51 yo grandma joins the cubing world! :)

Mike Hughey said:
While I certainly understand that certain people with heart conditions might find competitions dangerous for their health (and I'm really sorry to hear it if that's happened to you, Rune - you're such a wonderful part of our community!), I suspect that barring such a heart condition, competitions might actually be helpful to many older cubers' health. It is good stimulation for the mind, it encourages socialization, and it gives some potential added purpose in life - all of those are things that have sometimes been claimed to be potentially life-extending actions. I'd like to think cubing is actually healthy for me. :)
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Mike! I never use smileys, that´s why my sarcasm was not understood. Sorry!
My interpretation of the fact that the ranking list for the oldest cubers was deleted was that some very young, very intelligent man indirectly told us: "Hey, you are not young any more, we are not sure you know what´s best for you! You shouldn´t compete any more! If my interpretation is correct,, then the whole thing is a shame - idiocy!
PS. I myself feel fine but the motivation for competing has gone
 
Mike Hughey said:
You are unusual here in terms of being older plus female, but there are a number of other older folks on here. I'm your age - 51. And you're located close enough that if you come to some competitions, maybe we'll wind up at the same competition someday. Perhaps you can make it to an Ohio competition or something. Normally, unless I'm at a Nationals (thanks, Bruce Norskog) or Worlds competition or something, I'm the oldest competitor at the competition by at least 10 years. (I'm 10 years older than my wife, who often competes, so she's often the second oldest by at least another 10 years.)

I also started with Rubik's cubes when they first came out - I originally got hooked in 1981. I got going again in 2006.

I got a late start with kids, so my oldest kids are about the same age as your oldest grandkids. :) My oldest is 14; my youngest is 8. They all compete too - my youngest got her first competition cube solve at Indiana earlier this year.

Anyway, welcome.
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Nice!! Yeah, I may go to a competition sometime just to see one in action. I'll never compete because I'll never get quick enough. Too much nerve damage - my hands get all jittery from that and some meds I have to take. I picked up the cube for physical therapy (and mental therapy) than anything but I'm finding it is a GREAT stress reliever. Gets my mind thinking about other things, and yeah, I suppose if I needed to, I could throw it against the wall and enjoy the sound of all those edges and corners flying every which way but then I'd have to put it back together so that's probably not something I'll do unless it's a cheap piece of garbage which makes me throw it against the wall in the first place :) (man, that was a long run-on sentence).

That's cool the whole family cubes and huge congrats to the 8 yo!! Impressive - bet she was tickled pink :)

Thanks for the welcome.

Hmmm guess I hadn't noticed my count wasn't going anywhere. S'ok - been off for a bit cuz my new granddaughter ended up back in the hospital with jaundice so wasn't on the computer much :) I'll be posting elsewhere more I'm sure.

I'm also in the learning category and doing more reading than anything at the moment. Once I get this blasted F2L thing figured out I'll be cooking with gas and you'll wish I'd hush :)
 
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Just so you know, the only speed requirement for competing in 3x3 is that you can solve in less than 10 minutes. There's someone who came to a lot of comps here in Melbourne who's considerably older than you, and got averages over 2:00. No-one cares how fast you are, and competing is really fun :)
 
JasonK said:
Just so you know, the only speed requirement for competing in 3x3 is that you can solve in less than 10 minutes. There's someone who came to a lot of comps here in Melbourne who's considerably older than you, and got averages over 2:00. No-one cares how fast you are, and competing is really fun :)
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Well I don't travel well and I definitely got under 10 mins beat - closer to the 1.5 min mark unless I do something stupid and get screwed up LOL I just bought, today, a new Rubik's Cube - the Void - I got it until I had 2 corners off diagonally and then nothing I did was right so I'm gonna go check on youtube. And then mix up my 2 3x3x3s and work on F2L. I need to add a sig........AND add my profile pic so you can sorta see in the tiny little pic who I am. I'm the broad in the sombrero - was my 51st b-day and we go to this authentic mexican restaurant (best beef burrito texano in the world....well as far as I've had any anyway - they are all authentic!) and the brat in the pic is my oldest gradson 12 at the time
 
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Yes, I think you should compete. My wife averages somewhere from 1:30 to 2:00, and she's competed a bunch of times. The important thing for you if you do compete is not to make a big deal about getting your fastest possible time; just relax and enjoy it. That attitude might help a little with the jittery problem.

I don't have any nerve damage or meds to blame, but I still get horribly jittery when I compete. Ask anyone who's seen me. I get comments all the time. (Most people are pretty nice about it, and I don't mind - I think it's funny - I just get nervous and I can't help it.) But I admit my jitteriness doesn't really slow me down all that much - it does increase likelihood of popping, and it does look pretty silly to spectators. My daughters always tell me to calm down when they judge my solves. :)
 
Mike Hughey said:
Yes, I think you should compete. My wife averages somewhere from 1:30 to 2:00, and she's competed a bunch of times. The important thing for you if you do compete is not to make a big deal about getting your fastest possible time; just relax and enjoy it. That attitude might help a little with the jittery problem.

I don't have any nerve damage or meds to blame, but I still get horribly jittery when I compete. Ask anyone who's seen me. I get comments all the time. (Most people are pretty nice about it, and I don't mind - I think it's funny - I just get nervous and I can't help it.) But I admit my jitteriness doesn't really slow me down all that much - it does increase likelihood of popping, and it does look pretty silly to spectators. My daughters always tell me to calm down when they judge my solves. :)
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LOL I can just imagine the added jitteriness of nerves :) That'd be funny to watch here too although I've never popped but then my cubes have only been lubed and not adjusted any other way so I don't know. But I am pretty pleased that the Void cube I bought yesterday (the Rubik's Brand - never even saw one before!!) I solved about 2 mins ago!! It's really no different than the regular 3x3 except there's no centers and you have to pay attention to corners which, if you've ever seen the Rubik's brand before, is tough - the corners are rounded and the colors aren't as obvious as they are when they're on a square. But man is it fun to play with and a royal pain to turn!! Holy crow it took me about all day yesterday fiddling with it and trying to solve it to loosen it up enough to stop making me mad enough to throw it :) Fun cube!
 
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