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Rubicks Cube- Best Christmas Present Ever
liam.mccaffrey - 4/1/13 at 10:49 PM

I got one for christmas and well.... I am hooked. I remember having one as a kid in the 80's but this time I thought I would actually put some effort into actually solving the thing instead of throwing it at my brother.

There are various methods. I chose the beginners layer method and can now solve it every time. My quickest is 1:37 but I reckon I average around 2 and a half minutes. World record is 5.6seconds!! Youtube Feliks Zemdegs

They are really not as hard as i thought they were though.



[Edited on 4/1/13 by liam.mccaffrey]

balidey - 4/1/13 at 10:59 PM

I`m getting quicker ...... now the glue is losing its stickiness

Sloan85 - 5/1/13 at 12:04 AM

I am out of practice at the minute. I used to average about 1.30, best was 1.12 but got lucky at the end.

I keep meaning to learn the Fridrich method. Hopefully I will break 1 minute one day.

liam.mccaffrey - 5/1/13 at 12:14 AM

I've read though that people can are able to get sub 1 minute without learning fridrich.
I'm really struggling with F2L I'm taking 70 seconds at best just on that.

Simon - 5/1/13 at 12:55 AM

Got one when I was about 15 (circa 1981) - at the time one of the best pressies I ever got that I'd actually asked for.

Best time was around a minute but I was slightly obsessive about it back then.

Still have it somewhere

ATB

Simon

JoelP - 5/1/13 at 09:09 AM

i used one a lot during jury service, but could only do it with the book to hand! Dont have enough spare time nowadays.

clairetoo - 5/1/13 at 10:32 AM

I had one many years ago..........and never did manage to crack it

CNHSS1 - 5/1/13 at 12:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by clairetoo
I had one many years ago..........and never did manage to crack it


i cracked mine as a kid,


used Dads 2lb lump hammer

bloody thing!

steve m - 5/1/13 at 12:59 PM

We had one left on my desk about a week ago, and during the night i managed to do it all on my own, infact it was very easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnQ56FVnHe0

jossey - 5/1/13 at 03:53 PM

Someone told me that they can be done with a max of 56 moves if I remember rightly.

I used this to learn how to move stuff around and out there back.

Was useful

http://www.wrongway.org/cube/solve.html


Ps nice retro toy. Should I get my zx48k spectrum out too......

liam.mccaffrey - 5/1/13 at 06:16 PM

It used to be 56 moves its now been proven to be 20. In other words any cube can be solved in 20 moves. This would be a computer optimised solve thought and not one a human would necessarily do. The world record 5.6s was about 40 odd moves I think.

quote:
Originally posted by jossey
Someone told me that they can be done with a max of 56 moves if I remember rightly.

I used this to learn how to move stuff around and out there back.

Was useful

http://www.wrongway.org/cube/solve.html


Ps nice retro toy. Should I get my zx48k spectrum out too......

Texan - 5/1/13 at 06:29 PM

What's this beginners layer method?

I never even got close to solving it as a kid. I presumed it was my ADD or at least that's what I claimed was the reason.

liam.mccaffrey - 6/1/13 at 08:39 AM

Check this page out for good beginners methodlinky