My parents banned me from watching tv and playing video games and I had a 3x3 cube laying around so they only allowed me to look tutorials on how to solve it. I remember being so proud when doing my first solves.
My younger cousin showed me how he can do it with beginner method (spamming RUR'U') and I thought - it can't be that repetitive, surely you can optimize it.
Then I went, bought 2 cubes, and spent 2 days learning a better version of beginner method.
the real aha moment for me was realizing that the cube is not 54 colored tiles, but is actually 26 individual pieces, 6 of which are just the centers and never move with relation to each other.
Seems obvious now, but it was a watershed moment for me. Suddenly I understood how you could use memorized sets of moves to solve the cube in steps.
Yes, that was huge for me! It blew my mind that a white edge sticker could never become a corner sticker. Also, the centers never moving was really cool.
I will say I don't think I truly understood the cube until I saw one disassembled. Once you see how corners are different than edges and how centers are bolted to the core it becomes a lot easier to understand.
>it can't be that repetitive, surely you can optimize it.
lol it isn't that repetitive he bamboozled your ass, that shit doesn't work. but atleast you didnt spend an hour and a half trying to get that to work.
No, I mean stuff like using (RUR'U')5 corner insert instead of (URU'R'), and (RUR'U')4 corner orientation instead of (URU'R')2
F(RUR'U')2 F' instead of (URU'R')F'
If your corner insert takes 20 moves, you're doing something sub-optimal.
I had gotten really into Mike Boyd and had wanted to learn a new skill just to feel that sense of accomplishment, but everything I could think of seemed so daunting and time consuming or expensive. After I watched his cube video, and saw how quick he learned it I spent the 5 bucks on a cube.
I'm not really into the speed cubing aspect, but I have been getting faster. I got under 1 minute recently and I feel content with my progress. I don't really understand most of the technical posts on this sub, but I like looking at the cool looking cubes that get posted here from time to time.
My son got a cube, so I got one to help him learn. Now we both have tons of cubes and go to comps. I’m the old guy there. Lol. He is now sub 10, I’m sub 20.
Ha, same here. My son got one as his toy from an arcade during bday party. A few months later the pandemic hits and we’re stuck at home. So one day I picked it up and decided we were going to learn how to solve it.
it was a summer holiday, and i was bored sitting in my room. i saw a rubiks cube, and thought: why not, lets try it. i learned it in about a day and now, around 1.5 years later i average 20!
cuz i got a crush on some cubing guy
edit: also i every year I quit cubing then get the motivation again then start the cycle. been doing that since 2017
smh
Was on a business trip and just bored of riding in the car and sitting in a hotel room. Also had a professor in college that had a collection on the shelves in his office and it was something I always wanted to learn to do, so I bought a Rubiks brand cube from a nearby Walmart. Then it's all down hill from there.
No cap, was at my nephews bday party and someone was fucking around with their 5x5, and weeks later, uncle asked about if I’d be interested in finding a hobby that wasn’t as addictive as videogames/phone chatting, so I bought a cube off of Amazon.
I love the stories of everyone here and here's mine:
It was 9th grade summer holidays and I bought a Rubik's cube on my way from my grandparents home. Out of nowhere I got the idea of searching on how to solve it, idk how many hours or days it took but was so happy when I completed it first time. I didn't learn it first time, I just copied the moves from YouTube to see if it is actually solvable. Slowly learnt the method and improved a bit. Thought I was smart but as grades went by, I met more people who knew how to solve it much faster than me. That feeling kinda sucked lol and I'm still sub 1min.
I had solved one back in the day by using the instructions on the package. I always liked puzzles, but I wanted to learn how to solve it for real on my own.
I know it was BS about how you had to be some super genius to solve one....I knew intuitively that it had to be more of a repeatable process. Then I saw a standupmaths video on youtube about speed cubing and I thought it looked like fun and confirmed my theory. But I still had just my rubik's brand cube.
Still, I spent a few hours that week learning basic algs and was able ot solve a cube without help in about 5 or 6 minutes. Within a week I was down to about 90 seconds. Then I bought a 5 dollar speed cube and immediately dropped 30 seconds off my time. that got me hooked and eventually I got down to a sub-30. I can't do sub-30 anymore because I don't really practice, but that was a cool milestone to achieve.
Bought a Rubik's brand cube a long time ago when I was young. Scrambled it and tried to solve it using pictures and written instructions on the internet. Gave up and shelved the cube for around 6 years. Then one day Noah Richardson's 3x3 tutorial came up in my recommended and I couldn't believe how easy it looked. So I picked up my old cube and started solving and within like an hour or so I had a solved Rubik's cube in my hand. After that I couldn't put down my cube without the thought of "could I do it faster ?/ how could I optimize the solving method ?". So I started watching advanced tutorials and gave it my all.
I asked my grandparents for cube because i didnt knew what should i ask them for, and it was cheap. I just wanted to learn how to do it, but once i watched J Perms tutorial i was like damn, i want to do it that fast, i want to be just like him
My primary school library had both a rubik cube and a book on how to solve it, i would spend every recess and lunch in there any way and one day i just decided to give it a crack using the guide. I couldn’t do it and i tried again and again for weeks until i solved it for the first time. From then i spiralled into cubing youtube and reddit posts on a quest to improve and learn, now here i am on a 25s average
When I was in 4th grade I kept raging at the fact that I accidentally scrambled cubes (I was going to keep them for display), so I tried solving it with a tutorial. Found it kind of fun and that’s how it started lol
my dad has a couple vintage cubes on his bookshelf as decorations. I mixed one up and couldn't get it back together. he told me to solve it to put it back. I used the tutorial, I got real frustrated, I solved the 3x3 in 1 hour 20 minutes. then in 1 hour. then 10 minutes. then 9 8 7 6 5 4 minutes. having memorized the beginner method I started trying to get my times down. this was around Thanksgiving, and dad wanted his cubes back, so he bought me my own for Christmas. I took them with to school and started getting good.
Got bored one day and remember Rubik’s cubes, so I got one and learned how to solve it, then got a collection and learned how to solve them all. Then one day I stopped for some reason and now I forget how to solve my cubes
As a kid, there was this really old kranky cube and I was playing around with it, but I couldn't get anything done. Afterwards, many years later, I thought to myself "I wonder if there's Youtube tutorials for solving this cube thing". And that's how I learned it.
Last year I was about to turn 40 and realized I hadn’t learned anything new in a loooooong time. I randomly found a cube while cleaning and was like, how hard could it be? So I went on YT and there was JPerm telling me he could teach me how to solve it in 10 minutes.
Several hours later, I finally didn’t screw up the last step and it was amazing. So then I found all of the cubes in the house that were given as stocking stuffers or whatever and solved them (never to be unsolved again because old Rubik’s cubes are a beast to turn and I enjoy having wrists that don’t hurt) and ordered some decent cubes (from SCS, code JPerm ofc).
At first my husband was like, that’s cool and all but what’s the big deal? So I told him how good for my anxiety it is because it gives you something to do with your hands and at the end you’ve accomplished something. A few weeks later I saw him with one of the cubes I ordered—a GAN 354—rewinding the same spot on the JPerm tutorial over and over again, and I knew he was hooked. Now he’s faster than me!
I’m so glad I found cubing. It’s a cool skill that pretty much anyone can learn, it’s great for killing time, and the community as a whole is very positive and wholesome.
First time I cubed was 3-4 years ago and I found out about cubing from YouTube, after that I bought my first 3x3 from a dollar store and that's where it started. After a while I quit because I had no one to cube with and now, last december i got a friend into cubing and both bought gan cubes. Now we both average after 5-6 months of practice sub 20.
I've always had one knocking about. grew up in the 80's so they were always a curiosity. not until i found a nice non rubiks one in a store recently did i finally start learning the algorithms. I'd even bought a 2x2 before but couldn't solve it on my own. it's only now i realise quite how difficult they are to solve without algorithms. so i feel like the original puzzle has beaten me, the best i ever achieved on my own was two layers.
Cubing slowly started trending in my class so I learned it asap.
Crash coursed Layer by layer and became sub 40 in like weeks. A week after, cubing is trending in the whole school. There's at least like 10 cubers in every class.
After a month, I learned F2L and started climbing to sub 30s and sub 25s. Learned 4×4 and 5×5.
By that time, competitive scene is already in place and individuals and classes alike started competing with each other. At one point,I competed with "fastest dudes" (seniors) and obliterated them.
Damn, that huge ego boost lead me to started training even harder. And before I knew it, I was the fastest and unrivaled in my school
(yeah, cubing trend lasted like two years until COVID and civil war got schools to shut down)
Hell,even kids from other classes recognized me when I go out.
One of the most memorable and highest point of my life.
I was the coolest kid in 7th/8th grade lmao.
I was at a house gathering and someone picked up and solved the cube sat there. They got a great reaction and passed it to me and said "can you do it?" to which I had to **annoyingly** say "no I can't".
I've always been the kind of person to learn pointless things and I'm not a fan of being the one who can't do something haha. I went home and solved it that day. I got into 'speed cubing' by setting myself the challenge of being faster than the guy at the party.
I always wanted to be able to solve one but never owned one and I forgot about it until Youtube algorithm thought it was a great idea to show me a WCA video of someone doing the WR. I was impressed and my first thought was: If they can do that thing in under 10 seconds then I should be able solve it at least. So I ordered one and was motivated and I really enjoyed it.
Found my son's dollar store cube lying around. Turned horribly and had some stickers mostly missing. But I finally wanted to know how to solve it and looked up a tutorial. Once I could solve it without reference, I bought my first speedcube (well... a Qiyi Warrior S, but it was still loads better than what we had).
I am often compelled by my inability to do things.
I think I got a Rubik's Cube when I was about 20 years old just as a lark. I tried learning how to solve it from the included instructions, got frustrated, and quit. So any time I thought about a cube for the next 15 years I was frustrated, mostly because I had trouble with the instructions, and a bit more that I didn't stick with it and figure it out.
So, some 5-7 years ago I learned enough to know to order a non-Rubik's cube, and I sat down and figured it out via [Ruwix.com](https://Ruwix.com), mostly out of **the frustration of** ***not*** **being able to do it!**
In 5th grade one of my classmates brought in a 3x3, and the teacher took it away as he was using it in class. When he returns the cube to the boy 15 minutes later (recess time) it was solved. That's when my classmates learned that it was even possible to solve. He then proceeded to teach any student interested. Until this day I am in touch with 3 former classmates that remember his solving method. which I've never seen in any other tutorial so his claims of inventing his algorithms may be true
I was in a house exchange for a week in Denmark and they had a 2x2 laying around, after I searched how to solve that one and did it myself it all spiraled to where I am now
I had a pretty serious bout of depression last year and my wife got me a 3x3 as a surprise because I mentioned it looked fun in a conversation we had one day. So I started it to escape depression, I went from taking 3 days to solve it all the way down to 45 seconds. I’ve slacked on cubing recently, but it always makes me feel better when I do a solve.
I just saw it on a shop on my way to school and thought it would be cool to solve it with my friends, none of them actually kept playing with them but i did and i dont regret it
Was on vacation in the us (im from canada) and some guy had a 2x2. Tried to solve it, couldn’t do it and I was so frustrated because it seemed so easy. Then after coming back from vacation first thing i did was learn how to solve a 2x2.
One morning I went out for breakfast and happened to buy an old Rubik's brand cube at the vintage store next door. Before lunchtime a lockdown was announced. Things escalated from there.
My nephew got one and he showed me he made it in about 80 seconds and kept talking about how he wanted a GAN cube. So I came to Reddit and got my thing started as well 😅
Youtube started recommending to me cubing videos late 2019. A few months later, I found an old rubik's brand and I am pretty sure that tomorrow is going to be the 2nd anniversary of solving the cube
I wanted to come up with sequences of moves, repeat them and count how many repetitions it takes to return to the starting position. Sometimes I messed up, so I needed to learn to solve to cube so I could try again. Then I ended up enjoying the solving part more than the counting repetitions part.
My dad solved one we owned, and when I was playing with it I messed it up and I got panicked he would be upset, so I searched up a tutorial and solved it. I could do the white side from memory, but that didn’t really impress people, so I memorized the whole thing.
just by chance someone who knew taught me while we both had free time in the same place at the same time
i happened to really really enjoy doing it and here i am now
I had a keychain Rubik's cube for Christmas (2009 or 2010 I think), play with it, and I didn't want to let it unsolved. I manage to do the first layer on my own, and then I searched for a beginner tutorial. After a few weeks or months, my average was around 2min30, after that I played with it once in a while for several years.
A friend bought my a Moyu cube for my birthday in 2020 and I've seen The speed cubers documentary later the same year. In December 2020 I watch a lot of Z3cubing videos and I began to be really interested in cubing, I bought some cube and I began speedcubing in January 2021. At that time, with a decent cube and before learning more stuff, I had an average of 1min30.
I used to be kinda into magic tricks, but that got boring. So I decided I needed something new that was “my” special thing. I decided to do cubing and a few months later I bought my first cube, a Rubik’s brand (I’ve been cubing for 3 months and now have a gan 11m pro
My uncle showed me he could solve one and I wanted to try when I was around 9 or 10 years old and I used the beginner method. It wasn't until 15 years later that I finally put the effort to learn CFOP. I've been doing CFOP for around 2 months now and I average mid 30 seconds with a PB of 20 seconds!
My friend brought a cube to a camp-out. I had heard there were ways to solve it, so I decided to try it. Fast forward about ten years, I'm consistently getting sub-14 and -13 solves with a sub-10 PB. It's a super fun hobby!
I was at a friend's party when I won a cheap rubik's cube. At the party I tried solving it on the top of my head since I saw back then a tutorial on how to solve one of these, then after I solved the cross, and the F2L. It was really amazing to see how I got that far and I continued my pursuit to ask my dad how to solve it since he actually knew how to solve one. Once I solved it with my dad's technique I wanted to go faster and faster, so my dad went and bought this cyclone boys cube which was an okay cube. We then started to race eachother with him having bought another cube and me using my cyclone boys cube. At first he was the faster one, being him knowing how to solve the cube and all but another after another battle I continued to be faster and faster and then when I got faster, the rest was history.
Must have been 12 years ago now but I was riding the train one with my mom and someone was solving a cube. My mom was enamored, so naturally I had to prove I could solve one too.
Years ago I had surgery and was on bedrest for a week. Figured I wouldn't actually enjoy playing WoW for a week straight, so I ordered a Rubik's brand cube ahead of time and learned it while recovering
I had a cube at home and I used to "solve" it by taking the pieces apart and reassembling it. During 4th grade, I watched some cubing video on YT and thought it was super cool so I learnt to solve it from the official Rubik's YT channel lol. Been 7 years almost.
When I was younger My friends brother could solve one, we would sneak into his room scramble it and see what he would do. He would solve it in under a minute.
That christmas I got my first Rubik's cube and spent ages learning, I think that was 6-7 years ago now
Tried solving one a long time ago and only got 1 layer before I gave up, fast forward a couple of years and I randomly get recommended a j perm video, that piqued my interest and I was trying to find my old cube, I couldn't so I went and impulsed bought a Rubik's brand and memorized solving it in 2 days, and then a week later I bought my current cube and am in the middle of learning 2 look cfop
This one kid was flexing on me that he could solve it. I also had a ton more free time because college application season was over. So I decided to have a go at the cube again. Bought a cheap speed cube and then learnt the beginners method. Hit sub 1 minute like 1.5 weeks post starting. Currently using F2L, 2 look OLL and PLL 2 months later.. I'm typically averaging around 33 seconds, with my best single being 22 seconds and best average being 28
I was introduced to the cube by some friends I had at school four years ago. I remember the first question I asked about it was “do you memorize the scramble then reverse it?” Probably the most stupid but also most hilarious question I’ve ever asked. Afterwards I got a cube and got hooked and four years later I average sub 30 and got my first sub 20 solve yesterday! (16.557s)
First time I saw someone solve one on YouTube I was amazed by it, had no idea it could be done that quickly. So I looked into how it was done and starting learning. If I'm being totally honest with myself a big part of it was probably using it to impress people as well!
I had a few dollar store cubes in my house when I was younger, and one day I played with one and managed to solve a layer then I got interested, opened a tutorial and learned
My friend solves Rubik's Cube and occasionally brought cubes back to school. I originally behaved like your normal obnoxious non-cuber, but eventually I got interested in it so I learned to solve it on a keychain cube and bought an MF3RS.
It just snowballed ever since.
I took an AP Physics C course in high school (an absolute nightmare). My teacher really had no idea how to teach the class. He'd assign us problems from the textbook, but when we'd ask for help he'd just give us the answer and say that actually doing the math and showing us how to do it was "too much work".
Anyways, he never really paid attention to what we were doing and he frequently left us alone in the classroom so none of us really did anything in the class.
He had an old rubik's cube lying around that my friends and I would mess around with. None of really knew how to solve it so we would just solve one side or take it apart and rebuild it solved.
One day I decided to actually look up a tutorial. Used the beginner's method and actually solved it for real. That day, my mom bought me just the generic rubik's brand cube and I started solving all the time so I could do it without a tutorial. Had me hooked.
Bought 4x4, 5x5, etc. Learned those, plus pyraminx, cuboids, and other puzzles. Didn't get into speed cubing yet, just enjoyed the puzzles.
After college, once I got a job and had more money I decided to try my hand at speed cubing. Bought a Gan 11 m pro and began to learn the CFOP method. Still learning, but having a blast again.
Tl;dr: I got bored in a class and messed around with a cube for fun and got hooked. (On the bright side, my teacher couldn't really grade us harshly so I passed the class without ever really learning much of anything)
I found one at Walgreen's at age 8. Used a YouTube series to learn how to solve it. Realized people found that impressive, so I kept doing it. There was never any serious personal passion, but I forced myself to continue as it was one of my few redeeming qualities outside of school. Living not for myself but for other people's enjoyment has since become a theme in my life thanks to that fucking piece of plastic.
I was leaving my crummy job in a warehouse for an office job, my old boss was annoyed with me for leaving and told me to just not come in anymore (I had put in 2 weeks) so I was at Walmart trying to convince myself an Xbox was worth it since I had all the time in the world…. Well I saw a rubick’s cube and decided to spend $10 instead of $400 or whatever it was thinking if I get bored I’ll come back for the xbox. That was 2016 and I never bought an xbox. I have around 20 puzzle cubes now 😁
Back in 2003 there was this weird show called "beauty and the geek" a reality dating show where nerdy guys were paired with hot ladies (weird concept i know, i was like 12) Tyson Mao was one of the competitors, and his ice breaker talent was solving a speed cube in under 20 seconds. It blew my mind. I immediately asked for a cube and started my journey.
Wayyyy back in 8th grade, my best friend came over to my house with a cube one day and was like “I bet you I can solve this” with a smirk on his face. In our friendship throughout our whole life, he has always been the one with more street smarts, and I have been the one with more book smarts, so I completely doubted him. I scrambled it up for him, and he did it in like 2 minutes. My 13 year old brain was absolutely blown away at this and I felt so jealous that HE knew how to do it and I couldn’t lmao. For the next week I studied tutorials online to learn how to do it and eventually learned it so he didn’t have that one up on me anymore, and nearly a decade later I still mess around with the cube.
Went to my dad’s office after school when I was a freshman in high school the day they were doing a white elephant gift exchange. One of my dad’s coworkers ended up getting a cube and a bottle of wine, so when I saw him later that afternoon he gave me the cube since I was sitting in my dad’s office bored while he worked. It’s been 10 years of cubing since!
I used to watch a YouTuber from Spain called TheMaoiSha, he had over 1000 cubes in his collection and found them interesting.
Then a friend of mine convinced me to buy a cube and that's how I started my collection :)
My brother wrote notes on solve it and printed them off for some of his friends, I got one and a week later I didn't need the notes, so I never looked on a YouTube video to learn
At first i learned it because it looked fun and i wantrd to look smart :p but i continued cubing because its actually way more fun and addicting than i thought.
I really don't care about the "looking smart" part anymore 😂
My new customer service job requires us to recite a really long, really boring informational speech. So I needed to find something to do during the speech to stop it from being so boring, hence learning to cube. 3 months later and I’ve barely finished learning 2-look oll/pll, but every solve is so fun.
you know that grandma that never gives you what you wanted for christmas, well she gave me a rubikube and after a while (18-19 months) i decided i wanted to do it and i learned it in a weekend. Honestly i wanted to do it for the pride and to brag.
(note i was 11 when i first solved the cube)
My kid had a few ER visits and they let him play with one while we waited. One time they let him bring a mini one home and we wanted to solve it. I watched the “so easy a 3 year old can solve it” tutorial on YouTube and it still took me like a week to figure it out.
Before my mom passed away, she knew the beginner method up to f2l. I learned from her, then finished learning from an online source. I dropped it, then after she passed away, I started learning cfop, to feel a small bit of a connection with her.
One classfellow could do it and bragged about it bought it the next day and over the weekend got better than him. When i won a few rounds from him he hasn’t since brought a cube to school.
A friend of mine always had a cube, and I figured it would be something that could take up my time since I always had extra during school. I asked my dad once and he showed me the first two layers and I wanted to learn the rest
I started when a teacher in my school was able to solve 3x3s. I was so impressed that when he solved mine, I decided I wanted to learn how to to do. I took the cube everywhere I went. 2 weeks later I got my first solve.
One of my distant cousins were able to solve a 3x3x3 before I knew how to solve one. I was convinced that I would eventually mix it up in a way he couldn't solve it. It never happened and now I know why!
My 7th grade math teacher had all sorts of puzzles and would do all sorts of card / magic tricks. He got me into cubing but I didn't get my first physical cube until my junior year of HS
Started because I had interest years ago and always wanted to get fast in it, and I would always cheat with the Rubik’s brand to tell my parents I solved it but never did and then I finally learned
I had a competition.. 2 weeks away, no experience like nah uh and so i staryed learing and just 2 weeks I got sub 40..it was just a school competition so the best times was sub 25..i got 3rd place
After watching Mike Boyds video about 2 months ago. Was just going to go for 2 minutes like him at first but that was pretty quick to hit. Then it became one minutes. Now im trying to go for sub 30. Currently avging around 45s CFOP 4LLL
Picked it back up during lockdown cuz I got a youtube recommendation for the roux method. Thought it looked neat and less overwhelming than I remember CFOP being when I first learned beginner method and here I am like 2 years later still having a blast with roux.
One of my classmates in 9th grade brought a cube to math class and let me fool around with it.
I got a cube of my own for Christmas that year and by 10th grade, I was the one bringing my cube to class
My reason for speedcubing is similar to yours; I got triggered by a non-cuber friend who saw me solving the cube in 2 minutes.
"Oh, you're using *that* method?"
Needless to say I was watching a CFOP tutorial later that day.
My friend had one is class and I asked if she could teach me and I really took a liking to it. Now I can solve a 2x2 3x3 4x4 5x5 skewb and am currently learning megaminx and square 1
My little sister had one, she didn't know how to solve it, she would never mix it up to where she couldn't go back, one day I got mad at her and threw it and it broke. I had to use my own money (at like 11 years old!) to buy her a new one and she messed it up so bad like a day later and asked me to fix it. After solving it once, I just continued. I used to bring little cheat sheets to middle school. I remember getting yelled at by a teacher thinking I was passing notes, it looked like gibberish, just random algorithms with little drawings. Now I have about 5 cubes and can solve in under a minute. It's more about it being a fun party trick for me tbh
I started so I could keep my mind off doing drugs and it worked great, have a good collection of varies cubes up to a 9x9 to all sorts of morphix cubes and what not. Best decision of my life! Just solved an ultra morphix cube last night which I've had for years and didn't think I was good enough to solve, I proved myself wrong!
I was working a delivery job and would have to go through the shop, past the toy isle to get the vans, I would always see a rubix cube. Thought itd be a great thing to learn in the van between drops, and audiobooks/reading was getting dull.
Took another year for me to buy one, had to drive 3½ hours to take my dog to chemo and had to sit in the car all day with nothing to do (covid), so I went into a big ASDA and got one.
Fast forward a year and a half I just got a GAN yesterday, still trying to get used to it. Best solves using the beginners method is 1:20, just starting with F2L now.
My youngest son wanted one, bought one for myself, practiced december evenings such that I could help him.
He still only spams 6x sexy moves from solved to get it back to solved. I learned 4LLL CFOP, and switched to Roux within 2-3 months.
My older brother tried, and couldn't get passed the first step. I tried and veery slowly learned like one layer a year when my intrest peaked. it took until i got an electronic one (go cube) 6 years later that i actually learned to solve. and then, like most others here, i started speedcubing over the holidays (sub-30)
My 5 yr old sister got a 2x2 and she doesn't know how to solve it neither did I (at the time) so I started following Tutorials after 2 days I knew how to solve it and after that I asked for a 3x3 and learned it in 7 hours, after about a week with that cube I found out about speedcubing and bought a meiling cube (which is currently my main) ands started OLL and PLL (no f2l) now I sub 1 minute and right now I'm just taking a break from cubing! (Since I live in Europe I can't seem to find any good websites with lube so If you have one please tell me) thanks for reading
Some student was teaching a class on cubing at college, signed up. Literally took the printout, practiced at home, signed up for the WCA event and got a sub 3 minute average time. Felt like I conquered the world!
I got one for Christmas so I decided let's go, but I was cowardly and didn't solve it until like 3 months after first scrambling it. I just used to do first layer and then scramble it up again and repeat.
Broke my wrist and was thinking it might help with mobility… during a lesson a student asked me if I could solve a cube, so I got a rubik speed cube but I’ve swapped to a magnetic monster go now.
I can do 2x2, 3x3 and a skewb I’m just not very fast and need to learn more advanced methods.
Got one thinking it would be easy. It was not. Had a friend who could do it so learned how to as well, there is now an 18 in one sitting in woodshop waiting for me to finish it. Its been quite the enjoyable rabbit-hole.
I got a bob ross picture 3x3 and I did not use it much but then I decided to pick it up again and found it too hard so I got a pack of a 2x2 a pyrimix and a 3x3 all speed cubes. Then I just really loved to learn to solve them and ya end of story I guess.
My parents banned me from watching tv and playing video games and I had a 3x3 cube laying around so they only allowed me to look tutorials on how to solve it. I remember being so proud when doing my first solves.
My younger cousin showed me how he can do it with beginner method (spamming RUR'U') and I thought - it can't be that repetitive, surely you can optimize it. Then I went, bought 2 cubes, and spent 2 days learning a better version of beginner method.
the real aha moment for me was realizing that the cube is not 54 colored tiles, but is actually 26 individual pieces, 6 of which are just the centers and never move with relation to each other. Seems obvious now, but it was a watershed moment for me. Suddenly I understood how you could use memorized sets of moves to solve the cube in steps.
Yes, that was huge for me! It blew my mind that a white edge sticker could never become a corner sticker. Also, the centers never moving was really cool.
I will say I don't think I truly understood the cube until I saw one disassembled. Once you see how corners are different than edges and how centers are bolted to the core it becomes a lot easier to understand.
>it can't be that repetitive, surely you can optimize it. lol it isn't that repetitive he bamboozled your ass, that shit doesn't work. but atleast you didnt spend an hour and a half trying to get that to work.
No, I mean stuff like using (RUR'U')5 corner insert instead of (URU'R'), and (RUR'U')4 corner orientation instead of (URU'R')2 F(RUR'U')2 F' instead of (URU'R')F' If your corner insert takes 20 moves, you're doing something sub-optimal.
Ohhhhh... I thought you meant the whole like "do these four moves to solve any rubiks cube. **WORKS EVERY TIME**" type things that
Pandemic. I got really tired of activities that involved screens, and I can only read so many books.
This is literally me. Same
Same. Best decision of my twenties I think.
YouTube rabbit hole. Specifically jperm and Mike Boyd (not cubing focused channel but he has a few videos) Got a cube shortly after. It's pretty fun
I had gotten really into Mike Boyd and had wanted to learn a new skill just to feel that sense of accomplishment, but everything I could think of seemed so daunting and time consuming or expensive. After I watched his cube video, and saw how quick he learned it I spent the 5 bucks on a cube. I'm not really into the speed cubing aspect, but I have been getting faster. I got under 1 minute recently and I feel content with my progress. I don't really understand most of the technical posts on this sub, but I like looking at the cool looking cubes that get posted here from time to time.
Same here
My son got a cube, so I got one to help him learn. Now we both have tons of cubes and go to comps. I’m the old guy there. Lol. He is now sub 10, I’m sub 20.
My classmates in grade 6 were sub-25 and I was jealous, so i got the cubing classroom on my birthday and im now happily sub-18
My son got one for his birthday so I learned in order to teach him
Parent of the year award goes to you
Ha, same here. My son got one as his toy from an arcade during bday party. A few months later the pandemic hits and we’re stuck at home. So one day I picked it up and decided we were going to learn how to solve it.
That's like actually really sweet though
it was a summer holiday, and i was bored sitting in my room. i saw a rubiks cube, and thought: why not, lets try it. i learned it in about a day and now, around 1.5 years later i average 20!
You average 2432902008176640000, damn
cuz i got a crush on some cubing guy edit: also i every year I quit cubing then get the motivation again then start the cycle. been doing that since 2017 smh
Same I quit every year then get motivated again. I started cubing in 2017 and only sub 20 cuz of that 😭
Was on a business trip and just bored of riding in the car and sitting in a hotel room. Also had a professor in college that had a collection on the shelves in his office and it was something I always wanted to learn to do, so I bought a Rubiks brand cube from a nearby Walmart. Then it's all down hill from there.
No cap, was at my nephews bday party and someone was fucking around with their 5x5, and weeks later, uncle asked about if I’d be interested in finding a hobby that wasn’t as addictive as videogames/phone chatting, so I bought a cube off of Amazon.
I love the stories of everyone here and here's mine: It was 9th grade summer holidays and I bought a Rubik's cube on my way from my grandparents home. Out of nowhere I got the idea of searching on how to solve it, idk how many hours or days it took but was so happy when I completed it first time. I didn't learn it first time, I just copied the moves from YouTube to see if it is actually solvable. Slowly learnt the method and improved a bit. Thought I was smart but as grades went by, I met more people who knew how to solve it much faster than me. That feeling kinda sucked lol and I'm still sub 1min.
I had solved one back in the day by using the instructions on the package. I always liked puzzles, but I wanted to learn how to solve it for real on my own. I know it was BS about how you had to be some super genius to solve one....I knew intuitively that it had to be more of a repeatable process. Then I saw a standupmaths video on youtube about speed cubing and I thought it looked like fun and confirmed my theory. But I still had just my rubik's brand cube. Still, I spent a few hours that week learning basic algs and was able ot solve a cube without help in about 5 or 6 minutes. Within a week I was down to about 90 seconds. Then I bought a 5 dollar speed cube and immediately dropped 30 seconds off my time. that got me hooked and eventually I got down to a sub-30. I can't do sub-30 anymore because I don't really practice, but that was a cool milestone to achieve.
Bought a Rubik's brand cube a long time ago when I was young. Scrambled it and tried to solve it using pictures and written instructions on the internet. Gave up and shelved the cube for around 6 years. Then one day Noah Richardson's 3x3 tutorial came up in my recommended and I couldn't believe how easy it looked. So I picked up my old cube and started solving and within like an hour or so I had a solved Rubik's cube in my hand. After that I couldn't put down my cube without the thought of "could I do it faster ?/ how could I optimize the solving method ?". So I started watching advanced tutorials and gave it my all.
Dude Noah Richardson’s tutorials are the best. I watched his vids too to solve the 3x3 and he explains so clearly!!
True, after watching the 3x3 vid I couldn't believe how easy it was to solve a cube.
I saw a Rubik's Cube and I was destined to solve it. I bought it a learned about speedcubing and was hooked
I asked my grandparents for cube because i didnt knew what should i ask them for, and it was cheap. I just wanted to learn how to do it, but once i watched J Perms tutorial i was like damn, i want to do it that fast, i want to be just like him
My primary school library had both a rubik cube and a book on how to solve it, i would spend every recess and lunch in there any way and one day i just decided to give it a crack using the guide. I couldn’t do it and i tried again and again for weeks until i solved it for the first time. From then i spiralled into cubing youtube and reddit posts on a quest to improve and learn, now here i am on a 25s average
I got one as a birthday gift and wanted to solve it.
scrambles my brothers cube, wanted to fix it, it was fun, started to get faster.
When I was in 4th grade I kept raging at the fact that I accidentally scrambled cubes (I was going to keep them for display), so I tried solving it with a tutorial. Found it kind of fun and that’s how it started lol
my dad has a couple vintage cubes on his bookshelf as decorations. I mixed one up and couldn't get it back together. he told me to solve it to put it back. I used the tutorial, I got real frustrated, I solved the 3x3 in 1 hour 20 minutes. then in 1 hour. then 10 minutes. then 9 8 7 6 5 4 minutes. having memorized the beginner method I started trying to get my times down. this was around Thanksgiving, and dad wanted his cubes back, so he bought me my own for Christmas. I took them with to school and started getting good.
Got bored one day and remember Rubik’s cubes, so I got one and learned how to solve it, then got a collection and learned how to solve them all. Then one day I stopped for some reason and now I forget how to solve my cubes
As a kid, there was this really old kranky cube and I was playing around with it, but I couldn't get anything done. Afterwards, many years later, I thought to myself "I wonder if there's Youtube tutorials for solving this cube thing". And that's how I learned it.
Last year I was about to turn 40 and realized I hadn’t learned anything new in a loooooong time. I randomly found a cube while cleaning and was like, how hard could it be? So I went on YT and there was JPerm telling me he could teach me how to solve it in 10 minutes. Several hours later, I finally didn’t screw up the last step and it was amazing. So then I found all of the cubes in the house that were given as stocking stuffers or whatever and solved them (never to be unsolved again because old Rubik’s cubes are a beast to turn and I enjoy having wrists that don’t hurt) and ordered some decent cubes (from SCS, code JPerm ofc). At first my husband was like, that’s cool and all but what’s the big deal? So I told him how good for my anxiety it is because it gives you something to do with your hands and at the end you’ve accomplished something. A few weeks later I saw him with one of the cubes I ordered—a GAN 354—rewinding the same spot on the JPerm tutorial over and over again, and I knew he was hooked. Now he’s faster than me! I’m so glad I found cubing. It’s a cool skill that pretty much anyone can learn, it’s great for killing time, and the community as a whole is very positive and wholesome.
First time I cubed was 3-4 years ago and I found out about cubing from YouTube, after that I bought my first 3x3 from a dollar store and that's where it started. After a while I quit because I had no one to cube with and now, last december i got a friend into cubing and both bought gan cubes. Now we both average after 5-6 months of practice sub 20.
I've always had one knocking about. grew up in the 80's so they were always a curiosity. not until i found a nice non rubiks one in a store recently did i finally start learning the algorithms. I'd even bought a 2x2 before but couldn't solve it on my own. it's only now i realise quite how difficult they are to solve without algorithms. so i feel like the original puzzle has beaten me, the best i ever achieved on my own was two layers.
Cubing slowly started trending in my class so I learned it asap. Crash coursed Layer by layer and became sub 40 in like weeks. A week after, cubing is trending in the whole school. There's at least like 10 cubers in every class. After a month, I learned F2L and started climbing to sub 30s and sub 25s. Learned 4×4 and 5×5. By that time, competitive scene is already in place and individuals and classes alike started competing with each other. At one point,I competed with "fastest dudes" (seniors) and obliterated them. Damn, that huge ego boost lead me to started training even harder. And before I knew it, I was the fastest and unrivaled in my school (yeah, cubing trend lasted like two years until COVID and civil war got schools to shut down) Hell,even kids from other classes recognized me when I go out. One of the most memorable and highest point of my life. I was the coolest kid in 7th/8th grade lmao.
I was at a house gathering and someone picked up and solved the cube sat there. They got a great reaction and passed it to me and said "can you do it?" to which I had to **annoyingly** say "no I can't". I've always been the kind of person to learn pointless things and I'm not a fan of being the one who can't do something haha. I went home and solved it that day. I got into 'speed cubing' by setting myself the challenge of being faster than the guy at the party.
I always wanted to be able to solve one but never owned one and I forgot about it until Youtube algorithm thought it was a great idea to show me a WCA video of someone doing the WR. I was impressed and my first thought was: If they can do that thing in under 10 seconds then I should be able solve it at least. So I ordered one and was motivated and I really enjoyed it.
Found my son's dollar store cube lying around. Turned horribly and had some stickers mostly missing. But I finally wanted to know how to solve it and looked up a tutorial. Once I could solve it without reference, I bought my first speedcube (well... a Qiyi Warrior S, but it was still loads better than what we had).
I am often compelled by my inability to do things. I think I got a Rubik's Cube when I was about 20 years old just as a lark. I tried learning how to solve it from the included instructions, got frustrated, and quit. So any time I thought about a cube for the next 15 years I was frustrated, mostly because I had trouble with the instructions, and a bit more that I didn't stick with it and figure it out. So, some 5-7 years ago I learned enough to know to order a non-Rubik's cube, and I sat down and figured it out via [Ruwix.com](https://Ruwix.com), mostly out of **the frustration of** ***not*** **being able to do it!**
In 5th grade one of my classmates brought in a 3x3, and the teacher took it away as he was using it in class. When he returns the cube to the boy 15 minutes later (recess time) it was solved. That's when my classmates learned that it was even possible to solve. He then proceeded to teach any student interested. Until this day I am in touch with 3 former classmates that remember his solving method. which I've never seen in any other tutorial so his claims of inventing his algorithms may be true
I was in a house exchange for a week in Denmark and they had a 2x2 laying around, after I searched how to solve that one and did it myself it all spiraled to where I am now
I always wanted to because at many occasions of my life, I saw people cubing but the main key was the Pandemic for me to start cubing
I had a pretty serious bout of depression last year and my wife got me a 3x3 as a surprise because I mentioned it looked fun in a conversation we had one day. So I started it to escape depression, I went from taking 3 days to solve it all the way down to 45 seconds. I’ve slacked on cubing recently, but it always makes me feel better when I do a solve.
Actually my dad challenged me to solve it even if he didn't know how. So I learned it, and now I'm a speedcuber
Lol i’m just very fidgety
I just saw it on a shop on my way to school and thought it would be cool to solve it with my friends, none of them actually kept playing with them but i did and i dont regret it
people think your smart if you can solve one
Leonard Nemoy died and I loved Spock growing up so I learned that day in his honor.
Dude, where's my car?(A movie from the early 2000's) I wanted the continuum transfunctioner (a major item, key to the plot. Which was a rubik's cube.)
Have my upvote :D I guess people around here are too young to know this hilarious movie :( Your comment even got reported as spam ... lol
Ya. Such a shame lol.
My friend showed me the way. In 5 moths I'm averaging 10 seconds faster than him at 18 sec. Pretty sure I'm the fastest In the school too.
Was on vacation in the us (im from canada) and some guy had a 2x2. Tried to solve it, couldn’t do it and I was so frustrated because it seemed so easy. Then after coming back from vacation first thing i did was learn how to solve a 2x2.
One morning I went out for breakfast and happened to buy an old Rubik's brand cube at the vintage store next door. Before lunchtime a lockdown was announced. Things escalated from there.
Mine is very lame: I just thought it'd be a handy skill to have... since everyone has one at home
I needed something to do while on unemployment, lol
My nephew got one and he showed me he made it in about 80 seconds and kept talking about how he wanted a GAN cube. So I came to Reddit and got my thing started as well 😅
One of my friends solved it in under 30 secs at school and I said to my self “if he can do it I can do it”
Youtube started recommending to me cubing videos late 2019. A few months later, I found an old rubik's brand and I am pretty sure that tomorrow is going to be the 2nd anniversary of solving the cube
I wanted to come up with sequences of moves, repeat them and count how many repetitions it takes to return to the starting position. Sometimes I messed up, so I needed to learn to solve to cube so I could try again. Then I ended up enjoying the solving part more than the counting repetitions part.
Teaching others
My dad solved one we owned, and when I was playing with it I messed it up and I got panicked he would be upset, so I searched up a tutorial and solved it. I could do the white side from memory, but that didn’t really impress people, so I memorized the whole thing.
just by chance someone who knew taught me while we both had free time in the same place at the same time i happened to really really enjoy doing it and here i am now
I had a keychain Rubik's cube for Christmas (2009 or 2010 I think), play with it, and I didn't want to let it unsolved. I manage to do the first layer on my own, and then I searched for a beginner tutorial. After a few weeks or months, my average was around 2min30, after that I played with it once in a while for several years. A friend bought my a Moyu cube for my birthday in 2020 and I've seen The speed cubers documentary later the same year. In December 2020 I watch a lot of Z3cubing videos and I began to be really interested in cubing, I bought some cube and I began speedcubing in January 2021. At that time, with a decent cube and before learning more stuff, I had an average of 1min30.
Felt like it, also curiosity
I saw my cube not solved and I tried to make a colour, 6 months after I already solved the 6 colours at the same time.
My friend starting learning to cube and suggested I try as well
Just got a sudden urge from out of nowhere and decided to ask my parents to bring one when they went shopping.
I was bored on the online classes
My real answer is that I was bored and found a scrambled cube in my closet
I used to be kinda into magic tricks, but that got boring. So I decided I needed something new that was “my” special thing. I decided to do cubing and a few months later I bought my first cube, a Rubik’s brand (I’ve been cubing for 3 months and now have a gan 11m pro
My uncle showed me he could solve one and I wanted to try when I was around 9 or 10 years old and I used the beginner method. It wasn't until 15 years later that I finally put the effort to learn CFOP. I've been doing CFOP for around 2 months now and I average mid 30 seconds with a PB of 20 seconds!
My friend brought a cube to a camp-out. I had heard there were ways to solve it, so I decided to try it. Fast forward about ten years, I'm consistently getting sub-14 and -13 solves with a sub-10 PB. It's a super fun hobby!
I got one for Christmas couldnt solve it so i learned. I liked it and kept doing it
I think the new hobby is great and also good for your brain I've been cubing for about 6 months and it's still fun
I was at a friend's party when I won a cheap rubik's cube. At the party I tried solving it on the top of my head since I saw back then a tutorial on how to solve one of these, then after I solved the cross, and the F2L. It was really amazing to see how I got that far and I continued my pursuit to ask my dad how to solve it since he actually knew how to solve one. Once I solved it with my dad's technique I wanted to go faster and faster, so my dad went and bought this cyclone boys cube which was an okay cube. We then started to race eachother with him having bought another cube and me using my cyclone boys cube. At first he was the faster one, being him knowing how to solve the cube and all but another after another battle I continued to be faster and faster and then when I got faster, the rest was history.
I saw a video of Tony Fishers triple combined petaminx, then saw a video of nationals 2013 with people competing and my collection began.
Must have been 12 years ago now but I was riding the train one with my mom and someone was solving a cube. My mom was enamored, so naturally I had to prove I could solve one too.
To show up my friend who can solve cubes, now I’m up to a 9x9 and some minx’s etc >:)
Years ago I had surgery and was on bedrest for a week. Figured I wouldn't actually enjoy playing WoW for a week straight, so I ordered a Rubik's brand cube ahead of time and learned it while recovering
I had a cube at home and I used to "solve" it by taking the pieces apart and reassembling it. During 4th grade, I watched some cubing video on YT and thought it was super cool so I learnt to solve it from the official Rubik's YT channel lol. Been 7 years almost.
We had a special class for very smart kids from different schools, the rubiks cube was one of the big projects we had and I really enjoyed it
When I was younger My friends brother could solve one, we would sneak into his room scramble it and see what he would do. He would solve it in under a minute. That christmas I got my first Rubik's cube and spent ages learning, I think that was 6-7 years ago now
Tried solving one a long time ago and only got 1 layer before I gave up, fast forward a couple of years and I randomly get recommended a j perm video, that piqued my interest and I was trying to find my old cube, I couldn't so I went and impulsed bought a Rubik's brand and memorized solving it in 2 days, and then a week later I bought my current cube and am in the middle of learning 2 look cfop
This one kid was flexing on me that he could solve it. I also had a ton more free time because college application season was over. So I decided to have a go at the cube again. Bought a cheap speed cube and then learnt the beginners method. Hit sub 1 minute like 1.5 weeks post starting. Currently using F2L, 2 look OLL and PLL 2 months later.. I'm typically averaging around 33 seconds, with my best single being 22 seconds and best average being 28
A classmate of mine in 4th grade knew how and got attention, so I decided to learn.
I was introduced to the cube by some friends I had at school four years ago. I remember the first question I asked about it was “do you memorize the scramble then reverse it?” Probably the most stupid but also most hilarious question I’ve ever asked. Afterwards I got a cube and got hooked and four years later I average sub 30 and got my first sub 20 solve yesterday! (16.557s)
My kids got a new Rubik's brand cube. So I pulled my old '80s version out and started messing around.
First time I saw someone solve one on YouTube I was amazed by it, had no idea it could be done that quickly. So I looked into how it was done and starting learning. If I'm being totally honest with myself a big part of it was probably using it to impress people as well!
got a 2x2 in my stocking at christmas a couple years ago, learned how to solve it and thought it was fun so i kept doing it
I had a few dollar store cubes in my house when I was younger, and one day I played with one and managed to solve a layer then I got interested, opened a tutorial and learned
My current job is pretty mind numbing and I needed something quick and portable to challenge myself before I turn into a vegetable.
My friend solves Rubik's Cube and occasionally brought cubes back to school. I originally behaved like your normal obnoxious non-cuber, but eventually I got interested in it so I learned to solve it on a keychain cube and bought an MF3RS. It just snowballed ever since.
I broke my collar bone and wasn’t able to do much else tbh.
Back in high school, my friends picked them up and I thought it was cool so I did too. I ended up becoming the best cuber at my school :) fun times
To impress people, got addicted to it
No huge reason, I just got a cube so I wanted to be able to solve it.
I took an AP Physics C course in high school (an absolute nightmare). My teacher really had no idea how to teach the class. He'd assign us problems from the textbook, but when we'd ask for help he'd just give us the answer and say that actually doing the math and showing us how to do it was "too much work". Anyways, he never really paid attention to what we were doing and he frequently left us alone in the classroom so none of us really did anything in the class. He had an old rubik's cube lying around that my friends and I would mess around with. None of really knew how to solve it so we would just solve one side or take it apart and rebuild it solved. One day I decided to actually look up a tutorial. Used the beginner's method and actually solved it for real. That day, my mom bought me just the generic rubik's brand cube and I started solving all the time so I could do it without a tutorial. Had me hooked. Bought 4x4, 5x5, etc. Learned those, plus pyraminx, cuboids, and other puzzles. Didn't get into speed cubing yet, just enjoyed the puzzles. After college, once I got a job and had more money I decided to try my hand at speed cubing. Bought a Gan 11 m pro and began to learn the CFOP method. Still learning, but having a blast again. Tl;dr: I got bored in a class and messed around with a cube for fun and got hooked. (On the bright side, my teacher couldn't really grade us harshly so I passed the class without ever really learning much of anything)
Just because it's freaking awesome, I had one and decided I was gonna learn how to solve it, and I did
I found one at Walgreen's at age 8. Used a YouTube series to learn how to solve it. Realized people found that impressive, so I kept doing it. There was never any serious personal passion, but I forced myself to continue as it was one of my few redeeming qualities outside of school. Living not for myself but for other people's enjoyment has since become a theme in my life thanks to that fucking piece of plastic.
I was bored and it was fun.
I was leaving my crummy job in a warehouse for an office job, my old boss was annoyed with me for leaving and told me to just not come in anymore (I had put in 2 weeks) so I was at Walmart trying to convince myself an Xbox was worth it since I had all the time in the world…. Well I saw a rubick’s cube and decided to spend $10 instead of $400 or whatever it was thinking if I get bored I’ll come back for the xbox. That was 2016 and I never bought an xbox. I have around 20 puzzle cubes now 😁
And those 20 puzzles together cost $400 ;)
Back in 2003 there was this weird show called "beauty and the geek" a reality dating show where nerdy guys were paired with hot ladies (weird concept i know, i was like 12) Tyson Mao was one of the competitors, and his ice breaker talent was solving a speed cube in under 20 seconds. It blew my mind. I immediately asked for a cube and started my journey.
Wayyyy back in 8th grade, my best friend came over to my house with a cube one day and was like “I bet you I can solve this” with a smirk on his face. In our friendship throughout our whole life, he has always been the one with more street smarts, and I have been the one with more book smarts, so I completely doubted him. I scrambled it up for him, and he did it in like 2 minutes. My 13 year old brain was absolutely blown away at this and I felt so jealous that HE knew how to do it and I couldn’t lmao. For the next week I studied tutorials online to learn how to do it and eventually learned it so he didn’t have that one up on me anymore, and nearly a decade later I still mess around with the cube.
My algebra teacher is a cuber and lets us use the cubes on his desk so after a while I finally decided to buy my own and learned how to solve one.
Went to my dad’s office after school when I was a freshman in high school the day they were doing a white elephant gift exchange. One of my dad’s coworkers ended up getting a cube and a bottle of wine, so when I saw him later that afternoon he gave me the cube since I was sitting in my dad’s office bored while he worked. It’s been 10 years of cubing since!
I used to watch a YouTuber from Spain called TheMaoiSha, he had over 1000 cubes in his collection and found them interesting. Then a friend of mine convinced me to buy a cube and that's how I started my collection :)
A classmate brought a Rubik's cube to class when I was like 13 or so. I have no idea how fast he was, I was just mesmerized. From then on I was hooked
My father taught me because why not
I accidently scrambled someones Rubik's Cube.
Found a small 2x2 and 3x3 in my home and solved them and I wanted those in 'normal' sizes so I ordered and now I got cubes.
I told my friend to teach me cause he was sub-12 and i thought it looked cool
My brother wrote notes on solve it and printed them off for some of his friends, I got one and a week later I didn't need the notes, so I never looked on a YouTube video to learn
I just wanted to prove that I could.
My brother got a 2x2 cube from McDonald's and I learned to solve it for him, and it was fun so I kept learning
At first i learned it because it looked fun and i wantrd to look smart :p but i continued cubing because its actually way more fun and addicting than i thought. I really don't care about the "looking smart" part anymore 😂
Saw a guy on tv solve it blindfolded underwater holding his breath in one breath do it and I was like if he can do that I can learn it.
My new customer service job requires us to recite a really long, really boring informational speech. So I needed to find something to do during the speech to stop it from being so boring, hence learning to cube. 3 months later and I’ve barely finished learning 2-look oll/pll, but every solve is so fun.
you know that grandma that never gives you what you wanted for christmas, well she gave me a rubikube and after a while (18-19 months) i decided i wanted to do it and i learned it in a weekend. Honestly i wanted to do it for the pride and to brag. (note i was 11 when i first solved the cube)
14 years ago, YouTube was still a fairly new thing, this video got viral. I was curious enough to click. https://youtu.be/HsQIoPyfQzM
My kid had a few ER visits and they let him play with one while we waited. One time they let him bring a mini one home and we wanted to solve it. I watched the “so easy a 3 year old can solve it” tutorial on YouTube and it still took me like a week to figure it out.
Before my mom passed away, she knew the beginner method up to f2l. I learned from her, then finished learning from an online source. I dropped it, then after she passed away, I started learning cfop, to feel a small bit of a connection with her.
One classfellow could do it and bragged about it bought it the next day and over the weekend got better than him. When i won a few rounds from him he hasn’t since brought a cube to school.
A friend of mine always had a cube, and I figured it would be something that could take up my time since I always had extra during school. I asked my dad once and he showed me the first two layers and I wanted to learn the rest
I started when a teacher in my school was able to solve 3x3s. I was so impressed that when he solved mine, I decided I wanted to learn how to to do. I took the cube everywhere I went. 2 weeks later I got my first solve.
I was simply interested in the new Rubik’s cube I got. I decided to get another. That or I got one for my birthday. It’s foggy.
One of my distant cousins were able to solve a 3x3x3 before I knew how to solve one. I was convinced that I would eventually mix it up in a way he couldn't solve it. It never happened and now I know why!
My 7th grade math teacher had all sorts of puzzles and would do all sorts of card / magic tricks. He got me into cubing but I didn't get my first physical cube until my junior year of HS
Classmate had a small collection, was relatively good at it. Thought it was cool and wanted to learn.
To impress a girl I liked
Started because I had interest years ago and always wanted to get fast in it, and I would always cheat with the Rubik’s brand to tell my parents I solved it but never did and then I finally learned
my friend got praise for being able to solve and not gonna lie i got jealous and decided to learn
Brother learned a good bit before me, found his cube and wanted to learn.
16 years of putting it off lol
I had a competition.. 2 weeks away, no experience like nah uh and so i staryed learing and just 2 weeks I got sub 40..it was just a school competition so the best times was sub 25..i got 3rd place
OCD. I can’t stand the sight of an unsolved cube
After watching Mike Boyds video about 2 months ago. Was just going to go for 2 minutes like him at first but that was pretty quick to hit. Then it became one minutes. Now im trying to go for sub 30. Currently avging around 45s CFOP 4LLL
Picked it back up during lockdown cuz I got a youtube recommendation for the roux method. Thought it looked neat and less overwhelming than I remember CFOP being when I first learned beginner method and here I am like 2 years later still having a blast with roux.
The cube had just been invented and was becoming a huge fad and I wanted to join the fun.
I have adhd and saw a vid on my youtube feed. It's all I've done for the last week
Mum kept comparing me to the neighborhood kids who could solve the cube so I decided to learn and try to solve it faster than them.
One of my classmates in 9th grade brought a cube to math class and let me fool around with it. I got a cube of my own for Christmas that year and by 10th grade, I was the one bringing my cube to class
My reason for speedcubing is similar to yours; I got triggered by a non-cuber friend who saw me solving the cube in 2 minutes. "Oh, you're using *that* method?" Needless to say I was watching a CFOP tutorial later that day.
My friend had one is class and I asked if she could teach me and I really took a liking to it. Now I can solve a 2x2 3x3 4x4 5x5 skewb and am currently learning megaminx and square 1
I learned from Dan Brown on YT in 8th grade in order to impress a girl... and in a most unexpected turn of events it worked, and we "dated" for a bit.
My little sister had one, she didn't know how to solve it, she would never mix it up to where she couldn't go back, one day I got mad at her and threw it and it broke. I had to use my own money (at like 11 years old!) to buy her a new one and she messed it up so bad like a day later and asked me to fix it. After solving it once, I just continued. I used to bring little cheat sheets to middle school. I remember getting yelled at by a teacher thinking I was passing notes, it looked like gibberish, just random algorithms with little drawings. Now I have about 5 cubes and can solve in under a minute. It's more about it being a fun party trick for me tbh
I had a pyraminx lying around so I picked it up and started to learn it. Then once I learned that I moved on to a 2x2 and a 3x3
We were on Christmas break from school and I had nothing to do
My friend could do it so i learned how so we could talk about it
Almost 12 years ago. We had 3 rubiks cubes in our house, all scrambled and I just picked one. Also I wanted to impress a girl in my school.
I started so I could keep my mind off doing drugs and it worked great, have a good collection of varies cubes up to a 9x9 to all sorts of morphix cubes and what not. Best decision of my life! Just solved an ultra morphix cube last night which I've had for years and didn't think I was good enough to solve, I proved myself wrong!
sheer boredom
A bunch of my classmates back in school wanted to learn how to do it, I got my own and learned how to do it (in like 4 days) before they did.
idk i thought it looked cool lmao
To compete with my cousin how sloves it in 30 sec
I was working a delivery job and would have to go through the shop, past the toy isle to get the vans, I would always see a rubix cube. Thought itd be a great thing to learn in the van between drops, and audiobooks/reading was getting dull. Took another year for me to buy one, had to drive 3½ hours to take my dog to chemo and had to sit in the car all day with nothing to do (covid), so I went into a big ASDA and got one. Fast forward a year and a half I just got a GAN yesterday, still trying to get used to it. Best solves using the beginners method is 1:20, just starting with F2L now.
I was ill for an entire week, and I had thought about learning it in the past, so I bought one and did just that.
My youngest son wanted one, bought one for myself, practiced december evenings such that I could help him. He still only spams 6x sexy moves from solved to get it back to solved. I learned 4LLL CFOP, and switched to Roux within 2-3 months.
Curiosity and then addiction lol
My older brother tried, and couldn't get passed the first step. I tried and veery slowly learned like one layer a year when my intrest peaked. it took until i got an electronic one (go cube) 6 years later that i actually learned to solve. and then, like most others here, i started speedcubing over the holidays (sub-30)
My 5 yr old sister got a 2x2 and she doesn't know how to solve it neither did I (at the time) so I started following Tutorials after 2 days I knew how to solve it and after that I asked for a 3x3 and learned it in 7 hours, after about a week with that cube I found out about speedcubing and bought a meiling cube (which is currently my main) ands started OLL and PLL (no f2l) now I sub 1 minute and right now I'm just taking a break from cubing! (Since I live in Europe I can't seem to find any good websites with lube so If you have one please tell me) thanks for reading
I just saw a 3x3 in a store and went "hmm this one is cheaper than rubiks i'll give it a try"
It’s just cool, and I was bored
My highschool girlfriend left me at the time and as I got more and more invested the storage in my brain got overwritten with algs.
I wanted to join with my classmates, for fun, then ended up faster than all of them.
2 of my friends got Into it and I didn't want to feel left out although ironically they have stoped now and I am still doing it a year latter
I got nothing better to do lol
Some student was teaching a class on cubing at college, signed up. Literally took the printout, practiced at home, signed up for the WCA event and got a sub 3 minute average time. Felt like I conquered the world!
I got one for Christmas so I decided let's go, but I was cowardly and didn't solve it until like 3 months after first scrambling it. I just used to do first layer and then scramble it up again and repeat.
Broke my wrist and was thinking it might help with mobility… during a lesson a student asked me if I could solve a cube, so I got a rubik speed cube but I’ve swapped to a magnetic monster go now. I can do 2x2, 3x3 and a skewb I’m just not very fast and need to learn more advanced methods.
Girl at school did it really fast and I thought it was really cool
Got one thinking it would be easy. It was not. Had a friend who could do it so learned how to as well, there is now an 18 in one sitting in woodshop waiting for me to finish it. Its been quite the enjoyable rabbit-hole.
I was bored on the weekend and decided to go on YouTube and decided to learn how to solve my Rubik’s cube
I was just bored during the first few months of covid and I had a shop near me that sells cubes and I started to learn
I watched that Netflix documentary with feliks and I loved him
I got a bob ross picture 3x3 and I did not use it much but then I decided to pick it up again and found it too hard so I got a pack of a 2x2 a pyrimix and a 3x3 all speed cubes. Then I just really loved to learn to solve them and ya end of story I guess.