Saw a link to speedcubing.com on slashdot - a site devoted to uber-fast solving of Rubik's cubes. This guy has a bunch of videos - totally nuts how fast they are. I remember being stoked when I was a kid getting one side :(

LOL, I always broke mine apart then put them back together the right way, then i would never touch them again for fear of messing them up.

I peeled the coloured square stickers off and rearranged them so to look like I had solved it :)

yer, that's some crazy s*** - particularly blindfolded cubing

I'm happy enough being able to solve one in about 2-3 minutes.

Hmm, I wouldn't mind learning some of the corner out methods, I average about 1:30 using my method now

what?
i didn't think so many people could actually solve them.
I've never done it, not once.

I preferred the Rubik links one

You mean where you link/unlink the rings? I was (still am) the champ at that - I can solve it in about 3 seconds flat (literally) :D

I was (still am) the champ at that - I can solve it in about 3 seconds flat (literally)

Well at least you have a skill to fall back on should times get tough for you.

I'm so retarded I couldn't solve my cube so I pulled it appart to re-arrange it but couldn't even figure out how to put it back together :(

WTF! That's crazy

that is so fkn crazy

also i used to peel the stickers off as well :p

rofl whoop

haha whoop

I remember when I first got a Rubiks cube back in the early 80's and then everyone decided to get one.

i swear i'm getting old and losing my eyesight, but i came in here thinking "wtf?!?! trog posting about speedclubbing?"

fake watch again

funny stuff, i was just thinking about cubes yesterday for the first time in about a decade and how i was never able to do it as a kid ... and here's a post about it, ta for the link (Y)

may aswell post links to that dude that made a lego machine to solve one.. but i cant remember the link... he used webcams as the optics and stuff.

also.. http://alexfung.info/favorite/cube/use.htm

step 1. buy rubiks cube
step 2. film yourself messing it up really fast
step 3. reverse the movie
step 4. post on internet
step 5. ??
step 6. profit.

I rekon it'd be fun to f*** with their minds and give them a cube that can't be solved ... ie. break apart 2 or 3 cubes and put them back together so that there is no possible solution

particularly blindfolded cubing

how the hell do u solve a cube blindfolded?

Maybe they use a type of brail on the cubes to identify the colours?

ive seen a video where i guy stares at the cube for a bit of a minute, moves it around and really looks at it but doesnt move anything, he then blindfolds himself and does it in around 1 and a half minutes, theres some freaks out there i tell ya.

ahah epic :]

yer, ive seen the blind cube solving vid as well

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/950623/

Just watched that vid and i'm in awe, that is truely uncanny.

Holy crap!
Even if it's set up and he just remembers the sequence that he turned the cube to move it away from being done and just reverses it there are so many moves it would take ages to learn how to do it.

yer, ive seen the blind cube solving vid as well

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/950623/

wow

Wow.

Has anyone tried those crazy new cubes that have heaps more blocks then the original ones?

I had a math teacher that showed the class how a simple method can be used to solve the Cube, it took him 30 seconds to do it, including stopping to tell us what he was doing. I was in awe at that.
Blindfold cubing, that is beyond awe :D

f*** yeh that blindfolded one is awesome!

what are those little dots on the blindfolded guy's cube?


last edited by gremlins at 01:45:37 19/Jan/06

I would say it would be a reference dot... so he knows which side is which... because you wouldn't want to tip it the wrong way, then do all the incorrect moves.

Probably wrong though, but makes sense.