Why did YOU start cubing?

I saw my mate doing sub 2 min solves and I was like :D I want to do that! so I got myself a cube and figured out how to do the first layer, then I forgot about it for a while. We were a little high one day and he whipped out his cube again (he was about a min now) and I was like "You should teach me man" and he taught me then and there in like 2 hours. I then googled it to see how fast people do it and I saw Yu Nakajima's 6.57 sec solve (I had no idea what a PLL skip was at that point) and so I decided I wanted to get faster. When I got to like 1.30 my friend linked me to a F2L video and told me to figure it out because he couldn't and I did it that night (had exam the next day) and taught him. My wrists started getting sore though, and it was then that I found out people lube cubes :D Current PB is 28.xx and I average about 36-38s
 
My brother-in-law gave me a storebought cube. When I couldn't solve it he told me I should just 'take it apart' and start over. That was my initial motivator to learn the 3x3's solution.
 
sees woner cubing in hallway.
Is impressed
buys rubiks brand from walmart
stays up all night learning from jasmine lee's/lars petrus tutorial.
rest is history
 
How I Got Started Into Cubing

This post may be a lot so therefore i wouldnt expect you to read all of it:cool:



It was in the school year of 2004 when i got into "Cubing" and before i go any farthur let it be said that i went through about 5-6 cubes before my previous engagement to solving my precious cubes. This is the story, This is MY story


The store was hot, the stores here in casper wyoming are always hot. and it was in this hot undesirable place where me and my grandmother were strolling about in the toys section
"NO! toys" she barked at me and continued walking to the food area. I, an obnoxious brat barked orders back at her. She laughed and threw a ten dollor bill in my face
"ONE toy!" she told me
"And this time it better last a MONTH! or no toy EVER!"
The little kid i was i began to scrummage the aisles full of toys, there were some i wanted but were too expensive, and some i didn't want
"HURRY UP!" she screamed at me, so i grabbed a random toy and threw it in the cart.... The first cube i ever would have solved
I WAS PISSED! why would i buy a rubik's cube! those things in my hand died in three DAYS!

To be continued....(i have to go to my next class)





Wow i worked hard on that, cant wait to continue it
 
Davee said:
I started cubing to improve my sex life. I played with the cube because it would strengthen my fingers.

In late July I found my nephew's Rubik's brand that they got for Christmas many years ago. I relearned beginner's method and tried to achieve sub-2m because one of my arrogant friend bragged durring high school that he was able to solve the cube in 2 minutes. Within a week or two, I was able to meet my goal. Over lunch one day, one of my friend (able to solve sub-1m) taught me F2L. I wanted to be as fast as he. He told me about the cubing community and that's when I got interested and decided to searched the internet and found speedsolving.com.

From the wiki, I learned 4LLL. I brought the storebought everywhere and got one of my other friend interested. He went out to get his own storebought and learned beginners method from the paper that came with the cube. A week researching went by and I decided to buy an A5 and asked my friend if he wanted it, too. By August I placed our order and my friend bought a 2-pack of CRC. The cube came in 2 weeks and I assembled, stickered, and tensioned both of the cubes. I did let him know that the cube came in though because I wanted to surprise him later that week for his birthday. After a week with the A5 I got my first sub-1m. I averaged 1:30 and my friend was as fast as I am. It was scary because he was still doing beginner's while I learned or almost learned 4LLL.

By the beginning of September, I was already working on full PLL. I joined the "Race to Sub-30!" thread at Round 19. I learned all PLL excluding G-Perm and had very little N-Perm practice. Within a week I learned full PLL. Few weeks later I got my F2 (black cube with cubesmith half-bright set with white stickers) and I liked it better than my A5 (white cube, cubesmith bright set with white stickers). A few weeks ago the core for my GuHong finally came in so I just switched to that (white cube, half-bright set with black stickers). I am very close to sub-30 average and am trying to learn full OLL.

Over time the reason I continue cubing is that it is fun.
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I started cubing because of my best friend. He brought a cube to school, making a bet that he could solve it by the end of the day. He just took all the pieces out and assembled it in a solved position. By the end of the day, he was 10 bucks richer.
And then I wondered if I could do it without cheating, unlike him.
 
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I was born in a rubik's factory, and they gave me one to play with, and I learned how to peel when I was a few seconds old. When I was one I learned to take it apart and reassemble it. Then I when I was 2 learned how to solve it using beginner's method. When I was 3 I learned fridrich. I am now 4 and a half and still use fridrich.
 
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My cousin had a dollar store cube and we could only get a layer that wasn't even permuted so I got frustrated and I looked it up and I saw Dan Brown's tutorial (this was in January) and I stayed up all night trying to follow the steps and after about 5 tries I got it and I went to bed after. In 1 week I learnt badmephisto's method and used Dan's LL an I averaged 1 min 30 secs. After that I learned Keyhole and averaged about 58 secs. Now I am a CFOP user and average 21 secs...
 
Well my brother was like 'Hell, I'll learn it, I like blowing peoples' minds.'
I saw him solving, and that's exactly what I thought, so I had him teach me. (Learned to solve in 6th grade; Currently high school freshman *cue laughing at the little kid*)
He learned Fridrich, I learned Fridrich.
He learned the 4x4, I learned the 4x4.
He quit cubing with a PB of ~45 seconds, I kept going.
 
Well, I saw my dad bust out and solve one and I was like, "What the heck"! Then I bought a cube at Walmart and solved it in a day. In about a week I was averaging 3 min. and was already out preforming my dad. After see multiple videos of people solving it sub 10, I decided to try to get faster. After all, I like a good challenge. Now about 9 months into cubing I'm averaging ~17 sec. and currently learning full OLL :) I still have a ways to go though if I want to get sub 10 :(
 
A few years ago I went back to school and got my master's degree in educational leadership. As I learned about intelligence and motivation I became more curious about their relationship with learning and achievement. I am also interested in our perception of intelligence, measurement of intelligence and how we can increase measured intelligence through training. I was also curious about my own abilities and interested in keeping my mind active. I wrote a short bucket list that included learning to solve the Rubik's cube. Within a few weeks my wife found an old Rubik's cube in a storage box and I got started immediately by learning LBL from youtube. Nearly a year later I found speedsolving.com and am now in the race to sub 30.
 
When I bought the Rubik`s cube, i learned how to solve it. After 10 solves, i tried to solve it more quickly. I liked! Now, I try to solve sub 35 with Roux method! Rubik`s cube is now my first place hobby!
 
I got a 3x3 for Christmas a few years ago. Some day when I was sick, I decided to solve it. I worrked my way thrugh a tutorial using 2 algs, I solved it maybe ten times, and a month later, I was able to solve it. Completely without cheat-sheet :)
I found out that there existed a 2x2 model too. A friend of mine bought a cube like that and got addicted too. (He is far better then me in cubing now, he has a 4x4 to now). And here I am. New to cubing.
 
my sister got a 3x3 for her birthday, and she scrambled it right after she opened it.
i was like: wtf:confused: that's impossible to solve.
then she had put it in her closet, and then i found it:)
i solved it with Dan Browns video's 3 times, and it took me too long to watch all the video's, so i wrote the alg's on a piece of paper, and learned it.
then i saw MMAP's videos, and he talked about the forum, and i found this forum:)
and now i'm learning full OLL:)
 
Well,one day i saw my friend solve the cube in under 3mins and the 4x4 in 6mins,i was utterly amazed so i bought a dollar store cube(euro store to be exact).In about a week i could solve it in 3mins and 30 secs.As i progressed i learned about the fridrich method and i could solve the cube in 40 seconds. Now i can solve it in under 35 seconds and i am breaking the 30 second barrier.I am the fastest solver in my town(in my country there arent alot of solvers)and school.(I use intuitive F2L,2-look OLL and 1-look PLL)
 
At some point in the summer of 2007 I bought a cheap cube from a dollar store. I tried to figure it out using the weird instructions that it came with. After a while of only being able to get the first layer and a bit, I turned to Youtube (Before I had a Youtube account). I searched "How to solve a Rubik's Cube" and found Pogobat's (Dan Brown's) tutorial. I continued to practice that to the point where I had the algorithms memorized and I bought a Wal-Mart cube because my cheap cube died. I eventually made my own Youtube account and started to find cubing videos. I stumbled upon LancetheBlueKnight's and Thrawst's videos which was, pretty much when I started to time my solves and think about getting faster.
 
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