Blast from the past!!! Teh Rubik's Cube!!

i have one. i toy around with it every now and then.

however, i'm blonde, so i cannot at all complete it. i suck.

I got one that's 5x5 instead of 3x3. It's a challenge, and I've given up.

My spatial skills are non-existent. As are my mathy ones. Such that:


I've never completed even one side.

dynamicv said:

can you beat 1m 47s?

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With or without removing/reapplying the colored stickers? To this day it's the only way I've ever "solved" the cube... of course I've never played with one for more than 5 minutes at a time every 5-6 years....

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I had one. I gave that annoying POS to my parrot. He sorted it right out. (meaning he chewed the stickers off and it was an all black and very mangled cube)

I can do it in about 10 minutes
i found mine again few years ago and i was amazed i could still remember the moves needed to complete it

dynamicv said:

So there IS a better piece of geekorama!! I'd only ever do that once. It would be too scary to mess up again after I'd completed it

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I've fiddled with one that had quite a few more than five squares-- and get this, it's slightly spherical, and worse?


The colors have to form a gradient. Like, it went from white to a pale pink, to a red. So that each square had to be in a specific spot as opposed to any square of the right color being on the right side.

devilot said:

I've fiddled with one that had quite a few more than five squares-- and get this, it's slightly spherical, and worse?


The colors have to form a gradient. Like, it went from white to a pale pink, to a red. So that each square had to be in a specific spot as opposed to any square of the right color being on the right side.

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The thing is, devilot, the cube is the same way. Each red square DOES have a specific spot, and you can only solve it when it is there.

tobefirst said:

The thing is, devilot, the cube is the same way. Each red square DOES have a specific spot, and you can only solve it when it is there.

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I wouldn't have known. Note my first post saying I've never solved even one side.

But that's too bad that the color gradient was just eye candy. Poo. But at least it was bigger than the typical size (er, meaning more squares overall).

devilot said:

I've fiddled with one that had quite a few more than five squares-- and get this, it's slightly spherical, and worse?


The colors have to form a gradient. Like, it went from white to a pale pink, to a red. So that each square had to be in a specific spot as opposed to any square of the right color being on the right side.

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To be fair, even a standard rubik's cube requires each square to be in a specific spot (beaten by tobefirst). One middle square of each color and from there every other square has at least one other color that has to be placed correctly to solve another side... the gradient would just make figuring out where each square had to be. If your like me and typically ignore subtleties in color that could make things really interesting (impossible) if the gradient was slow enough...

I got given a Rubik's Cube circa 1983, and I never actually solved it. By my reckoning, that's about 24 years.

Beat that.

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Show-off.

I had a Rubik's Cube as a kid, and I could solve it then (although I have no idea what my best time was). I doubt I could do it now.

dynamicv said:

Is there a better 1980s related piece of geekorama you could possibly go wasting your time on? I think not.

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I think so.

Maybe no one will believe me, but my record is about 59 seconds

I have a Rubik's cube keychain that is attached to my laptop bag. The closest I've ever made it was one complete layer. After that I couldn't figure out how to get anything in the right place without messing up my layer. Then, one of by friends messed up all that progress I had made.

I love that rubik's cube...I could of run through it in like 5 minutes...I wonder how I'd do now.

wow...you guys beating it in that time makes me feel less


Bless

twistedlegato said:

Maybe no one will believe me, but my record in about 59 seconds

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I can believe that
i knew people in school who took their cubes to bits so they could put lubricant on the insides, to go faster.

weird huh?

I could never complete that. I want to buy another one but I know I will never figure it out.

Deefuzz said:

I could never complete that. I want to buy another one but I know I will never figure it out.

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There are some great tutorials online of various moves you can do to achieve certain results. That is, if you want to cheat (I did )

P-Worm

Okay I will admit, i used the internet for help. But it is still hard to understand how to do it with the internet.



I used this video for the first two layers.
This is the video I used for the last layer. It is much more simple than the first link.

twistedlegato said:

I used this video for the first two layers.
This is the video I used for the last layer. It is much more simple than the first link.

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Wow that was confusing. I couldn't keep up with all the conversation...

Nuc