Why did YOU start cubing?

I got my first cube when I was in first grade, but I had no idea how to solve it. Later when I was in fifth grade, my friend learned how to solve it so I wanted to as well. I never really got into it though. Then last February my brother's friends wanted me to solve it for them. They got inspired, and 4 of us got into a race to see who could solve it faster. I was the only one to take it past sub 1 minute.

Now I'm almost sub 16 :)
 
My dad had an original Rubik's cube that had never been solved. He gave it to me and I do the logical thing: I put it in a box and forgot about it. A few years later he got a 2x2 and I was trying my hardest to solve it to no avail and so I tried to look up the solution. It was in the standard notation which at the time I did not know so I was totally confused. I gave the cube back to my dad and dug up my 3x3 and attempted to do it. Finally I got tired of just aimlessly fiddling and I found badmephisto's tutorial. It's been cubing for me ever since.
 
I was in 8th grade and my friend had one, and he solved it and it amazed me. I thought they were unsolvable. That same day i went home and went on youtube, and searched rubiks cube solves, i saw an amazingly fast solve. After that i told myself i had to learn how to do that. I made my mom take me to walgreens to get me one. I learned how to solve it the next day. That next year i solved the rubiks cube in front of that same guy who showed me he could solve it, i solved it in about 10 seconds, he was amazed because he was still using the beginners method and i had already learned the full fridrich method.
 
I had a Rubiks brand cube laying around, catching dust for years.
One day I found it again and decided to give it a try as I was never able to solve it when I was younger.
After turning and trying for a few hours I got frustrated and looked up a tutorial on youtube. (Hello World)
Next day I solved it for the first time layer by layer. I kept practicing that method, unaware that there were other methods to solve it faster.
My first goal was just to be able to solve it, but when I found badmephisto's channel and looked more speedcubing clips on the tube I got hooked

Bought me some speedcubes and practicing daily ever since.
 
Here's why I started:

I had a Rubik's brand cube at home and I loved to play with it, asking peolpe "Which side do you want to have solved?", but every time it got scrambled I needed to:
1) Turn my computer on
2) Log in to my profile
3) Open internet/google chrome
4) Go to a solving website
5) Put all the colors of each sticker
6) Solve it using the moves the website showed me
(7) If i did only 1 move wrong the cube was scrambled, so needed to repeat steps 5 & 6)

On the 22nd of August 2012 day I had enough of that, so I looked up a tutorial, and I found Tyson Mao's tutorial, solved it with that, and now I'm following my carreer as a speedcuber.
 
my story is to long to explain (aka, im to lazy to type up), basicaly my sister got a keychain picture cube from a phone company and gave it to me. it sat in my draw for about 5 years then i cleaned out that draw and saw it. it blew up on be when i wanted to try and solve it so i went to argos to buy a cube, i went home and watched badmephistos tutorial on how to solve it. this story takes place over about 6 years. the end, and btw i got that rubiks brand in oct/nov 2012. :)
 
I started cubing because almost all my classmates knew how to solve a cube. Only one of them had a sub 30 average but that's not important. At first i thought they're lame and then i bought a cube and got addicted:)
 
I started just so I could show off to my friends. (1:30 average at the time...) I thought it was really slow, so I got into CFOP and bought a new cube and yeah..
 
I got my first Rubik's cube when I was six. I played with it off and on until I finally started to really THINK about it, and then I solved it when I was about thirteen. Since I never looked up a tutorial, it took me a couple of months before I could reliably solve it regardless of the scenario. Now I have a sub-30 average, but since I still haven't looked up any of the common methods, I feel like I can't improve much more.

So, what do you guys think? Should I stick with trying to find faster methods on my own, or should I study existing methods and algorithms to become competitive?
 
After 2 years of pen spinning I went to a gathering to meet the other people in the pen spinning community. Some of them could solve the cube and the dude who was the fastest of them solved it in 33s. From that day I promised myself that I would break 33s.
 
DistinctThought said:
I got my first Rubik's cube when I was six. I played with it off and on until I finally started to really THINK about it, and then I solved it when I was about thirteen. Since I never looked up a tutorial, it took me a couple of months before I could reliably solve it regardless of the scenario. Now I have a sub-30 average, but since I still haven't looked up any of the common methods, I feel like I can't improve much more.

So, what do you guys think? Should I stick with trying to find faster methods on my own, or should I study existing methods and algorithms to become competitive?
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How do you solve it? LBL? Blockbuilding?
If you want to get faster, learn CFOP. You could apply algorithms to how you already solve it to get faster.
 
QCcuber4 said:
Anyway, kid showed me the Piece by piece method for 2 weeks... 7 algs.... 2 weeks I know its slow lol. when i got back i thought i was all cool, solving it in 5 minutes and **** XD then i felt retarded when i saw Nakajima's videos... Apart from feeling retarded, when i saw his 7.85 second solve i officially fell in love with cubing. i then followed a bunch of links that lead me to Bob Burton's website, learned CFOP there, then Macky's, which i my sanctuary XD i learned advanced F2L, 3OP, M2/Old pochmann , look-ahead from macky's....
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Don't feel bad, it took me like a month...

Anyway, it started out really boring, like a lot of people. Had Rubik's cube. Looked up tutorial. Solved it. Nuff said.
 
rj said:
How do you solve it? LBL? Blockbuilding?
If you want to get faster, learn CFOP. You could apply algorithms to how you already solve it to get faster.
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I solve it a layer at a time, though a friend of mine recently told me I should focus on solving the first two layers at the same time. Right now, doing so slows me down to about a minute solve, but I see the potential behind it. What does CFOP stand for?
 
2007 when I was 9. I was in this store with my mum when she showed me a cube and called it qubix or something that sounds similar (apparently it was called that in Korea like 20 years ago) and bought me it. I was playing around with it at home when it cracked (it was a cheap Chinese cube), and the next day she bought me a Rubik's cube. For a few weeks, I played on it solving one side and occasionally two by luck. I had a bet with my friend that I could solve one side faster than him (me: 40 sec, him: gave up or something, it was over ten minutes) and won. After winning, a thought just came up in my mind that I wanted to be able to solve the whole thing. The day after, I went on Youtube and found the beginner's method and just watched it over and over again and learnt how to solve a 3x3 by that night. I got down to around 50 sec at the time with a storebought. Then my dad got me a cheap 5x5 off ebay and I learnt how to solve it, but I got lazy and forgot how to solve one. In December last year, I heard that there was a girl at my school who could solve a 3x3 at 27 seconds. Being the competitive person I am, I researched and bought a Guhong V2. My times even after years of not solving had gone down to 45~50. I wanted to get faster, so I learnt 4LLL and a few extra LLs in about four days. After about two weeks, my times were in the thirties. I also got a PB of 24.47. I've been cubing on and off since then, and am sort of learning intuitive f2l while playing around.
 
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I got 2x2 as a present. I thought it was easy and scrambled it. I couldn't solve it so i searched for the solution. I've been speedsolving since then:)
 
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