How did cubing change your life?

[Areli Gómez]

I'm just a verry boring person I started cubing when I was 9 years old and now I'm 14.
3x3 just under 20 second so any thing from 9 to 17 second, I have only done three 9 second solves
and 4x4 1min and 30-50 seconds 2x2 any thing from 7 seconds to 2.

5 years and that progress? Great!

 

[tom0989123]

5 years and that progress? Great!

thanks I'm aiming for sub 8-5 seconds on 3x3

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

thanks I'm aiming for sub 8-5 seconds on 3x3

8-5=3
Good luck on your goal to become sub 3 on 3x3

 

[d---]

My mum had a cube from the 80s that she used to be able to solve, along with a very basic and inefficient solving tutorial book which would have been really in-depth for the time. The only efficient alg in it was it were the RUS U perms (except without the slice move) in a method where you did PLL before OLL. I learnt to solve from that, and with that cube, I was able to do it in about 3.5 minutes. After a while though I got bored of slow solves, thinking I would never be as fast as Feliks (I thought he onelooked it lol) and gave up.

In October, we were shopping in a mall somewhere and I saw a popup store selling cheap but impressive looking Qiyi versions of everything. I wandered over there and started solving the axis cubes when mum offered to buy me one of them. I naturally said yes and so I got a 5x5. I learnt from J Perm's redux tutorial, and after watching his beginner method, realised how bad my method was and wanted to try again. So I borrowed a Rubiks brand, learned CFOP and started practicing, and eventually got an RS3M this December.

I think cubing did change my life. At the time I was receiving a lot of crap from my peers for various reasons, and cubing was kinda a relief from that. I learnt to stick through things, and interestingly enough I receive a lot more respect from people now. (Interestingly about 5 of them got their own cube anyway and have started practicing)

 

[tom0989123]

8-5=3
Good luck on your goal to become sub 3 on 3x3

sorry I mean I would some times get 8 seconds and other times I would get 5

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

sorry I mean I would some times get 8 seconds and other times I would get 5

Yes i know, i was just joking

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

Same here bro! I guess some ppl just progress slower or faster

It is more about how you practice then how long you practice. Doing solves for 7 hours won't get you far, I would split it 4 hours practice, and 3 hours learning/watching walkthrough solves.

 

[Areli Gómez]

It is more about how you practice then how long you practice. Doing solves for 7 hours won't get you far, I would split it 4 hours practice, and 3 hours learning/watching walkthrough solves.

That’s how I do it, also practicing different puzzles and OH, BLD, etc.

 

[qwr]

I cube sometimes when I'm too "in my head" to try to get away from thinking too much and getting into a depressed mood

 

[Cuber Score]

My story isn't that inspiring...


my friends made me learn from them how to solve a cube

I started in about November and am now just averaging under 30 seconds.

 

[arbivara]

My story is somewhat similar to d---'s in the sense my father used to cube, but I've very recently told it in my Progression thread, so I'm not repeating it here.
@Areli Gómez : your story is really inspiring!

 

[Dutch Speed]

HOW DOES EVERYONE PROGRESS SO QUICKLY?!

I wonder that myself sometimes too

 

[JDAW6]

I cube sometimes when I'm too "in my head" to try to get away from thinking too much and getting into a depressed mood

Yeah, me too.

 

[Dutch Speed]

My story is short. I was watching YouTube a saw a video of michelle karre doing a challenge to solve a Rubik cube with the help of j perm. Her happiness when she hit sub 1 min was what triggered me. I wondered if i was able to do it too. Order a gan365 and start to learn it in October. After the beginner method i try cfop but I didn’t like learn so much the algorithms. I got the advice that older people enjoy Roux more ( i am 47) . So i learned it in December and in January i got it how to do it finally. I am not a talent. Now i am sub 50 still but I started to solve 100 a day to get better faster . Goal sub 30 for now . My best is 41 sec

 

[Nevan J]

Here's my story -

I learned to solve the rubik's cube first in 4th grade, back when there was a craze for rubik's cube in my class. I was happy that I was able to solve it. Since then, I tried to learn CFOP, which was on and off, but I always used to give up. Finally in september 2021, I decided to again start cubing, and since then I have been enjoying cubing a lot. I have gone to a few WCA Competitions, learnt to solve many puzzles and also made some friends on the way! The biggest thing which cubing has done to me is to believe that I can break barriers which seemed kind of impossible earlier.

 

[Dutch Speed]

The biggest thing which cubing has done to me is to believe that I can break barriers which seemed kind of impossible earlier.

I have the same feeling about it.