hey guys it's Simon this is my 30,000 subscribers YouTube question and answer
video
first off I'd like to thank you guys for giving me to 30,000 subscribers I am
really grateful and I love each and every one of my 30,000 subscribers I
posted on my community tab any questions that people may have so I'm doing to answer
those two get to know a little bit about me and my second channel and my hobbies
as well I also have a discord chat where people can ask me questions and we can
hang out we can solve Rubik's cubes or talk about anything we want on our mind
so I'll have it in the description below that would be awesome if you join my
squad and meet other like-minded people that have similar interest I'm going to
get a couple questions from the discord chat and community tab and without
further ado let's get the Q&A underway so this is a question by a niv from the
discord chat and by big J from the YouTube channel what is your favorite
cube to solve I gotta say it's still the 3x3 Rubik's Cube because I haven't done
a lot of experience with the other one I do love to square one
square one is really nice I'm relearning the keyhole method and I want to be able
to enjoy all of them but 3x3 you can figure it out solve it in public show
off to your friends and all that good stuff
quick nice and easy and maybe a little hard to get faster it's definitely the
most fun because you get to solve it really fast
first cube brand i ever owned with the Rubik's Cube brand I remember my
parents bought it when I was in elementary school
and I looked up a YouTube video learned how I solved it and then I also got the
4 by 4 and 5 by 5 cube brand so that so it all started with the rubik's cube brand
then I got my first moyu moyu aulong was my first good cube 3x3
and then now I have dayan zhanchi back then and moyu WRM and now the GAN when did
you start so I started cubing when I was around 11 or
10 years old I was taking piano lessons and the daughter of my teacher had a
Rubik's Cube as she could solve it I got really jealous so I wanted to learn so I
got the Rubik's Cube went online and learned it it took like I think like two
hours so learned it pretty fast learn how to solve it and by a week I
memorized the algorithm got into the CFOP methods yeah ten years I
started a long time ago okay the next question is from the boy with a backpack
what editing software do you use I use Sony Vegas movie studio Platinum 15
.0 I got it in January of 2019 and I think I paid $60 one-time fee not like
a monthly or yearly subscription so studio platinum one-time fee of $60 and
is been the one that I'm used to and a
cheap option oofguyyt asked what is your favorite talent you can do I
know you're good at all sorts of things well I also have a swim /fitness /
triathlon channel Simon shi I'll put it right there in that channel I have the
sports I play so I do triathlons mainly now since my swimming is over so swim
bike and running and maybe still post it up about college swimming as well I also
do a little stock trading so day trade or a swing trade look at the stock
market and see the price patterns and trades based on that if you guys are
interested in making a little more money on the side buy stock trading I could
have a video detailing on what I do and how I do it
and I think that's pretty much it so it was just sports channel puzzle and stock
trading / business I also did make a website is thesimonshi.com it
used to be a blog and I deleted everything because I wanted a fresh
start so now it has a home page and I think just one blog post up how do
you get a lot of subscribers asked by coach Siot well you for youtube i
started back in 2009 so 2009 was when this channel was created and when i
posted my first video to get subscribers you want to post consistently maybe
weekly monthly daily by daily bi-weekly whatever it is post consistent and build
your following build your community which is the most important reply to
different people's comments heart comments and try to interact with the comment
section with everyone there so you can build this community that's how people
will notice that you care about your subscribers your community and they
subscribe there one and they'll keep watching your video another thing is
bring value to the video you want to make videos that break down so I have
like learn how to solve it 3x3 rubik's cube was a 4x4
square one pyraminx so videos that brings value that people need help
problems that you solve are the greatest when it comes to youtube videos brother
cubing how do you feel about your amazing decision to make a video about
the 13 by 13 so my 13x13 got viral now it has over 6 million views 16 million
views the way I decided it I was in China with my family vacation in 2016 we
were at a store and I saw this 13 by 13 and I've never seen anything bigger than
a 7 by 7 so I convinced my family to buy it we went back to our apartment in
China and I had a GoPro I set the GoPro time lapse mode I set my timer to solved
it and then when I got back to the USA I
edited on my computer posted it right before I went off to college at Virginia
Tech and the first six months it went from zero to 100 thousand views and then
there it was exponential what's your record time on each of your cubes 3 by 3
is 11 seconds 2 by 2 I think I did 3 3 or 4 seconds 4 by 4 is
1:12-1:11 5 by 5 is around 2:30 ish 6 by 6 7 by 7
I don't really pay attention to square one I think is 1:20 skewb around 30
seconds pyraminx I did like a four second solve one time clock around 40
seconds megaminx like three minutes not too sure I need to do an official
megaminx solve that's all my to-do list yeah that's all the WCA puzzle for the 13
by 13 is 2 hours 20 minutes something and a 17 by 17 is 3 hours and 30 minutes
how long do you plan to make YouTube by David Seekford I plan to keep making
YouTube videos until I physically or mentally cannot do so or that my
priorities have changed and something else come up in my life which method you
use for solving the 3x3 cube I use this CFOP so the cross f2l first two layers
then OLL I do 2 step OLL I think I have 20 more algorithms to
memorize for OLL so OLL then PLL I know all the PLL algorithms so CFOP
prime also added what are other hobbies do do except to be swimming I would say
stock training what do you think you will achieve in the future oh okay so I
like to keep my goals to myself but I can tell you this one goal is to be
financially independent one day and just being able to do whatever I want in life
that's the big overall goal of my life right now I won't go too in depth about
that thank you for watching this video I hope you learned what some of my hobbies
and interests are on top of Rubik's Cube solving I hope you guys really enjoyed
it thank you so much again for 30,000 subscribers make sure to hit that like
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