Rubik's Cube!

[angel-d]

I don't like rubix cubes, of any size... mainly becuase i don't like being made to look stupid by a bit of plastic or whatever they are made out of. but then again i have never really spent any seriouse amount of time trying to complete one. Hmm not my thing really. But can see how people would enjoy them.

[evilbutterfly]

I can't remember if I used to be able to get one side or two...I think it was 2, on opposite sides, and then I'd be stuck. I had a cube on a keychain (a 3x3x3 one) that I messed with a lot, and that's the only reason I could get that far. I don't think I have the patience to sit down and do it till I finish it, though. Also, I really don't wanna like, look at any cheat sheets because that would ruin the coolness of figuring it out.

[igotrhythm]

I remember getting one of those when I was little. Got very frustrated with it, so what I tried to do was to peel off the color stickers and put them back on so that it would appear solved. I think we still have that same cube, sans some of the stickers, of course. (That's how I know it's the same cube. XD)

I may have been smart at a young age, but I wasn't that smart. I still have no idea in hell how to do it the way you're supposed to, though I did read once that some guy programmed one of those Lego robot bricks to solve them. If I remember the article correctly, it would have been possible to program the 60-move solution in there, but since one turn takes about 30 minutes with that machine, he just hooks it up to a computer with a table of possibilities to do it in 20-odd moves.

[chickendude]

i can do the 3x3 and 4x4
but i havent timed myself before

yeah i did my 3x3 in school a bunch of times when i was bored (after tests, during class, etc)
one of my friends got annoyed so for christmas, she got me a 4x4x4 so i could kill myself over, which i did for the rest of vacation, coming back to school with it solved somehow XD

never seen this 5x5x5, i think i could do it in theory, but its a very longshot theory <_<

[Feuergeist]

I can do the 3x3 in about 35 seconds every time.

[Sera13]

i cant solve one of those things to save my life, i dont understand how you could solve it in seconds flat without cheating or spending many upon many years learning the perfect patterns

[Feuergeist]

http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cube.html

[pentium6700]

Well well well

I didn't expect my topic to get this many replies, but I suppose that shows the power of the rubik's cube. With both hands working at it (not doing FFR at the same time) I average about a minute and ten seconds. My record is fifty five seconds, and then the one handed takes around two minutes, but I've never actually timed it. That being out, I just squashed almost all of your slow single solves/not solveds/cheated to solves. And if any of you claim to be better than me, even if you are, I'll just pretend you're a figment of my imagination and didn't really solve the cube at all.

[gardyloo]

RE: Well well well

omg I can solve it in .0000001 seconds
I can pick any one up off of a store shelf and do it too

[Lightknight924]

RE: Well well well

I had a one before, but when I was playing with it I accidently bent it somehow and it deformed. Now it's like in the the shape of an octagon....