Why did YOU start cubing?

When i was five i got my first cube. It took me a month to figure out the first layer then the second layer in a day. Thats as far as i got until i was about 10. I got a new cube and tried again and finally figured out the last layer (4 algs), which werent very efficient. With that method, i got a record of 51 seconds. A few months ago (7-8 years later), I started trying to optimize my method (convert the algs to finger-tricks) my record went to 47 on the first try. So i started reinventing a new method with a 3 look LL and took the corner permutations from the CFOP method, the rest i have to create still. I completed the last 2 look alg sets and am currently working on the final (edges done in 1 alg). My current record is 27.5 with an average of 38-ish, and should be reduced soon. :D
 
theanonymouscuber said:
will6680 said:
How did you start cubing??

Mah story:
Well. On august 1st my family went on vacation to SOME PLACE IN MA THATS SOMETHING A SUPERHERO WEARS AND A TYPE OF FISH for two weeks. (Cape cod...) And I decided to be able to solve a Rubik's cube when I was there. So I was walking around and there was a toy store there and i was like "MOMMY MOMMY CAN I HAS CUBE?" And So i got it. My first real cube. So then I got on youtube and for a week watched everyone of Dan Browns "How to solve a Rubik's Cube" videos. So I can solve the first two layers. (Its like aug 5th now.) And then could solve it (Beginners) So I stoleded my moms Vasaline and PUT IT IN MY CUBE. I was like "MOMMY MOMMY ITS SMOOOOTH." And then learned that Vasline eats it. Then I wiped it all out. So I can solve the first two layers. And then the next day, I went out and bought some WD-40. Because i was so dumb. And when I got back realized. CRC>Jigaloo>Shock>WD-40>VASALINE. So i was like FFFFUUUUUUU. So now im like DAMN I have to go get a new one. So I did. But when I bought it it was like 10:00 pm and no one was in the store I bought it at. The cashier was like LOL I COULD NEVER SOLVE THOSE. And I was like yeaah. I CAN. Hes like SOLVE IT. I'm like OKAY. And then the manager walked in and he was like OOMGOMGOMGOGM R U SOLVING IT. And i was like YES. So hes like NO WAY. And then I finished and he was like WOAH and he was so shocked he gave me 20 bucks. I was like SCORE. So next I bought CRC. And lubed it all up and it was poifect. So, then I was like OKAY SO I can solve a 3x3. What about a 4x4? So I ordered an Eastsheen 4x4 (I didnt know about Maru and Qj :/) And by the time I got back to my house from the vaca. It was there. So then I learned F2L. (but I didnt use PLL and OLL.) I joined here. Saw this. And bought an F-II, Alpha V, and Eastsheen 2x2 (meh LanLan doesnt do it for me.) Learned 2 Look PLL and 2 Look OLL.

Current Avg: 1:15 (Im gettin ther!)

Whats your story.
Click to expand...

Dude, wait for more stuff to happen(i.e. improvements). You started cubing a week ago and you are already telling us your story? Plus, why on earth would lan-lan not "do it for you"? You don't even own one! Also, you are making too many new threads.
Click to expand...

What he said
 
bluedasher said:
theanonymouscuber said:
will6680 said:
How did you start cubing??

Mah story:
Well. On august 1st my family went on vacation to SOME PLACE IN MA THATS SOMETHING A SUPERHERO WEARS AND A TYPE OF FISH for two weeks. (Cape cod...) And I decided to be able to solve a Rubik's cube when I was there. So I was walking around and there was a toy store there and i was like "MOMMY MOMMY CAN I HAS CUBE?" And So i got it. My first real cube. So then I got on youtube and for a week watched everyone of Dan Browns "How to solve a Rubik's Cube" videos. So I can solve the first two layers. (Its like aug 5th now.) And then could solve it (Beginners) So I stoleded my moms Vasaline and PUT IT IN MY CUBE. I was like "MOMMY MOMMY ITS SMOOOOTH." And then learned that Vasline eats it. Then I wiped it all out. So I can solve the first two layers. And then the next day, I went out and bought some WD-40. Because i was so dumb. And when I got back realized. CRC>Jigaloo>Shock>WD-40>VASALINE. So i was like FFFFUUUUUUU. So now im like DAMN I have to go get a new one. So I did. But when I bought it it was like 10:00 pm and no one was in the store I bought it at. The cashier was like LOL I COULD NEVER SOLVE THOSE. And I was like yeaah. I CAN. Hes like SOLVE IT. I'm like OKAY. And then the manager walked in and he was like OOMGOMGOMGOGM R U SOLVING IT. And i was like YES. So hes like NO WAY. And then I finished and he was like WOAH and he was so shocked he gave me 20 bucks. I was like SCORE. So next I bought CRC. And lubed it all up and it was poifect. So, then I was like OKAY SO I can solve a 3x3. What about a 4x4? So I ordered an Eastsheen 4x4 (I didnt know about Maru and Qj :/) And by the time I got back to my house from the vaca. It was there. So then I learned F2L. (but I didnt use PLL and OLL.) I joined here. Saw this. And bought an F-II, Alpha V, and Eastsheen 2x2 (meh LanLan doesnt do it for me.) Learned 2 Look PLL and 2 Look OLL.

Current Avg: 1:15 (Im gettin ther!)

Whats your story.
Click to expand...

Dude, wait for more stuff to happen(i.e. improvements). You started cubing a week ago and you are already telling us your story? Plus, why on earth would lan-lan not "do it for you"? You don't even own one! Also, you are making too many new threads.
Click to expand...

What he said
Click to expand...

I changed it to august i didnt mean September. NOT SEPTEMBER. August.

And IDK. I just like East sheen better. I TRUST THEM.
 
will6680 said:
bluedasher said:
theanonymouscuber said:
will6680 said:
How did you start cubing??

Mah story:
Well. On august 1st my family went on vacation to SOME PLACE IN MA THATS SOMETHING A SUPERHERO WEARS AND A TYPE OF FISH for two weeks. (Cape cod...) And I decided to be able to solve a Rubik's cube when I was there. So I was walking around and there was a toy store there and i was like "MOMMY MOMMY CAN I HAS CUBE?" And So i got it. My first real cube. So then I got on youtube and for a week watched everyone of Dan Browns "How to solve a Rubik's Cube" videos. So I can solve the first two layers. (Its like aug 5th now.) And then could solve it (Beginners) So I stoleded my moms Vasaline and PUT IT IN MY CUBE. I was like "MOMMY MOMMY ITS SMOOOOTH." And then learned that Vasline eats it. Then I wiped it all out. So I can solve the first two layers. And then the next day, I went out and bought some WD-40. Because i was so dumb. And when I got back realized. CRC>Jigaloo>Shock>WD-40>VASALINE. So i was like FFFFUUUUUUU. So now im like DAMN I have to go get a new one. So I did. But when I bought it it was like 10:00 pm and no one was in the store I bought it at. The cashier was like LOL I COULD NEVER SOLVE THOSE. And I was like yeaah. I CAN. Hes like SOLVE IT. I'm like OKAY. And then the manager walked in and he was like OOMGOMGOMGOGM R U SOLVING IT. And i was like YES. So hes like NO WAY. And then I finished and he was like WOAH and he was so shocked he gave me 20 bucks. I was like SCORE. So next I bought CRC. And lubed it all up and it was poifect. So, then I was like OKAY SO I can solve a 3x3. What about a 4x4? So I ordered an Eastsheen 4x4 (I didnt know about Maru and Qj :/) And by the time I got back to my house from the vaca. It was there. So then I learned F2L. (but I didnt use PLL and OLL.) I joined here. Saw this. And bought an F-II, Alpha V, and Eastsheen 2x2 (meh LanLan doesnt do it for me.) Learned 2 Look PLL and 2 Look OLL.

Current Avg: 1:15 (Im gettin ther!)

Whats your story.
Click to expand...

Dude, wait for more stuff to happen(i.e. improvements). You started cubing a week ago and you are already telling us your story? Plus, why on earth would lan-lan not "do it for you"? You don't even own one! Also, you are making too many new threads.
Click to expand...

What he said
Click to expand...

I changed it to august i didnt mean September. NOT SEPTEMBER. August.

And IDK. I just like East sheen better. I TRUST THEM.
Click to expand...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That makes no sense and is a totally not true! Eastsheen LOCKS LIKE HELL!
 
1. See friend solve it
2. Buy cube
3. Learn it
4. Solve in 6:15
5. Next solve: 2:12
6. Practice
7. Here I am.

My whole cubing story is far too complex for a post here. Basically, along the way, I figured out my own method, as well as algorithms. Picked up big cubes here and there as well....in short.
 
So umm...

I started cubing in 2003 because my dad could solve it, he showed me how to, I learnt this weird beginners CLL/ELL method, stopped for about 3 years, found a cube again in about 2006, picked it up, forgot how to solve it, looked through the guide, solved it, re-memoed the method, solved it, started casually solving, started speedcubing in 2008, got faster, here I am.
 
I was nine, my uncle gave me my first cube (a studio cube..but I didn't know it back then) it was missing the white center cap so he put white-out on it. He told me if I could solve it he would give me $20. I took it home nd showed it to my friend. He solved it using beginners method, he had about 3 cubes (not speed cubes). He tried to teach me but I never got the hang of it. I then moved to England (family stuffs) and asked my dad to get me a cube, I dissembled the other one and thought I broke it. I learned how to solve the cube before I catually got one. When I finally got my cube it took me 3 tries to solve it. for the next few years I just solved it here and there, I tried to learn fridrich but never did. Now about 3 months ago I started speedcubing because I found my cube thought I wanna try speed solving again. I now know intuitive f2l, 4LL, have a non-lucky PB of 29.33 and can solve many other puzzles
 
I started about 2 years and 9 months ago (I got my first cube from christmas.) That day I went online (everywhere but Youtube, LOL) and tried finding a solution guide since I just wanted to know how to solve the damn thing, I found a plethora of guide but that all had notations and for whatever reason I refused to learn notations, I eventually stumbled across this guide: http://www.chessandpoker.com/rubiks-cube-solution.html

I did a solve or two to make sure it worked and I wrote down all the steps. Within one week I had all of it memorized but the last step (Dedmore fish and dedmore h) which took me another week to memorize. As soon as I had the entire thing down I brought it to school and started showing off. Eventually my best friend wanted to learn so he did so, and a few other friends of mine wanted to as well. I was the fastest (still am) and decided to learn a faster method, at the time my PB was :58, not sure since someone else timed me off of a clock. I look around for a faster method and found this:
http://lar5.com/cube/

From that point I started working on Petrus, got F2L down decently so that cut my times a bit but I never got around to LL. After that I kinda fell out of the cubing stage for quite awhile. At this time I moved to a new city, and fell into the wrong crowd. I eventually picked it back up and was searching Youtube and found a Fridrich vs. Petrus comparison. After that point, I was determined to learn Fridrich method, so I looked online and found: http://badmephisto.com/

I first modded my storebought (kept throught the years) by sanding all the pieces, found CRC and lubed it. I then proceeded to learn Fridrich. Cross was a pain for me since I always did corners first, F2L was easy for me to adapt to, 2L-OLL took me about 3 days, I learned A PLLs (since I knew U's from Petrus) the next day and I was happy that I knew how to use Fridrich. Well, obviously I wanted to improve so I worked on PLLs and just practiced from time to time. I eventually became sub 1:00 and then quit. After about a year of off and on cubing I came back, bought a F-II and became sub :50 then I quit again. After about 6 months I started really getting back into cubing, bought a Rubik's 5x5 and learned how to solve it using this guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhlj4SZGTo , I bought a Rubik's 4x4 (I still don't know the parities) and became around sub :45 for the 3x3, at this time I got kicked out of my dad's house.

Now, living at my moms, I had to adjust to a new school district, and since all the teachers were easy on me (1 months left of my junior year and I just moved, so I literally did nothing) I decided to bring the cube to school. Since this school is really small and in a rural community everyone was impressed, within the first day everyone knew me as: A. the new kid B. the kid who can solve the cube, or C. Cuber (I started this one). So for that entire month all I did all day was listen to music and solve the cube, I kept improving and improving I managed to average about :38-:40. During the following summer I quit all together (I kept all my cubes and did a random solve occasionally but I never practiced.) Well, during the last week or so of summer I picked it back up and managed to average about :34. Now, a week into school, I average :33.

I am proficient in LBL, Petrus F2L, Fridrich - cross, F2L, 2L-OLL, 1L-PLL (19/21) with a PB single of: 24.18 and a PB average of 12: 33.33 and I use F-II as my main cube.
 
Last edited:
See Woner cubing in hallway. (Dec07)
Talk to woner bout cubing.
Buy rubiks 3x3 at walmart.
Learn via Jasmine Lee Beginner method + Petrus page for animated algs
spend a few days memorizing middle layer edge insert, sune, anti sune, niklas and alan.
First timed solve 2:25
Practice beginners method for a few months
Purchase white Old Type A Speedcube off ebay(LOL)
Taught myself intuitive f2l, start learning good PLLs (T, Y, J, L, A) (April08)
Average just under 30 with F2l, 2L OLL + ~11 PLLs (June08)

Take long break after high school. (~July08 - ~Feb10)

Chill with woner for the first time in a while ~Feb10
use his boss a3f, see him solve blind, watch him solve 3x3 in ~13 seconds
get interested again, borrow woners cube, start practicing again. ~34 seconds
Begin relearning PLLs I had forgotten and finishing PLLs I hadn't started.
Get down to a 24 second average with 19/21 PLLs.
Attend first competition, Oklahoma Open 2010, with Woner and RyanO.
Meet Anthony, Weston and others, get taught the N perms by Anthony.
On the drive back, I learned ~10 easy OLLs and committed to learning fullOLL
Finish OLL in May10, 22 second average
First sub20 average in June10
First sub19 average in July10
Currently practicing 2x2 a bit again (hadn't in a long while)

I've gotten much faster than I ever would've expected. I remember one day I got a PB of 52 seconds (first sub1) back in January08 and came to school and told woner (his current PB was 43LOL). He came back the next day and first thing he said to me was, "I officially halved your PB, 26 seconds"

Amazing.
Thanks for reading if anyone did
 
Tyjet66 said:
I started about 2 years and 9 months ago (I got my first cube from christmas.) That day I went online (everywhere but Youtube, LOL) and tried finding a solution guide since I just wanted to know how to solve the damn thing, I found a plethora of guide but that all had notations and for whatever reason I refused to learn notations, I eventually stumbled across this guide: http://www.chessandpoker.com/rubiks-cube-solution.html

I did a solve or two to make sure it worked and I wrote down all the steps. Within one week I had all of it memorized but the last step (Dedmore fish and dedmore h) which took me another week to memorize. As soon as I had the entire thing down I brought it to school and started showing off. Eventually my best friend wanted to learn so he did so, and a few other friends of mine wanted to as well. I was the fastest (still am) and decided to learn a faster method, at the time my PB was :58, not sure since someone else timed me off of a clock. I look around for a faster method and found this:
http://lar5.com/cube/

From that point I started working on Petrus, got F2L down decently so that cut my times a bit but I never got around to LL. After that I kinda fell out of the cubing stage for quite awhile. At this time I moved to a new city, and fell into the wrong crowd. I eventually picked it back up and was searching Youtube and found a Fridrich vs. Petrus comparison. After that point, I was determined to learn Fridrich method, so I looked online and found: http://badmephisto.com/

I first modded my storebought (kept throught the years) by sanding all the pieces, found CRC and lubed it. I then proceeded to learn Fridrich. Cross was a pain for me since I always did corners first, F2L was easy for me to adapt to, 2L-OLL took me about 3 days, I learned A PLLs (since I knew U's from Petrus) the next day and I was happy that I knew how to use Fridrich. Well, obviously I wanted to improve so I worked on PLLs and just practiced from time to time. I eventually became sub 1:00 and then quit. After about a year of off and on cubing I came back, bought a F-II and became sub :50 then I quit again. After about 6 months I started really getting back into cubing, bought a Rubik's 5x5 and learned how to solve it using this guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhlj4SZGTo , I bought a Rubik's 4x4 (I still don't know the parities) and became around sub :45 for the 3x3, at this time I got kicked out of my dad's house.

Now, living at my moms, I had to adjust to a new school district, and since all the teachers were easy on me (1 months left of my junior year and I just moved, so I literally did nothing) I decided to bring the cube to school. Since this school is really small and in a rural community everyone was impressed, within the first day everyone knew me as: A. the new kid B. the kid who can solve the cube, or C. Cuber (I started this one). So for that entire month all I did all day was listen to music and solve the cube, I kept improving and improving I managed to average about :38-:40. During the following summer I quit all together (I kept all my cubes and did a random solve occasionally but I never practiced.) Well, during the last week or so of summer I picked it back up and managed to average about :34. Now, a week into school, I average :33.

I am proficient in LBL, Petrus F2L, Fridrich - cross, F2L, 2L-OLL, 1L-PLL (19/21) with a PB single of: 24.18 and a PB average of 12: 33.33 and I use F-II as my main cube.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure why, but I really enjoyed writing that. :D
 
C I just saq the QB 4 teh 1st dime. I coat hooked. Lol, rofl, omg, wtf, ftw.
tehn i was sooooooo yes, happy.
white stickers solved.
tehn Ich realised there are othello stickers as well.
Nooo, I can solve it. Do yow knoo any method? ho-ho-how fast?
 
yea best I ever got was a dollar from some random person on campus, who said, "I'll give you a dollar if you solve that" as I was walking by cubing. I smiled and said, "prepare to give me a dollar" or something lol.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Tony Acevedo
How did you start cubing?
Replies
9
Views
2,095
Apolo
Apolo
CJCubing
Why and How did you start cubing?
Replies
8
Views
2,104
AJT17
AJT17
O
  • Poll Poll
In which decade did you first start cubing?
2 3 4
Replies
74
Views
9,163
Ninja Storm
Ninja Storm
KboyForeverB
When did you start cubing?
2
Replies
28
Views
4,415
LNZ
LNZ
Garf
Why did we even start in the beginning?
2
Replies
28
Views
2,489
Cubinginatree
Cubinginatree
Back
Top