Why did YOU start cubing?

[Jbacboy]

I was jealous of one my friends who could solve it in about 2 minutes. Watched bamephisto's tutorial on it, then saw his "How to become a Speedcuber" video. I was hooked!

 

[Kudz]

Friend of mine said I will love it... He quited cause I got faster than him after 4-5 months lol. He was like sub 25, i think..

 

[Hssandwich]

I thought, "I'll solve a Rubik's cube". I solved it and I was hooked.

 

[muchacho]

I had a cube when I was a kid, but was only able to solve 1 layer. Last year I bought a 2x2 as a present for my niece and then I searched how to solve it to teach her (but still not much progress, maybe I could try with Skewb instead).

 

[shadowslice e]

Dan Cochrane and Berd started, I saw and thought "that looks cool, I bet I can do it better" done.

 

[rishirs321]

Well, some of my friends brought a rubik's cube to school, and my best friend could solve it. So I was interested and I bought an original rubik's brand cube and looked up the solution on rubiks.com and finally solved it one day. After that, I got times of 2:30 and then got it down to 1:30. Then I learned a little bit of CFOP and got a record of 53 seconds. Now I have ordered a dayan zhanchi 57 mm from amazon and I'll get it on or before thursday. I wish to get faster and bring my time to sub-20 atleast and also learn full OLL and PLL. By the way, I'm from India

 

[zyxantjcae654]

2007, 2nd year HS. You would see cheap 3x3x3 cubes for sale. It was the trend and burst widespread like Pokemoncrater. That was the time, I think, when the cubing organization of my country was founded. Didn't matter how fast you solved it; if you had solved it(only by turning and not with dark magic & sorcery), it was cool. I got the hint that it can be solved layer by layer, experimented some turns(algos), got it for the first time for 5 min(very slow). 3rd year, my classmate introduced to me patterns and fingertricks. Got addicted, made my own. 4th year, under 1 and a half min. to solve, then got in touch with internet and got frustrated to the fact that it had been where my classmate had gotten faster, with some cool patterns. 1st year college, tried CFOP and became faster, and that's how and why I became serious of cubing and speedcubing.

 

[ultimatecube]

I had a cube lying around my house since who knows when. At some point I solved two sides: blue and green. Still have no idea how. My mom said, "If you can do that, I can finish the rest of it!"

She couldn't.

My sister felt so bad for me, she peeled all the stickers off and "solved" it for me. That was when I said mentally, "That's it, I'm going to learn how to do this." I found the "You Can Do the Cube!" video with Tyson Mao, and learned how to solve it.

I got down to 46.96 seconds, stalled out for years, and practically gave up. Some time later, I picked it up again. Started setting and breaking PBs faster than I could count. And now I'm super excited to say I just hit sub-20 for the first time!

 

[mallan824]

I learned beginner's method in 2 weeks of uni holidays a few years ago. Started to learn 2 look OLL and 2 look PLL at Christmas and have managed to get my time down a lot. Still over 60 seconds but always getting better!


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[mallan824]

Should have said, I wanted to learn because I saw a Chinese guy in a lecture solving his cube under the table with one hand. Thought- I'd like to learn that!


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[Joel2274]

One Winter break 1 year ago, a little boy was about to embark on a 1 week vacation to go skiing. We had to stay in a hotel for a week so I thought I would get bored and I was like, "what should I do to keep myself entertained?" then it occurred to me, buy the one thing that has caused people to die early for stressful reasons and provoke people to kill one another to empty their rage for hundreds of years. The Rubik's cube. So I was like "hey mom before we leave let's go to walmart and buy a rubik's cube. So I bought the (crappy) rubik's brand cube and just attempted to (scramble) solve it on the 3 hour journey to the lodge. They I looked at the box which had a link to a solution on rubiks.com. My parents were kind of mad at me because I wasted my whole spring break trying to figure out the guide. (I kept making the cross but always made it unoriented) then about 1-2 days before we left, I solved it and averaged about 2-3 minutes and I ran to my mom and was like, "HEY MOM LOOK WHAT I DID!!! I SOLVED DA RUBIK'S CUBE!!!" and she was like "NO YOU DIDN'T YOU PEELED DA STICKERS OFF" and I was like "NO MOM IT'S A TILED CUBE THERE AREN'T ANY STICKERS" and she was like "YOU POPPED DA PIECES OUT DARS NO WAY YOU DID THAT IN 2 MINUTES" then I was like "WATCH I'LL DO IT AGAIN." and I did it like 3 more times and she believed me and I've been addicted ever since.

 

[aie]

When the movie "Pursuit of Happiness" came out.

 

[Tiwaz]

I had one for a long time but wasn't interessted in solving it. One day i got a promotonal cube for my work which was more of a picture cube.

That cube sat on my desk at work and one day my boss came by and solves in in front of my eyes in about 5 minutes. I thought well, if he can do this sure I can. I had a normal cube at home and that day i learned how to solve it from 06:00PM till 23:00PM. Next day i showed i can solve it too.

From that day on I wanted to be faster and had a goal for sub 1 minute. Didn't take long to break that. Now 1 year later I avarage around 28 sec. With a PB of 21. Fast after the 3x3 I got interessted in other puzzles like 4x4, 5x5, mirror blocks and so forth. Currently have a collection of 19 cubes.