Who or what got you into cubing

[hdskull]

At southern California ARML 3 people from my school(including myself) were assigned to be in a group with this Japanese dude to solve problems. He solved half of the problems while the rest of us solved barely one each. One of my friend and I thought his name is weird, so my friend looked him up on google. He then IMed me with a few links and it showed that Shotaro Makisumi, the guy with the weird name held world records in the Rubik's Cube. So that plus the fact that a few people were cubing at my school got me started.

 

[JBCM627]

Tyson Mao. Taught me and a bazillion other people at a summer camp (EPGY) back in 2004...

 

[immortalcube]

How do you know all the plls and still get an average of about 2 mins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only know 4lll and my pb is 19.31

So, obviously the number of algs you know is not the only thing that matters. (I wonder how many times this has been said here.)

Yeah, I still use the last layer method that Dan Brown teaches (with intuitive F2L) and I average around 25-26 secs with a PB of 16.66.

Are you serious?!
You use that R'D'RD commutator. I never ever used it. I HATED it right from the beginning. Sune is the best! What's up with people watching his cubing tutorials? He sucks. Avgalen, badmephisto, ... and many legitimate cubers give much better explanations.

^largest multi-quote ever

how about this one?--> http://www.speedsolving.com/showthread.php?p=51619

 

[Johannes91]

How do you know all the plls and still get an average of about 2 mins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only know 4lll and my pb is 19.31

So, obviously the number of algs you know is not the only thing that matters. (I wonder how many times this has been said here.)

Yeah, I still use the last layer method that Dan Brown teaches (with intuitive F2L) and I average around 25-26 secs with a PB of 16.66.

Are you serious?!
You use that R'D'RD commutator. I never ever used it. I HATED it right from the beginning. Sune is the best! What's up with people watching his cubing tutorials? He sucks. Avgalen, badmephisto, ... and many legitimate cubers give much better explanations.

^largest multi-quote ever

how about this one?--> http://www.speedsolving.com/showthread.php?p=51619

http://www.speedsolving.com/showthread.php?t=3024

 

[DavidWoner]

How do you know all the plls and still get an average of about 2 mins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only know 4lll and my pb is 19.31

So, obviously the number of algs you know is not the only thing that matters. (I wonder how many times this has been said here.)

Yeah, I still use the last layer method that Dan Brown teaches (with intuitive F2L) and I average around 25-26 secs with a PB of 16.66.

Are you serious?!
You use that R'D'RD commutator. I never ever used it. I HATED it right from the beginning. Sune is the best! What's up with people watching his cubing tutorials? He sucks. Avgalen, badmephisto, ... and many legitimate cubers give much better explanations.

^largest multi-quote ever

how about this one?--> http://www.speedsolving.com/showthread.php?p=51619

http://www.speedsolving.com/showthread.php?t=3024

i stand corrected on two counts.

 

[AvGalen]

For everyone that thinks the RD-commutator is bad: I learned the same, only worse (FDF'D') 20 years ago. I still use that for blindfolded Corner orientation on the U-layer. For match-the-scramble and blindfolded corner orientation on the D-layer I use the same commutator, only then it becomes RUR'U' which faaaaaast.

 

[Carlos]

I received an e-mail with that famous video of Tyson Mao solving the cube blindfolded, then i said: wow, i want to do this.
Thanks for the inspiration, Tyson

 

[MasakitChan]

I saw my classmates solving it, everyone was solving it. The teachers were playing with it, the guard was speedcubing with it (ROF2L) many people were solving it, so I said I'll give it a shot. I looked up on youtube for tutorials, stopped for 2 months, and last march I started cubing again, first week of may learned the fridrich method and now practicing alot for faster times.