What is the lasting appeal of cubing? (for you)

[Tetris Cube]

I haven't had many hobbies, really, but cubing is the only one that's stuck. I've stopped playing video games altogether, pretty much, games cost way too much. Plus you can't really bring a TV everywhere, nor a laptop. Nothing recently has caught my eye anyway.

After many solves, there's not much thinking involved; it just occupies time. Hell, using a method/system takes almost all of the thinking out of it anyway. I'm one of those people who hate to sit for long periods of time, so cubing gives me something to do with my hands instead of just flailing them around or tapping them on the table. It's not that I set aside time for cubing, it's just there when I'm bored or procrastinating. It's just a time thing for me, I suppose. It gives me something to do.

I'd consider getting more puzzles and trying to solve them without looking up algorithms, but the only puzzles that I'm considering now are 5x5 and Megaminx, everything else doesn't look fun IMO.

[BTW, which Megaminx on DX is the PVC and which is the Chinaminx? They're around the same price, but from what I've read, PVC is better, so I'm probably going with that and an ES 5x5]

 

[MistArts]

If you think speedcubing doesn't involve much thinking, then try fewest moves, or try a block-building method, such as Heise, Petrus, or Roux, or get involved with puzzle theory.

 

[Vulosity]

[BTW, which Megaminx on DX is the PVC and which is the Chinaminx? They're around the same price, but from what I've read, PVC is better, so I'm probably going with that and an ES 5x5]

DX doesn't have the clicky chinaminx. The megaminx on DX is a PVC minx.

 

[teller]

I've been at it pretty hard core for six months now and haven't gotten bored with it yet...there's always something I can work on. Lately I've been developing fingertricks for F2L cases that nobody ever talks about. Each one is sort of a project...sift through the computer generated algs and find something with potential, work out how I want to grip it, maybe add a cube rotation where it seems to need one, etc. Good times.

 

[Tetris Cube]

If you think speedcubing doesn't involve much thinking, then try fewest moves, or try a block-building method, such as Heise, Petrus, or Roux, or get involved with puzzle theory.

My first method was Petrus, never used LBL. I tried Roux but I usually just found the two center edges easy to place after the first block and just did Petrus instead. Though it has a potentially faster "F2L" (technically, first two blocks). I personally think cubing has more to do with the eyes than the mind. You recognize orientations and permutations of pieces and can see what you want to do with them visually, rather than just thinking "I'm going to insert this piece with L F2 L' ". Speedsolving puts recognition to the test in this way. I'm not really interested in FMC and much puzzle theory.

DX doesn't have the clicky chinaminx. The megaminx on DX is a PVC minx.

There's still two though... not sure what each one is.

I'm not really a hardcore cuber... I just enjoy it.

 

[daniel0731ex]

If you think speedcubing doesn't involve much thinking, then try fewest moves, or try a block-building method, such as Heise, Petrus, or Roux, or get involved with puzzle theory.

My first method was Petrus, never used LBL. I tried Roux but I usually just found the two center edges easy to place after the first block and just did Petrus instead. Though it has a potentially faster "F2L" (technically, first two blocks). I personally think cubing has more to do with the eyes than the mind. You recognize orientations and permutations of pieces and can see what you want to do with them visually, rather than just thinking "I'm going to insert this piece with L F2 L' ". Speedsolving puts recognition to the test in this way. I'm not really interested in FMC and much puzzle theory.

DX doesn't have the clicky chinaminx. The megaminx on DX is a PVC minx.

There's still two though... not sure what each one is.

I'm not really a hardcore cuber... I just enjoy it.

um..i thought your first method is Tetris

 

[Unknown.soul]

DX doesn't have the clicky chinaminx. The megaminx on DX is a PVC minx.

There's still two though... not sure what each one is.

Both the white and black megaminxes are PVC megaminxes.

 

[Tetris Cube]

I see, I'm going with the cheaper one.

 

[soccerking813]

I wouldn't exactly say cubing is something I have stuck to yet, but the reason that I don't just tell myself, "Hey, I can solve it, that's all that matters," is because I see people like Erik and Yu Nakajima and I see how fast they are, and it makes me want to keep going. And I look at people like Jessica Fridrich and Lars Petrus, and it makes me want to figure out my own way, and discover new things about the cube that nobody else has.