Remember when you first solved the cube?

[Cubic]

People with memories like you are awesome.

I can remember what happened 30 years ago, but not what happened yesterday! Life becomes too hectic and you begin to run on autopilot when you have housework, shopping, work, three children, pets...

As for speed cubing, I learned that through the resources here, and over the past 6 weeks. Mainly used Lars Petrus' site and Badmephisto videos.

 

[toruu]

When I was about 8 a guy played a joke on me: He scramble the cube wit only M and U moves and then showed me "how he can solve it". When I got home I took my dad's old russian Rubik's Cube and tried it too. Of course it didn't work . And then I kinda forgot about the cube. Being about 14 I saw a Indian guy in german TV solving the cube first in about 15 Seconds and then blindfolded. It really facinated me and a day later a guy from Hungary came in our class and he was actually really really good. He had an average of about sub-10 and was really good in OH. And on Christmas my classmate gave me cube as a present. And on New Years Eve I watched the first tutorial. After trying it for about 50 times I got a skip after doing a niklas. The feeling was really awesome. Yeah..thats my story . Now I average about 13 Seconds.

 

[nqwe]

3 days after xmas in 2008 oder 2009

 

[ducttapecuber]

I remember my first time
It was January or February of this year. I had a storebought cube sitting on my shelf that I had scrambled years ago. I literally picked the cube up and said "I am going to learn how to solve this." So I looked up a tutorial on youtube (Dan Brown's) and watched over and over to try and learn how to solve it. I spent each day for a week watching that video trying to solve it. Then one evening I did solve it! I immediately ran upstairs to show my dad. I gave the cube to him to prove that I solved it. He looked at ot then he scrambled it again! Then a few months later after I felt comfortable solving the cube (still using a cheat sheet) I brought to school and impressed all of
my friends. That's when I was hooked on the cube for life. Now I am trying hard to learn CFOP and become faster (as I am still very slow)

 

[Owen]

I think I went out to dinner to celebrate.

 

[ajayd]

I saw my friends solve it in around a minute and I wanted to learn, so I picked up a cube, and printed out a solution. My first timed was 6:30. But I have progressively been getting better, and only 3 weeks after I learned how to solve a cube, my best time is 42.1 seconds.

 

[PeelingStickers]

A few years ago I got a storebought for my birthday, I think it was my tenth, I had no idea how to solve it and I knew beforehand that it would be hard to solve, so I left it in it's solved state for months! xD

However I could not resist the temptation to do some turns, and like that I was lost. It was left in the scrambled state for years until my mum solved it online with a guide. I though "I can't let my mother beat me!" And sought out to solve it myself. After watching one tutorial on metacafe for four hours spread over two days I finally solved it. It took another day to get comfortable and about a fortnight to get sub-1. After that I've just practised and practised my CFOP over and over again to get faster (now sub-25).

I first solved the cube on June 10 2012

 

[moralsh]

I can't remember the first time I solved it, I had got to solve first two layers and edges without help and I used to finish it forcing a pop and rearranging it properly (better than peeling stickers) one friend showed me a page in a magazine that explained how to solve it and I solved it a couple of times but I just couldn't memorize it before he left and never got to see that solution again. That was almost 30 years ago, no internet and photocopiers where not so easily available where I lived. Also I didn't stick much with anything at that age. Pity.

But yes, once I started solving again, first time was nice, and nicer on my 5x5x5, which I bought at the same time.

 

[ThtDarnNeighbor]

i borrowed my friends cube to solve a face over and over again and popped it

i was afraid he would be mad at me so i fixed (solved) the cube with a tutorial and went to school the next day with a 4lll alg sheet

now im faster than him by like 15 seconds

 

[marceldacs]

My mom's friend taught me to solve a side in the airport when we were going to alaska for a group trip. When we went to Taiwan a year or two later, he taught me the first layer (instead of just a side) and the second layer. When I came back, I noticed that many of my friends in Chinese school were also doing it for fun, and I asked one of them to write me a paper for the last layer. They used the method that comes with the storebought rubik's cubes. I sat at my desk the next weekend and tried to do it with the sheet in front of me, but just couldnt get the last step to work (they only wrote R' D' R D and didn't tell me what to do with it), but after a few tries, I, with a stroke of luck, had a skip of that step! I remember running from my room and screaming to my parents, but I don't think they really cared (they still don't). Oh, BTW, I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time. However, I don't remember when I solved it without a cheat sheet, so I must've not been particularly happy about it.

Cool I've been to taiwan too to visit my grandparents (9 times actually). I went to a camp there for 2 days and showed some kids my cubing and there were some who could solve it but they didn't use f2l. They used some other method which they said was slower. Anyway here is my story
When i visited Washington/Oregon in 2011, my dad's friend's son, who is 1 day older than me, was solving a 3x3 in front of me. He was pretty fast averaging in the upper 30s. We were sitting in a car together for a 1 hour drive up a mountain and he taught me the cross and the first layer. ( i didn't learn f2l. I learned that 3 months ago when i decided i wanted to get fast at cubing) We were going to stay in his mountain house for one night. Their mountain house was on Mt Hood in Oregon.On the first day, he just taught me how to solve the cross and the first layer. On the second day, in the car ride to a ski resort restaurant, he taught me how to solve the second layer which was intuitive. After we ate lunch at a ski resort on Mt Hood, he taught me 4 algorithms (2 pll and 2 oll) which could gradually solve the last layer. That was the last day that i would see him and i didn't remember the algorithms so he wrote the algorithms on a napkin at the restaurant. After we left my friend, my family stopped by a target and i grabbed a rubiks' brand cube. He had told me to use vaseline on it so i did. I then spent 6 hours, in a car drive to Seattle, practicing. At this point i still relied on my napkin. Once my family got to our hotel, i lost my napkin. Apparently my parents had thrown it in the garbage can thinking it was an old napkin but i dug through the garbage and eventually found it. If i hadn't found it, i probably would've given up on cubing since at the time, i didn't know that you could find algorithms online. I still remember my first timed solve. It happened inside the seattle needle and i did not rely on my napkin. My time was a little under 6 minutes. eww....for the rest of the trip i would practice in the car or whenever i had free time. During my journey back home, i timed my self again and this time the solve took about 1 minute 30 seconds. I was glad because this gave me assurance that my times were improving. Once i went back to school, I discovered that one of my friends also happened to speed cube. He averaged in the mid 40s and used a ghost hand 3x3. I did not know about dayans yet and for a person who had always had to use all his force to turn one side, the ghost hand felt really fast. I bought a ghost hand and this allowed me to sub 1 minute. By the end of the 2011 school year, i had averaged in the low 40s. I was still not very serious about speed cubing. I didn't learn any new algorithms since i didn't know you could and i also didn't practice as much as i do now. For some reason, i did not cube ,except for a couple times, between june of 2011 and may of 2012. The combination of me watching felik's 5.66 with a zhanchi and my ghost hand breaking pushed me to order a black dayan zhanchi. When i first turned it, i was rather disappointed because its feel out of the box was worse than that of the ghost hand. I knew that i was missing something so i did a little research and found that zhanchis turn better when lubricated with lubix. I had to wait another week for my 4cc of lubix to arrive and once it did, i watched crazybadcuber's video on how to lubricate the dayan zhanchi. Once i used the zhanchi, i decided to try to get fast at the 3x3. I also discovered that you should learn algorithms and that f2l is a fast method. I learned f2l, it took a while, and i have been learning new algorithms all summer. I have practiced rigorously over the summer and i now i average 23-24, my lucky pb is 16.38, and my unlucky pb is 18.27

 

[Dacuba]

I gave the cube to my mom so she could do the last U turn.