Your inspiration

[TomTom]

Who originally inspired you to solve rubiks cubes? Who is your current inspiration? Orginally, a friend from camp inspired me to solve rubiks cubes when i saw him doing it "quick" (like 1 minute solves), and now my main two inspirations are Antoine Cantin, and Chris Olsen, because my main events are 2x2 and 3x3, and im trying to get better at 3x3 OH

 

[GuRoux]

alex lau, the roux god.

 

[TDM]

Originally a guy from school motivated me to learn to solve one, mainly because I just wanted to beat him Now, nobody really inspires me.

 

[JediJupiter]

I don't really have anyone who inspired me to begin with, but just the act of solving a cube was so awesome that I didn't need more inspiration, I guess. Now, I still have no inspirational individual, but the whole community is so cool that I could call that an inspiration in itself. I'm more interested in doing this for fun than trying to become like someone else. I understand that there could be other reasons to be inspired by someone, but why aim to be like them when you could be someone even more awesome in a different way?

 

[cmhardw]

Mark Jeays' solution is how I started. Then Jessica Fridrich's site and her tall claim that she could teach you to solve a cube in 17 seconds got me hooked on the idea of speedcubing. The first cuber that really inspired me was Dan Knights. He was the big name at the time and had a video of him solving a cube in 18 seconds, and I just couldn't get over that it was possible to solve a cube that quickly!

Ron van Bruchem inspires me a lot. When I was starting to get faster, Ron would give me tips on how to practice and how to improve. Ron also encouraged a friendly and helpful community early on, and I liked that.

Dror Vomberg is also a big inspiration for me. He got me started on 3x3 BLD solving in 2002, and he inspired me to learn big cubes BLD in 2005, as well as gave me tips early on.

Ben Pridmore inspired me when I was still early into BLD and exploring memory methods. Ben's memory feats still inspire me.

Feliks inspires me today as he shows us what is possible.

 

[gj matt]

I was inspired from memyselfandpi.

I am inspired by gjayden for 2x2, and lolben for everything else

 

[kcl]

Probably Chris, simply because I practiced relentlessly to beat him in 3x3.

 

[CHJ]

to learn to solve was on my own, to get faster was a guy in school 4 years later but to get involved with and do all events (especially 5BLD) was initially D-shepps

 

[Coolster01]

My inspiration now is Matyas Kuti.

 

[Stefan]

I've been told a cousin inspired me to start in the 1980s. In 2002 someone showed me Dan Knights' 18 seconds video, which was my entry into the cubing community. Ron van Bruchem, Lars Vandenbergh and Dan Harris inspired me early on, as I met them at my first competition and they were fast and cool guys. Richard Carr (and Dror Vomberg) inspired me to start blindsolving, especially "big BLD" (Ben Pridmore and other memory masters helped, too). Grant Tregay and Daniel Hayes for megaminx. Bob Burton and Ian Winokur with team blindsolving (though I never got good). Michel Bechtatou, who I had to beat to become German champion (in regular 3x3). Chris Hardwick with several things, mostly BLD and being a great guy. Tyson Mao & Co were always super awesome and welcoming, inspiring me to participate in the big US competition seven years in a row. I'm not a competitive solver anymore, but I'd say Lucas Garron and other cubing software authors inspire me to do that as well (though I'm not doing enough yet).

And now that I listed so many, I hope I didn't forget someone important...

 

[Mikel]

My inspiration was Dikshit Goel. He was never able to solve a Rubik's cube officially, so I thought it was a really hard task. I wanted to overcome the hard task of solving a Rubik's cube officially, so I went to a competition and began competing.

 

[rybaby]

Back when I first learned in 2007, my first inspiration was probably my cousin, who could solve in about a minute. I wasn't necessarily competitive, so I thought it would just be cool to know how. The hobby persisted for a few months, where I really looked up to Macky (one of the only names in cubing I knew back then). I soon lost interest and didn't start up again till spring or summer of last year. My inspirations at first were 80s legends like Jeff Varasano or Marc Waterman. Now I'd say Alex Lau as far as 3x3x3 goes. Other people I find awesome: Breandan ( he's fast and such) and Yu Nakajima (or maybe I'm just copying WEB).

 

[Fawn]

My original inspiration in 2009 was that all of my best friends could solve it. So one of them taught me, but then I decided to get into speedsolving in mid-2013 because I had a few cubes and I thought it would be cool to take it further than simply solving it.

Even though I learned in 2009, I actually had several cubes since around 2001/2002.

 

[Deathranger999]

I'm not sure who my original inspiration was - possible Feliks.

At the moment, I have 3 main inspirations. Feliks (I mean come on, the guy is a god), Chris Olson (he's super nice and the first really good cuber I've ever met, and he's certainly very good), and Kennan Lejeune (I'm pretty sure it only took him like a year or so to get a sub-10 average; I want to be the next Kennan. He's also the second really good cuber I've met, and also a super nice guy).

Those three are my main inspirations at the moment.

 

[Coolster01]

My inspiration was Dikshit Goel. He was never able to solve a Rubik's cube officially, so I thought it was a really hard task. I wanted to overcome the hard task of solving a Rubik's cube officially, so I went to a competition and began competing.

I'm going to have to agree with you there with that statement. Him and Matyas Kuti.

 

[Ollie]

My brother inspired me to try and solve 3x3x3 under a minute, by sheer sibling competition. When I got into BLD, Daniel Sheppard inspired me to learn and solve big BLD. Even multi BLD - the 19/21 video was more interesting than any other multi video I've ever seen!

 

[Thatoneguy2]

Ya I was inspired by my friend to start cubing but now I'm just inspired by anyone who's faster then me. Which is like 99% of the people it seems... ._.

 

[obelisk477]

Yu Nakajima. I think he had the WR single back when I started cubing. His unofficial solves on Youtube at the time just seemed mind boggling.

 

[penguinz7]

Eric Limeback,
Oliver frost,
Maskow,
and Daniel Sheppard. Too tired to write more right now.

 

[qqwref]

I wouldn't say I got into cubing because I was "inspired". At the start I was interested in it by myself, for the math aspects, and then I found speedcubing and thought... nah, that sounds too difficult, there's no way I could do that. Memorizing 42+55+21 algorithms? Doing 4 turns a second? Too crazy to even try. Later in high school I met Tim Reynolds and he showed me that learning to speedcube was entirely doable, plus gave me the support to keep at it and improve alongside him. So, I'd say he was more like a coach/mentor than an idol or inspiration.

My main inspirations have been in computer cubing... for instance, Dr. C, Andy Tsao, and Michal Halczuk. When I saw amazing times done on simulators, I wanted to know how it was possible, and then how I could get there too...