How old were you when you started?

[cuberkid10]

I was 11, it was the "cool" thing to do back when I was in 6th grade. (I'm in the 10th grade now)

 

[Georgeanderre]

Started "cubing" November/December 2009, coming up on 2 years, would of been 16 and a bit.
although like most, I had attempted to solve a cube years before with no success, then left it in a drawer.

Hit sub 25 in January 2010... and haven't got any faster since then (just slower).
Fully colour neutral since Jan/Feb 2010.

 

[IanTheCuber]

Are you the guy who made the 1x1 solve video?

 

[majikat]

I originally started cubing around 2000, when I was about 12 years old.
My dad had a book from the 80s called The Simple Solution to the Rubiks Cube...it was a real simple Layer by Layer method that I learned. Initially I was averaging around 4 minutes, of course, but eventually got my times down to about 1 minute, before I decided to learn the Petrus system.
With Petrus, I got my average to about 25 seconds by 2003, when I competed in the World Championship in Toronto...at that time, One Handed solving was kinda my forte, and I got second place with 54 seconds.
Soon after 2003, I eventually got my average to just barely sub-20, and after competing in one more competition (the Idaho Open), I somehow lost interest and gave up speedcubing, till earlier this year when I got back into it.

A few months ago I decided to learn the Roux method, for lots of reasons- it seemed like a really fun system, and I think it might be more my style, let me get even faster.
Now I'm averaging about 18-19 seconds again, and hoping to start competing again.

 

[Ressiol]

I started when I was 13 years old, back in 2008. Well, I lasted 9 months before I stopped for a long time :<

 

[tozies24]

I was 17, 3 months from my 18th birthday. Now I am 19. I average about 17 seconds with CFOP. I started color neutral, and I learned full pll in my first 3 months and then learned full OLL in the first year. I have been using full everything since about April and my times have dropped about 7 seconds since then.

 

[TMOY]

SInce I don't do any cross, I guess that means I never started.

 

[xabu1]

I don't usually do cross
but when I do

it is on white

 

[IAssemble]

I started solving the cube back in about 1980 when it was first on sale. Now I just build LEGO robots to solve it for me ;-)

 

[CRO]

I started when I was almost 16.

 

[Bapao]

34...

 

[ketchuphater999]

I started just about a month ago (I'm ten) when I watched Dan Brown's vid on how to solve the rubik's cube. My times have dropped from 2:30 to about 0:58 with the beginners method and I'm starting to use CFOP (just f2l for now) and my times are increasing but I assume that that's normal & I'm hoping that my times will go down in the future.

 

[AvidCuber]

I first solved a cube in around April or May 2008, but didn't really touch it again, apart from picking one up whenever I saw it at people's houses, etc., until early 2010, which is when I actually started speedcubing. So I first solved a cube at age 11, and picked it up more seriously at age 13. Now I'm almost 15.

 

[Mal]

Started cubing when I was 14(still 14) and that was about Febuary this year when I first learned how to solve it. Now I am averaging about 21 seconds.

 

[LuckyShadows]

I started this February when I told my friend to get me a cube for my 18th birthday

 

[4.]

I was 14 when I started in august/september 2010.

 

[Yuxuibbs]

I was 14 (August 2010) and I saw some youtube vids and decided it would be fun to solve one. Got addicted to it about a week later and started speed cubing. First speed cube last December, second speed cube last week. Now I average around 17-ish.

 

[TheAwesomeAlex]

I started about september 2011 when I was 11, now im 12

 

[Slowpoke22]

Started in 2003, shortly after I turned 16.

 

[Riley]

4ish years ago, when I was 9 or 10, my mom took to me a competition at the exploratium in SF. I was amazed, and bet that I could solve one. So I got a storebought, eagerly mixed it up, and of course, couldn't even get a side. My mom then had to, embarrassingly, ask a random person there to solve it. She asked Lars Petrus, who solved it while talking to someone. I was in awe, and I don't even remember if I said thank you. When I got home, I tried to learn, but failed. Eventually my older brother solved it later that night. I learned within the week. I think I continued for a year after that, but my brother who averaged 30 seconds, never taught me what F2L was, so I had stayed with the beginner's method for a long time, with no finger tricks, using my whole hand to turn each face. I finally got bored of it, and just picked it up 5ish months ago. I now average 17-18 seconds, with 1/10 solves being sub 15.