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05-11-2010, 08:34 PM #1comfortably shaving
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anyone into rubik's cubes? or something similar?
i used a couple websites to learn how to solve the cube. 1min29sec is my best but that was a little lucky and by all means done purely by memorizing algorithms.
so anyone else like them?
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05-11-2010, 09:02 PM #2.
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I love solving the Rubik's cube. In fact I wore mine out recently....
I'm also into Sudoku.
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05-12-2010, 12:50 AM #3Member
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In my Introduction to Abstract Mathematics class in college we worked through the math behind solving the 3x3 rubik's cube. It was very interesting. I also have the 4x4 and 5x5 cubes, but haven't figured those out yet.
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05-12-2010, 02:21 AM #4This is not my actual head.
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I can solve the Rubik's cube in about two minutes by prying the block pieces out and putting them back in where they belong.
Lateral thinking...
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05-12-2010, 06:55 AM #5all your razor are belong to us
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I haven't seen a Rubik's cube in 25 years when I was a kid in the early 80's...
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05-12-2010, 07:27 AM #6Obsessive compulsive
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Thats some four-dimentional thinking right there! ;-)
Originally Posted by HNSB
I can solve the Rubik's cube in about two minutes by prying the block pieces out and putting them back in where they belong.
Lateral thinking...
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05-12-2010, 07:43 AM #7Junior Member
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yep me and a friend got into the rube about a 3 years ago... i got a 5x5 but couldn't solve it even with instructions.... than my roommates friend, who's "smart", solved it without instructions in about 20 mins. But yes, I fell into the rubiks cube hole myselft at one point. Very fun
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05-12-2010, 03:21 PM #8comfortably shaving
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i am thinking about maybe a 4x4x4 cube but there is nowhere around here that would have them and i just didn't feel like ordering one off the internet.
call me a cheese ball if you want but i have been waiting for that opportune moment when i am at someones house who has a cube but can't solve it, so i can be the hero and step in. lol
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05-12-2010, 04:55 PM #9-- There is no try, only do.
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Heh - My younger sister bought a couple of them when they first hit the toy stores and gave one to me. I went into the kitchen to grab a beer and sat down to work on it. She came in five minutes later with it solved! Originally Posted by HNSB
I can solve the Rubik's cube in about two minutes by prying the block pieces out and putting them back in where they belong.
Lateral thinking...
A couple of weeks later, after she'd done that to me five or six times, she admitted to me that she was peeling off the colored squares and sticking them back on.
A bit of history about Rubik and his cube here.
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05-12-2010, 06:17 PM #10comfortably shaving
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not sure if anyone has seen this but this guy seems to have taken it to the next level
YouTube - Rubik's Cube One-handed: 14.56 seconds World Record Yu Nakajima
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