Mr. McCubing
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I started cubing in quarintine. never been to a comp and hope to go to one soon
In November & December I decided to cube a minimum of 30 mins a day, everyday. My fastest time up to that point was 2 mins 39 secs. The last week of December my fastest time was 37 secs. I know it's nowhere near what most of you guys can do, but beating my time by 2 mins flipped my 2020 around.In the spirit of the new year, I'm going to do some puzzle giveaways. To start, I will be giving away a brand new Gan 11 M Pro 3x3!
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All you have to do is reply to this thread telling about your 2020 cubing story during this covid lockdown period. Just some ideas of what to write: how did you practice? How has your cubing practice/competing changed since covid? What improvements have you made? What, if anything, will you change in 2021? I'll leave it open, it can be as long or short as you want.
Only 1 reply per person.
From all the entries, all the replies will go into a random number generator and a winner will be chosen at random. It starts now and will end in 10 days on January 17th at midnight EST GMT-5, so get your response in early!
Good luck, looking forward to the responses. Happy cubing!
In the spirit of the new year, I'm going to do some puzzle giveaways. To start, I will be giving away a brand new Gan 11 M Pro 3x3!
View attachment 14479
All you have to do is reply to this thread telling about your 2020 cubing story during this covid lockdown period. Just some ideas of what to write: how did you practice? How has your cubing practice/competing changed since covid? What improvements have you made? What, if anything, will you change in 2021? I'll leave it open, it can be as long or short as you want.
Only 1 reply per person.
From all the entries, all the replies will go into a random number generator and a winner will be chosen at random. It starts now and will end in 10 days on January 17th at midnight EST GMT-5, so get your response in early!
Good luck, looking forward to the responses. Happy cubing!
Lol then if I don’t win this time I have a chance for next time.Although I already have an 11 M Pro, I would still like to win this one in order to give it away for a nearing Youtube subscriber milestone, 500!
Your goal is to win a giveaway so that you can have a giveaway?Although I already have an 11 M Pro, I would still like to win this one in order to give it away for a nearing Youtube subscriber milestone, 500!
sounds about right to me lmaoYour goal is to win a giveaway so that you can have a giveaway?
Congratulations on your first post, and welcome to the forums!I actually just got back into cubing last year! My cubing adventures first began in late 2017, when I got interested in the 3x3. I learned full beginner's method over winter break and got a PB of around 50 seconds in 2018. Slowly, though, I practiced less and less. I had learned intuitive F2L, but the daunting thought of having to learn full CFOP discouraged me quite a bit. I ended up quitting.
One day, I discovered that a good friend of mine was actually into cubing, and he had already learned full CFOP! Having not cubed for almost two years, I took a look at my one decent cube, the Dayan Zhanchi, in the middle of 2020. I could still recall most of my algorithms, but I was getting really sick of beginner's. I then decided to step up, and actually get faster. CFOP (or at least the algorithm count of it) had left a sour taste in my mouth, even before I first quit, so I went searching for a method, discussing some things with my cuber friend. I was really considering Roux, but I wasn't too much of a fan of blockbuilding and M moves. Soon though, I remembered one of my favorite YouCubers, ColorfulPockets. In some of his old videos I had watched before, he would talk about methods, and he himself used ZZ-CT. I looked into ZZ, on the speedsolving wiki, mostly. It wasn't too exotic, but also had the unique element of EO and dozens of variations to choose from. Hearing so much about CT, I became filled with motivation, looked up a ZZ tutorial and wanted to get to the CT algs as fast as possible.
By October I had learned ZZ with only a few PLLs left to learn. "Finally, I can start CT soon!", I thought. It was then that I discovered ColorfulPockets actually streamed on Twitch, even if he wasn't making videos anymore. I told him in chat that he had inspired me to learn CT soon, but he then said that he didn't consider the variant very good, anymore. He is now using ZZ-A and is in the process of learning ZBLL.
This realization made me quite sad for a few days. I knew I was definitely sticking with ZZ, but which variant should I pick? Through Tao Yu's algorithm database discord server, I got into the "ZZ Method Solvers" server and a lot of my questions were answered. Not only that, it is a very nice community and I really enjoy just chatting with the members as well. Currently, I am planning on learning some COLLs and then going to tackle at least the T U and L sets of ZBLL. I still need to work on EOCross and look-ahead/recognition, first.
At the time of me writing this, I average about 31 seconds. I practice often, to one day overtake my friend, who averages about 22 seconds. I also got another one of my friends into cubing for the first time, and he also wants to learn ZZ! So yeah, my journey has been a bit of a bumpy one, but I am very happy with where I stand and what the future might hold.
I want to thank my friend who got me back into cubing, the speedsolving forums, Tao Yu, ColorfulPockets and most of all, the ZMS discord server. Thank you for reading.
In the spirit of the new year, I'm going to do some puzzle giveaways. To start, I will be giving away a brand new Gan 11 M Pro 3x3!
View attachment 14479
All you have to do is reply to this thread telling about your 2020 cubing story during this covid lockdown period. Just some ideas of what to write: how did you practice? How has your cubing practice/competing changed since covid? What improvements have you made? What, if anything, will you change in 2021? I'll leave it open, it can be as long or short as you want.
Only 1 reply per person.
From all the entries, all the replies will go into a random number generator and a winner will be chosen at random. It starts now and will end in 10 days on January 17th at midnight EST GMT-5, so get your response in early!
Good luck, looking forward to the responses. Happy cubing!