What got you into cubing?

[backjaum33]

As a person who has been on/off cubing for a little over ten years now, I want to hear your stories! What made you learn, and why are you continuing to cube to this day?

 

[Chicken-Cuber]

Seeing videos of it online and then buying a gan cube and learning to solve one (IT WAS NOT MY FIRST CUBE) my first cube was a Rubik brand but i tried to twist an edge and then it popped and i thought OH NO ITS BROKEN and threw it in the bin

 

[Abram Grimsley]

A friend of mine in my Homeschool group solved a cube in a show-n-tell almost five years ago. I was inspired to learn and since then have fallen in love with the sport of speedcubing and puzzle solving.

 

[Tabe]

They were the fad of the time (1981). Everyone had one and I was no different.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

I got into cubing because of CubeRazn (do people even remember that guy). I guess spammy turning got me into cubing lol. It somehow got into my feed as most of the videos i watched were about roblox (kinda cringe) and this also was a couple days before my birthday! Sort of amazing how all these events lined up with eachother.

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

Had a substitute that taught the whole class the cross and some F2L, went on and learnt that night and here I am.

 

[Cuber Score]

A couple of friends learned how to and they demanded I let them teach me

 

[kubesolver]

I used to think that people who can solve a cube are magical geniuses.

Then I met one guy who wasn't smart by any definition but could solve a cube easily.

I thought that it's probably just something you can learn, and that thinking that people are geniuses just because they can solve a cube is silly. But I still had that feeling. So decided to Google a tutorial and have learned it.

I'm not sure if it was right thing to do. I gained +1 in rationality but the world has lost a little bit of its magic.

 

[bldcuber314]

I got my first cube when I was 7ish, solved only one side for over a year, learnt 2x2 then managed to solve 3x3 corners first. After a huge break from cubing, I got back into it when my friends were cubing at school.

 

[abunickabhi]

My uncle got me into solving one side of a cube when I visited him in 2008. I was stuck on a Rubik's brand for 5 years though which sucked.

 

[Isaiah Scott]

I had a friend that brought a cube to youth group in 2017, and I thought it was cool so I got into it. I’ve only been speed cubing since 2020 tho
Covid arc goes crazy

 

[Bingus cuber]

I got a tiny cube for Christmas 2022. My mom learned how to solve it, and then she got a actual size cube. She taught me, and then I took off with it. She promptly forgot how to solve it.

 

[CubeLite]

Like 7 years ago my mom bought my brother a random Rubik's Cube from a random store, and it turns bad, but for like 5 years we kept solving 1 side and sometimes 2 sides!!
But then in the summer of 2022 I saw a short from CubeHead and made me want to solve it, I stayed 1 hour to solve it with the tutorial, and even took the cube apart because it had a twisted corner, and then I kept on having it, I even convinced my brother to solve it, and he can do multiple puzzles

 

[NmeCuber]

I was at my friend's house and was bored because he was reading a comic or something (trust, he's actually a good friend). I saw a scrambled rubiks cube so I started playing with it and got hooked, and every time after that, when I came over, I would try to solve it. Idk how, but somehow I knew that you were supposed to solve it by layers and not by sides (I had not watched anything on yt about it because i couldnt watch yt at the time), and coincidentally I solved with white on bottom. At some point I even got to 2 layers solved and asked my friend if I could bring it home. When he said yes, I looked up an online tutorial (text, not video) and solved it the next morning. He gave it to me permanently and now he says if I ever get famous for speedcubing I have to give him a shoutout.

 

[bldcuber314]

I was at my friend's house and was bored because he was reading a comic or something (trust, he's actually a good friend). I saw a scrambled rubiks cube so I started playing with it and got hooked, and every time after that, when I came over, I would try to solve it. Idk how, but somehow I knew that you were supposed to solve it by layers and not by sides (I had not watched anything on yt about it because i couldnt watch yt at the time), and coincidentally I solved with white on bottom. At some point I even got to 2 layers solved and asked my friend if I could bring it home. When he said yes, I looked up an online tutorial (text, not video) and solved it the next morning. He gave it to me permanently and now he says if I ever get famous for speedcubing I have to give him a shoutout.

Guess he deserves a shoutout now you have a 0.75 official 2x2 single?

 

[Akcuber17]

Short answer ADHD.
Started as a fidget toy and slowly turned into a hobby and passion

 

[jaicecubez]

First day of secondary school we had to bring 3 items, I was pretty awkward, but there was one kid who didn't mind who I talked to a little. One of the kids brought a cube and my new said he could solve one really fast. I fell in love with it. My dad had a cube from back in his day and apparently he was able to solve it using Don Taylor's manual. I also used this manual to solve cubes at first, I should probably just have looked it up.

 

[backjaum33]

Seeing videos of it online and then buying a gan cube and learning to solve one (IT WAS NOT MY FIRST CUBE) my first cube was a Rubik brand but i tried to twist an edge and then it popped and i thought OH NO ITS BROKEN and threw it in the bin

I feel that my first cube was a dayan zenchi and it popped all over the place, i was heartbroken

 

[backjaum33]

A friend of mine in my Homeschool group solved a cube in a show-n-tell almost five years ago. I was inspired to learn and since then have fallen in love with the sport of speedcubing and puzzle solving.

I love it! I personally learned in summer camp and fell in love with it from the moment I saw my friend solving one

 

[backjaum33]

They were the fad of the time (1981). Everyone had one and I was no different.

That's amazing! what made you decide to pursue speedcubing?