shentabla
Regular
Hi everyone,
I'm a 50+ cuber new to this forum. Back in 1982 my best time was 90 seconds, using Patrick Bossert's "You Can Do the Cube" techniques.
In 2019 my wife thought I looked bored at a friend's house and handed me a cube that was there, a decision she's regretted ever since. I got deep into practice and gradually stepped up to bigger cubes.
In 2023 I went to my first comp, with the hope that I would get faster times than anyone in the same age bracket or older than me. My 6x6x6 judge told me about the Senior Rankings page and I found that my big cube times were pretty good for an old fella. I also met Toby Chamberlain, a fellow 50+ solver who told me about the Senior Cubers Worldwide (SCW) group on Facebook.
At my next comp a couple of months later, I had a really good day and managed to break both 50+ world records in 7x7 as well as 6x6 single. Since then I haven't managed to beat my 6x6 times in a comp, but I've made several improvements to both my 7x7 records.
My 50+ big cube rival Chris Wright took the 6x6 record back soon after, and I found that I was regularly following him and other top senior cubers every weekend, so I started writing a weekly report on the SCW group, which seems to be quite popular. I report on PRs and other ranking changes by almost 100 "top senior solvers".
Since then I've also gotten big-time into blindfold solving. I recently got a bronze medal with my first 4BLD success and I'm hoping for 5BLD success at the next comp. I'm also pretty good at OH, having the 50+ WR2 average. I've just started Megaminx too. I'm really not very interested in "sprint" events so I'll probably only get into the various side events if I ever get a 5BLD mean.
Through SCW I came into contact with Phil Lewis and encouraged him to put together another senior cubing webpage, which has grown into Senior Cubing Tracker, which has recent top results and Senior Kinch rankings.
Phil let me know that a couple of my top stars are active in this forum and actively NOT on Facebook, so he requested that I post my weekly reports here too. I guess that will go in the "Older cubers discussions" thread, though I wonder if the existence of a 1000+ page thread implies that perhaps a sub-forum for senior cubers might be in order here?
I'll duplicate this introduction on the aforementioned thread.
I'm a 50+ cuber new to this forum. Back in 1982 my best time was 90 seconds, using Patrick Bossert's "You Can Do the Cube" techniques.
In 2019 my wife thought I looked bored at a friend's house and handed me a cube that was there, a decision she's regretted ever since. I got deep into practice and gradually stepped up to bigger cubes.
In 2023 I went to my first comp, with the hope that I would get faster times than anyone in the same age bracket or older than me. My 6x6x6 judge told me about the Senior Rankings page and I found that my big cube times were pretty good for an old fella. I also met Toby Chamberlain, a fellow 50+ solver who told me about the Senior Cubers Worldwide (SCW) group on Facebook.
At my next comp a couple of months later, I had a really good day and managed to break both 50+ world records in 7x7 as well as 6x6 single. Since then I haven't managed to beat my 6x6 times in a comp, but I've made several improvements to both my 7x7 records.
My 50+ big cube rival Chris Wright took the 6x6 record back soon after, and I found that I was regularly following him and other top senior cubers every weekend, so I started writing a weekly report on the SCW group, which seems to be quite popular. I report on PRs and other ranking changes by almost 100 "top senior solvers".
Since then I've also gotten big-time into blindfold solving. I recently got a bronze medal with my first 4BLD success and I'm hoping for 5BLD success at the next comp. I'm also pretty good at OH, having the 50+ WR2 average. I've just started Megaminx too. I'm really not very interested in "sprint" events so I'll probably only get into the various side events if I ever get a 5BLD mean.
Through SCW I came into contact with Phil Lewis and encouraged him to put together another senior cubing webpage, which has grown into Senior Cubing Tracker, which has recent top results and Senior Kinch rankings.
Phil let me know that a couple of my top stars are active in this forum and actively NOT on Facebook, so he requested that I post my weekly reports here too. I guess that will go in the "Older cubers discussions" thread, though I wonder if the existence of a 1000+ page thread implies that perhaps a sub-forum for senior cubers might be in order here?
I'll duplicate this introduction on the aforementioned thread.
