How old were you when you started cubing?

[Harris Chan]

I started when I was 12 in Fall of 2005.
It's been almost three years...

 

[waffle=ijm]

I've had the cube since i was six. couldn't solve until i was 13. 14 was when i went with speedcubing

 

[Raffael]

According to my mother, my dad's cube was one of the two things that kept me quiet and happy when I was a baby - so I guess the addiction started back then.
When I was 15, I started trying to solve it, but not on a regular basis.
When I was in the army (Y2k, 20 years old) I got it almost completed. (2 Edges mispermutatet). I just couldn't figure out, how to exchange them so I got a LBL solution from the internet.
Sticked with that, being happy to be able to remember the solution until late 2005/early 2006 (I think).
Then I started to try to solve it faster, but sticked to a slightly modified LBL method until the end of last year.
Right now I'm using Fridrich with 3 LLL and got my first sub-20 average today

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

I think I started in 1980 just before I turned 26. I figured out Sune and Niklas and some edge flippers/swappers on my own, during the first 2 days I had the cube, which allowed me to finish solving it. A few years later, I improved my F2L a bit, and developed more tools for last layer. It was not until I hit 53 (last December 2007) that I decided to get more serious about cubing. I had been solving my last layer by permuting corners, orienting corners, permuting & orienting edges. So for the experience (and hopefully for speed), I learned all the PLL's and 2 stage OLL (but some as 1 stage). I want to speed up my F2L and do better finger tricks before finishing OLLs. But before that, my goal is to solve a 3x3 blindfolded. I've been practicing blindfolded stages an hour or 2 per day now.

EDIT: A week or two after I wrote this I started doing 3x3 BLD. As of Oct 20, 2008 I have done it at least 15 times, working my way down to under 10 minutes, I hope. Next will be finger tricks, look ahead, OLLs.

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

I started this year, February 22.
I reached sub 20 just this April 23, 2008.

62 days, almost a UWR.

 

[MTGjumper]

I started this year, February 22.
I reached sub 20 just this April 23, 2008.

62 days, almost a UWR.

Hell, he's almost officially sub-15, having got sub-15 in SC.

 

[Bryan]

Started when I was 23.

 

[Vulosity]

I started January 2008 and I am 13. I have reached sub 30.

BTW, what is Niklas?

 

[alexc]

13-14. I started cubing about 2 months before my 14th birthday.

 

[Andreaillest]

When I was 15.

 

[penguin12321]

i'm 12. i started about 1 month ago.

 

[Lewis]

I got my first cube when I was about 8, and learnt to solve it when I was about 10. I lost interest in cubing for a while until I bought my pyraminx and skewb. I've been obsessed with solving, collecting and building puzzles since.

 

[not_kevin]

Got my first cube (and how to solve it) when I was 12, for an uber-nerd summer math boarding camp. Back then, thought that 2:30 was a good time... XP

Got into speedcubing in approx October of 2006, when my friend got a 38-sec time using Fridrich (and after hearing about one of my friends talking about some freak of nature called Macky who could solve cubes faster than most people can fall asleep in my CS class... I wonder who that could be?).

 

[jcuber]

I started on April, 17th, 2007. My birthday is on September 9th, 1992. So I was 14 when I started. Now I'm 15, turning 16 in three weeks.

you older than me by two days (yah yah i born in 9/11 )

I was born September 10th and I'm 11 turning 12 in a couple of days. I startwed cubing about 4 months ago. (I started using a VERY cheap knock off cube I got from my friend for free it was so bad)

 

[Sin-H]

btw: today is my big fat birthday party

It's big fat because one of my best friends turns 17 on September, 9th, and two of my classmates turn 18 today. So we just do the paty today

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

I started earlier this year. I was 20 at the time

 

[Garmon]

14 and 10 months

 

[Monty]

Wow, you guys are cool. ;D
I started around 3 months ago.
I'm 13 and 11months old.
Sub 35 average still )=

 

[CAT13]

I've been cubing for over 2 years and I'm still not sub 20 I'm slow. It's been on and off though. I've been seriously cubing for a year or so

 

[slncuber21]

i started cubing in November of last year, so i was 13.
now im 14 and am sub 35.... i suck =[

wow, almost a year of cubing.
during the summer it was great- good times and such,
now the schedule is school-homework-swim team-eat-sleep

i think i have lost the touch. i can seem to get any faster with the PLLs i know, i know you guys are going to say learn more PLLs but i dont think i can contain them.