Late 2011 and beginner/middle of 2012, I got more than 20 BTC, but the price was even $10 and had some services like feedzebirds.com who paid good to tweet, 1, even 2BTC, today it's better to go in the market and buy low, sell hight. IMO
Faucets are free to use. And nothing free is going to make you rich overnight. But the small factions of BTC that faucets pay today might be worth a lot more in a couple of month or years if you just have some patience.