DU73 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Sooo… so I inherited this old, dusty, stickers falling off, rubik’s cube right… I was mucking around with it.. I can never solve this gismo before, I was just happy to complete one side which was to me a massive achievement.. Anyway my sister in law grabbed it and said I know how to do it.. so she attempted to take it all apart and reassemble it.. of course she broke it.. Arrrgggg.. when she took it apart I was hoping there was a KHorn in it.. but just old air that finally escaped from its cage. So we ended up buying a brand new cube.. for some silly reason, reason that I don’t know, I have become addicted to this thing right.. I’m on youtube, printing out solutions. I have become a rubik cube junkie. Who’s avator is that “everyone is some kind of junkie” So now I can solve the puzzle but still some stages with the use of my notes.. the last week the amount of hours I have spent on it.. though I am lucky to complete it within 30 minutes. Sometimes over an hour.. I read on the internet that people can complete it in less than a minute, less the 30 seconds… Are they talking about the same rubik’s cube… Can anyone do this thing without using notes but just on their ability to memorise algorithms, as I feel a long way away from this. I want to get to a stage where if I see some person trying to solve this and has totally no idea.. I want to say.. GIVE ME THAT THING BEFORE YOU HURT YOURSELF WITH IT and then solve it within seconds. I am such a show off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNRabbit Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 The fastest I've ever seen was 58 seconds by a kid BEHIND HIS BACK... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DU73 Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 The fastest I've ever seen was 58 seconds by a kid BEHIND HIS BACK... OMG that is just ridicules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMcD Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I believe there is more than one solution to Rubic's Cube. Let me explain. My sister had one. It was jumbled before I got to it. But when it came "out of the box" it had some emblems on the solid faces -- or so I was told. maybe there was a picture. You can imagine the squares one a solid face being numbered from 1 to 9 in a definite sequence. I meticulously followed some instructions off the 'net to get it back to solid colors. But the emblem was jumbled. I conclude that you can solve it to recreate solid colors but they are not really the original sequence. I can't say for sure but that was my experience. Wm McD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauln Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 High speed solutions you see on youtube may be backwards video - they shoot a video of the solved cube laying on the table and the solver with a big smile, then he grabs the thing and begins making faces as he turns the parts, after a little while he stops and acts like he is waiting for the start signal... then they reverse the video and post it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 After about an hour of sweat, tears, bad words (really bad words...), I gave it to my son who can do it in a couple minutes without even thinking about it. Intelligence, so I'm told, is inherited from the mother's side of the family. I felt so much better after SWMBO told me that many years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seti Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I haven't had a cube in so many years but never liked them new as used they turned better. I could solve them really quickly when I was a whipper snapper but never timed. There are many patterns to recognize to get to solid colors.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddvj Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I can solve the rubik's cube in about 2-3 minutes. I solve it layer by layer. People who can solve it under a minute use a much different method. I've tried to learn, but never spent a lot of time with it. There are all kinds of "speed-cubing" competitions where people solve it in less than 30 seconds, there are blindfolded competitions where the participant is given a set amount of time to study the cube and then are blinfolded and have to solve it as quickly as possible. With all of that, though, people are usually impressed when I solve it "slowly" in a couple of minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarsear Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Isn't there like one color that is the key panel and you start from there? I haven't had my hands on one in eons and I don't miss it. I have teens so I'm frustrated enough already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DU73 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 ok - i am no expert by any means, but as I understand it there is no real key panel.. just the centre piece on its side is the true colour of that side, so you solve one side making sure that all edge and corner pieces matches its adjacent side, if done right you should have a T completd on all sides minus top then do middle and then last layer. I have now combined all different methods into one.. like take this bit from his method and that bit from her method, and made my method that works for me and have now got it within 5 minutes. but this is still using my notes that I have created.. I still have to memorise a few algarythms very interesting comment about the speed youtube comment.. some people are so cheeky.. sounds like something I would do... [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DU73 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 also - sounds like there are a lot of people here that can solve it. a lot of smart folks here.. great minds think alike they say [] it's the kids that really make us adults look like total idiots. they are so smart and they like to rub it in our faces[] like one time I was skiing down a mountain.. well i wouldn't call it skiing more rolling down the mountain.. I tried to ski but had no idea what i was doing and the only way I know how to stop was to lean on one side and fall.. this is very scary when you going so fast and trees and people all around.. then there were like 6 year old kids skiing like pros. friggin awesome.. its so unfair.. they fear no fear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Shmoe Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Oh man...talk about memories... I owned one of these as a kid in the early 80's and never could conquer it. I even still have the book that came out back then n "how to solve" I bet if I tried today I could probably do it, but I just don't have the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
germerikan Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 The last "cube" I had in my hand met an untimely death through a 12 lb sledge hammer. For some reason I can rip apart just about every machine I know and put it back together without a hand book but that crappy little piece of ...... sorry got me going there again. lets just say I do not have the paitence for it. That is a toy sent from Satan to show me how dumb I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgoreck Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Ithink I saw an article about a supercomputer doing it in 21 moves. Most puzzles avg around 27. I don't think I have ever solved one entirely, I keep getting distracted. I have one at my desk at work, I cheat if I need to resolve it. http://www.wrongway.org/cube/solve.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedball Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 The Rubiks cube, never could solve it or have the patience to try, that was my sisters thing. I think I still have the book with all the odd colored pictures that when you stare at it just right the fuzzy pictures turn into objects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laager Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I used to be able to solve it in under 45s. Dead easy when you know how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DU73 Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 45 seconds that is amazing. You are right its very easy when you know. I can now solve it by myself without any notes. Just my memory and ability to memorise all the algorithms. thre is no easy way to memorise them, you just have to use a method that works for you. like one is U R U' L' U R' U' L so i just in my head read it as YOU RULE, and remembering which ones are inverted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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