Other hobbies

[hait2]

starcraft, ssbm and ikaruga

 

[HelloiamChow]

Hahaha, Maplestory. Fun times. Got to level 50 on the Beta version. And then the official one got released, never really got back into it.

I play bassoon in band. Football and Ultimate Frisbee with friends. And the always fun, Super Smash Bros. Melee.

 

[edd5190]

I used to like sportstacking but then my cups broke I also play DS games like Mario Kart, Pokemon Diamond, and Brain Age. I also enjoy reading about memory sports. TV is good once in a while, but cubing is much better I'll post more when I think of more of my hobbies.

 

[ArminK]

Cool Harris, I am also learning to memorize pi!

 

[Sturkman11]

Nothing really. I play soccer for my high school, thats about it! Oh and i know pi to the 51 digit. :>

 

[dolphyfan]

Other than cubing I enjoy-
-playing football(soccer)
-programming using C++
-playing the Bass Clarinet
-watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
-juggling
-memory sports(just started)
-watching Looney Tunes, Flinstones, the Jetsons, and Top Cat and all of the other old cartoon network stuff
-shooting pool(billiards)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Other things I like to do:
- doing things with my beautiful wife and 3 daughters (I'm an old guy - 45 years old!)
- playing keyboard instruments (piano, organ, synths, etc.)
- juggling (my personal bests juggling: http://www.jugglingdb.com/records/member.php?user=993)

I was really into videogames many years ago. I'm the originator of the KLOV (http://www.klov.com/), and I wrote a few games for the TRS-80 color computer about 20 years ago.

I've also messed around with memorizing pi. I had about 950 digits at one time, but I probably don't remember more than about 200 right now. My silliest achievement - reciting 660 digits of pi while juggling 5 balls.

 

[AvGalen]

Hi Mike,

Being 45 IS really old

But you get everyones respect for being able to juggle 8 balls, being geeky enough to admit your involvement with KLOV and recently your amazing results on blindfolded solves! You are living prove that you don't need a 14 year old flexible/trained brain to be able to memorize a 4x4x4!

 

[gillesvdp]

I like to travel.
I am currently learning to play the guitar and also the Korean language. I find this last one particularly interesting and funny.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Hi Mike,

Being 45 IS really old

But you get everyones respect for being able to juggle 8 balls, being geeky enough to admit your involvement with KLOV and recently your amazing results on blindfolded solves! You are living prove that you don't need a 14 year old flexible/trained brain to be able to memorize a 4x4x4!

Thanks, Arnaud. I think I definitely qualify as being geeky, yes.

 

[Toojdwin]

Playing guitar, gaming, programming, watching tv, philosophizing, science, math

 

[tim]

Ok, here are my hobbies besides cubing :

- playing footbag
- riding my bicycle
- programming
- enjoying nature
- juggling (i'm very bad at it, only three balls and almost no tricks )

 

[Karthik]

My other hobbies besides Cubing are:
1.Programming in C++
2.Philately
3.Robotics(My current project is building a Cube-solving robot)
4.Physics
5.Started memorizing pi(After seeing the previous posts )

I dont understand why so many cubers are into Juggling??!!:confused:
Maybe I should give it a try.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I dont understand why so many cubers are into Juggling??!!:confused:
Maybe I should give it a try.

Yes - you should! It's fun!

There's obviously some sort of connection between juggling and cubing. It's probably just that it's object manipulation that can get you noticed.

On the juggling forums that I've spent some time on, several people have brought up the question of cubing, and there were a lot of jugglers out there who had at least gotten down to a minute or less on the 3x3x3. In fact, it was one of these threads on the juggling forums that led me to decide I should give speedcubing a try.

Interestingly, another topic that has come up on the juggling forums is memorizing pi - that is also common among jugglers. Definitely a bizarre connection.

 

[edd5190]

Yay!!! I bought new cups, so sportstacking is back! Other hobbies... Cartoons!!!

 

[Karthik]

Surely I will give Juggling a shot.
And regarding memorizing pi,even that is so much fun.Nice way to freak people around you(Just like speed-cubing )

 

[mahajarama]

So far I've only memorized a few digits of pi: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944
(This is all I know)

I also like playing real time strategy games such as Starcraft and Warcraft.

 

[I dream of rubik's cubes]

I'm also a juggler, and I can remember pi to about 300 places. I enjoy playing the piano, maths, running, ping pong, monty python, philosophy, chess, P G Wodehouse, cooking, art, and physics.

I did my A level maths 3 years early and got one of the highest marks recorded, so I'm definitely a maths buff. I found a test I'll put up here, on another thread.

It determines 'mathmo'-ness, but is relevant to our neck of the woods, so, have a look.

 

[AlexandertheGreat]

lol everybody here juggles..

I juggle as well, I can do 3 balls solid and 4 balls somewhat
Other than that I guess listening to music, real time strategy games, and magic (though I need to brush up on that)

 

[ExoCorsair]

Whee, started playing console RPGs like Xenosaga and Final Fantasy XII.