A cubing novel

Well; I thank you all for the suggestions, I think I have a somewhat realistic idea using some of these:

POV - Third omniscient (you'll understand why later)
Setting - Newark Public Library (for the opening scene)
Characters: Bob Burton (main char. for now), Tyson Mao, Me, Dan, etc.
and "young cuber"

Beginning of story
-Bob is setting up for Newark Open 2010.
-"young cuber" offers to help set up...people find out that he's pretty good for his first competition.

*or*
-Bob is setting up for Newark Open 2010.
-random person(non-cuber; will later be the main character) sees signs for the competition and decides to spectate.

Very basic, but it's a start.

Any suggestions from there?
I still need this "young cuber" to have a name...
 
OK, my story is based on my progress so far:

An 10 year old boy from Minnesota is named (insert name here) and finds a scrambled Rubik's cube in his attic one day. He asks his dad about it and his dad said that he bought it when it first came out, but could never get it. The boy is very interested in the concept of the cube. He tries to find a method to solve it but fails on the last layer. He decides to cheat a little. He asks his friends about it but they have never seen a Rubik's cube before. He goes on google and types in "How to solve a Rubix cube" and looks through tons of results but nothing is good. Then realizes he has been spelling Rubik's wrong. He types it in and the first result is Dan Brown's beginner method. The boy learns in fairly quickly but has trouble with the last layer again. He spends hours trying to get it but never succeeds.
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1 year later he finds the cube under his bed along with a sheet of algorithms. He picks it up and decides to try it again. He gets to the last layer on the last step (R' D' R D) and realizes that he has been rotating the whole cube, not just the U layer. He finishes and is so excited that he jumps up and down. He slips on the algorithm sheet and falls to the ground... next to a shattered Rubik's cube.
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The boy spends hours crying about his father's shattered cube. His father finds out and is disappointed that it broke. The boy decides to quit cubing and begins to play sports instead. For his 12th birthday his grandfather bought him a Rubik's cube from a Target, because he had heard (1 1/2 years ago) that he liked them. The boy was happy but found out that store boughts suck. He spent hours working to make the cube usable and finally it becomes a decent speedcube. He hears about a competition in a few months and starts to practice. He got his times down to 1:20 two weeks before the competition. The next day he sprained his middle finger. His times are hurt drastically but thinks that he can still make the finals.
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The day of the competition comes and he is all pumped to go. When he arrives they call his name. He is in the first group of cubers. He starts to solve his cube. Then the people around him start to finish and he gets nervous. Everyone in that group is done and he starts to become embarrassed. He screws up the corner permutation and doesn't notice. He stops the timer and looks down. DNF. He is devastated. He then looks at his time. It is 1:53 (His worst time ever). He then looks around and sees that everyone is sub-15. He finishes his average and ends up with 1:48. (This is where it starts to become made up) He decides not to stay for fear of being made fun of.
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When he gets home he practiced. He ignored the pain from his sprained finger and practiced. He did that for days, then weeks, then months almost constantly. His finger heals (but not completely) and he gets his times down to 35 seconds using the beginner method and a little keyhole. He then finds out about another competition near him. He makes sure he doesn't hurt himself before the competition again. He gets there but doesn't make the finals. He gets 18th place. He is a lot happier and decides to stay and talk. The boy has a ton of fun and learned about the fridrich method. He learns the basics and is really interested.
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He searches the internet and finds a good tutorial for fridrich. He learns f2l in a week and begins the PLLs before the OLLs. He learns all of the PLLs pretty easily and almost all of the OLLs. He just can't get the (insert hard OLL here). It never happpens to him during solves so he decides not to learn it.
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He goes to the U.S nationals because he now thinks he has a chance. He goes up and starts to solve. First solve is 9.83 seconds (A new PB). He is really pumped now.Second is 12.59. That made him a little unhappy but he could still win. Third is 10.51. His confidence grows. Then, on his forth solve he got the OLL he didn't memorize. He was screwed. He thought back to the beginners method and solved it that way. 17.93... He wanted to die. He hardly tried on his last solve but got a PLL skip. 10.43. That made him feel a little better but he knew he wouldn't win. His average was 11.18. He got third. He was so sad that he started to leave again. Just as he got to the door, the first and second place winners came up to him. They told him not to leave. To stay and have fun. The boy really wanted to leave but they wouldn't let him. He finally gave in and stayed. He had a ton of fun with everyone and learned some nice fingertricks. They were surprised he got such good times with a store bought. They told him about a store where you could get DIYs but he decided to stick with his store bought.
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He went home sad that he didn't win but happy that he had fun. When he got home he was going to solve his cube but noticed it was all scrachy. He took out an edge piece and notice a small piece of paper in his cube. He took it out. It was a letter explaining the OLL he couldn't get. At the bottom was a signature followed by a crudely drawn cube. It was signed by the winner.
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The boy went on to get a world record of 6.73. He also won the next world championship. He will always be known as one of the best cubers of all time.


-Logan
 
Stachuk1992 said:
Logan, just please promise me that you're not going to spell "Rubix" that way...
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I did that to show that he/I was a noob at first.

see:
Logan said:
...He goes on google and types in "How to solve a Rubix cube" and looks through tons of results but nothing is good. Then realizes he has been spelling Rubik's wrong. He types it in and the first result is Dan Brown's beginner method....
Click to expand...
 
Logan said:
Stachuk1992 said:
Logan, just please promise me that you're not going to spell "Rubix" that way...
Click to expand...
I did that to show that he/I was a noob at first.

see:
Logan said:
...He goes on google and types in "How to solve a Rubix cube" and looks through tons of results but nothing is good. Then realizes he has been spelling Rubik's wrong. He types it in and the first result is Dan Brown's beginner method....
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Sorry. I failed.
 
Like a few others have said, try avoid the whole "There are evil cubers out there" themes. How about this?

Cubing as it is now, but in competitions, you can compete individually or as part of a team. Being on a team has some advantages (make up something). anyway, a person goes to the competition and competes as an individual, and does really good. He meets a girl who see his skills, and she says he should join her team. Well, they ask the team leader, but unfortunately, the roster is full. So the person joins another team. Now this team sucks. And it's not "We think they suck but they end up rocking". No, they suck the entire time. anyway, a few other plot points you could do:

- Person works on making his own team, and trying to recruit the girl away.
- Person competes head-to-head against the girl sometimes.
- Person gets a chance to be on the team, but can't because of some reason.
 
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