Well before I started speed cubing I practiced my own method of solving the cube with a personal best of 46secs I remember. Because it was a long and very intuitive way to solve the cube. But 5 years later of just a general hobby became an addiction with a PB 25.72 ao5 28.30 ao12 30.26 and an ao50 at 33.56. An this is all at about 2-3 months of 'speed cubing'.