Your best moment in cubing?

[Deleted member 4527]

me setting Square-1 NR and beating Forte by .26 seconds

 

[JustinJ]

Probably getting my 2x2 NR Another great one was my official sub 20 OH, that was awesome.

 

[Andreaillest]

My first 3x3 solve. I still have the picture of it solved on my camera phone.

 

[vincecuber]

my first sub 30 average of 5 28.xx

 

[4Chan]

Hm, either when I had that double x-cross at Chattahoochee 09, or when i had that LL skip for 9.41.

 

[Lucas Garron]

 

[Sa967St]

my official 10.21 3x3x3 solve

edit: my official 22.46 OH solve and my official BLD success were great moments too

 

[vgbjason]

about 2 weeks ago i found out how to solve a 4x4 without a tutorial. i was way happy, until later when i discovered i was lucky enough not to have parity that solve. still haven't figured out all my parity cases

 

[Forte]

me setting Square-1 NR and beating Forte by .26 seconds

Me setting Square-1 NR and beating Lance by .34 seconds before Neil broke that

Nah, it was definitely my first BLD success.

 

[V-te]

The day my cousin told me that It was impossible to get 21 seconds, So I had a solve for him and did it in 22, Lol. You should've seen his face.

My first NxN's solve, umm.....my first sub 40, first sub 30, first sub 25, Learning full PLL, and of course, overtaking the guy who taught me how to solve!

 

[cmhardw]

For me I would have to say the first time I ever solved a big cube blindfolded. It was my first attempt at solving a cube larger than the 3x3x3, and I was solving a 4x4x4 supercube. It turns out that 4x4x4 supercube BLD is actually easier than regular 4x4x4 BLD, but at the time I didn't know that and thought it was the other way around. The attempt was a success, and it took about 5 hours 30 minutes including the memo. I only memorized for about 1 hour and 30 minutes, so the solving phase took me 4 hours. At certain points I felt my concentration starting to wane and I was losing motivation to continue solving, but each time I forced myself to continue. I was using a really inefficient, noobish method, but it worked. When I opened my eyes to a solved cube I literally screamed in excitement! That solve really made me believe that I could do anything I set my mind to.

Chris

 

[Anthony]

For me I would have to say the first time I ever solved a big cube blindfolded. It was my first attempt at solving a cube larger than the 3x3x3, and I was solving a 4x4x4 supercube. It turns out that 4x4x4 supercube BLD is actually easier than regular 4x4x4 BLD, but at the time I didn't know that and thought it was the other way around. The entire attempt was a success, and it took about 5 hours 30 minutes including the memo. I was using a really inefficient, noobish method, but it worked. That attempt really made me believe that I could do anything I set my mind to.

Chris

A few years and a lot of practice later...

Chris successfully solves a 4x4 blindfolded in under 5 minutes in competition, beating the previous WR by over a minute.
Anything's possible.

 

[Lucas]

I had lots of excellent moments: solving the cube for first time, getting sub-60, sub-40, sub-30, sub-20. Figuring out myself how to solve a 4x4 myself, and how to solve 6x6 and 7x7 centers, and then how to solve a 3x3x3x3 (commutators pwning), and a 4x4x4x4, and a 3x3x3x3x3, etc.

But definitely I think the best moment was when I opened my eyes and saw my first succesful bld solve

Today I had another big moment, another commutator big pwnage. I could solve first-time a square-1 without knowing any method (only how to make the faces be a square). The commutators are really fantastic, just do (0,-1) and then move the square-1 something like what you do in a cube [R2, U L2 U'] and pwn it.

 

[CL_Pepsi]

My first sub 45, I was with my youth group talent show and decide using f2l plus Dan brown 4ll and i went wild.

 

[vvtopkar]

Definitely my first few BLDs. Nothing feels better than taking off that blindfold and knowing those minutes you spent memorizing didn't go to waste.

 

[daniel0731ex]

sub-30 using LBL

 

[Weston]

id have to say
When I beat Anthony at 2x2.

lol

 

[Lorenzo]

On August 5, 2009, I did a cubing session. I kept beating my PB single over and over again. My Average at the time was around 38 seconds and I somehow managed to get a sub-20 non-lucky single (19.64 seconds)! It was my first sub-20 and it showed me that I will eventually get it without any problems. Of course, it wasn't until a month and a half later that I beat my PB again (18.55 sec). But somehow I beat it again the next day at school (18.4 seconds). But no one cared (not part of my best cubing moments lol). Nowadays I average around 24 seconds.

 

[LNZ]

Solved my first ever 3x3 cube in April 2009. And in a week or two, I'll add solving the megaminx for the first time ever too to the list.

I tried to solve the megaminx in the late 1980's to early 1990's but could never solve the top layer. I actually discovered how to do Fidrich F2L fast by pure luck in solving the megaminx right up to the top layer. But I've totally forgotten how to do it. Damn.

I'll now probalby use beginner F2L or keyhole F2L when solving the megaminx now.

 

[Mike Hughey]

There are so many great moments. My first 7x7x7 BLD was pretty nice, as were some of my crazy multi attempts. Then there was the first Virginia Open, where I got my first 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 BLD competition successes and got to meet Chris Hardwick and Daniel Beyer. Or my first competition, the 2007 US Open, getting my first 3x3x3 BLD competition success.

But probably the best one was seeing my daughter Rebecca solve the 4x4x4 for the first time in competition in Cincinnati. And honorable mention to watching the crowd around the table oohing and aahing as Rebecca was solving Master Magic in Atlanta.