Why did YOU start cubing?

QCcuber4

QCcuber4

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Im curious on how speedcubing got into anyones mind.
I dont have a WCA profile because i live in Québec, Canada. No comps here :(
But im coming down to Toronto on the 14th of august for summer TO2010... My first competition in 3 years of cubing.

I was 16 and on my way to summer camp, when i saw that kid 2 seats away from me playing with the wonderful puzzle.... So i sat beside him and said: ''can you solve it?''.... like omg... how could've i guessed I'd be solving it in under 20 seconds 3 years from then....

Anyway, kid showed me the Piece by piece method for 2 weeks... 7 algs.... 2 weeks I know its slow lol. when i got back i thought i was all cool, solving it in 5 minutes and **** XD then i felt retarded when i saw Nakajima's videos... Apart from feeling retarded, when i saw his 7.85 second solve i officially fell in love with cubing. i then followed a bunch of links that lead me to Bob Burton's website, learned CFOP there, then Macky's, which i my sanctuary XD i learned advanced F2L, 3OP, M2/Old pochmann , look-ahead from macky's....

Only hick is that down here, im alone, i only know 2 other guys who can solve them as fast as i do, and i taught them... :(

So thats my story! would love to hear some from other cubers :D
 
I got a Rubik's cube for Christmas 2007. My dad scrambled it, and it lay there for one year. I learned how to solve a side and I just kept on doing that for a while. About 6 months later, my brother showed me a website where you put in the exact configuration of the cube, and it will generate a solution, that is generally over 100 moves. About 3 months later, he showed me a video on youtube that shows how to disasseble it. I just used that method for about 3 months, and I said, "That's it. I'm gonna solve it for real." I went on rubiks.com, and looked at the solution. I wrote down the parts that I didn't know, so I could look at the algorithms when I was in the car. After 2 weeks of practice, I learned it. I was on my way to school, and I learned the A-Perm, the last algorithm I needed. I had about 5 minutes left in the drive, and I solved it right as a got to school. I was addicted. About 4 or 5 months after practicing and getting below 1 minute, I stumbled across MMAP's F2L, OLL, and PLL tutorial. I learned F2L, and that put me back at 1 minute 20 seconds. I kept on practicing and practicing, and I ended up inspiring my friend to learn how to solve it. I taught him the first 2 layers, and he learned the rest himself on rubiks.com on the way to Cedar Point. He found out about 2LOLL and 2LPLL. I learned it, and practiced that along with more F2L. I was averaging about 45 seconds, by then, and my friend was right up there with me. I got a 2x2, and so did he. We were neck and neck for a long time, and then the world stopped...... He quit. The ironic part about it was that it was right after a competition. I think he was starting to feel a little jealous of Dan Cohen, because of all the medals he won at Indiana Winter 2010. I was starting to catch up to him in big cubes, and I was about 5 seconds faster in 3x3.

I found a new cubing friend, though: Justin. He is really good. He is better than me at 3x3, and he can do 3x3 and 4x4 BLD.

I hope my friend comes back to cubing.


Also, when MMAP said people could get down to 10 seconds in F2L, I didn't believe him. But now, I am sub-10 on F2L.


Special thanks to: Nathan Ozog, Justin Kelm, Dan Cohen, Yu Nakajima, Erik Akkersdijk, Feliks Zemdegs, David Gugl, MMAP, Rowe Hessler, Victor Iglesias, Chris Bird, Lance Taylor, Tristan Wright, and all the other cubers in the world and on this forum. I would have never done it without you guys.
 
Heyyy, I might see you at TOS! :)
So, It started when I got some cheap cubes as a gift. I scrambled it, and gave up. One day, sometime in september, I was sick. I found this magical cube. I went on youtube and tried to solve it yet again. It took awhile before I got even the cross. Most videos on youtube just tell you to "do it". I felt like giving up again, until I stumbled upon Mr. RobH0629's videos. They were amazing!
So uh... In short, you could say that I was high and thought it'd be fun to speedcube.. but that's not what really happened, lol.
 
nice stuff. for unknown reasons i still can't explain, I learned ALL 57 OLLs and 21 PLLs before advanced f2l.... I would take 30 seconds for F2L, I would solve white, then insert the edges one by one, then OLL and PLL lmao, that was so retarded now that i think about it.... thats kinda why i reacted to it, I tried figuring out advanced f2l on my own. I did manage a couple of cases alone, then I looked it up of internet and found out i was still pretty far from knowing all cases....

And I began OH 2 years ago, when i broke my right hand, i cubed with my left hand only, and as soon as i got my right hand back, 1 month later, i switched to right hand OH.... was it a mistake? I noticed how every big class cubers use left :(
 
QCcuber4 said:
And I began OH 2 years ago, when i broke my right hand, i cubed with my left hand only, and as soon as i got my right hand back, 1 month later, i switched to right hand OH.... was it a mistake? I noticed how every big class cubers use left :(
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Use whatever hand feels comfortable for you to use.
 
QCcuber4 said:
And I began OH 2 years ago, when i broke my right hand, i cubed with my left hand only, and as soon as i got my right hand back, 1 month later, i switched to right hand OH.... was it a mistake? I noticed how every big class cubers use left :(
Click to expand...

Of course, use whichever hand feels most comfortable, but if you use your right hand, you may need to re-learn some algorithms, and get new ones that are L move heavy. This applies to Left handed OH too, but just not as much.
 
Cool story, bro.

I just wanted to know how to solve it. Espicially to impress people.
Now I keep doing it coz it's fun. I never thought I would get this fast, get this many puzzles, learn to do it one handed and blindfolded, and everything else.
 
The girlfriend was out of town so I was very very bored. I had two cubes on a dresser next to my bed, and though the force of boredom I became determined to solve them. I printed out a solution and began to try and solve it.
My first solve took four hours but it was amazing, I kept trying it, by the end of the night I was down to 10 minutes (still using the cheat sheet). In two weeks I was sub-2m, and I was hooked.
The girlfriend wasn't so happy about my new found hobby when she got back.
This was 5 years ago.

I don't think I've told anyone this full version.
 
dillonbladez said:
QCcuber4 said:
And I began OH 2 years ago, when i broke my right hand, i cubed with my left hand only, and as soon as i got my right hand back, 1 month later, i switched to right hand OH.... was it a mistake? I noticed how every big class cubers use left :(
Click to expand...

Of course, use whichever hand feels most comfortable, but if you use your right hand, you may need to re-learn some algorithms, and get new ones that are L move heavy. This applies to Left handed OH too, but just not as much.
Click to expand...

Yeh thats what hapenned, i can use any of my algorithms in both symetries, as i first learned them visually, i learned how to read algorithms after Fridrich LL.... bob burton's videos.

I have no problem with LU algs.

in two-handed, i hear people say its better to use a single motrice hand and one to execute U moves.... personnally i dont think it rly changes anything, since if you use I.e. Right to execute and left to U' and U2, it only means you'll rotate the cube moar, right?:confused:
 
This is the reason why I started cubing back in 2006.


I even wrote an essay about this for college which got me an A. I can post it up if anyone is interested
 
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my brother RyanReese who goes here got into cubes because his friend from work and him both did beginners method. they raced and the guy solved it in like 50 seconds and Ryan was still doing it. The kid from work kept doing the Alg ( R' D' R D) over and over and he was like oh almost done almost done (to make fun of Ryan's slowness). After that Ryan got nerdrage at the kid and learned Fridrich. 3 months later he learned full look pll and oll. But the kid from the work quit.

Then in my brotherly (we are twins) urge to surpass Ryan at everything he does, I got into cubes. Im still bad though :( . If i add on 5 seconds for the PLL part my best time is 55 seconds. I only know 2look OLL and F2L :/

That's my story :D (and his i suppose).
 
Feb '10:
My friend got me a Rubik's cube and dared me to solve it under two minutes in one week.

I won a candy bar.

I really got into speedsolving recently though, after seeing this one guy on the bus solve it in less than 30 seconds, over. and over. and over. and over. Now I'm at about 40 seconds, working on Fridrich.

I'm going off to college soon, and met some people at my orientation who want to learn how to cube. Perhaps we'll have competitions on campus in the future... Stay tuned, Seattle!
 
went to visit my fam in florida... my brother was able to solve a 3x3 in about 70sec... i thought it was awsome... me and him are very competitive... so i started learning... finnaly passed him in speed and just kept up with it...
 
Mom gave my dad a keychain cube when they were dating. Then they got me a keychain cube when i was little. i used to be able to get three "sides, but in layer form" leaving just the non-center portion of a 2x2x2 block left. then i stopped.

summer before my senior year of high school i found the keychain cube in my room, and learned the solution online. then i got my wisdom teeth out and while i was stuck on the couch i had my dad get me a full size cube at a store. started timing to get fast. and from that point the internet served me well.

then i went to osu when i was probably averaging about 28 and met jim
 
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