How did you start Speedcubing?

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How did you start Speedcubing?

  • Got bored one day and decided to try and solve it

    Votes: 47 19.9%

  • A friend or someone of relation showed you

    Votes: 80 33.9%

  • Surfing the Web and found something about it

    Votes: 29 12.3%

  • Heard about speedcubing through news about competitions etc.

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Saw the cube and felt a sudden urge to solve it

    Votes: 62 26.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 17 7.2%
  • Total voters
    236
A new math teacher came to my school during my sophomore year in high school and he solved the cube for the class. There was a bit of a buzz about it and some people (including me) set about learning how to solve it. I'm the only one from the original group that still solves, but my teacher and I have inspired quite a few others to pick it up since then (even if they don't do it quickly).
 
For me it wasn't like "oh I have this cube and I wanna solve it", it was more like "I wanna have this cube so I can solve it". I don't remember how but I stumbled onto some big cube videos on youtube (like 11x11 etc), and I liked the sound of them turning, it was sort of relaxing. So from that I started to look at some 3x3 videos and thought that I wanna try learning to solve this. So I went through 3 malls until I found some crappy cube, no name to it, sort of like a Rubiks but worse. Learned the beginners method with that, then got a better cube and now I'm learning friedrichs : )
 
Ordos_Koala said:
parents show me, friend told me about speedcubing, google told me about Fridrich, Wiki told me about everything else :D
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:fp This was four years ago. And with bad grammar. Good job.

edit: i'm not sure what ' is.. I think it has something to do with an apostrophe.
 
Using Dan Brown's method, around 4 months in, I noticed a corner and and edge go in at once and wondered if it was possible to make it happen every time.
The next day I had the basis of intuitive F2L down and the current just carried me downstream.
 
I recieved the cube for my 5th birthday. I messed with it and could solve one side. Came back when I was 10 and decided to learn to solve it. I eventually figured it out, then i became obsessed and looked up algs on the internet to be faster, but i didn't want to memorize more, so I stopped. Almost a year ago I was trying to solve it again, and wanted to create for myself a faster technique, and i wanted something more like a real cube timer to time myself, so I made one. I simultaniously made a timer app and a new technique and saw my average go from 1:30 to 37 and my record from 51 to 27.5. I'm satisfied with my two sub-30 times and will continue to develop my technique. I might even post it here one day.
 
My best friend and I made a summer list this past summer. One of the items on the list was learn how to solve the rubik's cube. Out of nowhere one day we decided to achieve that goal and went to Toys R' Us and bought a rubik's cube along with the "You know how to solve it Rubik's" DVD. We went straight back home after and watched the video for a few hours again and again and finally learned how to solve it. Since then we've basically become obsessed, my friend a lot more than me. Haha
 
18th December 2010 it was a cold winters day one day before my french GCSE And i was so stressed i picked up my dads old one and learned how to solve it for about 2 days straight with no algs, i did it in an amazing time of about 2 1/2 days, i practiced and learnt an inter method and became quite good then i learnt fridrich and 2 look OLL and 1 Look PLL, i practiced some more and now my average is 44.46 seconds!
 
I broke the tie between "A friend or someone of relation showed you" and "Saw the cube and felt a sudden urge to solve it". xD Anyway, I was taking the PSAT, and when I was done, the guy next to me was also done, and he started cubing. I asked him to teach me, and so he did. I learned the F2L right from the beginning (along with 2LOLL AND 2LPLL), and well... I was not satisfied. So... that is how my speedcubing (at sub-60) began. xD
 
My friend showed me in highschool he could solve it, I was amazed. I had decided to learn it after he showed me the sune and anti sune method for the last layer, plus U perms. The next week when I came in he wanted to race me and I was already faster than him :P (still took me 3 minutes or something hehe) so I guess that kind of got me going into it. I spent quite some time working on it that year, maybe I got to around 1m20s by grade 12, (I don't even think I knew much about the whole speedcubing thing at that time. I mean I knew it existed, but I really didn't look to much into it.) After grade 12 ended and I went to university, I bought 4x4 and 5x5. I didn't lose interest in cubing, but I just ran out of time to do it. December (of 2009) I picked it up again, I did cube very rarely on and off throughout the prior time; maybe 30 solves a month or something.

In 2010 I learnt full PLL since a friend I told about speedcubing was getting better than me (and I certainly can't have that) I also started doing intuitive F2L at the same time. I was still averaging about 1m30s But I just cubed basically non stop through December of 09 and January of '10 and got down to about a 37s average by feb.

So it was probably around that time that I actually became "hooked" into speedcubing. Hitting the walls to breaking PBs is a little annoying, to bad it isn't linear time in getting better! (off-topic)
 
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Saw the cube and felt a sudden urge to solve it ... but i wouldn't be able to solve 3rd layer. I sarted searching the web .... and now, here i am:D
 
For cubing since 18th of december i ao100 is 40.28, am i on track or am i falling behind or am i just really slow and i felt the urge to solve it and i did it on my own with the mehod but not the algs.
 
when i was in third grade i asked my dad to buy me a rubiks cube. i just messed with it and stuff. then, for my 11th birthday, one of the things i wanted was a new cube (my brother accidentally destroyed the old one. the core got ded.) and i decided i wanted to solve it. thus, cubing began. i would bring it to school to show off to my friends and could solve it about one minute and thirty seconds. when we went to the shore that year, i saw a 4x4, and bought it. but then, just this summer, when i was searching for a 5x5, the same store didn't have it. so i bought a new 3x3 (my old one SUCKED.) i really got into it, learned f2l, (just f2l, not oll and stuffs) and i got hooked.
 
It was always in the back of my head even though I hadn't really heard of the cube that much, it was always one of those things that were impossible.

So finally I wanted one, close to Christmas which was convenient.
 
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