Join Date: Nov 2005
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I was at the New England Music Camp this summer, and there were alot of people obbsessed with rubik's cubes there. I was taught how to solve one, and my speed record is now 1:11 on a 3x3 cube.
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Is that one hour, 11 minutes? or one minute, 11 seconds? |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: "Chambana", IL
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I think he means 1 minute and 11 seconds. Average time of speedcubing is 20 secs i think
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Once I tried to solve a Rubik's cube while repairing my permissions, and I finished before the iBook did.
However at the time I was sugar high beyond belief, and I doubt I could do it again. You ask me for a hamburger. Last edited by atomicbartbeans : 2005-12-26 at 13:36. |
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Im so ashamed...
I've never completed a rubiks cube, my mind just isn't inclined to be able to solve it, IT'S NOT FAIR!!!! I've spent hours, sometimes DAYS on those little suckers and have NEVER cracked it, I came close occasionly but never completed it. Dont get me wrong I'm not stupid, I have been accepted into university(bachelor of Medicine) two years early (I'm still in year 10) BUT my poor brain just doesn't handle the rubiks cube... *cries* MacBook Pro (1.83 Ghz 100GB Hard Drive 1GB RAM) Lois: Peter, you're acting like a child! Peter: Lois, if I'm a child, you know what that makes you? - a paedophile. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna be lectured by a pervert! |
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Join Date: May 2004
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I use to suceed the Rubik's cube, but I learned by heart some formulas. It was several years ago : 25 !
That was in the first time of the Rubik's cube frenzy. |
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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I won the school Rubik's Cube contest when I was in Jr. High school. I was pretty psyched until I found out my prize was $10 to spend however I wanted at the school store.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I never could quite finish my rubik's cube as a teenager, there was one corner that was always wrong no matter what I did. It's only now that I realizes that my older sister probably switched around the stickers on one corner to spite me, siblings do that sort of thing.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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Rubik's Cubes are insane. I would never be able to solve one... whenever I've picked one up I have no idea where I should even start, and I'd never be able to think of what moves to do in order to get anywhere. As far as my brain is concerned, they are impossible. Obviously, others are able to do them, and quickly, but I just can't understand it.
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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The other roommate, refused any knowledge on the subject and believed that it was only valid if solved by ingenuity and analysis internally. He would spend days trying to solve it without any help but invariably never make any progress. I personally believed that he wanted to just kinda 'solve it' without much effort as if to prove how intelligent he is. They are both very intelligent guys, but clearly the first roommate's strategy and approach yielded real results. I personally wasn't all that interested either way. I solved a rubik's cube a couple times back when I was little. But I don't really care to do it today. Not my type of puzzle. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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Yeah, I'm with the second guy. Being forced to look up formulas and stuff in order to solve it misses the point. Who came up with those formulas? And if you have to use them in order to solve it, what's the point? There are plenty of very challenging puzzles that don't require hours of research to solve. What I don't like about Rubik's cubes is that they aren't a measure of intelligence at all, they're just a measure of persistence and of how well you can follow directions.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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I was taught how to solve it. So I guess I cheated.... haha.
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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I tend to prefer puzzles that are self contained as well. But, there is still value in them if you have to learn a system in order to do it, it's just different really. |
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I shot the sherrif.
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I did one once in about 7 minutes.
I peeled the stickers off and put them back in the right order. It was quick. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Years ago (junior high, in the early 80's?) I had one, and solved it - strictly by accident - one night at about 1:30am. I was thrilled I nearly puked, and left it on the kitchen table so everyone would see it the next day.
I did it once more after that, some time later. Again, kinda by some weird, freaky accident (wasn't following any set formula or trick...just monkeying with it endlessly). That was 20-something years ago, and I haven't touched one since. I couldn't imagine trying to do one now. I'd throw it across the room within about four minutes...things like that just get on my nerves. I'll stick to my crosswords... |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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Join Date: May 2004
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I stick to crosswords as well. Heh. |
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took you 7 minutes! man you loser don't you know how to speedpeel?! |
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Making sawdust
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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i had this toy that was kind of like a rubiks cube when i was a kid. i cant remmeber the name of the thing, but you not only had to get the colors to match, you had to get the thing back to the shape of a cube as well. altho, i admit, it was much easier to do than a rubik's cube was, as once you got it back to a cube, there was a 90% chance that you also had the colors right. anyone remmeber this?
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If I remember correctly the best I ever did was 48 seconds... Have to admit that I got the solution from a book we bought. I thought that was insane until I saw the world record holder on tv do it in like 10 or 11 seconds... (This was back when Rubik's cubes were 'the thang' and everyone had them).
For a short while my Mum played at being a travelling saleswoman selling novelties to corner stores and there were hundreds of variants on the Rubik's cube. Pyramid ones, ones shaped like beer barrels and on and on.. We used to get to play with all of them from my Mum's demo stock. Then there were the ones that were like the sliding tiles picture puzzles, but were built around a barrel shape, or some kind of cylinder. Those were insane and could be done even quicker than the Rubik's cube..... For a while in our house it seemed that the only thing anyone did was play with Rubik's cubes in the evening after school and work... Wickedly insane memories.. 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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My brain doesn't really "think like that." I just don't get the things and I have no interest in ever attempting to get them. I'll waste time doing other stuff...like, did you know there's pictures of naked women on the internet? I've got a whole new world to explore.
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Join Date: May 2004
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I don't recall wasting my childhood doing cubes. I think I played outside more, and maybe watched TV.
I like horseshoe puzzles, and those other ones made out of metal. I think they're called "hobo puzzles" or something like that, because hobos use to make them when train jumping... I might be making that up though. User formally known as Sh0eWax Last edited by Maciej : 2005-12-28 at 01:41. |
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Hmmm, I agree. It must be linked to a certain section of the brain. Sort of like how some people are good at maths and others are not. Maybe it all comes down to colour recognition, and on that thought, I wonder what it would be like to solve a rubiks cube if you were colour blind? (more simple??) AND besides, what sick, outrageously bored person invented the rubiks??? "hmm if I stick coloured stickers of a interchangable cube....I'll make MILLIONS!!! It's pure genius" Kind of like the first person to see a chicken and say "I'm gunna eat the next thing that comes out of that chickens butt" MacBook Pro (1.83 Ghz 100GB Hard Drive 1GB RAM) Lois: Peter, you're acting like a child! Peter: Lois, if I'm a child, you know what that makes you? - a paedophile. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna be lectured by a pervert! |
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I can honestly say that I have never solved a Rubik's Cube.
I don't have very much patience, so I'll play with it for a minute or two, get annoyed, and go do something else. |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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next up...... the clitoris. nature's rubik's cube.....
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Join Date: May 2004
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