Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
Solve a layer, solve a layer, solve a layer, pretty much.
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Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
*shrug* I learned online a long time ago, I think it's one of the standard ways-of-doing-it you can find.
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Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
MasterZap wrote:
Invid wrote:I never managed to solve a rubik's cube back when they came out, although I could solve two sides. I think I COULD solve the pyramid puzzle, which just had four sides. That one was also easier to take apart and put together, iirc
This is the beginner error: You do NOT do "side by side", you (generally) do it layer by layer.
To be fair, I don't remember ever trying to solve the entire thing. It was just something you fiddled with. Doing two sides was a goal I set and achieved. Not sure if I ever did three sides or not. This was back when they first came out, so... (looks at Wiki) probably around age 12 by the time I ended up getting a no name version 
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Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
Saniss wrote:
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My method has always been the same - it's the exact one MasterZap described. But I don't think it allows me to get it done in under 2 minutes most of the time. I couldn't follow your method, Teague, but it seems very different. Could you describe it a bit?
Same... it ends up at around 2-3 minutes generally... so it's not the most efficient technique. But remember I had this thing when it was a *new thing* and was part of the "first wave" of solvers, so clearly we didn't figure out the "most efficient" method back then; Teague is clearly doing something in principle different which does "more things at once" somehow.
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Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
How long did it take you guys to get it down to that kind of time?
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Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
Couple months, I guess?
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Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
A friend of mine use to sit in our Logic class and monkey with the cube. He once took the stickers off and redid it to challenge himself more.
He was a special kind of crazy
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Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
You can actually make a cube unsolvable that way, it's a good way to fuck with someone who likes to solve cubes. If you feel like being a jerk.
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Re: The Rubik's Cube Thread
Teague wrote:
You can actually make a cube unsolvable that way, it's a good way to fuck with someone who likes to solve cubes. If you feel like being a jerk.
Fortunately, he only felt like messing with himself.
Though, I think that would be a very mean practical joke to do to someone else's cube
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You also can, or at least could, buy stickers to turn an unsolved cube into a solved one.
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