Thanks for taking a look dude. The first 'serious' (and by serious, I mean complex beyond all previous pieces, ie beyond fudgeing about lol) piece I learnt was Maple Leaf Rag. This was when I was 15, I saw someone at school playing the first bit of it. This made me remember listening to Joplin as a kid with my grandfather, and I just had to learn it. I nagged the lad to teach me what he knew, which was the 'A' section and a little of the 'B'. From there, I taught myself how to read s h e e t  music (at a very slow pace, storing to memory, NOT sight-reading and playing) and finished the piece. From there I went to The Easy Winners (another Joplin rag, in the same key as Maple Leaf).

Anyway, this has 2 points, first being my story of how I got into piano seriously. 2nd being, I had never worked my left hand so much, ragtime was such a huge leap from pissing about on keyboards.... Andrewcc, maybe have a crack at a ragtime piece?