One of my friends taught me how to solve it in 2012 didn't really get into it for a while then I saw feliks' 5.66 and that just amazed me... So I started learning cfop eventually after about a year and a half I learned full cfop and averaged around 19-20 seconds. Then I saw Phil Yu's videos on his ZZ tutorial and I got hooked on ZZ so even though I just finished learning full oll less than a week before I discovered ZZ I made the switch... So now my biggest motivations are still Feliks because the kids a god, and any fast ZZer there's not too many how ever but guys like Phil Yu,Uvafan(sorry don't know your name) and AndyZZ also don't know his full name haha
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CiaranBeahan
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I wasn't inspired by anyone initially, I guy in my school could do it but I never thought I'd be better than him, That didn't push me though. Obviously a few people inspire me now, Feliks , Kevin and so on.
My main events are 4-7 so anyone who's faster than me at those events I look up to so I can get better, until I pass them of course
My main events are 4-7 so anyone who's faster than me at those events I look up to so I can get better, until I pass them of course
gj matt
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NewCuber000
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My main inapirations are Feliks, Mats Valk, and Kevin Hays. I want to eventually be highly successful in almost every cubing event.
Edit: Oh, and I started solving originally because a best friend of mine new how and showed me. We were both 2+ minute solvers, I raced him to doing about 1 minute average solves but he lost me there when I started learning CFOP and other advanced tricks. I'm now technically sub 20 (My Ao12 is sub20 by 1 milisecond) And he is slightly below 1 minute.
Edit: Oh, and I started solving originally because a best friend of mine new how and showed me. We were both 2+ minute solvers, I raced him to doing about 1 minute average solves but he lost me there when I started learning CFOP and other advanced tricks. I'm now technically sub 20 (My Ao12 is sub20 by 1 milisecond) And he is slightly below 1 minute.
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RageCuber
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My inspiration to start cubing was by this kid who could solve it using a guide but never memorized the guide. so
I decided to. My inspiration to keep cubing Is to kick arse. And my inspiration to get faster Is CDcuber, because I started cubing about a month
before him, then I quit for a while, And he's been faster than me ever since (Im 17s pb avg, hes 14s pb avg)
I decided to. My inspiration to keep cubing Is to kick arse. And my inspiration to get faster Is CDcuber, because I started cubing about a month
before him, then I quit for a while, And he's been faster than me ever since (Im 17s pb avg, hes 14s pb avg)
IRNjuggle28
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My initial inspiration was Kevin Hays. I go to the same high school he went to, and although he graduated the year before I got there, he is remembered there. He was on some list of "alums with interesting accomplishments" that I ran into during freshman year. I didn't think much of it at the time. In junior year, I decided on a whim to go find a video of his 6x6 single world record, and was very impressed. So I went and found my old crappy (unsolved) Rubik's brand that had sat on the floor of my room for years and started messing around. A year later, here I am. I still run into people at school who knew Kevin when he was there, or have him as a swim coach.
Fun fact: during my freshman year, Kevin's sister Stephanie and I were the only two tuba players in band. She was better than me at it. I think she thought I was annoying, which I probably was at the time.
A couple years later, she saw me solving a 5x5 and said "yeah! Solve that cube!" and then said casually "my brother has one of those." Nothing about his records, or anything. I don't think she had any idea I knew who Kevin was, or that he inspires me. Kind of funny.
Other cubers that inspire me are most of the world record holders, particularly Feliks and Sebastian, and many of the cubers who are active on this forum, like bindedsa and Kennan. The top blindsolvers, particularly Maskow, also are inspiring. But I think the biggest inspiration comes from the puzzle theorists. Christopher Mowla and Stefan both inspire me a lot.
I think the one person in this community who I respect/look up to/am inspired by most is Chris Hardwick. He's great at BLD and a great theorist, but that's not what really makes him inspirational. He's just great to everyone in this community. He frequently explains blind solving concepts or math concepts to inexperienced members, which plenty of people on here don't have the patience to do, but even the posts that aren't actively helping someone else have a friendliness to them that most people don't have, in real life or on this forum. Probably sounds cheesy, but I really do find that inspiring.
Fun fact: during my freshman year, Kevin's sister Stephanie and I were the only two tuba players in band. She was better than me at it. I think she thought I was annoying, which I probably was at the time.
A couple years later, she saw me solving a 5x5 and said "yeah! Solve that cube!" and then said casually "my brother has one of those." Nothing about his records, or anything. I don't think she had any idea I knew who Kevin was, or that he inspires me. Kind of funny.Other cubers that inspire me are most of the world record holders, particularly Feliks and Sebastian, and many of the cubers who are active on this forum, like bindedsa and Kennan. The top blindsolvers, particularly Maskow, also are inspiring. But I think the biggest inspiration comes from the puzzle theorists. Christopher Mowla and Stefan both inspire me a lot.
I think the one person in this community who I respect/look up to/am inspired by most is Chris Hardwick. He's great at BLD and a great theorist, but that's not what really makes him inspirational. He's just great to everyone in this community. He frequently explains blind solving concepts or math concepts to inexperienced members, which plenty of people on here don't have the patience to do, but even the posts that aren't actively helping someone else have a friendliness to them that most people don't have, in real life or on this forum. Probably sounds cheesy, but I really do find that inspiring.
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rethought this: Drew Brads was my inspiration to get fast at pyra, and now he's my inspiration to get fast at 3x3
ClovisKoo
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First inspiration was probably badmephisto, I used his tutorial to learn to solve the 3x3 and wanted to be as fast as him. Currently I don't really have any inspiration, but if I had to pick it'd be Ainesh (Iggy), Feliks and Kennan
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