How many people have you taught?

[cookieyo145]

I voted 100+. I've been cubing for a little over 12 years, and I've always made it a point when I was in school to have a cubing club, as well as to teach my friends when they want to learn. I have a cubing club at the school where I teach now, and have already taught 3-4 people how to solve. To me, the feeling of seeing someone doing the very last 4-5 turns of their first ever full solve gets my heart pumping just as loudly as when I know I am about to set a possible pb solve on a big cube blindfolded attempt. It's really an addicting feeling teaching someone how to solve! I don't know the exact number of people I've taught, but it's certainly more than 8-9 people per year on average, so definitely 100+ for me.

i'm trying to start a club but no teachers want to sponser

 

[cmhardw]

i'm trying to start a club but no teachers want to sponser

Sadly, you will occasionally run into teachers like this sometimes. In college one of my math professors in a class structured on linear algebra and group theory (a very important subject that pertains very closely to the cube) avoided me like the plague, I think because I freaked him out at my interest in all math Rubik's cube related. There's a saying here that might sound stupid, but it works. The squeaky wheel gets the oil. If you are persistent, and continue to ask other teachers when one teacher says no, eventually someone will probably sponsor you. Teachers talk amongst each other, and if they see that you're serious about finding a sponsor, and will seek out other options when a teacher says no, then eventually someone will probably work with you.

Don't give up hope! Also, bring a Rubik's cube with you when you ask the next teacher. Try to bring a variety of puzzles if you can, it can go a long way toward showing the teacher that you're serious about this club! Let us know how it goes, and good luck!

 

[ianography]

I am teaching 7 classmates right now. In our AT program, we just finished a big porject so for the next few weeks we arent doing anything so i am going to teach them how to cube, and some may be able to learn f2l from me by the end. I have tought two people before this, and was proud to see them get sub 50, learn full OLL/PLL (already tought them f2l) and go on to teach more people. Glad I actually have people who are interested in it in my school.

Where exactly do you go to school?

 

[FatBoyXPC]

i'm trying to start a club but no teachers want to sponser

If you are in middle school or high school you could also talk to your principal about it. The chess club at my middle school was started by myself and my father, we didn't have to have a teacher sponsor it, so long as my father was present at all the meetings.

 

[cmhardw]

And I "taught" Ortega to Chris Hardwick ;-)

I remember that! I still have the paper too, by the way

 

[Cubenovice]

I still have the original G-perm notes including the cubing speed graph!

 

[clincr]

I taught around 5 people at my school and inspired 2 of them to be speedcubers.

 

[Karth]

I have tought almost 10 people, when the person shows potential I've sometimes given them one of my cubes.
So if I tell them I'm going to teach you the mirror/inverse of this and they can execute it by them self or if they learn algorithms ridiculously fast.

 

[Hiero]

Hiero, it's great to hear from yet another person with experience teaching younger kids how to solve the cube! I used to work at an afterschool math tutoring center that would hold week long track out camps for the year round students grades 1st-7th. I used to hold a puzzles and games workshop for 30 minutes each day, and during this time I would always have a Rubik's cube lesson for those who wanted to learn.

One thing that strikes me the most about younger kids is that they haven't yet been indoctrinated that the Rubik's cube is "for geeks and nerds" or is "way too difficult to learn unless you're a super genius." I love that their minds are completely open to tackling this new challenge they've never tried before! High Five to teaching younger kids! I actually find it just as much fun as teaching adults, if not more so! When an adult solves their cube for the first time I've seen that they tend to smile and just feel awesome about what they just did. Kids tend to freak out and jump up and down and just go nuts. I love watching this reaction from a kid who just learned how to solve the cube, it's so much fun!

Almost all of the students think there is some kind of trick to it which is why I tell them that it will take some work to learn it. It's amazing how some kids who don't do any homework and won't memorize their multiplication facts can practice the cube for hours at home and memorize all the algorithms in a few days.

Last year it was so popular that they had a yearbook page dedicated to the Rubik's Cube and kids wrote in their quotes about the cube. Some of them were really inspirational. Another thing that almost brought a little tear to my eye was when a student who attends basic skills classes (he doesn't attend normal classes) because he has MR learned to solve the Rubik's Cube and said all of his family was amazed when he solved it for them during the Christmas break.

The little kids think it's the coolest thing and that you gotta be really cool to be able to solve it. Granted, I live in an upper middle class area. Sadly, most of them who went to middle school don't bring it to school anymore and only do it at home.

Last year we had a teenager come from the inner city to our school. He said before if he saw a toy like that he would've just thrown it in the trash but now he thinks it's really cool and he was going to get together with another student over the weekend to learn how to solve it. Unfortunately he came to our school in May and when he went to middle school he got expelled for fighting. If he had come earlier in the year the cube might have saved him.

I did try to teach two adults to cube and I'm 0/2 as they never fully learned to do it without the booklet and one of them completely forgot everything. It seemed that their minds were not as open to accepting directions as students' minds are. Plus they didn't have the passion that the kids have.

I feel bad for people on here that have such a problem cubing at school. The Middle School here was talking about instituting some kind of cube program at their school, but that never got off the ground. Anyway, that's enough of my cube stories.

 

[bigbee99]

I taught around 8 people, and 2 of them have WCA profiles

 

[waffle=ijm]

idk how many people learned from my tutorials. but irl I've only taught 1 person.

 

[Narraeson]

I tried teaching a few people, but apparently, my brother and I are mutants with super-advanced cognitive skills for our age.. I'm 15 in a week, he's 16. We both learned at 11, respectively.

 

[Cubenovice]

I tried teaching a few people, but apparently, my brother and I are mutants with super-advanced cognitive skills for our age.. I'm 15 in a week, he's 16. We both learned at 11, respectively.

Seems your super-advanced cognitive skills are failing...
Bad student or bad teacher?

I tought my 5 year old, what does that tell about my (or her) cognitive skills?

 

[abctoshiro]

I taught 10+ people. Back then, just last year, the cube craze in our school has just started, and only 2-3 people know how to solve the cube (myself included). Suddenly, the craze spread throughout the school, and many of my classmates wanted to learn. In the next few months, we have almost a quarter of the batch know how to solve the cube and fast, talented people started appearing among the newbies and also taught people at our school (including the freshmen).
Also, as a tradition in our school, there is a Rubik's Cube competition at every Science and Mathematics Fair. It's just for fun, and the winner gets 500 pesos (about $10).
Sadly, this year, we have to use the Math Club's cubes and the cubes aren't broken in and lubed. Surprisingly, the winner won with a 21.xx lucky single. I had a 49.xx single (slow turning, <2tps, hard to do M's, I used Roux) Averages do not determine the winner because it takes up too much time. Still, the event is fun.
We have actually went far into teaching each other; <10 of us have 25.xx average, 3 have sub-25 average, but only 1 is sub-20. Only me uses Roux, 3 use Petrus (1 of them uses MGLS), 1 uses ZZ, and the rest of us -- Fridrich.
Only one has a WCA profile.

 

[Evan_Frame]

I tell everyone at work that 'wants' to learn that step #1 is to buy a cube from the local Walmart for $8, and I will teach them the rest. Out of 15 people so far no one has completed step #1.

Outside of work, about 6.

 

[rishabh]

i have taught 2 people , they are just having problems with recognition of cases , so im reteaching one of them (the other is too busy )

 

[xAdamster]

3 people, but one of them stopped at the cross. This was because my friend taught me, and I would like to repay that favor by helping teach other people to solve this magnificent puzzle. And yeah. Two people could solve the cube after I taught them for about a week.. except they do not practice, so I think they forgot.

 

[badmephisto]

In videos, probably 100+ .In real-life, maybe 5? ... and all of them were female. >.< hi 5!!!

 

[Meisen]

5 for me (Maybe 4, i share the credit with my ex-girlfriend for the fifth), but out of those 5, 2 have forgotten how to complete the cube (slackers).

 

[Johan444]

0 lol