Your inspiration

[antoineccantin]

I would have to say Erik Akkersijk, Yu Nakajima, Feliks Zemdegs and Louis.

Who originally inspired you to solve rubiks cubes? Who is your current inspiration? Orginally, a friend from camp inspired me to solve rubiks cubes when i saw him doing it "quick" (like 1 minute solves), and now my main two inspirations are Antoine Cantin, and Chris Olsen, because my main events are 2x2 and 3x3, and im trying to get better at 3x3 OH

 

[JasonDL13]

I wasn't really inspired by anyone for a 3x3. I solved it when I was 8, I gave up. Then someone came into my class last year that could solve one and I learned it again, if anyone, he was the inspiration, however, now I'm better then him and he doesn't practice regularly (I don't practice 3x3 regularly either)

However, I did start doing blindfolded solves. I got the idea of doing bld when I saw Maskow's MBLD WR video. Which, if you haven't seen it, you should watch it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU2tKYvDH2g)

I had this idea to do 2x2 blindfolded. I was such a noob at it I tried to learn blind through Fridrich. Overtime I have learned and now I can do 3BLD. I'm practicing MBLD with a PB of 1/2, and I got super frustrated one day of getting the 100th 0/2, and I almost wanted to quit. But later that night I was reading Maskow's profile and it made me feel that I should do it again.

So, once again I have taken 2 words into a crazy long paragraph. So - TL;DR: No one for 3x3. Maskow inspired me to do 2BLD, 3BLD, and MBLD.

 

[Seanliu]

Originally a guy from school motivated me to learn to solve one, mainly because I just wanted to beat him Now, nobody really inspires me.

guy frzom school too, and mostly feliks.

 

[SolveThatCube]

Wasn't there already a thread like this?

 

[obelisk477]

Wasn't there already a thread like this?

Come on now. At least its not someone creating another thread asking how to get faster than 35 seconds even though they've tried so hard.

 

[Rocky0701]

Originally my Dad, he used to average sub 1:00 back in the 80's and so I learned to solve kind've to be like him, then I saw Feliks' 5.66 solve and started speedsolving.

 

[LNZ]

Way back in 1981 (no internet then!) when I was 11 years old, my parents brought me a store brought 3x3x3 with two how to solve books (again no internet in 1981).
But even with that, I could not solve it. So in May 2009, I looked at all the things I did not get to do in my childhood years and solving a 3x3x3 was one of them.
I brought from Ebay one on the books my parents had brought me and by playing around with it, I realised that my mistake in 1981 was confusing D' and D.
I then solved a 3x3x3. Then I decided as a big bonus to solve other cubes, cuboids and twisty puzzles.

I own all NxNXN cubes from N=1 to N=11 now.

I am now mainly a cuboid solver now. I use real made ones (ie 3x3x5, 4x4x6, 3x4x5, 2x4x6, etc) and for some, they are emulated using NxNXN cubes
or cuboids that I own (ie 2x2x6, 2x2x8, 3x3x8, etc)

 

[Rubiks560]

Initially it was my uncle. He would always solve it at parties and I finally got jealous and went and learned how to solve it.
These days it's no one really. Honestly people un-motivate me.

 

[maps600]

Probably Alex Lau even though I don't use Roux anymore.

 

[Bryan Chia]

my friend, Samuel :tu

 

[Ronxu]

Anssi.

 

[That70sShowDude]

Around 2005/2006, Jon Choi and Dan Cohen made cubing fairly popular in my high school. Two of my closest friends played trumpet and Dan was their section leader. They were initially inspired by Dan and I was initially inspired by them. I didn't realize that was Dan until early 2009 though. And I didn't start following the community until 2008. My first cubing inspirations were probably Erik and Nakajima.

 

[WinPooh]

Everybody who solves in less than 30 sec. inspires me
As for Felix Zemdegs, Alex Lau, CubeStormer III and other great champions, I siply can't follow them, they are way too fast for me. Are there any slow-motion records of their solves?

 

[Username]

After a short while of thinking, I can't come up with anyone.

 

[JediJupiter]

There are slow motion ones and also, there are reconstructions of good solves on cube emulators, however I don't know where they are.

 

[waffle=ijm]

Who inspired me to start speedcubing? - No one really. Oh it was that damn talking muffin again. Screw that guy.

Who inspires me now? Well, no one will remember him that much, but definitely Dakota Harris. If it weren't for him, I think I would have quit a long long time ago. He used only storeboughts and really hit me hard with the whole "It's the cuber, not the cube" mentality. And being a poor child that leeched off his parents back in the day, I could only use storeboughts. Basically I found that I was able to get fast without better cubes and that really kept me from quitting because I didn't have a "speedcube"

 

[Ingo]

In 2012 i got inspired to start cubing again (after a loooong break) by Ian Budiman.
Ian is one of the guys behind a german TV Show about Video Games, called "Game One".
They also have a website with a blog and thats where i found his cubing videos, purely by accident.
I love to watch his videos, i find them very entertaining.
Today i cannot really pick out one person as an inspiration, there are so many nice people in the cubing community.

 

[Chree]

My original inspiration was a dude I worked with at a movie theater. Just being able to solve it blew my mind.

After that it was videos of Frank Morris, Chris Hardwick, and Dan Knights. Those guys gave me the inspiration to want to be faster than I was. Not that I ever got anywhere near their speed at the time.

Fast forward 8 years and I'd say my main inspiration is far more dilute. All of the fast and innovative cubers of today offer inspiration. But just to name a few: Weston Mizumoto, Chris Olson, Kevin Hays, Felix Zemdegs, Sarah Strong, Collin Burns, Noah Arthurs. Those are just a few of the people whose videos and tutorials still teach me new things even after watching them for the umpteenth time.

 

[Rocky0701]

Everybody who solves in less than 30 sec. inspires me
As for Felix Zemdegs, Alex Lau, CubeStormer III and other great champions, I siply can't follow them, they are way too fast for me. Are there any slow-motion records of their solves?

Yeah, there are a ton of slow motion solves, just look some up on YouTube.

 

[Robert-Y]

Gilles Roux, Alex Lau, Feliks, Dan Cohen, Sebastian, Mats, Breandan, Chris Hardwick, Ron, Stefan Pochmann, Yu Da Hyun, Odder, Sarah, Haiyan lol, Tomasz Zolnowski, Justin Thomas, Tse Kan Lin, Gabriel PC (or CP can't remember), Maskow, Turbo. There might be more, but I just forgot to mention them...

EDIT: Erik, Yu Jeong Min