I have always enjoyed logic games and puzzles, but hated knowing the answers to the puzzles without knowing why they work. So when I picked up cubing and other 3-d puzzles as a hobby I wanted to figured them out without help. I never look up quicker solutions to puzzles until I have solve the puzzle on my own.
You will see videos on this channel that show some pretty easy solutions to these puzzles, some explaining how the specific operations on the puzzles work, and some that give you a better idea on how to speed the process up. Everyone does these puzzles for different reasons, but my journey on these puzzles started at the ripe age of 35...
Having a 3 year old son doesn't give you much time for hobbies that require you to sit down for 6 hours of uninterrupted play... I needed to find a hobby that I could pick up where ever I am at and put down at a moments notice... The Google Gods must have heard me and I started seeing Rubik's Cubes Ads all over the place...