Method Survey

[Yellowsnow98]

Name Ryan Lacey
Age 14
Sex male
Country Ireland
3x3 method CFOP (though I'm experimenting with Roux)
PB 17.77
Time cubing 18 months or so
Time with current method a year (exactly 2 weeks for Roux)
Music genre punk/pop-punk (points for knowing who the guy in my avatar is)
Video game genre FIFA!!!!
Movie genre action or comedy
Hobby sport
Value in life I do what I feel like
Also Roux should be added as an individual choice.

 

[Count Dracula]

Name: Ivaylo Tanev
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Country: Bulgaria
3x3 Method: Fridrich(CFOP) color neutral
Personal Record: 5.09(pll skip),8.84 avg5,9.93 avg12
Time Cubing: 2 years
Time Cubing with Current Method: 2 years
Favorite Music Genre: Metal mainly
Favorite Video Game Genre: First Person,simulators
Favorite Movie Genre: Comedy,action
Favorite Hobby: Cubing only
Your Number One Value in Life: Ambition

 

[MaikeruKonare]

I use Fridrich, but why isn't Roux in the poll? It's pretty popular.

 

[TDM]

I use Fridrich, but why isn't Roux in the poll? It's pretty popular.

The poll was created in early 2009; I haven't been cubing long so I don't know, but the method may not have been used much then.

 

[Spaxxy]

Name: Aaron
Age: 15
Sex: Male
Country: USA
3x3 Method: CFOP
Personal Record: 14.03 seconds
Time Cubing: 4 years
Time Cubing with Current Method: 8-9 months (Before I was using a beginners method)
Favorite Music Genre: Recently, I've been listening to a lot of chiptune music
Favorite Video Game Genre: Platformer/Collectathon (Like the old N64 Rareware games)
Favorite Movie Genre: Comedy
Favorite Hobby: Either programming or playing with electronics stuff (Like my Arduino)
Your Number One Value in Life: I don't know if this is a value, but I believe that a willingness to learn is very important, not just at school, but from life.

 

[speedcuber50]

Name: anonymous
Age: between 15 and 16 (not gonna say LOL!)
Sex: Male
Country: UK
3x3 Method: Fridrich
Personal Record: 13 seconds
Time Cubing: About 3 years
Time Cubing with Current Method: About 2 years (I started with beginner's LBL)
Favorite Music Genre: Popular music from the 1970s, plus jazz (blue, boogie) and ballad
Favorite Video Game Genre: Simulations and 80s arcade games/microcomputer games
Favorite Movie Genre: I don't like watching movies
Favorite Hobby: Various computing/programming/electronics hobbies (visit my website for the full list of all eight LOL!)
Your Number One Value in Life: Doing lots of different hobbies and being at a semi-pro level with each

 

[Qthulu]

Name: Immanuel
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Country: Germany
3x3 Method: ZZ
Personal Record: 29.66 with CFOP
Time Cubing: 6-7 months
Time Cubing with Current Method: 1 month (used CFOP before)
Favorite Music Genre: Hardcore Techno and/or Drum & Bass
Favorite Video Game Genre: First Person Shooters
Favorite Movie Genre: Action
Favorite Hobby: (next to cubing ) DJing and/or music production (electronic music; currently starting with Drum & Bass)
Your Number One Value in Life: Staying alive as long as possible and make the best out of it.

 

[YddEd]

Name: Eddy
Age: 11
Sex: Male
Country: Australia
3x3 Method: Roux
Personal Records: 17.02 with CFOP and 17.38 with Roux.
Time Cubing: 7 months and around 2 weeks.
Time Cubing with Current Method: 1 month and around 2-3 weeks.
Favorite Music Genre: (Be specific here, if is rock, say what kind of rock it is (prog, alt, etc.) Don't listen to much music.
Favorite Video Game Genre: Lets say RPG games and adventure.
Favorite Movie Genre: Fantasy..?
Favorite Hobbies: (next to cubing ) Chess and origami.
Your Number One Value in Life: Having a good life..?

 

[rybaby]

Name: Ryan
Age: 14
Sex: male
Country: USA
3x3x3 method: Corners First (Jeffrey Varasano). Trying to learn Waterman.
Time cubing with current method: 2 months
Personal record: 20.91 single, 27.xy ao5
Music: beatles, elvis, lynyrd skynyrd
Video games: none really
Movie: adventure, mystery
Hobby: building stuff
Value: happiness and tranquility

 

[Hypocrism]

Name: Hypocrism
Age: 21
Sex: Male
Country: UK
3x3 Method: ZZ (in the process of switching. Times are about 6-7 seconds worse than Fridrich)
Personal Record: 13.78
Time Cubing: From August 2007
Time Cubing with Current Method: Avg 24s
Favorite Music Genre: Not sure
Favorite Video Game Genre: Mario Kart, Tetris
Favorite Movie Genre: ?
Favorite Hobby: Rowing, chess
Your Number One Value in Life: Victory

 

[cubesonfire]

Name: Udit Malik
Age: 12
Sex: Male
Country: India
3x3 Method: CFOP/Fridrich
Personal Record: 1/5/12/100 -16.54 NL/23.56/24.33/25.02 ( Lucky single: 12.27 )
Time Cubing: Normal Cubing- 7 months. Serious Cubing- 2.5 months
Time Cubing with current method: 2.5 months
Favourite Music Genre: Many
Favourite Video Game genre: Many
Favourite Movie Genre: Comedy,Suspense,Thrill or Documentaries on Famous People
Favourite Hobby: Playing different sports,reading,doing tech stuff
Your No.1 Value in Life: Many

 

[slinky773]

Name: Young Lee
Age: 14
Sex: Male
Country: USA (parents from South Korea)
3x3 Method: Fridrich
Personal Record: 17 seconds
Time Cubing: About 1.5 months
Time Cubing with Current Method: (Some have switched) It's been maybe 4 weeks since learning f2l, so I'll say 4 weeks
Favorite Music Genre: (Be specific here, if is rock, say what kind of rock it is (prog, alt, etc.) I'd say basically all types of rock (from Beatles to Red Hot Chili Peppers to Anberlin to Green Day) though I enjoy classical music as well (favorite piece is Rite of Spring)
Favorite Video Game Genre: MMOs
Favorite Movie Genre: psychological thrillers (like Memento or Inception)
Favorite Hobby: (next to cubing ) Playing Cards. I love to play around with playing cards. I love to perform tricks with a lot of card manipulation in it and watch the audience go berserk.
Your Number One Value in Life: Other people

 

[ianliu64]

Name: Ian Liu
Age: 11
Sex: Male
Country: USA (parents from China )
3x3 Method: Fridrich, though I'm going to try ZZ.
PBs: 15 second single 20 second Ao5 23 second Ao12
Time cubing: 3 months
Time cubing with current method: 2 months
Favorite Music Genre: I luv Dubstep/Electro and I'm a fan of Pop and Rap
Favorite Video Game Genre: FPS
Favorite Movie Genre: Action or Comedy
Favorite Hobby: Competitive Swimming, Basketball, Video Games and cubing of course
#1 value in life: My life...

 

[aceofspades98]

Name: Rudy Reynolds
Age: 14
Sex: Male
Country: USA
3x3 Method: CFOP
PBs: 8.6 single, 12 second average of 5 and 14 second average of 100.
Time cubing: 7 months?
Time cubing with current method: 5-6 months
Favorite Music Genre: Black Metal and Indie Rock
Favorite Video Game Genre: Side scrollers haha
Favorite Movie Genre: Action? (secretly romance)
Favorite Hobby: Chess, cubing
#1 value in life: make people happy

 

[Aceno20]

Name : Nihal Noor
Age : 16
Sex : male
Country : Australia (Indian parents)
3x3 method : Fridrich(main) and occasionally Roux
PB - 15.55 non lucky
Time cubing - 13 months in total, 7 months of serious cubing.
Time cubing with current method - 11 months
Favourite music genre - none in particular
Favourite video game genre - sport
Favourite movie genre - Action
Favourite hobby - Basketball, Anime, cubing, eating
No. 1 value in life - To be happy and enjoy life

 

[CubezUBR]

Name:Rob saunders
Age:12
Sex:male
Country:UK
3x3 Method:CFOP (learning roux)
Personal Record:14.66
Time Cubing:8 months
Time Cubing with Current Method: 6 months
Favorite Music Genre: chillstep, dubstep and anything that has a beat
Favorite Video Game Genre: FPS
Favorite Movie Genre:Comedy
Favorite Hobby: internet
Your Number One Value in Life:to be gratefull for what i have got (im not into religion or superstitious stuff)

 

[rj]

Age: 12
Sex: Male
Country: US of A
3x3 method: CFOP as main, dualing with Roux
PB: 14.93 lucky
TIme cubing:9 months
Time speedcubing: 4 months

 

[Dapianokid]

Name: Ian Moore
Age: 15
Sex: Male
Country: United States of America
3x3 Method: Petrus (but I know many others and often combine or use different methods.)
Personal Record: Just over 31 seconds.
Time Cubing: 7 weeks, speedcubing for 6.
Time Cubing with Current Method: 5 weeks
Favorite Music Genre: Classical
Favorite Video Game Genre: RTS
Favorite Movie Genre: Sci-Fi
Favorite Hobby: Playing the Piano
Your Number One Value in Life: The Lord

 

[uyneb2000]

Name: Ben
Age: 13
Sex: Male
Country: USA
3x3 Method: CFOP
Personal Record: 6.19 single, 10.30 Ao12
Time Cubing: 2.5 years
Time Cubing with Current Method: 2 years
Favorite Music Genre: Alt rock
Favorite Video Game Genre: FPS
Favorite Movie Genre: Historical/Documentary
Favorite Hobby: Swimming
Number One Value in Life: Stay positive and keep your head up

 

[chardison1980]

Chris
Male
33
Main method
Roux, petrus, ZZ,
Pb super lucky 8 seconds
Average 40-45
Cubing time
About year 2000
Speed cubing about 5 years