Hello everyone,
after constantly reading in this forum for more than a year now i thought that it's about time to
become a member and introduce myself.
First of all i want to thank all of you for sharing your knowledge about cubing.
I learned so many things from this forum already, it really is a great resource.
My name is Ingo, i'm 45 years old and i live in Germany.
I got my first Rubik's cube in 1982. I was able to solve it in something like 90 seconds,
but after a few months i got bored with it and lost interest. I used a method that was published in a
german print magazine, don't remember the name. Looking at it now it was a very slow method,
but back then i thought it's the only method in existence.
I rediscovered cubing in May 2012, while accidently watching a Youtube video about speedcubes.
I decided to try out a stickerless Zhanchi and i was absolutely blown away by the turning quality
and speed of it. Compared to my old Rubik's this Zhanchi was like heaven. Of course i had forgotten
how to solve it, but i was hooked, so i checked out some tutorials and learned to solve it with lbl.
That gave me a real buzz. I started learning f2l, 2-look oll, 1-look pll, bought lots of other 3x3's,
big cubes, shapemods, cuboids, basically all kinds of twisty puzzles and got really addicted.
Now i have quite a big collection and i add more all the time, as i just love to try out new cubes.
This year i managed to learn 1-look oll. Compared to properly fast speedcubers i'm kind of slow.
My pb is 18.06 seconds (full-step) and my typical average is around 25 seconds, because i have
almost no lookahead and sometimes my recognition sucks badly too, so my times are inconsistent.
Usually i take my age as an excuse for that hahaha. In 2012 i just wanted to be sub 1 minute on
every 3x3 solve, now my goal is a sub 20 average. Sadly i don't have much time to practice properly,
but i'm patient and i don't mind if it takes some months to reach that goal.
I'm not timing my solves on other cubes, i just solve them casually at a relaxed speed.
My favorite puzzles besides 3x3 are 4x4, 7x7, 4x4x6 and 3x3x5.
Thanks again ... and happy cubing
Ingo
after constantly reading in this forum for more than a year now i thought that it's about time to
become a member and introduce myself.
First of all i want to thank all of you for sharing your knowledge about cubing.
I learned so many things from this forum already, it really is a great resource.
My name is Ingo, i'm 45 years old and i live in Germany.
I got my first Rubik's cube in 1982. I was able to solve it in something like 90 seconds,
but after a few months i got bored with it and lost interest. I used a method that was published in a
german print magazine, don't remember the name. Looking at it now it was a very slow method,
but back then i thought it's the only method in existence.
I rediscovered cubing in May 2012, while accidently watching a Youtube video about speedcubes.
I decided to try out a stickerless Zhanchi and i was absolutely blown away by the turning quality
and speed of it. Compared to my old Rubik's this Zhanchi was like heaven. Of course i had forgotten
how to solve it, but i was hooked, so i checked out some tutorials and learned to solve it with lbl.
That gave me a real buzz. I started learning f2l, 2-look oll, 1-look pll, bought lots of other 3x3's,
big cubes, shapemods, cuboids, basically all kinds of twisty puzzles and got really addicted.
Now i have quite a big collection and i add more all the time, as i just love to try out new cubes.
This year i managed to learn 1-look oll. Compared to properly fast speedcubers i'm kind of slow.
My pb is 18.06 seconds (full-step) and my typical average is around 25 seconds, because i have
almost no lookahead and sometimes my recognition sucks badly too, so my times are inconsistent.
Usually i take my age as an excuse for that hahaha. In 2012 i just wanted to be sub 1 minute on
every 3x3 solve, now my goal is a sub 20 average. Sadly i don't have much time to practice properly,
but i'm patient and i don't mind if it takes some months to reach that goal.
I'm not timing my solves on other cubes, i just solve them casually at a relaxed speed.
My favorite puzzles besides 3x3 are 4x4, 7x7, 4x4x6 and 3x3x5.
Thanks again ... and happy cubing
Ingo
