SINGAPORE — When 22-year-old Daryl Tan first picked up his hobby of solving the Rubik’s cube at age 12, he spent many hours training alone to beat his personal best time.
There were few competitions he could join to hone his skills, and even fewer friends who were interested in turning the hobby into something competitive.
Even Singaporeans like Mr Tan, who are picking these cubes up without proper training, are doing well. Other enthusiasts believe the rising popularity could be attributed in part to improvements in cube technology around 2019, with the popularisation of magnetic cubes that can be manipulated faster, and which allowed individuals to clock timings once thought unachievable.
A typical class revolves around learning algorithms to solve the puzzle, before these strategies are put into practice. The class is tailored to each student and could look like engaging in timed races against a coach, or being drilled on the algorithms they had learned. “They want to be faster but they can’t, because for the advanced method, there are many algorithms to learn and it’s also quite difficult to understand. An in-person coach, can better guide on these finger tricks,” she said.
“I’m less of a ‘compete against-someone-else’ more like a ‘compete-against-myself’, ‘try to improve my own timings’ ,” Beth told TODAY.
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