Why did YOU start cubing?

I bought a storebought with some Christmas money a couple years back (2007? Yes, 2007.) and wanted to solve it. Forgot what drove me to buy it in the first place.
 
Was checking out learning Japanese ( Still haven't, too lazy :p ) and stumbled onto some of Syuhei Omura's videos and said, " FML! I wanna do that ! ". :D
 
it was always there, i would just play around with it and try to solve it when i ws bored. then one day out of the blue, i just decided, "thats it, im solving this ****in thing"
 
I picked up my dads old cube back when I was young and he showed me how to do it. I didn't touch a cube for a few years and in about 1999 I got a gift card for toys r us for Christmas and ended up buying a rubiks cube with it. I relearned the beginners method my dad taught me and was inspired to start speedcubing when the booklet that came with the said the world record was 21 seconds. After a few months I got down in the 40 second range before deciding to learn the fridrich method. It took me about a month to learn the method and with in another month of that I was sub 20. I cubed almost everyday for about 4-5 years and I peaked back in 2005 when I was averaging in the low 15s. After that i pretty much hit a wall for over a year and started losing interest. I just started cubing again and I'm getting close to where I was before I quit.
 
i learned to solve one in 8th grade remember first 2 layers beginners method(pogobat) couldnt remember 3rd layer. learned at the end of 10th grade again remember the beginners method in about 3 days. then learned fridrich had all algs memorized in 1 week. i was already at 45sec at the time and now im at about 36 and im stuck there and gonna learn full pll but i keep putting it off cause its lots of work to find good algs that are good and to remember the cases and yea.
 
I started writing a small description of how I started cubing, but I was really bored so I wrote an extremely lengthy account of my cubing life (about a year and a half).
Read only if you're really bored

My friend brought one to a camp and was solving it over and over, this intrigued me I couldn't be bothered buying one (I'm lazy). That Christmas I open my grandmothers present (by some coincidence) pull out a Rubik's cube.
I tried to figure it out myself for about 2 minutes, but then found the instructions that come with Rubik's brand cubes, my lazyness couldn't take it so I used them to solve it in a few hours (they're terrible instructions).
I was sub 2 mins by the time I got back to school (grade 10) and found that there was only one person faster then me (and not by much); it was that thought of being the best, coupled with the competitiveness of me friend who was 30 seconds ahead, that overcame my lazyness and made me start training.
I kept finding ways to improve the terrible beginners method I had learned, eventually I read somewhere that some people put Corners and Edges in the slot at the same time, after reading this I tried it... and failed, then I tried it again and again until I got the hang of it. I was sub 1 min before this and eventually got sub 50 using what I now knew was F2L.
By this time I was easily the fastest at my school but my friend was still slightly ahead.
I had loosely heard the terms PLL, OLL and Fridrich used to describe speedcubing so I looked them up, after realising their potential I printed them out and began learning.
I gave a copy to my friend and we started to learn them, first the corner OLLs and basic PLLs, then the rest of PLL.
By now I could solve the cube in 30+ seconds and was equal with my friend (we were always beating the others record and gloating over facebook).
I practiced until I was sub 30 but stopped for the final term of school and didn't really start back again until half way through the next year (roughly a month ago).
I got down to a 26sec avg and decided to learn the rest of OLL, I also found some better algs (the ones I was using were quite old). I also bought an FII and got into 2x2, 4x4 and BLD.
For BLD I originally used Pochman until I discovered 3OP/Freestyle and am learning that.
My first comp is in 3 weeks at the Australian nationals.
WARNING, CORNY LAST LINE
There's so much more to learn and I want to learn it all (or as much as possible)
 
This will be long...

I seemed to be interested in brainteasers and things like that, so my Aunt gave me a puzzle called Tantrix. I solved it easily, so she said, "We'll have to get you a Rubik's Cube." I asked what that was, so she gave me a brief description.

Months later, from her description, I recognised a keychain cube in a shop. I bought it. I scrambled it, and obviously couldn't get anywhere neat solving it. Now, sadly, I have lost this... :(

A while later, my brother bought a full-sized cube. We played with it a bit, and again, I couldn't solve it.

I saw the cube on TV a few times, but what really inspired me was this. I thought, "One day, I want to be the best in the world at solving Rubik's cubes."

So, eventually, I found the cube my brother bought, and wanted to learn how to solve it. I searched for 'how to solve a rubik's cube', and found Pogobat's tutorial. I learnt the first layer, but then I had to go to bed. I practiced the first layer, but never bothered learning the rest.

A while later, June 2009, another guy in my class was sick, and had nothing to do. He already had a cube, so he learned how to solve it. I was impressed when he showed me, (even though some other guys at my school already had, and I thought they were cheating) so I brought my brother's cube to school and asked him to teach me how to solve it. I could first solve it on the 25th of June.

I bought the cube off my brother for $3 (it was really bad). I took about 4 minutes to solve it in my first few weeks. Now, I have about 50 puzzles and average about 23 seconds. :D
 
I found my dad's old Rubik's Cube from the 80's in our basement. I learned the Denny Dedmore method. And started solving it in around ten minutes. Then I bought a newer storebought cube, and learned the more common beginners method, which is alot more efficient than Denny Dedmore's method. That cut my times alot. Eventually I just eased my way into speed cubing, bought DIY's, other puzzles, etc.
 
i got into cubing when i got a Rubik's cube for my birthday alone with other gifts but i really wanted one because i knew about Dan browns tutorial. So i got one and learned it in 3 weeks. then for 3 years i was using his method until i realized a minute 20 seconds is to damn slow. now i use Friedrich f2l and trying to learn 2look oll and pll.
 
my teacher had all the kids in school who new had to do it and have them walk him through solves and i wanted to do it
 
got a wow patch error and it wanted me to reinstall, so I uninstalled it and stopped playing wow, later i found a scrambled cube at home, and i wanted to solve it :)
 
I was in Grand Central Station and bought one in the discovery store there. It then sat on my desk for 6 months scrambled until I decided I was going to do it. Within the week I had it solved.
 
One of my friends at school could do it in 40- seconds, a week later me and one of my other friends just started doing it. 2.5 months later i have about 15 other puzzles and can solve all of them except 1 (SCREW YOU MEGAMINX IF YOURE WATCHING THIS) and yeah.
 
I got into the craze the (3x3x3) cube was back in 1981. But even with two solve books (no internet, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc in 1981!) my parents brought for me, I could not solve it. But that was resolved in May 2009 using one of the two books I used in 1981 again.

All I wanted is to just solve one 3x3x3 in my lifetime. But I have solved all cubes from 1x1 to 7x7 as a big bonus.
 
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