Why did you get into speedcubing?

so one day my friend brings in a cube. i saw it and remembered about the tutorial by dan brown i watched about 4 months before. so at that time i could get the first 2 layers but i couldnt remember the LL. so i went home and looked it up. a week later i got a cube and i could solve it, my friend could also solve it. so we both started to race and i started to look into more advanced methods.i came across CFOP and i was like "i gotta learn this" . soon my friend and i were nearing sub 40 and then i started to learn CFOP. i soon surpassed my friend and was on the edge of sub 30. i gave him tips and showed him some OLLs and PLLs it was about 6 months from my start and i decided to stop using 2look and started to learn all my PLLs. around january i started to finish my OLLs i went threw about 2 a day in groups. my goal was acomplished. i knew full CFOP with intuitive f2l. the only reason i wanted to progress in cubing was because i knew know one at school cubed. thats what sets me appart from everyone.
in the end im near sub20 average and nearing sub 6 BLD along with sub 30 OH
never thought id even make it pass 30
-insane569-
 
My dad had a very early Rubik's cube and both my brother and my dad could solve it. I wanted to solve it too, but I wanted o start out with the 2x2. I got an eastsheen 2x2. I didn't touch it for about a year. In November 2010 I decided that I wanted to solve the 3x3, so my dad printed off some instructions so he could review. He taught me the notation and how to solve the first 2 layers. I eventually could solve it in under 3 minutes and did that for my Christmas talent show. I wanted to get faster, so I kept practicing and I am currently around 35 seconds average.
 
first thing to happen to me related to cubing, (not speedcubing, but just cubing) is when i got my first cube back in 2004, i always had fun with it, whether when i couldn't do it or when i got one side, but no f2l. And at the tie i was getting far, i could get to f2l but i would use keyhole, without even knowing that i was using it!! anyway and after that i found out that my cousin had some free time on his hands, so he decided to look up how to solve a rubiks cube, surprisingly enough it was dan browns tutorial that got me started. Now that i look back at it i think to myself, holy **** that's to bad.....besides that point i started to solve it, eventually within a week i could do it in 1 minute, i slowly but surely got to 30 faster than anything, within a week. After the learning and solver curve started to attack me, it would be from then on a hard to achieve sub XY to do. I even remember me telling my dad that i'd never be able to be sub 20, and look at me now, i'm sub 17!! i was a slow cuber at start because i had no other ways of getting information. I Never went on speedsolving, until 2008, when i was approximately sub 30. At that comp i found otu alot of ew stuff, including the site Speedsolving.com, i was spending more time on this site then cubing, and because of that my learning curve became easier, and i flew by my times of 30 and within a week's time, i went from 29 a average to 20 average. After that i am kinda stuck on 17, until another thing comes my way to help me for further.

hope that made sense.
 
Learned to cube because of two reasons;
1. My friend had been cubing for a couple of years and just started getting back into it.
2. Because I tore my Anterior Crucial Ligament and wrecked some of my meniscus, putting me out of walking for 8 weeks.

I'm able to walk again but am still cubing, I have just come to enjoy solving and beating my own times. I also love the challenge of learning new algs and incorporating them into my solving. My goals keep changing but atm am aiming for sub 40 constant, then will move to sub 30. I also aim to learn full PLL, and learn to solve a 2x2 and 4x4 when I get them.
 
Because I love solving puzzles. I used to watch House because he reminded me of my obsession with finishing every puzzle XD
 
I was addicted to chess tourneys and chess books. My parents took them away from me. School was busy work, not mentally challenging ( yes, that's how the APs were sadly run from my area--attended multiple schools throughout HS) ... I was going through withdrawal...I needed a new drug...I thought the high from a chess game was ethereal. CUBING, that is something I take everywhere with me---and I mean everywhere.
 
My wife said I was bored at work so she got me a keychain 3x3.

I could go into the rest of the details but I might mention it if I'm a guest on cubecast.
 
I just learned to solve it because I wanted to (some in my class could) I was given one for last Chirstmas (2008) it was junk brought another junk one off trade me. Finally got a storebrought. This was in Feb 2009. I already new of the existence of 2x2's to 7x7's by randomly researching it in Aug 2008. Started timing solves and sort of flowed on from there brought a 5x5 when avgeraging 2 min or so on 3x3.
 
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my grandma had 2 cubes in her house and i always played with them even though i didn't have a clue how to solve them cause i was only little. Then i got a cube for christmas and thought i should learn to solve it (so i went straight to youtube) and i've been cubeing ever since even though i had a break for an entire year last year which was a bad idea.
 
Looking back at those cloudy memories of mine...I shoud've been around 6 or 7 then,if I'm not wrong.Here in my Nation,you don't really get good quality cubes...even rubik's storeboughts could be a thousand times better !!
Trust me...I swear I'm not kidding,a couple of turns...and your cube is done.

I could just solve one colour at a time...and I know that's pretty lame.I never solved one completely until a couple of months ago.I seriously had bad notions about using algorithms to solve a cube...and I even wasn't aware of the notations then.

A while later..I started to get the basics about cubing...
I was like," What the Heck ?? " when I first solved my Rubik's Cube.I just used LBL and a couple of techniques like Block Building ( I don't insist Petrus here ) and there you go...a solved cube.

Yet,I seldom believed that I coud get into Speedcubing...Lurking through YouTube...I found some videos of top-notch cubers.That...literally disheartened me....mainly those solves of Yu Nakajima :P

But then..I gained some interest in Cubing and found that I was getting a lot better.That was when I realised..."Wait a minute...looks like I'm pretty good at this !! "

I can see myself addicted to speedsolving...and that's how my motives evolved with time.......
As of now,I see I can average pretty decent times and I look forward to get good speedcubes and be a better person at speedcubing....
 
i used to be a stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid nerd.
I thought I can solve it by myself.
but I couldn't.
so i learned lbl.
got interested.
started timing myself.
got intersted.
see.
before that my friend got to solve it by himself.
really really.
He made a very stupid way.
anyway.
I kept solving and timing.
and racing with friends.
and our school held a comp.
I got into it before I even realised.
 
My 5th class told us it was the most annoying toy ever. I set out to prove him wrong...
I knew there were solution guides on the internet
I managed to get the first layer by myself after I learned what a layer was.
I gave up trying to solve the second layer and checked on the how to do it on the internet .( Rubiks .com)
after I met a random person on the street who could solve the Rubik's cube I learned to solve the last layer.
After that i started to time myself an tried to get faster.
Then OH, 4x4 ,2x2 ,BLD...
 
princefalcy10 said:
Yet,I seldom believed that I coud get into Speedcubing...Lurking through YouTube...I found some videos of top-notch cubers.That...literally disheartened me....mainly those solves of Yu Nakajima :P

But then..I gained some interest in Cubing and found that I was getting a lot better.That was when I realised..."Wait a minute...looks like I'm pretty good at this !! "
Click to expand...

The challenge yesss

GG
 
It was x-mas 2008 and my mum got one for me(coincidence but i also got her one).i played around with it for 5-6 months and by may time i had exams coming up and didnt want to study so i decided to learn how to solve it but before i did i said I'd try one more time and ended up ompleting 3 sides and then i just thought what the hell im gunna finish this and so i did.
by xmas 2009 i got my first speedcube(white type C) 2010 began and i saw there was a uk comp around april but mum said i can go to the next one and i did in november and broke 5 NR's :) then i had a cubing hiatus but got back into it in the last 2 weeks:) but now i mostly practice OH with my goal to be top 50 in europeand just keep progressing
 
There were like 5 cubers in my math class. And this cocky kid kept bragging because I couldn't solve it, and when I solved it for the first time I had to use an algorithm sheet. He was sub 50 lol.

I learned how to cube and now I'm faster than him :D And I am almost gonna beat the sub 30 guy.

They use F2L and begginers method Last Layer lol. xD
 
I was grounded from playing videogames, so to keep me busy? I bought a cube. I spent 6 hours on Dan Brown's videos and learned to solve it in a day. The next day, I was able to solve it without an alg sheet.

I was happy so I told my other cubing friend! He asked,"Have you timed yourself yet?" Opened a whole new world for me. When I was about sub 1:40, he taught me finger tricks. I kept progressing until I decided to learn F2L and improved QUICKLY.

It just became an obsession to solve it faster than before. Learned full PLL and working on OLL...
I never thought I would compete, but I did. Never thought I could hit a NL time of 13.4, but I did.

All from being grounded from playing videogames in late December 2010.
 
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