How did you get into cubing?

[cubingboi]

I want to find out how people on this forum got into cubing.

I first got into cubing when I was 9 years old. My grandmother bought me a Rubik’s Cube and I spent literal hours on YouTube trying to learn to solve it. Eventually I learnt how. My friends were also into cubing and we spent hours listening to Spotify on max volume cubing together. Ever since I’ve always been cubing.

How did you get into cubing?

the way i got into cubing was that i was in school and each years there would be a talent thing and that years talent was rubiks cubes so i watched people solve it so i wanted to solve it but when i got a cube it took me a while to get a toutorial and then in januray 7 i went to a comp and i made finals in skewb ( i also knew a lot of other puzzles) and life was just happy and i had a thing to do in my life now.

 

[Deleted member 74176]

I first started when I was 6 years old and I got a Rubik’s Brand for my birthday. For a month or so I would mess around with it, but eventually I found a really terrible tutorial and followed that, solved it once and never scrambled it again. 7 years later when I was 13, my little brother got a Rubik’s Cube for Christmas and I scrambled it up. It sat in our house unsolved for 2 months and one day I decided to try to solve it so I searched up a tutorial and found the Wired tutorial and finally solved it using a good method. I did about 20 solves that day and found it really fun! YouTube then ended up recommending me Wired’s video on why it’s almost impossible to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 3 seconds, that’s where I learned about Felik’s and the 3.47 single, and from there I just got super sucked into cubing and getting faster.
Now today I’m sub-10 on 3x3 and I’m (formerly) 38th in the world for Clock. This hobby has truly changed my life in so many ways.

 

[fes_77]

I always had and liked the cube and was actually good at making 1 side (always timed myself) so one say I jst thought "wait I don't know how to solve this NOOOOOOOOO" so I just learned it

 

[Davian]

When I was 10 or 9, a substitue came to class with 6 cubes, I spent the whole day playing with the cubes. then i told my parents about the cubes, (i only solved the cross and the other things with a sit) and i begged them to buy a cube. then i got one and now here i am.