Why did YOU start cubing?

Somehow Rubik's cubes came up in my Freshman English class one day and my teacher said that whoever could solve one would get 50 extra credit points. I needed it to help my grade, so I learned in 1 night and had I think 4 or 5 algs memorized 2 days later so I could solve it for her. Got me the 50 points and an A in the class :) It interested me so I kept going from there and 4 years later I'm still doing it...
 
Saw about 10 people around this kid in my class solving it, if he can do it I can do it. 3 months later I'm faster than him.
 
Well I had gotten into cubing as there was a group of kids from my school who were solving who had been cubing for about a year who they all averaged some where from 45-1min 30 secs. They had asked if I knew how to do it and I said no. I got really mad with myself and I had began to learn it. Now After 6 Months I'm averaging 25 secs. :D
 
Christmas 2008. My father in law got a storebought as a present from his grandson (not my son ;)). The cube made me think about how i had a rubik's cube when i was a kid, and how i was kindof proud that i was able to solve any one side in a reasonable amount of time.

This spurred a newound interest in the cube and i went online to find resources so i would be able to solve it completely. I startet at rubik's official site where i found a link to the solution. I found this solution kindof awkward and not very efficient, and by the time i knew it by heart, I'd seen videos that proved it possible to solve the cube way faster than i could ever do with this method, so the search was on :)

I went through Dan browns (pogobat) videos on youtube. This did not make me a much more skilled cuber, so i searched on, and found Badmephisto :D.

Now HIS videos made me a more skilled cuber if i may say so myself :)

Ofcourse i found lots of other small bits of wisdom from here or there on youtube, or on random websites, but the "big one's" was pogobat, and badmephisto.
 
When I was 8 years old (7 years ago) I bought a store-bought cube and learned the beginners method I could solve it in about 2 min. The I left it and forgot about it. 2 years later I learned the beginners method again. Again I left it and forgot about it. 3 years later I learned the method AGAIN and then I decided that I want to solve it faster and started practicing.
 
Ahhh... does this bring back some memories.

August 2008, a week before the 7th Grade started for me. As most 12 year olds are, I was playing video games with some friends. I had this little basket of weird stuff and me and my friend put our hand in blindly and he found a little sticky hand thingie. I, of course, stumbled apon a 25th anniversary cube. The stickers were not distinguishable however. So later that month my grandma got me a cube for helping around her house. Well it took me around two weeks to finally solve the darn thing but I got it. ( Thanks to Pogobat.) Now, almost 2 years later I'm 40th in North America in the Pyraminx. Who knew? haha
 
There was some sort of a cube trend going around and people brought keychain cubes and storeboughts. I saw a (soon to be) friend solving for people as they gathered around in a crowd. A year later I somehow remembered that, so i came across Dan Brown's videos to learn. I did, and now I'm faster than him. I caused that "cube trend" to come back, as people brought their own cubes, some with magics and i even saw my first 5x5 :]
 
I found a cube, told myself I would solve it, discovered dan brown! 24hs later I could do it off by heart. a few days later I googled how to get faster and browsed around dans cubestation. Then I bought his book and commited myself to becoming the best in the world (hasn't quite happened yet xD)
 
I was chilling in the college canteen one day back in August 2009 and I happened to see this guy solve the cube in 1:30 ish. My friend and I looked at each other and were like: Holy S*** dude! We have GOT to do that. So I go to the station (In Bombay, India the areas near railway station is where you get all the crap you can possibly dream off. Toys, Books, Shirts, Food, and yes, even crap) and buy this cheap ass cube for 20 bucks (40 cents). This frickin thing has obscene tiles and cant turn if it's life depended on it.

So I got to work on the cube, swearing not to put it down till it was solved. I managed to do the first two layers (I had a concrete method similar to LBL in about 2 days. I didn't know notation, so it was always This-This-This and then That).

The last layer was a killer. Took me about a week and a half to figure it out. Youtube was tempting, but I had decided to not cheat. But ultimately, I took a look at Dan Brown's explanation of Notation and noted down the 7 algos (or 8? I dunno).

Since I didn't want to cheat, i decided to figure out what they did on my own and eventually solved the last layer. So i nailed the cube in about 17ish days.

After that, I watched Dan Brown and later learned Friedrich. I looked at Lance's tuts for the F2L. Don't really remember what I did for the OLL and PLL.

That's my story :D
 
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