My Last Post (For A While)

So for you who don’t know, this blog is an assignment for the AP Lang class I am taking at my school. I have done it now for about month and a half and I have really enjoyed it, but as finals draw near for my classes, I am starting to become loaded with work and the blogging is not required for the rest of the term, I am going to take a brief hiatus from posting things. So I wanted to make my last post for a while pretty special and talk about my entire timeline when it comes to cubing.

It started when I was in 7^th grade, long ago, and a Rubik’s cube was just a little key chain sitting in my house, unsolved for years. Some of the more “popular” kids came to school with Rubik’s cubes, teaching kids how to solve them and going for the best times. When I saw this, I instantly wanted to try it, so I took the little keychain cube I had and brought it to school. I tried to solve it for what must have been only 2 days, but is was hooked. I broke out what little money I had stored up and bought myself a fresh new Rubik’s cube, and using the instructions, had it solved within an hour. But this wasn’t enough for me, I wanted to be the best I could be, so I memorized the beginner’s method over about a 2 day span. Soon I was racing against one of my friends, struggling to get that extra second over him. We went back and forth for a while, and then it just fell away. I’m not sure who ever had the fastest time, but soon it didn’t matter. We went on to different things. However, I didn’t stop loving the idea of solving puzzles. Soon I had bought myself a 4 dollars Lanlan 2x2 from the internet, and was spending all my cubing time on that. I watched YouTube videos on how to get better and tried very hard. It interested me so much I put down my Rubik’s cube for 2 years, because a 3x3 just took too long to solve when I could do a 2x2 in 15 seconds.

Fast forward to my Sophomore year in high school. I have been watching YouTube videos on cubing for a year now, and have a 4 second best on my 2x2 Zanchi. Then, I decide to pick up my old Rubik’s cube again, which is now beat up and scratched all over, from months of use and years of inactivity. My first solve I do in 2 years rounds out to a minute and 30 seconds. Not bad, but I try and do better, and soon have a one minute and 10 second solve, which on a regular Rubik’s cube is not half bad at all. But I  know I need to move on up, so I buy my first speedcube, the infamous stickerless Zanchi. I worked hard, and got down to 41 seconds on the beginner method, but I was just beginning on my path. Soon I had mastered basic F2L and lost another 8 seconds. Then the fateful day you all know of if you have read my blog. I went on vacation to New York, then spent the next two weeks learning at least 10 algs and dropping 10 seconds and having my first sub 20 on the flight home.

         

          Finally I end here, averaging about 19 seconds and hopefully getting better. I hope my little story inspires you like it does for me, to keep going along my journey. So until the next post, enjoy Thanksgiving and practice hard!