Anyone here solve a Rubicks Cube ?

[BeenHereBefore 1,545]

I did twice but not sure how I did it. I was good at getting three color sides and a couple moves after I solved it. I don't remember what those moves were.

[Cdub100 3,950]

Just use the algorithm bro

[BeenHereBefore 1,545]

Just now, Cdub100 said:

Just use the algorithm bro

I'm not that bright.

[BeenHereBefore 1,545]

Also had the original when they first came out and wonder what they go for now ?

[Cloaca du jour 2,152]

I used to in high school...bought a solution book and learned it step by step.  You start with a simple pattern then do the same 50 ish steps to solve.  Used to have time tournaments with the Casio digital watches with the built in stopwatch.

[Cloaca du jour 2,152]

Just now, BeenHereBefore said:

Also had the original when they first came out and wonder what they go for now ?

Old ones were smooth...had to keep em clean and oiled.  The new ones are cheap as hell

[OldMaid 2,133]

I remember you could pry it apart with a screw driver and put it back together.

[BeenHereBefore 1,545]

4 minutes ago, Cloaca du jour said:

Old ones were smooth...had to keep em clean and oiled.  The new ones are cheap as hell

Yea took my old one a part and vaseline it.

[BeenHereBefore 1,545]

1 minute ago, OldMaid said:

I remember you could pry it apart with a screw driver and put it back together.

Yep!

[frank 2,315]

 

[BeenHereBefore 1,545]

1 minute ago, frank said:

 

Damn.

[Cruzer 1,995]

Yea, but not really. I used the book. 

[Rusty Syringes 478]

I stuck one up my butt and used my sphincter muscles to solve it. 

[shorepatrol 1,871]

1 minute ago, Rusty Syringes said:

I stuck one up my butt and used my sphincter muscles to solve it. 

Video or it didn't happen. 

[Rusty Syringes 478]

1 minute ago, shorepatrol said:

Video or it didn't happen. 

I had nachos the night before. You don't want this.

[shorepatrol 1,871]

Just now, Rusty Syringes said:

I had nachos the night before. You don't want this.

You're right, jalapeno sliders would be better video 

[Bill E. 703]

In the 80s or 90s I bought a book and could solve it anytime for about a year.  Just for fun I bought one about ten years ago and learned the steps.  I forgot them after a week of not doing it though. 

[Djgb13 2,339]

Yes a few times but haven’t messed with one in years. 

[BeenHereBefore 1,545]

27 minutes ago, Bill E. said:

In the 80s or 90s I bought a book and could solve it anytime for about a year.  Just for fun I bought one about ten years ago and learned the steps.  I forgot them after a week of not doing it though. 

Cool man and I had the book but ended up solving it on my own. Forgot how I did it after though.

[GobbleDog 1,001]

2 hours ago, Cruzer said:

Yea, but not really. I used the book. 

The thing is with the book... it's not needed early - getting one side - easy, getting bottom side next - not as easy, but doable.  It's the final middle squares messed up in the middle require some convoluted memorized sequence to solve.

And I still remember it and can still solve the Cube. My kid thinks I'm cool. 

[jonmx 2,430]

I figured it out in grade school without the aid of any book.  I figured out two different sequences of moves, one you could move a middle piece and one you could move a corner piece.  It was not efficient, but i could solve it in about 5 minutes. 

[taco breath 424]

2 hours ago, jonmx said:

I figured it out in grade school without the aid of any book.  I figured out two different sequences of moves, one you could move a middle piece and one you could move a corner piece.  It was not efficient, but i could solve it in about 5 minutes. 

Did u get banned at fbg?

[jonmx 2,430]

47 minutes ago, taco breath said:

Did u get banned at fbg?

Not yet.  I am sure i had been reported numerous times.

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,542]

I played sports. 

[TimmySmith 2,782]

9 hours ago, frank said:

 

Kind of a cheat. They get to put the thing about 20 moves shy of finishing. 

[tubby_mcgee 701]

1 hour ago, TimmySmith said:

Kind of a cheat. They get to put the thing about 20 moves shy of finishing. 

I was wondering about that.  How "close" it is to being finished when they start.

You'd think there'd be some sort of standard.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

3 minutes ago, tubby_mcgee said:

You'd think there'd be some sort of standard.

I guess that is the standard. That way everyone starts from the same spot. Not really record solving it, IMO. More like record finishing it.

[Mike Isles 583]

My kid can solve it in a few mins. He taught me but I can only do like 80% in my own. The visual part I can see I can do but when it comes down memorizing moves I’m lost. Three sides and the yellow cross is as far as I can get on my own. 

[jerryskids 6,898]

I had a book that went through sequences:  top, middle sides, bottom corners, bottom sides.  That was, what, 30 years ago, and in recent years I've tried to recall/recreate it with some but not complete success.  It's more interesting trying to ferret out the sequences than just memorizing it, I find in my older years.

Also I always started with orange on top.  Maybe that's why I like Trump.  Did any of you have a similar starting color?   

[Gepetto 1,383]

23 hours ago, Cruzer said:

Yea, but not really. I used the book. 

ditto

edit, I think I solved it when I was a kid on accident just by using some of the tricks I learned from the book at the time.

[tubby_mcgee 701]

36 minutes ago, Mike Isles said:

My kid can solve it in a few mins. He taught me but I can only do like 80% in my own. The visual part I can see I can do but when it comes down memorizing moves I’m lost. Three sides and the yellow cross is as far as I can get on my own. 

Yellow is the hardest one they say.  Once you can get yellow, it basically solves itself. 

[edjr 6,644]

2 ways

breaking it apart and putting it back together

peeling the stickers

[Cruzer 1,995]

11 hours ago, GobbleDog said:

The thing is with the book... it's not needed early - getting one side - easy, getting bottom side next - not as easy, but doable.  It's the final middle squares messed up in the middle require some convoluted memorized sequence to solve.

And I still remember it and can still solve the Cube. My kid thinks I'm cool. 

True, but I was lost after getting the 2nd side. I was only 13 when this book came out (1982) - it was pretty cool at the time.... I still have it somewhere I think.

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[Kopy 573]

2 hours ago, edjr said:

2 ways

breaking it apart and putting it back together

peeling the stickers

I was a sticker peeler.

No I did it, honest 

[Mike Isles 583]

6 hours ago, TimmySmith said:

Kind of a cheat. They get to put the thing about 20 moves shy of finishing. 

Yeah. Lame. 

[Thornton Melon 631]

I was never able to get more than one side, and 8 out of 9 squares on another. I suck at those types of things.

[jerryskids 6,898]

8 hours ago, TimmySmith said:

Kind of a cheat. They get to put the thing about 20 moves shy of finishing. 

Interesting.  It is still impressive that he could look at it and map out what those 20 moves needed to be.  I’m sure it took a lot of practice.  This is where I miss Chronic Husker:  I would say he developed mastership thru practice, and he would argue it was natural ability.

[taco breath 424]

12 hours ago, jonmx said:

Not yet.  I am sure i had been reported numerous times.

 

Make it so.

[Mike Honcho 5,324]

9 hours ago, TimmySmith said:

Kind of a cheat. They get to put the thing about 20 moves shy of finishing. 

Not a cheat...all Rubic's cubes are 20 moves shy of finishing.

Any Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 moves, but it took over 30 years for anyone to figure that out

 

[posty 2,740]

I solved Rubik's Cube by accident the first time, then I did get better with it...

I still pull it out and play with it from time to time...   And Rubik's Cube as well...