Method Survey

[Joël]

Name: Joel van Noort
Age: 26
Sex: m
Country: the Netherlands
3x3 Method: CFOP (You call it "Fridrich")
Personal Record: 7.96 single? Not sure, it was a long time ago.
Time Cubing: 7 years.
Time Cubing with Current Method: 7 years(Some have switched)
Favorite Music Genre: None
Favorite Video Game Genre: RTS? And simple games like stepmania
Favorite Movie Genre: Action (but it should also have a decent plot)
Favorite Hobby: (next to cubing ) inline skating
Your Number One Value in Life: My physical integrity and privacy.

 

[SixSidedCube]

Name: Rhys Loudon
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Country: New Zealand
3x3 Method: Fridrich
Personal Record: 16.64
Time Cubing: 1 1/2 years
Time Cubing with Current Method: 4 months
Favorite Music Genre: Classic Rock (AC/DC, Poison, Scorpions)
Favorite Video Game Genre: FPS (Combat Arms, MW2)
Favorite Movie Genre: Comedy, Action, Horror.
Favorite Hobby: Apart from cubing Guitar
Your Number One Value in Life: Cubes?

 

[theace]

Name: Akshay Rao
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Country: India
3x3 Method: Fridrich
Personal Record: Single - 16.91 Avg - 21ish
Time Cubing: Since August 2009.
Time Cubing with Current Method: Since mid November or Early December 2009
Favorite Music Genre: Rock (Classic, Progressive, Alternative, Punk, Soft); Metal (Old School Thrash, Progressive); Country and Western
Favourite Musicians: Metallica, Megadeth, Dream Theater, BFMV, Deep Purple, GnR, MLTR, Bon Jovi, AC/DC, Breaking Benjamin, Def Leppard, Drajonforce, Green Day, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Linkin Park, Kenny Rogers, Nickelback, Payl Gilbert, Pink Floyd, Simple Plan, Taylor Swift, Train, Westlife, 3 Doors Down, Scorpions
Favorite Video Game Genre: Racing, MMORPG, Certain FPS like CoD, Crysis, etc
Favorite Movie Genre: SciFi, Fantasy, Comedy
Favorite Hobby: Music (Guitaring - lolword, Drumming)
Your Number One Value in Life: There are a couple actually... Enjoy your life to the fullest, you get only one chance at it. Screw what society thinks. Hell with people's judgement.. What matters is keeping the ones you love happy. Don't believe in something or follow it JUST because it's culture. If it defies your logic, don't do it. (This is a quote, but it's something I live by) One day, your life will flash before your eyes... Make sure it's worth watching.

 

[Rinfiyks]

Name: Tom Gould
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Country: United Kingdom
3x3 Method: Fridrich (2 look OLL)
Personal Record: See my signature.
Time Cubing: About 2 years
Time Cubing with Current Method: About a year
Favorite Music Genre: I've given a couple of examples for each genre. Indie rock (Snow Patrol, Vampire Weekend), alternative rock (Coldplay, Doves), post-rock (Sigur Ros, Explosions In The Sky), instrumental/electronic (M83), prog-rock (Mike Oldfield), minimalist (Philip Glass)
Favorite Video Game Genre: Sandbox, adventure, RPG
Favorite Movie Genre: Science fiction, action
Favorite Hobby: Sleeping, reading
Your Number One Value in Life: Think

 

[Olji]

Name: Rickard Jonsson
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Country: Sweden
3x3 Method: CFOP with 2look OLL
Personal Record: 22.44s
Time Cubing: 9 months
Time Cubing with Current Method: 8 months, layer by layer before ^o^
Favorite Music Genre: melodic metalcore and hardstyle
Favorite Video Game Genre: guess its fps mostly, but i like most genres, as long as there's good games that is
Favorite Movie Genre: comedy
Favorite Hobby: pen spinning / shuffling / drawing
Your Number One Value in Life: living life to the fullest, "Carpe diem"

 

[Godmil]

Name: Gordon Miller
Age: 31
Sex: Male
Country: UK (Scotland)
3x3 Method: Fridrich (Full)
Personal Record: Single: 20.77, Ao100: ~33
Time Cubing: 4 Months
Time Cubing with Current Method: (2LLL) 2 Months
Favorite Music Genre: Not listening to much at the moment (iPod is just full of podcasts), but I still like Cradle of Filth.
Favorite Video Game Genre: FPS, RPG, indie, but mostly just Trials2
Favorite Movie Genre: Lynchian
Favorite Hobby: Video Games

 

[EricReese]

Name: Eric Reese
Age: 19
Sex: Male
Country: USA
3x3 Method: CFOP with 2look OLL
Personal Record: 14.62 NL single, ao12, 22.95
Time Cubing: < 3 months
Time Cubing with Current Method: see above post (I never did a LBL method)
Favorite Music Genre: anything Rise Against
Favorite Video Game Genre: RTS such as Starcraft
Favorite Movie Genre: comedy
Favorite Hobby: Cubing
Your Number One Value in Life: Not lying

 

[coinman]

Name: Tommy Gustavsson
Age: 45
Sex: m
Country: Sweden
3x3 Method: CFOP with about 40 OLLs and full PLL.
Personal Record: 17.09. Avg of 5 20.5-ish.
Time Cubing: 30 yers but almost no practice 1982-83 to 2005.
Time Cubing with Current Method: I started learning CFOP in 2005 and i'm still learning
Favorite Music Genre: Listening to most kinds of music as long as it's good.
Favorite Video Game Genre: Adventure and RPG. I played a lot of Diablo and i'm currently playing Heroes Of might and magic V.
Favorite Movie Genre: All of them as long as it's a good movie.
Favorite Hobby: (next to cubing ) metal detecting, collecting things (matchboxes, coins, old postcards etc.) downhill skiing, inline skating.
Your Number One Value in Life: Freedom to do what i fell like as long it's not contradicting my or anyone's normal moral.

 

[celli]

Name: Celine (I won't tell my last name)
Age: 15
Sex: female
Country: The Netherlands
3x3 Method: Fridrich with 2-look-oll and (almost) 2-look-pll
Personal Record: 18.10 (in my sig)
Time Cubing: since may 14 2010, so 7.5 months
Time Cubing with Current Method: since september, so 4 months
Favorite Music Genre: musicals!!! Especially Spring Awakening and some music from Glee
Favorite Video Game Genre: when I used to game: race
Favorite Movie Genre: comedy
Favorite Hobby: cubing and reading, acting, sports (running, mountainbike, tennis)
Your Number One Value in Life: happiness and be myself, do what I like

 

[StachuK1992]

Name: Stachu Korick
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Country: USA
3x3 Method: CFOP, ZZ, and Petrus with MGLS, CPLS, WV, and other additions.
Personal Record: Single: I've no idea what my single is. My average/12 is probably low 16s. I don't keep track anymore.
Time Cubing: 3 years, 2 months, 17 days.
Time Cubing with Current Method: I've always been switching.
Favorite Music Genre: Alternative rock (ex. - Elliott Smith, Damien Rice, Sigur Ros)
Favorite Video Game Genre: Super Mario 64
Favorite Movie Genre: Romantic comedies.
Favorite Hobby: (next to cubing ) Super Mario 64. "Cubing" itself isn't really done enough in my house to really consider it a hobby. I post on SS a considerably larger amount than I actual cube. Otherwise, writing.
Your Number One Value in Life: Gah, hard one. IRL, I'm really a people-pleaser. I often care about others far more than myself.

My old entry:

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Name: Stachu Korick
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Country: The United States of America
3x3 Method: Fridrich with 2-step OLL, full PLL
Personal Record: Single: 12.92 (LL skip); average: 22.90
Time Cubing: 1.5 years
Time Cubing with Current Method: See above - 1 month
Favorite Music Genre: Alternative rock (ex. -My Morning Jacket, The Frames, Band of Horses, etc)
Favorite Video Game Genre: Arcade Games (specifically Donkey Kong and Tetris), RPG's (specifically Earthbound and Zelda; yes, even Zelda II)
Favorite Movie Genre: Pretty much anything; I'm not much of a movie person, but I guess "comedy"...
Favorite Hobby: (next to cubing ) I'd have to say guitar or speedrunning
Your Number One Value in Life: I really don't know; maybe never to give up, but I don't really have one...I'm just kinda 'there'...

 

[Seirup]

Age: 14
Sex: Male
Country: Denmark
3x3 Method: Fridrich
Personal Record: 3x3x3 single, 46 sek
Time Cubing: A little over a month
Time Cubing with Current Method: A week ago i did cornors first, but now im trying mastering F2L
Favorite Music Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap, mostly 1990's Rap like Dre, Eminem, 2pac, NWA, and so
Favorite Video Game Genre: I never play video games
Favorite Movie Genre: Action and comedy. Fav movie Blood in Blood out.
Favorite Hobby: Chess
Your Number One Value in Life: Being Gods child

 

[AaronsDaBomb]

Name:Aaron Chen
Age: 13
Sex:Male
Country: Canada
3x3 Method: Intuitive F2l + 2-look OLL + 2-look PLL
Personal Record:21.56
Time Cubing: 5-6 Months (August 2010)
Time Cubing with Current Method: 2 Months
Favorite Music Genre: R&B
Favorite Video Game Genre: FPS
Favorite Movie Genre: Comedy/Action
Favorite Hobby: Basketball
Your Number One Value in Life : Don't be a dick

 

[goflb]

Name: darren
Age: 15
Sex: m
Country: aus
3x3 Method: cfop
Personal Record: 16.34
Time Cubing: 2 yrs
Time Cubing with Current Method: 5 months
Favorite Music Genre: 70's - 80's various
Favorite Video Game Genre: adventure rpgs
Favorite Movie Genre: mystery
Favorite Hobby: playing fifa
Your Number One Value in Life: dont eat rotten potatoes

 

[waffle=ijm]

Name: Jules Manalang
Age: 18
Sex: Yes Please with a female
Country: Canada/USA
3x3 Mefod: Roux
Personal Record: Sniggle - 7.98 Avg of 5 - 9.21 Avg of 12 - 10.42
Time Cubing - Some 5 years
Time Cubing with Current Method - Some 3 years
Favorite Music Genre -Rock Industrial Dance
Favorite Video Game Genre: Ask Aurimmeg. RPG and racing
Favorite Movie Genre - Sci-Fi
Favorite Hobby - Competitive eating and robotics.

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oh well

Name: Waffle
Age: 18
Sex: Male.
Country: Waffletopia aka Princeton.
3x3 Method: Rewks.
Personal Record: Sniggle - 8.43 Avg of 5 - 11.08 Avg of 12 - 12.33
Time Cubing: Since January 2006
Time Cubing with Current Method: Since 2008
Favorite Music Genre: Metal, Anime, Rock.
Favorite Video Game Genre: RPG and racing.
Favorite Movie Genre: Comedy
Favorite Hobby: Sleeping, eating

 

[Nestor]

Name: Nestor Sanchez
Age: 32
Sex: Male
Country: Dominican Republic
3x3 Method: Fridrich (still learning OLLs)
Personal Record: 27.54" avg 12 / 20.85" single (non lucky)
Time Cubing: 1 year
Time Cubing with Current Method: 8 months
Favorite Music Genre: Classical music
Favorite Video Game Genre: Real Time Strategy & Online FPS
Favorite Movie Genre: Sci Fi
Favorite Hobby: Body Boarding (actually rollerblading, but I'm currently hurt and I might never recover) & Chess
Your Number One Value in Life: Knowledge

 

[TheMachanga]

Name: David Lechuga
Age: 14 1/2
Sex: Male
Country: USA
3x3 Method: CFOP
Personal Record: Singles: 9.85 ll skip, 11.xy full step --- Averages ~14.15ish of 5, 14.50ish of 12 (I do a lot of averages, I don't remeber exact #'s of course )
Time Cubing: December 2007
Time Cubing with Current Method: May 2008?
Favorite Music Genre: 90's Alternative Rock.
Favorite Video Game Genre: 1st person shooter/ classic arcade
Favorite Movie Genre: good comedies.
Favorite Hobby: Baseball, Violin

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OLD ONE
Name: David Lechuga
Age: 13 (14 in 2 months)
Sex: Male
Country: USA
3x3 Method: CFOP
Personal Record: 14.xy
Time Cubing: December 2007
Time Cubing with Current Method: May 2008?
Favorite Music Genre: 90's Alternative Rock and Weezer.
Favorite Video Game Genre: Halo?
Favorite Movie Genre: Oscar worthy
Favorite Hobby: Baseball, Violin, Juggling

 

[SoSlow]

Name:nvm
Age:22
Sex:M
Country:USA
3x3 Method:ZZ
Personal Record:40ish, but I rarely time myself (probably have had faster lucky untimed solves but 40-45 is where I am at)
Time Cubing:6 months
Time Cubing with Current Method: 3 months
Favorite Music Genre: Underground hiphop (not overproduced bs about people having too much money i.e. radio)
Favorite Video Game Genre:FPS (Halo, Quake, Shadowrun, etc.)
Favorite Movie Genre:Good Movies (usually falls under drama) or comedy
Favorite Hobby: (Gaming, poetry, unicycling, and footbag)
Your Number One Value in Life:Happiness

 

[cjp66]

Name: Claude
Age: 45
Sex: M
Country: Canada
3x3 Method: usually CFOP, partial edge control, 2 look OLL, PLL. Roux or EOLine for fun sometimes
Personal Records: In the 80's, 17/25. Now 35/50.
Time Cubing: since '82
Time Cubing with Current Method: 3 years
Favorite Music Genre: Alternative, Classic Rock
Favorite Video Game Genre: Age of Empires
Favorite Movie Genre: Dramedy
Favorite Hobby: Programming
Your Number One Value in Life: Truth

 

[Vinny]

Name: Vinny Vecchio
Age: 15
Sex:Male
Country: United States
3x3 Method: Fridrich (2 look OLL, ALMOST 1 look PLL)
Personal Record:16.05
Time Cubing: I've been able to solve for 2 years, but I've been seriouslycubing for about 9 or 10 months)
Time Cubing with Current Method: 3-4 months
Favorite Music Genre: Post Hardcore
Favorite Video Game Genre: FPS
Favorite Movie Genre: Action
Favorite Hobby: Snowboarding
Your Number One Value in Life: Be yourself?

 

[endofdaworld]

Name: Johnson
Age: 15
Sex: Male
Country: Australia
3x3 Method: Fridrich(2-Look Pll and 2-Look Oll)
Personal Record: 13.55
Time Cubing: Started in March 2010, gave up after one week, started again in August, and continuing from then (about 5 months)
Time Cubing with Current Method: About 4 months (Fridrich)
Favorite Music Genre: Many different genres.
Favorite Video Game Genre: FPS?
Favorite Movie Genre: Comedy and Horror
Favorite Hobby: Gaming?
Your Number One Value in Life: To do what my heart tells me.