Why did YOU start cubing?

My godbrother and his cousin got Rubik's Cubes on Black Friday of 2006. Ever since I saw them trying to follow how to solve the cube with the instruction manual it came with, I was definitely hooked. Since it was Black Friday, none of us got sleep because we stayed up just to shop. When we got home, however, we spent most of the day trying to solve the cube.

After that, I went to freshman year of high school, where most of the kids in school were solving cubes and competing against each other to see who was the fastest. Since then, I have been addicted with solving cubes and trying to get faster.
 
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I saw a kid with a Rubik's cube at school using beginner's method and I thought if he could do it why can't I? I had a Rubik's cube at my cabin and I remember trying to solve it and getting very frustrated. Redemption
 
my aunt gifted me one when i was 10.
i could solve only one face back then. and then it was untouhed for years.
i picked it up this year, in march because i had stopped playing field sports.
:)
i got a 24.35 today. (PB).
 
I bought one because the solution was there. but, that didn't help me so it sat on my shelf unsolved. Several years later, I decided to try and solve that. since then, I fell in love with cubing :)
 
I got a $2 shop cube for Christmas 2008 earlier than a friend had one and that was more of in August, September 2008 so I opened a vid. DIdn't learn fully to Feb 2009 on a webpage
 
My mom decided I wasn't smart enough, and bought my brothers and I a Rubik's brand 3x3.

After a whole week of frustrating turns, I was actually able to figure out how to solve a layer correctly. And then, as you can all imagine, I had no idea how to get the other layers right.

Fumbling around YouTube I came across two videos, one by thrawst and one by Dan Brown. Guess which one had more views?

Now I'm stuck as a green cross guy. Sub-15.
 
This past summer at a summer camp my roommate was obsessed with cubing. He and a few other people at the camp got me in to it, I got hooked, and now I'm starting a after school cubers club.
 
I, by chance, got interested in attempting to solve a Rubik's cube (a puzzle i couldn't solve as a child). Eventually I saw Dan Brown's layer by layer tutorial! I was mind boggled, understood and memorized it within a few days, and after a few weeks of practice and fingertrick training, i got a record of 50 (ish) seconds with it. Then i met a bunch of speedcubers in Indonesia, they taught me basic Fridrich method, and i learned! Now i average about 30 seconds per solve (slow.. I know :( ) but I'm getting faster and just learnt the Roux method! Any tips on which you recommend to get faster? :P
 
I always wanted to know how to solve a Rubik's cube but I didn't have one, so one day in August this year I borrowed my friend's cube for a couple of weeks, learned from Dan Brown's tutorial in a few hours.
One day later after I was able to solve it in about 6 minutes, the friend I borrowed my cube from showed me a much better method (intuitive cross and corners, how to insert edges in a much less "algorithmic" way, and how to solve the last layer using the method described on the petrus website), after he taught me I completely forgot the Dan Brown method and got used to my friend's method.
For about 2 months I was averaging about 2 minutes maybe less, I was really bad because I solved the cross on top, the mid layer edges while the cross is on top and only while solving the last layer I would flip the cube:
I wanted to learn F2L but because my cross is always on top it was pretty difficult, so I worked hard to get used to doing everything while the cross is on the bottom.
By the end of November I began learning F2L, some PLLs and 2-Look OLL, but I was really bad at it.

This month I started learning 3BLD, joined this forum, my F2L and LL got much better, I bought a new cube (all this while I had Rubik's brand), I average about 48 seconds and my best is 36.80, hoping to be sub 30 by the end of January.
 
One year ago I had two friends that didn't know each other, but both cubed. They only averaged around one minute and weren't serious, they just used beginner method. The cube piqued my interest and I learned the solution. I found a website that gave a tutorial for beginner's method and advanced(Fridrich). Then I dove into it, and got to where I am now.
 
So, my story began on a sunny sunday, I was at the Scout Movement.
My group had a challenge with the leaders to solve the rubik's cube, we only got the first layer.
One of the leaders solved it in about 1.30 minutes, since then I tought about it every time I saw a Rubik's cube.
Then I bougt my a €1 cube (that now lays shattered in my drawer), I learned from Dan Brown's tutorial how to solve it.
Then my cube broke, I got a rubik's brand a couple of weeks after that and learned F2L.
Now I average about 33 seconds, and have all WCA puzzles except SQ-1 wich I want to get soon. :)
 
About a month and a week ago (from 12/20/12, today) I just started getting board of aerodynamics and domino structures (the latter didn't last long), so I tried to think of a random new hobby, and the best idea I had was, well, cubing. I found a virtual cube, and started applying the solution until I had it memorized. I asked my mom to get me a cube. She did, on the same day that I was to embark on a campout with the boy scouts. Some guys appriciated the ability, but some were annoying and said, "give it to me, I wanna try" and I'm like, "No, you cant solve it without wasting the camping trip. When I don't have my rubiks cube, I start scrambling people!" But even worse is when those adults take it away when you were just holding it, or solving it a few minutes before duty is supposed to call. Back then, they took it scrambled. Now, I know when to run. And if the world ends tomorrow, then I can say I knew how to blind solve before I died.

Oh, and, when I learned basic friedrich, I just switched to the white cross, because it is pretty hard to learn while still keeping the green cross. I can also do color neutral solves, but it will slightly increase my time.
 
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In about May of this year (2012) I was incredibly bored. I walked over and saw the thing that angered me... THE CUBE! I took the rubik's brand, and found a tutorial on youtube. It wasn't dan brown, like everyone else, it was much better (don't know exactly who). I memorized it in about a couple hours and practiced over the days, as i had some friends that cubed for a while at school, and well, like old saying goes "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" heh personally i don't like that saying :D. Anyway, i got faster and faster, and then i just decided to be dumb and mod my cube. Well that went well... every time i tried to solve it, it would fall apart. I sanded way to much... then i decided to get a faster, better cube. I got a YongJun 3x3, which was pretty fast, and it worked well , but now it is slow , since im used to a zhanchi... i got a 2x2 along with the YJ, and i just got HOOKED. I LOVE cubing. Then i went on to learn Fridrich, and order a zhanchi when i averaged about 50 seconds.... and here i am now. I hadn't cubed for a while after i started, so that is why i am not as fast as you would expect... but almost sub 30!!!! I am soooo glad i got into cubing... otherwise, now that i think about it, what on earth would i do instead in my spare time?
 
About 4 years ago, i came across a booklet on how to solve a Rubik's Cube in Toys'R'us and manage to solve it about 1.50 minutes plus. But i lost interest in it until last December in South Korea a Teen about my age in the same tour group as me started playing with it and that got my hooked up in cubing again as i forgot almost half of the alg to solve it..haha.. Upon returning SG i started speed cube and buying faster cube to get faster timing ! Come to think of it, i am glad that i really get back to cubing ~
 
I know this seems sad now, but I was one of the original "Rubik's Magic" addicts in the late 1980s. I picked my Rubik's Magic back up again in 2010 and I was finally getting decent times. One day I was in Kmart and saw a cube; "Mmmmm. Maybe I'd better buy it and see if I can solve it." From the first time I followed the instructions on the Rubik's website to achieve my first solve I was addicted and each minor accomplishment felt so good. I average about 45 - 50 seconds at the moment (I don't get much practice time!) and my life has felt even richer since. I can't wait to keep raising the bar for myself.
 
Because i saw the youtube video of Justin Bieber solving it so i said to myself that if this dude can do it, me too. So i wanted to break his time so when i could do it in 1 min 15seconds with the beginner method, i felt in love with cubing and wanted to speedcube so i learned the fridrich method (CFOP) and then my best friend got into cubing too and also did fridrich method so when we were competing we did the same movements so i decided to learn Roux because it looked fun and full of potential and still going strong with my times :). I've been cubing for 1 month and 1 week and my PB is 36 seconds and average of 45 seconds. My goal is to get sub 15.
 
i saw Feliks' 5.66 sec solve and went "im gonna beat him." so i started to cube. i averaged 1mins after 2 days. One day, i WILL beat him. amen

edit: about a year before this i figured out how to solve the F2L by myself in about an hour. true story, i think i have a chance
 
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