Percy Roberts

My cubing journey

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. Erno Rubik

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When I was young I realy wanted a Rubik's cube but my parents refused as they thought I would never use it, which is a fair thought. But finally, at a local fair, I won a Rubik's cube. I was fascinated and immediateley scrambled it, but it had bad turning, a weird colour scheme and was realy confusing in general. So my dad got me a new cube, so we could learn how to solve it . First my dad learnt the LBL method , where you solve piece by piece , and then he taught it to me.

I got pretty advanced at this method , and then I quit cubing (dramatic sigh ) but after a year i picked it back up and went to watch my first competition . which was tons of fun and i bought my first 'speedcube' the tornado xt3 v1 a solid cube and helped me get "sub 20" - that is a solve time of less than 20 seconds - and it's still one of my favourite cubes.

Since then, I have entered more competitions and really enjoy trying to improve my times. Now I enter 4x4, 3x3, 3x3 one-handed and hope to enter even more events soon. For example, 2x2 and "3 BLD".

my best competition times

these are my best times from competitions.

image of percy practicing in the kitchen
Event Best Time Best Average
2x2 entering soon
3x3 13.57 16.34
3x3 OH 27.98 38.7
4x4 1:32.50 1:48.01