How has cubing changed you?

-Cubing is how I met my fiancée. I was giving a cube talk at a Mensa gathering that she was attending, and we met in the game room after I had given my talk.
-I live in the USA, but because of cubing I have now visited or spent time in Canada, Hungary, Germany, Thailand, and Japan. I have also visited many great places in the US too!
-I am a lot more confident now in my abilities to set a goal and work to achieve it. I am proud of my past accomplishments in cubing, and it feels great to know that I have been really good at something.
-I have met many great people who I now consider friends, and it feels great to see them again whenever going to a competition.

I'm very happy with the effect cubing has had on my life :)
 
cmhardw said:
-Cubing is how I met my fiancée. I was giving a cube talk at a Mensa gathering that she was attending, and we met in the game room after I had given my talk.
-I live in the USA, but because of cubing I have now visited or spent time in Canada, Hungary, Germany, Thailand, and Japan. I have also visited many great places in the US too!
-I am a lot more confident now in my abilities to set a goal and work to achieve it. I am proud of my past accomplishments in cubing, and it feels great to know that I have been really good at something.
-I have met many great people who I now consider friends, and it feels great to see them again whenever going to a competition.

I'm very happy with the effect cubing has had on my life :)
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Looks like cubing made you a happy man.
Keep it up!:tu
 
It's funny because now than I'm in high school, I get to see a lot more people than in my Jr. High (my high school has about 3.5 thousand and my Jr. high had about 300 or so) and when I meet people now, they're super impressed by my various abilities (intelligence, musical fluency on multiple instruments, speedcubing, card tricks) while everyone that new me back in Jr. High are just like "yeah, there's young…" completely unsurprised by the fact that I've taken up speedcubing as a hobby since jr. high, and their standards have kind of went higher thanks to me. I kind of have a reputation of learning to do things that can easily impress :P

Speedcubing has actually made me think about some things in different ways. It's increased my dexterity, and now when I'm bored I can work on a PLL. I guess that counts as something that cubing has changed in my life.
 
this is how cubing changed my life

:rolleyes::rolleyes:It has also made me more popular at my high school. I am the fastest 3x3 solver there and I always have a puzzle with me. Whether it is walking in the halls or doing it in class. It mainly changed my life because people sorta look at me differently now. I had friends before but cubeing has had me meet a lot of new people. People see me smarter and stuff just because I can solve a 3x3. That is how it has impacted my life.
 
I'm the only cuber I know IRL, apart from the 2 people I have taught (my younger brother and an ex who I no longer talk to).

I cube purely for the personal satisfaction, and the enjoyment of learning about cubing, and developing my knowledge and technique. I rarely cube in front of others and, when I do, it's because there's nowhere private to do it, rather than to deliberately illicit a reaction or praise.

Cubing has re-awakened an area of my brain which is driven to explore and to understand, which hasn't been used in years. This is feeding through to other areas of my life and work, with positive results. It also gives me a massive amount of satisfaction when I get a sub-x solve, or smooth F2L, etc..

Kudos to all of those for whom cubing has made them more socially mobile - high school is a tough time, especially when you're smarter than average and socially awkward!
 
I can easily say since i started cubing looks at me in a different way.Sometimes they think im fast at cubing and that im smart and most of the time they think i dont pay enough attention to school.
 
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