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any bodyhere ever solved a rubiks cube?

I got my solution time down to 2:35

Its a fun puzzle, some people can do it in 30 seconds and below

I hate Rubik's cubes with a passion - may involve a bad experience when I was younger ...

Which reminds me - I used to cheat by pealing the stickers off and then 'making' the perfect cube !

saj

I managed to break a minute once and I solved it in 55 sec.
Basically I never exceed 2 min and my average time is about 1.30

Sometimes I think of those who can do it in 30 secs and I wonder that they must use quite different solving system from the one I do.

yea, some people have memorized like 50+ algorithims (sp?)

It took me a couple of hours the first time (while watching Family Guy)
My fastest time? I think 20 mins. Yeah, it's terrible.
I like playing the online one, though.
It's on http://www.addictinggames.com

saj wrote:I used to cheat by pealing the stickers off and then 'making' the perfect cube !

It's easier just taking it apart with a screwdriver and put it together again.
Also a lot of fun is, to turn one piece around and put it back in ...
and then give it to somebody who doesn't know the trick.
He'll never come to the solution

That's right! Sometimes when I solve it to fast and it accidentaly comes apart and I don't place pieces back correctly solving is imposible without a screwdriver.

My brother bought me Rubik's cube at Harolds in London. It was quite expensive (I think it was 12 pounds). I thought it would last forever (for such a price). It works very smooth but surprisingly stickesrs are coming unstuck. Actually stickers consist of two layers which are separating from each other.

I think of buying 4x4 cube but I need to find better source.

Where have you bought yours? Do you have the same problem?

It was me who wrote the prevoius post. I forgot to log in.

Anonymous wrote:My brother bought me Rubik's cube at Harolds in London. It was quite expensive (I think it was 12 pounds). I thought it would last forever (for such a price). It works very smooth but surprisingly stickesrs are coming unstuck. Actually stickers consist of two layers which are separating from each other.

I think of buying 4x4 cube but I need to find better source.

Where have you bought yours? Do you have the same problem?

Stickers will come off with use, There is a a site where you can buy better replacement stickers on the web some where.

Lol, from one hobby to another.

I cube (verbalized it means "to solve it") and have for about 4 months. An average of 12 solves w/ fastest and slowest times removed, my best is something like 28 sec. My fastest time ever (with a true shuffle, computer generated algorithm of random moves) I've gotten 23 second someting...

Lol

All this while trying to figure out the kawasaki rose :-p

Its actually really easy to solve it just a lot of patterns to recognize and sequences to memorize. The most popular "speed cubing" method requires about 10 algorithms to solve the first 2 layers, 40 to orient the last layer and 20 to permute the last layer. But to put that in TRUE perspective, ZB method requires several thousand.

My method is the popular one, "Fridich"

Solve yellow cross (takes about 7 moves)
Fridich f2l (takes about 20)
2 look last layer (takes about 30

What methods do you use?

Its a fun sport, 4x4x4's can be obtained through amazon,

Well, for all you bright ones who find the 3x3 so easy, try this:
http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm

I just enjoy permuting it and watching the pretty patterns (much like the 3x3)

-Calfaile

I quote a person from another topic and delete the other one:

celline wrote:Dan Peguine could very well be the next world record holder of speed cubing. What is speed cubing you ask? It’s the sport (many consider it a sport) or solving a Rubik’s cube as quickly as possible. It’s not hard to impress someone by solving this age old puzzle in a few minutes. But solving it in a few seconds? It’s rather jaw dropping. Dan is amazing to watch. You can barely see his hands and it’s like he’s a robot once he starts. He’s quite the mathematical genius and he says it’s not too hard to learn, all you need to do is memorize a few algorithms However he does it, he’s quite fantastic and quite fun to watch.

My dad could solve a cube in just under a minute. It used to drive us nuts, because he made it look so easy. I can solve one, but it usually takes me a good 5 minutes, now.

Before getting consumed in origami, I use to do alot of rubik's cube
I use the "intermediate method" to solve the cube. My average time is 1 minute. Instead of doing one layer at a time. I solve the first 2 layers at the same time. This takes away around 30 seconds of the time i usually take. It can be even more effective depending on how well u master the technique.

If you're interested, this site
http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cube.html
will help you in both the intermediate and advance methods.