Why did YOU start cubing?

I bought a cube in summer 2009 didnt understand a crap of it. Christmas 2009 i took it of my shelf again and looked for a dutch tutorial which i found. I managed to finish it witin a day and then i started speedcubing in february 2010. So almost a year of speedcubing for me. Im around 14 sec now
 
ianography said:
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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I am not sure how I would react if I ever pulled off a sub 20 solve. I plan on learning some F2L algs for some of the cases that take me a bit to solve. When I see people at competitions executing sub 10 second solves it just blows my mind. Funny thing is, at my first competition, the first person I saw solve a cube was Rowe. I did not know who he was and he solved the cube in something like 10.02 seconds...I just stood there for a few seconds with my mouth open ha ha ha
 
in the 3rd grade, my uncle saw this movie called "Pursuit of Happiness" and saw Will Smith solve a cube. He then learned how to solve one. Obviously, I wanted to learn since he taught his daughter, who eventually taught me. I learned the first two layers. After quite sometime, I was in the 4th grade and someone in my class scrambled my cube. I did the first two layers and couldn't solve the last one. So, I went home and learned how to solve it by going onto the internet. Then, I stumbled across the video of where the little 3 year old solved it in 112 seconds. I realized I wanted to be better. I watched sum vids by desie37, and monkeydude1313 and then I became obsessed with cubing. Now I can solve it in under 30 seconds.
 
chris410 said:
I am not sure how I would react if I ever pulled off a sub 20 solve. I plan on learning some F2L algs for some of the cases that take me a bit to solve. When I see people at competitions executing sub 10 second solves it just blows my mind. Funny thing is, at my first competition, the first person I saw solve a cube was Rowe. I did not know who he was and he solved the cube in something like 10.02 seconds...I just stood there for a few seconds with my mouth open ha ha ha
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Well, if you want some good F2L videos on YouTube, I don't know any particular ones, but if it's really good quality and/or is by a distinguished cuber or channel, then click on it and try to use that. Now, if the algorithm doesn't fit your style of how you speedcube, then don't even bother trying to learn it, unless you think that you could make it work for you.
 
ianography said:
Well, if you want some good F2L videos on YouTube, I don't know any particular ones, but if it's really good quality and/or is by a distinguished cuber or channel, then click on it and try to use that. Now, if the algorithm doesn't fit your style of how you speedcube, then don't even bother trying to learn it, unless you think that you could make it work for you.
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I am learning full PLL...I know all the algorithms however, I am not fast with them yet. Seems like each time I start working on full PLL a competition in my area comes up so my plan is to use a hybrid of 2-look PLL if I do not recognize the case instantly or of course use full PLL should I know the case.

I found Weston's F2L video so I'm going to look over that, I try to understand the movements when I learn algorithms instead of memorizing so I am looking forward to hopefully, improving my F2L and perhaps someday getting sub-30 seconds. My goal when I first started to solve the cube was to simply solve it...so anything I do to improve is really a bounus at this point.
 
I just thought when it was rainy day and saw some cube package on ebay which had 2x2 3x3 4x4 and 5x5, and I thought that "Hey, if would be kinda cool if I could solve one of those" and then I bought it, and scramled 3x3, cursed, put it on shelf, 2 days later cursed again, throwed it down the ladders, brought it up again, realized that internet had some guides, cursed and solved.
 
I "collect" hobbies, and try to have a well-rounded set of unique skills. I bought a shitty Rubiks brand one, and lubricated it with vasoline. D= After that failed I bought a few from some Asian website and learned how to solve with the little rubik's booklet that comes with the cube. I've been at it for at least 5 months and am just now learning advanced F2L
 
I learned it because I thought it would attract females easily. xD Just kidding. But I actually learned it just for the fun of it. :) Solving the cube is just something I do now when I am bored... And it looks impressive too. ;D
 
Was at the warehouse a month ago and saw 1 on the shelf AND it was on sale because of christmas so i got 1

looked at many tutorials online learnt pogobats tutorial then went on to badmephisto's tutorials
then started using fridrich.

Then saw speedcubing vids then got all this inspiration to become 1 of them so here i am :)
 
I just wanted to divert my mind from a few problems in life. So i turned towards the "Toughest thing in the world". So in August 2010 learned from youtube n solved a few on mobile and then bought a real one. The verrrry 1st solve on mobile (actually 2nd solve. 1st was wat i learned) took 30 mins and it was my FB status :P now im around 30 secs and im ashamed lol !! aah yes and the hunting story thing happened somewhere in between ;)
edit: NLPB 26.xx
 
One day I found a Rubik's Cube at home, decided I'll give it a try. After 3-4 hours trying to solve it I had just 4 corners incorrectly permuted. No way I could solve that in a few more hours.

So, I looked up in the internet methods to solve the cube and started studying them.

After two weeks I could solve that rough cube in around 50 sec.

I bought a DaYan Guhong and Silicone spray, started using F2L method and in another 2 weeks I was around 30-35 secs. I learned PLL and 2OLL (with a few OLL algs) and a month or so later, practising about an hour a day I was averaging 20 sec. I also bought a Dayan+MF8 4x4 and a LanLan 2x2, which I learned to solve in about 10 minutes xD

A week later I got my first sub-18 solve and first sub-20 average. The next day I posted it in a thread called ''Why did YOU start cubing?''
 
Well, my story is what some would call weird...
I knew about a Rubik's cube long before I started speedsolving. On a cloudy day I bought myself a crappy Chinese cube that cost about 2.50 dollars (converted). Then I thought that '' it doesn't even matter which cube I get, they are all crappy anyway.'' I was wrong. The cube was god-awful and turning it felt like pushing a 100kg rock on asphalt. I gave up. Then I somehow ended up in a bookstore where I bought my first Rubik's brand cube, in fact it was a keychain. I bought that because, well, I didn't have enough money to buy the real thing. Then it took me 2 weeks to understand those English instructions and then I got it- I could solve a cube. Later on I managed to solve the keychain in 51 seconds! I put some money aside and bought a real 3x3 from the same store. I was disappointed with the turning at first but after using cooking oil it turned better.
Summer suddenly arrived and my cubes were left to collect dust. I returned to speedcubing unexpectedly in October when I brought my cube with me (and it turned awfully!) to a party. There I met someone who has inspired me to speedcube: Anti Ingel. I began looking for guides, learned F2L, 2look OLL/PLL, even bought myself a decent cube. I was addicted to the cube and spent my spare time solving it. Since then I have improved and starting from October to May my times have gone down from about 1:30 to 18 second LUCKY, 23 second single best and 27 second averages, yet I still have to learn to improve my cross-building, F2L and learn full OLL/PLL.
 
I started to cube about 2 1/2 months ago (I know the date now since I found out when exactly I downloaded Dan Brown's video) when my friend sold me his Rubik's Cube lubed with WD-40. The stickers were peeling but in an hour, I managed to get down how to solve it and my first solve time was about 1:38 if I remember... I'm almost obsessed with this as I'm practicing more and more often and getting better times quick. I managed a 18 sec NL and 25 sec average. I'm still in the process of learning my PLLs. My friend said I'm a pro, but I'm not even "amateur" imo...
 
I actually started because of a friend!

After watching him solve my cube for a few months, I became determined to not only learn how to solve the cube, but get faster than him! (he was around 1:45ish)
 
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