Ur Rubik's cube life

[Jilvin]

I remember my start thoroughly. I had been over at a friends house and I saw that he had a Rubik's cube (Wal-Mart brand). He could solve one face of the cube pretty much at will and I became angry that I couldn't even solve one face of the cube. So, I borrowed it and I looked up an online tutorial on nerdparadise.com (it was a horrific tutorial in retrospect, with no proper notation and strange orientation although it did teach a layer-by-layer method). After becoming disgruntled with this tutorial, I went to the website of Lars Petrus. After failing there (LOL I SUCKED) I ran across Tyson Mao's layer by layer video tutorial and mastered each step of all the videos. After this, I completed my first solve at my dinner table in front of my parents. It was about 5 minutes long. With mere practice I grew to the point where I could get about 2:30. At this point, I decided it was time to learn more steps. I replaced the cumbersome "1-middle layer edge at a time" with the "keyhole" method of edge insertion (which, actually, every beginner should be taught...) and then only used the edge insertion algorithm for the final middle layer edge. After this, I learned the 7 OLL algorithms for cases where all edges are solved. The "keyhole" step got me to about 1:10 (a very frustrating period, when one is trying to get their first sub-minute solves!), the 2-look OLL algorithms got me down to the 45-50 range. I won a pretty fun little competition at our middle school with this time (by far). By this time, I had already put silicon lubricant in the cube and had replaced the stickers with CubeSmith stickers. From there I practiced an intuitive F2L. From then on, my speedcubing time has been almost directly proportional to how well I execute the cross+F2L step. I am now down to the 18.xx. I plan to learn full OLL this summer (since I am already pretty close).

 

[emolover]

Nice bump!

 

[JLarsen]

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HOW DARE YOU BUMP TEH THREADZ THIS IS SRS BUZNISS! WTF! OMG! NICE BUMP YA F***IN NUBCAKE

 

[gundamslicer]

Lol how often does a thread get bumped? Once every 3 days?

 

[bluecloe45]

42 minute bump

 

[iEnjoyCubing]

Last year I saw one of my friends solving it, I always thought it looked neat so I decided how to solve it. Learned how using beginner's method (learned from pogobat on YT) and enjoyed it. Then I stopped for awhile due to lack of interest, stopped for a few months, but now I'm back into it and am current learning fridrich (got a decent base in F2L, know 2 Look OLL and currently learning full PLL). In the future, my ultimate goal is to have an average of sub-15 with a PB of sub-10 (plus knowing full fridrich). I'm hoping to achieve this by the end of the next school year or so.

 

[Lochran]

Hey This is how cubing came into my life

In spring( in australia) 2010 my team was playing soccer and it was half time and my friend peter was showing people him solving the cube he was fast i think 25-30 secs so around 2 weeks later my to good friends ben and steven got a rubiks brand and did dan browns method it was very interesting to see them doing amazing fingertricks and a month after my two friends did the freidrich and got sub 25 then to sub 20 then is was our school fate 3 months after and i won a dollar store cube was was crap xD but i took it home and learnt dan browns method which took me 3 days and i showed it to my friends then i try to get a good time but the cube was letting me down. My friends each got a guhong so i bought one because i dont want to go through the rubiks brand stage. I got my cube near christmas and when i did my first solve my times was dowm massively. With the dollar store cube it was 2mins and the guhong was 52 secs . i thought this was good so i cubed and cubed. I then saw some other variations of cubes so i bought alot during the holidays. i think i bought 20 cubes in the 2 month time period( now i have 43 and still buying ) I then learnt 2 look pll and oll by using badmephisto video. this got my times down to 40 secs and it is still 40 secs but i achieved 24 secs with an oll skip and a easy pll. That was my LONG story

I will

Learn fridrich and get sub 20
Keep buying more cubes
BUy LUbix

 

[Linalai66]

lol

 

[rubiksarlen]

.i think i bought 20 cubes in the 2 month time period( now i have 43 and still buying I then learnt 2 look pll and oll by using badmephisto video.

u r rich man. no offense, but u don't have to buy soooo many cubes like lubix to get fast times. even if u mean cubes ranging from 2-7 it still is a lot.

 

[Lochran]

.i think i bought 20 cubes in the 2 month time period( now i have 43 and still buying I then learnt 2 look pll and oll by using badmephisto video.

u r rich man. no offense, but u don't have to buy soooo many cubes like lubix to get fast times. even if u mean cubes ranging from 2-7 it still is a lot.

Yeah thanks for the advice