What cubers you admire

[Dene]

J'ey for life. I wouldn't be alive thanks to him. One time he helped me out of my flipped car and drove to the hospital and sat by my side until I was well enough to leave. We then went out for lunch. I still smile when I look at pictures of us frolicking in the meadows. I cry whenever I hear his voice. And I laugh when I remember the good times.

I admire Joey Gouly, because when I was 12 I was watching a video of him solving a 2x2 on youtube, and I thought "one day, my hair will be that gloriously thick, luscious and soft, and I will be able to run my fingers through it while thinking about why clouds look so fluffy and yet feel so wet. I mean, what else can be both fluffy and wet at the same time? Cats stop being fluffy when they're wet." After 4 years of building up courage, I sent him a PM and he told me that his secret is papaya extract shampoo, massaged gently from root to tip before rinsing with distilled water and then applying whichever conditioner Kylie Minogue has most recently been reported to be using. Now my hair is certifiably wondrous, and I have him to thank, and that's why Joey Gouly is my favourite cuber. Wherever you are Joey, I hope you are always happy. Also, that dude has some serious dance moves. I mean damn.

Also Thom Barlow, because he looks great in a skirt.

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Also, Kirjava who tolerates my not-quite-constant requests for assistance on IRC, no matter how dumb my questions are, and who inspires me to give full answers to the people who ask me questions that seem to me as basic as my questions must seem to them.

ehwuuuuuuut. Since when was he ever helpful? Don't tell me he's gone soft. Needs a good dose of Dene by the sound of it.

 

[ryanj92]

I'm inspired by cubers who are good at all events - so pretty much everyone near the top of the sum of ranks
I particularly admire people like Daniel Sheppard for being both a great delegate and a great all-rounder. He's one of my cubing role models, definitely

 

[DeeDubb]

Alex Lau for being incredible at Roux.

Waffo for compiling the best resources on Roux, and also being quite fast.

Noah, for being the best teacher in cubing, IMO. I am a teacher as a profession, so I respect great teachers, and I would like to be a great teacher as well.

 

[Vossy]

I admire Sebastian Weyer and Feliks

 

[brian724080]

I really admire Jacob Hutnyk, for his admittance of his faking solves and his effort to get to the times he once faked.

Maybe I should do the same sometime to find my motivation.

 

[Petro Leum]

1. Phil Yu for being the ZZ god and for being the best teacher for things related to zz and onehanded
2. Alexander Lau for proving roux
3. Maskow obviously
4. Pleskowicz for his OH turningstyle. so ****ing sexy.
5. all the cubers who contributed to developing ZZ/finding the missing link in the ZZ/ZB Home Thread
6. Feliks for his extreme success
7. Adrian Lehmann for his crazy BLD improvement
8. Teller for his Fingertricks

 

[SolveThatCube]

Probably Feliks cause he inspired me to start speedcubing.
Also: Alex Lau for proving Roux is just as good as CFOP.
There are also tons of others but it would be a huge post if I mentioned all of them...

 

[Divineskulls]

The people I admire most in cubing are the people that were so nice to me when I was a nub at my first few competitions: Macky, Bob, Rowe, and Kian. If they had been complete *******s to me, I probably would have never kept cubing.

 

[uberCuber]

Spoiler

 

[Antonie faz fan]

Mats for being flicking awsome .
Feliks for having the most WR's set in ( to my knowledge)
Erik for not giving up even he is stuck with his 7.08 even after a couple of years.

 

[ComputerGuy365]

Kevin Costello and Noah Arthurs are the cubers I honestly admire the most.

 

[ahmfast1]

feliks (decent lookahead)
hays (insane bigcuber)
drew brads (improved veryfast on 3x3)
maskow (amazing memo-brain)
pleskowicz (real OH turner)
sebastian (4x4 machine)

 

[LucidCuber]

Dan Harris - First serious UK cuber, Best UK cuber for years, kickstarted the UK cubing community, always helpful, promoting speedcubing in the media.

Ron van Bruchem - Founding the WCA, we wouldn't even have speedcubing if it wasn't for him. Also just an incredibly talented all round individual, pro darts player as well, and speaks a multitude of languages.

 

[antoineccantin]

Michal Pleskowicz for being a boss and totally destroying OH WR back in the day. Also for his amazing fluency and efficiency (especially during cross+1) which I have trouble keeping up with.

And Feliks for destroying 9999999 WRs and being almost a second faster than anyone else at 3x3.

 

[IRNjuggle28]

My favorite person on the forums is actually Dene. He knows what he's talking about in terms of cubing, and also has an interesting worldview and is obviously smart. Which is good, because otherwise he would be intolerable. Dene isn't very nice but I still think he's awesome.

 

[Cubeologist]

I can't imagine a single reason for admiring someone for spinning a piece of plastic.

He who comes to a forum to talk down about the overarching topic of said forum. I admire the amount of contradiction he can fit into one single action. I respect and admire you Robert.

 

[PJKCuber]

Antoine Cantin,Feliks Zemdegs,Christopher Olson and Kevin Hays

 

[guysensei1]

Faz for inspring me to solve nxnxn faster than he can do (n+1)x(n+1)x(n+1)
Maskow for 41/41 MBLD
Kevin Hays for 6x6

 

[CubeSurfer]

I admire Feliks Zemdegs, Kevin Hays, and Maskow

 

[lucascube]

Drew Brads, Feliks Zemdegs, Kevin Costello, Chris Olson, and many others.