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Yes. I looked up algorithms for the last layer. After a few solves it stuck in muscle memory.
The first solves took a good while, but I was getting consistently under a minute after a week.
I haven’t speedcubed in quite a few years, but I spin the 4x4x4 a few times a week to keep those parity problems in muscle memory.
Same. It took me a little longer but it makes such a nice fidget for lectures / meetings. The procedurality of it is almost soothing.
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Came here to post Jperm, highly recommended. Got me from never picking up a cube before to a sub 2 minute solve with the beginner’s method. He has a website as well with graphic instructions that is very handy
Yes, you make the cubes go together until it looks nice.
No, it confounds me how they even move how they do.
It’s got parts inside
Neat, just like us.
Mathologer (YouTube did a good explanation of creating cube algorithms). Search something like: mathologer design rubiks algorithm
Yes. I got two for my oldest children as Easter gifts. They scrambled them and after a few minutes of frustration, left them lying on the floor.
I encourage them to keep trying to solve them but they told me " what chance do I have if you can’t even do it?" I thought about it and realized that they were right.
I downloaded a PDF of a Rubik’s beginner guide I found online and solved it in about an hour. I felt like I had conquered the world!
While bragging to my wife I saw my youngest scrambling it again and my heart sank. My wife saw my reaction and said “what’s the big deal? Don’t you know how to do it now?”
I explained that I had essentially cheated, but had to admit that the steps weren’t as hard as I had imagined. I decided then and there that I was going to learn and eventually memorized the beginner method!
After getting a speed cube and lots of practice, I started averaging about 2 mins. After watching some videos online I decided to give the CFOP method a try. It felt like starting over but I was patient and now I can do it in close to 30sec.
Jperm has great beginner method videos on YouTube. Learned how to solve the 3x3 last year practicing side by side with that video for an hour or so for approx 3 days.
I just solved the 12 sided megaminx a few days ago for the first time. It’s addicting lol
There are many good methods. They aren’t hard to learn as long as you can memorize a few 7-10 move algorithms.
For people recommending using screwdrivers and sticker peeling, they’re actually much easier than that to disassemble and reassemble. Turn one face 45 deg. Pop an edge up. The whole thing will fall apart. Tougher to assemble but not too bad. Only problem is you have a 2/3 change to accidentally assemble an unsolvable corner rotation and a 50% chance to assemble an unsolvable edge flip. Both are easily fixed if you can spot it by flipping any edge and rotating any corners once or twice as needed, but then if you’re able to spot it, you already know that.
Easily thousands of times. I learned back in high school, on a forum that went on to be a very fondly remembered element of my teenage years.
It’s really not that hard if you can memorize a few algorithms. I learned a very basic set of general algorithms, like half a dozen. Not very efficient, but easy to learn and I can still solve one in about a minute.
If you want to get into proper speed cubing you can learn dozens, or even hundreds, of increasingly specific algorithms. This, combined with a high quality cube and finger tricks, can get you closer to 10 seconds.
But if you just want to be able to solve one, you can learn in an afternoon.
No, I never had the patience to figure it out. I think I’ve seen a video or two with solution algorithms but did not have access to a cube to try them and don’t really remember the ways now.
Looked up the solution and memorized it. I may be slightly above average intelligence, but nowhere near gifted.
In true billionaire style, I paid someone else to do it and then took credit since it was my money that made it possible.
The only winning move is not to play.
I watched one of my brothers once just start removing the stickers. That’s pretty much how that went.
