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master121 New user 29 Posts |
My best record is 56 seconds. My average is 1 minute 15 seconds. When people hear this, this is what they do:
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I love MAGIC New user USA 12 Posts |
How do you do that stuff? I tried, but gave up. I found a cool website for cube fans though, it is: http://www.nerdparadise.com
It is a cool website. |
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Reis O'Brien Inner circle Seattle, WA 2467 Posts |
I think I solved the cube once in my whole life! But I was a master at the Rubik's Pyramid!
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JasonEngland V.I.P. Las Vegas, NV 1729 Posts |
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On 2003-10-10 08:40, Alessandro Scotti wrote: You can buy the 4x4 cube (Rubik's Revenge) and even a 5x5 version (the Professor's Cube) on eBay almost any day of the week. Jason
Eternal damnation awaits anyone who questions God's unconditional love. --Bill Hicks
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Geoff Weber Inner circle Washington DC 1384 Posts |
I can solve the cube in about 4 minutes (Average).. I would really like to get it down to 30 seconds though.
I am working on a routine, where I take a deck out of the box, and then produce the rubik's cube from the card box, then have both the deck of cards and the cube scrambled.. Then I speed solve the cube, and then perform the cradle to grave routine to return the deck to new deck order. |
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mindcontroller Regular user Inside your Head! 175 Posts |
I never ever did a cube but found the pyramid easy, and was able to complete this each and every time in less than 30 seconds! Lost mine though but think I shall have to get on ebay and find another, the 5x5 cube is currently on ebay and selling at £77 which is around $139 with 77 people bidding on it so might be worth investing in if you see them in second hand shops etc.
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Justin Craddock Regular user buffalo,ny 127 Posts |
I have learned to do a cube and now since I learned to do all the moves can solve a cube any time.
"When a performance is over, What remains"
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phantomace Special user 651 Posts |
Geoff, That sounds man! You got to post that in Handlordz when you finish it! Rock on brother.
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Justin Craddock Regular user buffalo,ny 127 Posts |
Garrett Thomas does a trick where he solves a cube by throwing it in the air.
"When a performance is over, What remains"
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drkptrs1975 Elite user North Eastern PA 452 Posts |
I rearranged the stickers.
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
Drkptrs1975, you would have a tough time with my cube. Mine has no stickers. Instead, it's all tiles, and they don't peel off.
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MacGyver Inner circle St. Louis, MO 1419 Posts |
Wusses!!!!
You all are still doing only the three dimensional cubes.... Try four dimensions!!!! Sure, it's immpossible for your brain to visualize, but where has that stopped mankind before!?!?! Enter the Fourth Dimension: http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm Just so you know, that isn't a 4x4x4 cube, its a 3x3x3x3 cube!!!! There are more configurations than there are atoms in the universe!!!!! or exactly: 1,756,772,880,709,135,843,168,526,079,081, 025,059,614,484,630,149,557,651,477,156, 021,733,236,798,970,168,550,600,274,887, 650,082,354,207,129,600,000,000,000,000 Different possibilities. |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts |
I don't understand the meaning of numbers that can be expressed yet not counted to.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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H_Ho New user 76 Posts |
I have seen 4X4X4 and 5X5X5 cubes and they are easily solved by my colleagues. Of course, they are mathematicians. There's also pretty patterns that can be obtained (instead of the usual random ones) if you know what you are doing.
I still can't solve the cube, even though I am a mathematician. |
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Kannible New user LAS VEGAS 56 Posts |
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On 2004-01-29 20:03, master121 wrote: That's near mine, mine is best 1min 05sec and average 1.1/2
Thanks... Kyle
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MacGyver Inner circle St. Louis, MO 1419 Posts |
Hmmm, well after never cubing in my life(apart from that 4 dimensional one that I never did understand), I'm happy to say that I went to Wal-mart and bought myself a Rubik's Cube!!!
After about 10 hours now, I'm up to about 2-4 minutes using the "Petrus" method found here: http://lar5.com/cube/index.html It all depends on easy the cube is right now, I still don't have some of the wierder configurations worked out in my head... Onward towards 30 second cubing!!!!! |
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Shane Wiker Inner circle Las Vegas 1199 Posts |
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On 2004-03-26 19:38, Kannible wrote: I thought it was like 30 seconds. I saw you solve it once and it was far less than 1:05. Oh well, better than mine. My record is at 3 years and counting. I can only get 4 sides and then whenever I try to solve the others, the first ones get messed up. |
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Andini Special user Columbus, OH 685 Posts |
I've seen the instructions and read some websites but I never attempted to actually do it. I just bought a cube and worked on solving one side. I got pretty good at that.
But then, about 2 or 3 months ago, a kid in my math class keeps bringing in a Rubik's cube and is always solving it. He does it, messes it up, and does it again. I'm fascinated and I want in. I'm kinda like that when it comes to things that you don't really need to know and will never actually use. So, I sit passively for a week while he continues to work his magic on the small cube. Finally, I approach him (mind you, I've never actually said much to him) and ask him how it's done. I say I can get one side pretty quickly and he asks me for my lunch hour...we had the same. Coincidence? Fate? It doesn't really matter. I bring my cube one day and we meet out in the lobby of the school after eating. He goes over a few patterns and I catch on. Over the course of the week, he gradually taught me the steps to solving the cube. So, now I know how to solve the sucker. I can also put the faces into a couple of nice-looking patterns. Hooray for me! But, because his system uses patterns in steps, I can't solve it in much less than 3 minutes...I average about 3 minutes on solving it. |
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Loz Special user London 777 Posts |
3 minutes is about right. Its based on group theory and there isn't much speed increase one can expect apart from hand speed. There are some faster ways and slower ways to do some parts, but in essence, unless you were God (or Ramanujan) and could see the origin and optimum solution of a given configuration, 3 mins is about the best one will do. Often the fastest posssible solution is the numner of moves it took to mess it up in the first place!
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MacGyver Inner circle St. Louis, MO 1419 Posts |
Um, Loz, 3 minutes???
http://www.speedcubing.com/ There is a WHOLE RANGE of people that can average under 20 second, can solve it about 12 seconds fastest time from a random cube. I only memorized 3 different "sequences" and I can solve it in under a minute repeatedly...... If you could see the optimum sequence, you could probably get under 10 seconds on average, since even the sub-20 methods all have steps.... an optimum would just be one sequence. Anyway, I'm no cube god, but getting sub-1minute is definatly possible with a minimal amount of work.... |
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