BenBergen
Regular
Hi everyone! My name's Ben, I'm 15 years old and, (as you may have already guessed), I'm Canadian.
Until two and a half months ago, solving the Rubik's Cube had always been somewhat of a life goal for myself. I consider myself a fairly smart guy, so it only seemed reasonable that I should be able to complete a puzzle that popular culture has labeled as a measure of intelligence. Despite this, for the longest time I couldn't grasp how one could solve a puzzle where every move you make seemingly destroys the progress you've already made. I would think to myself "one day I'm gonna sit down and spend the day learning how to solve one of these thing." The task always seemed overly daunting though
Fast forward to the beginning of September. I'm sitting at the kitchen table; with my crappy original Rubik's cube and iPad in hand, I had newfound motivation to learn to solve the cube. I managed to stumble across the Rubik's website tutorial. Although their instructions seem incredibly noobish in retrospect, seeing them was what really started to make things click for me. Following their instructions, I was able to solve my first cube in a few hours. A couple of days later and I was able to solve it without looking at the algorithms. I was hooked. I haven't looked back since then.
Currently I average about 35 seconds and my PB single is 25. I use CFOP with full PLL and 2 look OLL (the majority of which I learned from Badmephisto's site.) The past few weeks I've spent revamping my F2L, learning how to insert different cases from any angle with minimal cube rotations, and drilling these cases into my mind so I can (eventually) do them without thinking. I figure this will make looking ahead a lot easier, when the time comes to pursue that. Next step is probably working on my cross because I'm not very confident with that yet.
Right now my main is the Moyu Aolong V2. I find its on the slower side, but it's also incredibly controllable which I like. Before that I used the Rubik's speed cube (because that's the only one you can buy not online in Canada.). It's a half-decent speed cube but it's really noisy and the edges pop like its nobody's business. I managed to get around to ordering a moyu pretty quickly afterwards. Since things take about 7478277 years to ship from China though, I was stuck with the Rubik's speed cube until the end of October.
I plan on attending my first competition in Toronto in a couple of weeks. Four of my friends at school are also into speed cubing, so we're planning on going together. One of them has been speed cubing for a few years already so he's sub-20. The other three only started after I did though. Right now they're all just over a minute and are engaged in an epic battle to see who will be the first to reach sub-minute. anyway, really looking forward to the comp, I've heard they're a lot of fun.
Well, that's me in a nutshell (ok maybe that was a bit longer than a nutshell). I look forward to talking to some new people and learning stuff on this forum!
Ben Bergen
Until two and a half months ago, solving the Rubik's Cube had always been somewhat of a life goal for myself. I consider myself a fairly smart guy, so it only seemed reasonable that I should be able to complete a puzzle that popular culture has labeled as a measure of intelligence. Despite this, for the longest time I couldn't grasp how one could solve a puzzle where every move you make seemingly destroys the progress you've already made. I would think to myself "one day I'm gonna sit down and spend the day learning how to solve one of these thing." The task always seemed overly daunting though
Fast forward to the beginning of September. I'm sitting at the kitchen table; with my crappy original Rubik's cube and iPad in hand, I had newfound motivation to learn to solve the cube. I managed to stumble across the Rubik's website tutorial. Although their instructions seem incredibly noobish in retrospect, seeing them was what really started to make things click for me. Following their instructions, I was able to solve my first cube in a few hours. A couple of days later and I was able to solve it without looking at the algorithms. I was hooked. I haven't looked back since then.
Currently I average about 35 seconds and my PB single is 25. I use CFOP with full PLL and 2 look OLL (the majority of which I learned from Badmephisto's site.) The past few weeks I've spent revamping my F2L, learning how to insert different cases from any angle with minimal cube rotations, and drilling these cases into my mind so I can (eventually) do them without thinking. I figure this will make looking ahead a lot easier, when the time comes to pursue that. Next step is probably working on my cross because I'm not very confident with that yet.
Right now my main is the Moyu Aolong V2. I find its on the slower side, but it's also incredibly controllable which I like. Before that I used the Rubik's speed cube (because that's the only one you can buy not online in Canada.). It's a half-decent speed cube but it's really noisy and the edges pop like its nobody's business. I managed to get around to ordering a moyu pretty quickly afterwards. Since things take about 7478277 years to ship from China though, I was stuck with the Rubik's speed cube until the end of October.
I plan on attending my first competition in Toronto in a couple of weeks. Four of my friends at school are also into speed cubing, so we're planning on going together. One of them has been speed cubing for a few years already so he's sub-20. The other three only started after I did though. Right now they're all just over a minute and are engaged in an epic battle to see who will be the first to reach sub-minute. anyway, really looking forward to the comp, I've heard they're a lot of fun.
Well, that's me in a nutshell (ok maybe that was a bit longer than a nutshell). I look forward to talking to some new people and learning stuff on this forum!
Ben Bergen
I am from India,started seriously cubing from like March-June 2014 and now average about 17 seconds
