in the 1970s. So I had some old cubes and every couple of years I pull one out, scramble it and prove I could still do it (though I would be shaky on 4x4x4 parity until I thought it through). It was only after I ordered a speed cube, held it in my hands and felt it corner cut that I decided to go for speed. (Cheaper than golf!) I particularly enjoy modifying the cubes.

Reading how slow some of the guys here were in their first few months gives me a better feeling about my 70 second solves. I'll get faster. I've been practicing since May 15th. I already switched from my really crappy algorithm to F2L / orient sides, permute sides, permute corners, orient corners (all inefficiently). Now I'm learning the algorithms for 2LOLL, 2LPLL. This is a natural step because I only had to learn one algorithm to be able to do it with extraordinary inefficiency. As I learn the other algorithms the efficiency will improve.