R4CH4EL

Found one in the loft at my boyfriends sisters house the other day and we've not put it down yet... it's a pain in the **** to complete...
Anyone help me out??

johnfelstead

nah pete, i was never in the corner, i was always the kid up front soaking up the info and getting involved with the exciting things on offer. Worked for me anyway.

merlin

Used to do the 3x3x3 cube in under a minute. Then acquired a 4x4x4. That was more difficult. I did it several times but it took days rather than seconds. There was some secret that I never got to the bottom of. Sometimes it just wouldn't come out without starting all over again. A "friend" bought a 5x5x5 cube a few years back. I've never done that. Just don't have the inclination, brain cells and time anymore...

Gandalf the White

I've got a keyring rubiks cube.

I solved it by removing stickers and reapplying correctly

TelBoy

FB, you're right, what the hell, eh?!

Well, when the Rubik's Cube first came out (in 1982 i think), my English teacher, myself and a friend became almost obsessed with it. We'd spend hours working out combinations, writing them down, shortening the formulae we'd worked out and all sorts. First we completed one side, that was pretty easy. Then we managed to get the middle row correct - more difficult but not the hardest challenge. Then to get the middle blocks of the bottom row in the right order was a huge step forward, and finally, rotating the four corners took us weeks of working out.

In the end though, and i can still remember the day, we finally cracked it. In fairness, it was the teacher who did it first by altering a couple of the steps in the four corner formula. I'll never forget the first time i had a completed cube, it was almost a surreal experience. We completed it about five months before the first official solution book appeared, and to this day, that remains the single biggest missed marketing opportunity i've ever been involved with! It's almost impossible to recall the fervour that Rubik's Cube created, and the rush to be the first to solve it. Although i'll never prove it now, i was in a "syndicate" which was undoubtedly one of the first in the UK to crack it. We just never cashed in on it! My record? 43 seconds, in competition, and i came second by three seconds!! LOL, happy days.....

hades

Cube was easy Anyone ever done Rubik's revenge in under a minute (the 4*4 cube)

I did once or twice do the cube in ~ a minute or so, never did finish the revenge

DrJP

My record at school was 65 seconds, only however after reading 'The simple solution to Rubiks cube'. Funnily enough I book the book again on e-bay recently.

Avalyn

I can do the Rubiks cude on demand in about an average of 2-3 minutes.

Cheated though, read a book, memorized the moves (you only need about 16 or so) to do it all and just repeat the process every time. I use it as a good stress relief tool.

Cheers,
Avalyn.
BSc (Hons) Maths

JohnS

iTrader: (1)

I never had a book how to solve it (came out about 6 months after I had originally solved it), and developed my own solution how to do it. Took me about two weeks from getting it to solving it first time, then about a day the next time, and eventually could do it in under a minute every time. I ended up teaching "my method" to most of my school it seemed. Annoying thing was that one of them eventually beat my best (witnessed) time by about two seconds, but there was a rumour that it was mixed up at the start by himself, and not someone else....

There's probably still a collection of these things in my mum's loft somewhere, including the 4x4 one which was much harder to solve - I think my best ever time was about an hour for that one!

John

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

iirc the Cube was a simple repetition of about 4 moves.
the trick was seeing when the moves were appropriate.
its been a couple of years now but I guess it wouldnt be too difficult to have another stab, was with the "under a minute club" at school.

Andy

apples24

iTrader: (1)

what was the one with the flat plastic in pieces locked together with fishing line, with 3 or 4 circles on it in green red and blue i think?


was v easy to do but i loved that one when was in school

Geezer

I used to be able to do it under a minute (disappointingly, for the wife, I still can, but that's another story ) but I have forgotten the final sequence to get the bottom row of corners right, so it takes a bit longer now as I just have to keep churning them until they do it by accident as it were.

I still have to do it occasionally for my son, but it's getting a bit knackered now.

I managed the 4x4x4 one, but I don't think I could now. I didn't even know there was a 5x5x5 one, that would be a nightmare.

Geezer

Dr Nick

I developed my own methods for the 3x3 one and can still do it

Then I went on to the 4x4 which was a lot more difficult. I completed it and still can, but only half the time because there is one manouver I never mastered (the one where on a 3x3 cube you knew someone had dismantled your cube and put it back together wrong).

I believe the 5x5 one will be just as easy as the 3x3 for geometrical reasons but never got to try it out i.e. I dont think you will need to learn any new moves.

Now the one I really wanted and still want is the dodecahedron one. I saw this in a shop but when I had enough pocket money to buy it, it had gone

Its all very well nocking people for being nerds for playing with these puzzles but I love 3d puzzles and the rubic cube gave me a better perception of 3d objects which I find useful to this day when trying to imagine what the other side of things will look like when doing DIY jobs etc....

Jap2Scrap

What sort of wardrobe has a green square in 2 corners and a white one and a red one opposite?