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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. 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.
I had one when I was a kid, best I could do was 1 side…
I was like that too xD
I dismantled it and rebuilt it.
I took the stickers off and then put them back on. But then it was still wrong because I’m colourblind.
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. With my hands, Bert. I solved it with my hands.
Yes, by looking up how to do it and then practicing until I could actually implement the instructions.
That Rubik himself figured it out with no guide is impressive as hell.
Yes! Like this: https://lar5.com/cube/
Yes. With a screwdriver.
Without
cheatingimprovising? Nope.As one does.
It’s not cheating, it’s thinking outside the box.
Technically inside.
I was super into them as a teenager, learned to solve the usual 3x3 and even bigger the usual way, i.e. mostly by memorising a bunch of algorithms (tonnes of “beginner” tutorials out there). After not touching them for over a decade I was disappointed that I had forgotten most of how to do it! Now I’ve re-learned and finding a way that relies on understanding or intuition so that I don’t have to worry about algorithms or memorisation, I feel like this is a much nicer way to learn to do it!
Had a harder time finding it recently - but there was a good website that described the phases and then you needed to remember a few combinations/moves to get through the phases. You wouldn’t be a speed solver – but I was able to teach myself and others on long bus rides how to do it.
It’s been 15+ years and have since forgotten the moves.
