-2019-
My cubing roots trace back to late 2019, when I first bought a cube at a Korean toy store; I was quite young then. My mom insisted that I get a 2x2, but I told her to let me get the 3x3. Fast forward a few hours, I'm at my desk, with the cube scrambled. At the time, I had no idea how to solve a 3x3. I believe there was a pamphlet included with the 3x3, and it showed a picture of Corner twisting. Like a natural non-cuber, I started corner twisting the 3x3 to get the white face done. I tried to solve it more, but ended up messing up the cube. I put it in the drawer, and it sat there for around a week, then I smashed it against the floor, and solved it by re-assembling it. The packaging resembled a Qiyi thunderclap, now that I remember.
-2021-
In early 2021, after I moved back from Korea, I watched the speed cubing documentary that Max Park and Feliks' Zemdegs starred in. It gave me the courage to buy a 2x2 and a 3x3, both from Qiyi Mofangee at the time. To make the first layer of the 2x2, I watched HowToWeekly's video, which showed me the MOST BASIC method, but I guess I was very stupid back then, and I couldn't remember the last steps. As for the 3x3, I was clueless for solving that, just like in 2019 when I first got a cube. I ended up smashing it and re-assembling it.
-2022-
I was in school, when we were doing presentations about each of our hobbies. Then, one of my friends came up, and showed his collection of speed cubes. I was amazed at how fast he could solve them, but for 2022, there wasn't anything much. The only thing special was that I saw two first graders turning speed cubes crazily fast.
-2023-
I decided that I wanted to try and solve a 2x2, and I asked my dad to buy a rubik's brand, which he agreed to. Then I watched HowToWeekly's tutorial(yes, the one that I watched 2 years ago), and managed to solve it. After memorizing it for 2 minutes, I could consistently solve a 2x2, and averaged around a minute. I also got another 3x3, but that one broke on me before I managed to solve it.
-2024-
Finally, the big year that I started cubing. I was in a trip to Korea during the Summer, and I was doomscrolling(yes casuall thing for me to do), and I came across a cube head video, explaining the mechanisms of a speedcube. I was hooked from the moment, and started watching his videos. When I got back from Korea, I got my first Magnetic Speedcube, the Gan ME. It wasn't that great and I gave it away for my friend, but it got me down to sub -1 minute. When I was sub - 30, I got a Tornado V4. Back in 2024, the Tornado V4 seemed to be the best of the best, the succeeder to the V3, and was anticipated to be better than most flagships. When I recieved the cube, the first impressions were rather lukewarm. I thought that it would feel more like the RS3M V5(AKA yocube v2), as I mained that shortly, until one of the corners broke. Of course, I mained it because it was the only main I had at the time, and it went on until early 2025, when I broke the cube, due to the core breaking.
-2025-
Now here I am, I attended westerns earlier this year, and honestly, it was a great experience. I got to meet many of my friends from NorCal, and people I've talked to in the WCC discord server. I even got to meet Max Park!
