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I too had a rubiks cube when they came out loved and hated it... loved playing with it (did for a long while) but frustrated I could never solve it. I think I got 3/4 faces completed and could no more.... that was my approach... I've known people who could solve it and in the back of mind I was curious.

Then last year my 4 yr old comes across cubers on youtube and is fascinated... got him a cube and I was shocked by how could seem to repeat their finger moves.... got him more cubes (don't ask how many we have) because I love how he was developing his spatial reasoning. And I wanted to scaffold his ability: went from skewb, pyraminx duo, dinocube, spot cube... and he figured out the pyraminx by himself (every now and then he got a 2x2 and 2x2 mirror cube by himself).

We had 2x2 and 3x3 that we could not solve... a neighbor was nice enough to help us (learning from youtube). SO last Novermber I was determined to learn and sat myself to watch the WIRED magazine video... and in 3 hrs finished it. I was hooked, and took at step by step to understand beginners method... and then worked to help my son... and sure enough right before his 5th birthday (and his interest in cubes waning a little)... he did it!

we're hooked. We've been to competitions, connected with 7 yr olds (who are sharp for their age)... and now some of us parents support each other's cubing.

My goal is to be sub-1 minute consistently or better <40 seconds to qualify for the U.S. nationals... (or first get my son there).

And then I have crazy ideas of how I will evangelize cubing to teens and future maths teachers =)
[I'll see if I can teach my mom how to solve a 3x3, and my brother and niece.... ]

Glad to come across this thread (and community on facebook and github senior rankings) !!!
 
m.ipg21 said:
I too had a rubiks cube when they came out loved and hated it... loved playing with it (did for a long while) but frustrated I could never solve it. I think I got 3/4 faces completed and could no more.... that was my approach... I've known people who could solve it and in the back of mind I was curious.

Then last year my 4 yr old comes across cubers on youtube and is fascinated... got him a cube and I was shocked by how could seem to repeat their finger moves.... got him more cubes (don't ask how many we have) because I love how he was developing his spatial reasoning. And I wanted to scaffold his ability: went from skewb, pyraminx duo, dinocube, spot cube... and he figured out the pyraminx by himself (every now and then he got a 2x2 and 2x2 mirror cube by himself).

We had 2x2 and 3x3 that we could not solve... a neighbor was nice enough to help us (learning from youtube). SO last Novermber I was determined to learn and sat myself to watch the WIRED magazine video... and in 3 hrs finished it. I was hooked, and took at step by step to understand beginners method... and then worked to help my son... and sure enough right before his 5th birthday (and his interest in cubes waning a little)... he did it!

we're hooked. We've been to competitions, connected with 7 yr olds (who are sharp for their age)... and now some of us parents support each other's cubing.

My goal is to be sub-1 minute consistently or better <40 seconds to qualify for the U.S. nationals... (or first get my son there).

And then I have crazy ideas of how I will evangelize cubing to teens and future maths teachers =)
[I'll see if I can teach my mom how to solve a 3x3, and my brother and niece.... ]

Glad to come across this thread (and community on facebook and github senior rankings) !!!
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Loved reading this post!
 
Hi, my Name is marco from swizerland, i am 55years old, best non official solution (17.4 seconds) and official best should (i have only been to one tournament) 27 seconds. I started half a year ago in the Rubik's Cube, and bought an original Rubik's Cube in a store. At that time I really thought it was so small ha ha ha. In the meantime I have over 400 litters in my range, my six-year-old daughter belongs to the top class of Swiss cow bringing, and we have already been in the newspaper and on television - well at least because of my Speedy Gonzalez six-year-old daughter. I love this sport and I do everything I can to make it available to a wide audience in my home country. If it were up to me, all young people would have to use only these dice - and not just their cell phones.

I am very happy to find people here, my age and a bit younger, who also love this sport and practice it with a lot of passion and love. Maybe there are some people here from Switzerland who can get in touch with me?

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Hi Marco, welcome here. I am almost your age and speed.
I found one of the articles/videos:
www.baseljetzt.ch

6-jährige Elena: Ein Naturtalent im Rubik’s Cube-Lösen

Als sechsjähriges Mädchen ist Elena das schnellste Mädchen in ihrer Altersklasse, mit einem persönlichen Rekord von 15,4 Sekunden. Wir durften ihre Geschichte hören.
www.baseljetzt.ch www.baseljetzt.ch
But I did not find the Kindergärtnerin :-)

We have a german speaking WhatsApp group - and annother for cubers who are older than the Rubik's Cube:
freshcuber.wordpress.com

Cubing auf WhatsApp: FreshCubers Freunde

Hallo. Wie ich schon in Podcast-Folge 31 erzählt habe, habe ich im Sommer 2020 eine WhatsApp-Gruppe namens „FreshCubers Freunde“ gegründet, in der sich Jung, Medium und Alt über ihr gemeinsames Hob…
freshcuber.wordpress.com freshcuber.wordpress.com
If you like to join, please feel free to write me on WhatsApp.
Of course this is for all cubers who want to join our groups (in German). :-)
 
elvitotoro said:
Hi, my Name is marco from swizerland, i am 55years old, best non official solution (17.4 seconds) and official best should (i have only been to one tournament) 27 seconds. I started half a year ago in the Rubik's Cube, and bought an original Rubik's Cube in a store. At that time I really thought it was so small ha ha ha. In the meantime I have over 400 litters in my range, my six-year-old daughter belongs to the top class of Swiss cow bringing, and we have already been in the newspaper and on television - well at least because of my Speedy Gonzalez six-year-old daughter. I love this sport and I do everything I can to make it available to a wide audience in my home country. If it were up to me, all young people would have to use only these dice - and not just their cell phones.

I am very happy to find people here, my age and a bit younger, who also love this sport and practice it with a lot of passion and love. Maybe there are some people here from Switzerland who can get in touch with me?

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uh... the only thing I can say is that is a lot of gans...
 
Hello, everyone,
Since I was little I always wanted to solve the magic cube and I never could or I didn't have the necessary interest. Now at 51 years old I became interested and a few months ago I started and I am very excited to have entered this world of speedcubing. I started like many with the beginner method and after a few days I became interested in the reduced Friedrich method (CFOP) for 3x3 and for about 6 months I have been learning the PLL algorithms to fully introduce myself to the world of full CFOP. I hope to plan to have finished learning the full OLL and F2L algorithms by this and next year's time.
Meanwhile I have also dedicated myself to collecting the cubes that cause me the most interest. After purchasing them I put them together at least once and then put them on the shelf. So far the 2x2, Megaminx and the cubes with numbers and figures are among my favorites. I show you something from my small collection, greetings to all and I hope through this community to learn and share excellent experiences.
PS.: My personal average currently in 3x3 is 1:15 min.
 

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Freddy said:
Hello, everyone,
Since I was little I always wanted to solve the magic cube and I never could or I didn't have the necessary interest. Now at 51 years old I became interested and a few months ago I started and I am very excited to have entered this world of speedcubing. I started like many with the beginner method and after a few days I became interested in the reduced Friedrich method (CFOP) for 3x3 and for about 6 months I have been learning the PLL algorithms to fully introduce myself to the world of full CFOP. I hope to plan to have finished learning the full OLL and F2L algorithms by this and next year's time.
Meanwhile I have also dedicated myself to collecting the cubes that cause me the most interest. After purchasing them I put them together at least once and then put them on the shelf. So far the 2x2, Megaminx and the cubes with numbers and figures are among my favorites. I show you something from my small collection, greetings to all and I hope through this community to learn and share excellent experiences.
PS.: My personal average currently in 3x3 is 1:15 min.
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I recognise one of those cubes in the pic (if it's what I think it is) - I used to have one. It was something you could twist like the snake, but twist it into 3x3 cube. Difficult to explain. Had it in the 80s.
I only use 11 algs in my system, you do CFOP? I need to twist faster. Can get around 1 min.
 
MarcelP said:
Hi Guys,

My name is Marcel, 42 years old. I have learned to solve the cube at age 11 - 12 or so. I had not touched a cube a maybe 15 - 20 years. A few weeks ago I solved a cube and found it very nice to see that I still knew how to do that. When I looked at youtube I found amazing stuff from you speedsolvers. I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I solved the cube in a layer by layer which could take up to 10 minutes.

So when I decided that I want to be much faster. I ordered a few cubes. The Dayan Zhianchi and Guhong. I looked at these video's:



And in one week I went from solving times of 10 minutes to below 2 minutes. In fact I have a video of a 1.30 solve:


My goal is to get below one minute. Right now I have not focussed on OLL and PLL. I just need to get the 2FL much quicker. I recon in a few weeks times must be a lot better.

Cheers!
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so you are 54?
 
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