My name is Simon, and I can solve a Rubik's cube.
I got my first cube when I was 12, and I made the mistake to immediatly scramble it. I wanted to be able to solve it, so I searched YouTube for a tutorial, and little did I know, was I going to be obsessed forever.
It took me a whole weekend to learn to solve the cube, and after about 6 hours of learning in total, I was able to solve it in about five minutes, but I think it took about a week to be able to do it without the occasional peek at the algoritms.
The new challenge was to get faster, and I did this by studying the way these algoritms worked and how they moved what piece on the cube. And with this new information, I started trying to use the algoritms on a better way, so I wouldn't have to do them as much, thus saving time. Now I had my own beginners method for solving the 3x3.
Fast forward about 3 years, and my personal best with my method was 40 seconds, while averaging about one minute. I had a few friends who also wanted to solve the cube, so I started learning them my method. Every school break, or free time we had, we proceeded learning, and after a week, I had two more people to compete with. The only thing was that I was about twice as fast as them.
Learning them the cube, proved to be an even better decicion then learning it myself, because they wanted to get better, and I mean really get better. One of them wanted to start learning F2L, which I had already done, so I started learning him this skill, and perfecting it myself. Mastering this new skill took about a month. And now we averaged in about 45 to 50 seconds, with me about 5 to 10 seconds faster.
However, this was not the end. We wanted more speed, more control, and more algoritm-learning. We started the 'impossible' task of learning beginner CFOP (Cross, F2l, Oll, Pll). My friend started learning it a week before me, and he learned the algs in a week. I started later, but learned it in two days. Our solves ramped up to 30-40 seconds, wich was really, really fast for us.
Now, with new cubes, more practice, and more willpower than ever, we average under 25 seconds, with a best of about 15.
We are far from quitting.
