Around kindergarten, I started drawing stick figures. I like to use a pencil for anything creative, and I felt that stick figures allowed the most creativity in almost anything I imagined. I would draw them pretty much everywhere, just doing random actions. I slowed down around middle school, and I don’t really know why.

From elementary school, I played a lot of flash games, jumping from website to website. The first major long term game I played was BTD 5 / BTD battles, which lasted from 5th grade to 7th grade. I started to play Agar.io, and switched over to playing that for a couple of years. It was also around 7th grade where I got Geometry Dash on steam, which I started to play, a lot. More recently, I started to play Minecraft as well, and I enjoy playing that with my friends as a fun, multiplayer experience. Here is my STEAM page.

My mom wanted me to do a martial art, so she brought me to a karate school. However, she saw that kung-fu would be a better option because there was lion dancing, which was more fun. I started in 2nd grade, and since a lot of the kids there stayed for a while, I made a lot of really good friends there. Overtime, my kung-fu place became less of a school, and became more of a community. It feels weird calling my teacher a “teacher”, and my classmates as “classmates” because of how close I’ve gotten to them. Over the years, I’ve gone from doing basic forms, to learning how to use weapons (staff and sword), and learning how to do lion dancing. After 8th grade, I had to quit because my high school was in Boston, and my kung-fu place was in Providence, but if I could go back, I would.

Around 4th grade, I got pretty bored, and one day, I wanted to solve a rubik’s cube. I looked up a tutorial, and it took me around an hour to solve it. I was pretty excited, and I wanted to try to solve one without using a tutorial. After a few days, I made a diagram of the steps, and I started practicing. I also saw that there existed competitive cubing, where the objective is to solve a rubik’s cube as fast as possible. It was a pretty fun experience, slowly reducing my time from 3 minutes, to 2, to under 1 minute. I still wanted to get faster, so I learned a few more methods and tricks to reduce the time from 50 seconds, learning CFOP to get it down to 30, learned 1 look PLL to get it down to my current average of around 18 seconds. I really enjoyed cubing, and I would bring a rubik’s cube wherever I went. I bought faster cubes, different cubes, and even tried modding a few cubes. Eventually, I quit trying to become better because I was frustrated not being able to break past a 17 second average. I think cubing a hobby that anyone can pick up, and it’s not hard to learn how to solve one. Here is cubing my profile.