Why did YOU start cubing?

Why you started cubing

I started cubing because my friend coul solve it slowly (1:30 mins) and that attracted allot of peoples attention. And it became a rivalry against who had the best cube and the best time
 
i started cubing because some kids on the playground in 5th grade (2 years ago) were able to solve them and I didn't want to have to come to them all the time whenever I scrambled my cube so I used Dan Brown's tutorial and now I'm pretty much sub-20
 
My sister's boyfriend could solve it (I think he averaged about 1 minute at that point). I was completely mesmerised by it and ended up finding the YouCanDoTheCube guide. On the forums there I found a few threads about CFOP. From there I found other things and began speedcubing.
 
I was over at my friend's house, and his brother was cubing (Pretty slowly, in like a minute and a half.) He showed me some patterns on the cube. When I got home, I looked on Dan Brown's tutorial and solved it in a few days. (With my own cube that I already had) That was two years ago. I could solve it in a few minutes. I didn't care for solving it fast at all. I forgot about it for months at a time without picking it up. It was only four months ago when I started to really started to get into the cube. Now I am averaging sub 30 with a PB of 16.03

Plus, I am only 11 ATM.
 
collinbxyz said:
I was over at my friend's house, and his brother was cubing (Pretty slowly, in like a minute and a half.) He showed me some patterns on the cube. When I got home, I looked on Dan Brown's tutorial and solved it in a few days. (With my own cube that I already had) That was two years ago. I could solve it in a few minutes. I didn't care for solving it fast at all. I forgot about it for months at a time without picking it up. It was only four months ago when I started to really started to get into the cube. Now I am averaging sub 30 with a PB of 16.03

Plus, I am only 11 ATM.
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pratically the same story as me-
I learned how to sole the cube using Dan Brown's method and would sole with that method for about 3 years going on and off with solving the cube, then finally last year i had the desire to learn to sole the cube faster. I learned f2l and i just recently finished learning 2 look oll and pll. Also, collin why do you always say "I'm only 11."?
 
I used to play with my friend's cube because I didn't have one. I would always solve a side and then make different colored flowers. When I got my cube My best time was like 2 minutes... I'd say I've improved a pretty decent bit.
 
Well it was the first day of 7th grade and I was just getting introduced to my teachers and my classes. In Latin class however, there was a Rubik's cube sitting on one of the shelves. Everyone started talking about how cool it would be if they could solve it and how smart you would have to be. Well Sam Moore comes over and said he could solve it. Nobody believes him, but after he solves it everyone was amazed. From that day forward, I had a goal, a goal to beat Sam Moore at the Rubik's cube and be faster than him. I have since accomplished both goals and solve it about a lot faster than him.
 
24653483361 said:
pratically the same story as me-
I learned how to sole the cube using Dan Brown's method and would sole with that method for about 3 years going on and off with solving the cube, then finally last year i had the desire to learn to sole the cube faster. I learned f2l and i just recently finished learning 2 look oll and pll. Also, collin why do you always say "I'm only 11."?
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Yeah I have been lurking a lot and have noticed that he always says he is only eleven. Anyway my 7th grade teacher had one and said first person to solve it got candy. So I went out and bought a cube two days later and solved it with Dan Brown's method.
 
Over the past summer my best friend and I made our "summer list" which included numerous things that we were going to do over the summer. One of the things on the list was to learn how to solve the rubik's cube, because neither of us knew how and we thought it would be really cool. So, after completing most of our list we figured it was time to learn how to solve the cube. We went to Toys R' Us and bought a rubik's cube and spent an extra 3 dollars to get the DVD also which included a video of Tyson Mao explaining the beginner's method of solving the cube.
 
First off, I originally learned the infamous noob LBL method from Dan Brown in the summer between 5th and 6th grade. At the start of 6th grade year, I proudly showed off my epic 1:30 LBL times. I began to find other things (mainly gaming) to fill my entertainment needs and forgot about cubing. After about 2 years of (competitive) Halo and MW2 I saw the iconic 6.57 solve on YouTube from Najakima and that inspired me to get fast at cubing. I started out with badmephisto tutorials and eventually learned full fridrich and average in the low-20s. My cubing journey isn't over as I buy more puzzles and get faster. One rule I still hold dear is to practice. A lot.

P.S. The funny thing is that in 6th grade my PB was 1:15.23 ( I was proud enough of it to remember :P). As I post this, my PB is 15.38 (NL). I find it funny because it's almost a whole minute improvement haha.
 
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There was a friend of mine who had a keychain 3x3 and some other friend saw me playing around with it and he said like I can almost solve it, theres some part I still have to learn (later I knew it was EPLL) the next day he came over to me and asked me for the cube, and then we asked for the keychain and then he solved it in like 1:30 and i said to myself, alright, time to solve this thing and had borrowed the keychain for 1 night and I was solving already. This was a year and a couple of months ago so I started cubing because of personal frustration/competitive reasons.
 
i first saw my parents cube when I was little... they tried to teach me LBL first two layers but I couldn't do it then... in second grade (age of 8) i could solve one side intuitive and once i did intuitive two sides (didn't know i should be solving LBL :D btw I'm still proud of that event :)) then I somehow learned how to insert edge pieces in second layer (I guess parents helped me again)... in seventh, I solved LL, with my own algs (i did first edge orientation, edge perm (with Sune :D), corner perm (very long alg, that I figured out myself) and at the end orienting corners (with some Sunes, I learned there some rules)) then i got pause... In nineth one friend of mine took it to school and few weeks later someone told me, that his dad can solve it with "Fridrich method" in about 30 sec (I thought she's man :D) ... so I learned CFOP, got basics of Petrus, ZZ, ZB, old Pochmann and some others...
 
I had a cube when I was young, I could get a few sides but never solve it back in the mid 80's. Fast forward to a little over a year ago...I stumbled on a cube video posted on youtube and was amazed at the speed. As I kept looking through videos I came across everyone's favorite video by Dan Brown and said...easy enough so, I bought a cube and learned how to solve it. I would say that I got into cubing because I wanted to be able to solve a cube...not many people can or have so it's something that I find interesting.

After I learned how to solve it I took a break for a while because the beginner method was boring. One day I picked it up and looked up " advanced solving techniques " and found badmephisto's videos and speedsolving.com. I learned F2L and 2-Look OLL/PLL and it opened up a whole new world of cubing. Chris Hardwick mentioned competitions so, I went in hopes of simply solving in under a minute and I did just that. I credit Chris for changing my perspective when it came to competitions because I considered them only for the elite. That being said...I wonder whether or not competitions will be come limited to only those who can solve under a certain time limit besides the 10-minute restriction. Personally, I hope it never comes to this because it will limit the growth of cubing quite a bit.

I go to the competitions to learn and watch the fast cubers, I do not have the time to practice or the natural speed to ever be competitive. Anyhow...since beginning I've learned how to solve the megaminx, bump cube, pyraminx, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, and 7x7. I solved the 7x7 using what I knew from all the other cubes and am happy that I finished that one on my own. I think I am going to order a 6x6 soon in hopes of someday competing in 2x2-7x7 and obtaining an average in each one. I would say that I am not after speed as much as gaining an understanding and simply learning how to improve and enjoy cubing. Honestly, I do not think I will ever be faster than high 20's in the 3x3 but who knows, right now a good average for me is mid-30's. Of course, cubing is great mental exercise so that is a plus in addition to the people I have met at competitions and here.
 
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chris410 said:
I had a cube when I was young, I could get a few sides but never solve it back in the mid 80's. Fast forward to a little over a year ago...I stumbled on a cube video posted on youtube and was amazed at the speed. As I kept looking through videos I came across everyone's favorite video by Dan Brown and said...easy enough so, I bought a cube and learned how to solve it. I would say that I got into cubing because I wanted to be able to solve a cube...not many people can or have so it's something that I find interesting.

After I learned how to solve it I took a break for a while because the beginner method was boring. One day I picked it up and looked up " advanced solving techniques " and found badmephisto's videos and speedsolving.com. I learned F2L and 2-Look OLL/PLL and it opened up a whole new world of cubing. Chris Hardwick mentioned competitions so, I went in hopes of simply solving in under a minute and I did just that. I credit Chris for changing my perspective when it came to competitions because I considered them only for the elite. That being said...I wonder whether or not competitions will be come limited to only those who can solve under a certain time limit besides the 10-minute restriction. Personally, I hope it never comes to this because it will limit the growth of cubing quite a bit.

I go to the competitions to learn and watch the fast cubers, I do not have the time to practice or the natural speed to ever be competitive. Anyhow...since beginning I've learned how to solve the megaminx, bump cube, pyraminx, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, and 7x7. I solved the 7x7 using what I knew from all the other cubes and am happy that I finished that one on my own. I think I am going to order a 6x6 soon in hopes of someday competing in 2x2-7x7 and obtaining an average in each one. I would say that I am not after speed as much as gaining an understanding and simply learning how to improve and enjoy cubing. Honestly, I do not think I will ever be faster than high 20's in the 3x3 but who knows, right now a good average for me is mid-30's. Of course, cubing is great mental exercise so that is a plus in addition to the people I have met at competitions and here.
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If you ever try to learn full PLL and practice F2L a LOT then you could get sub-20. I am, and I still use 2-look OLL. I might learn full OLL someday.
 
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