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Drew Cameron
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I JUST finished a rubix cube; it took me 6 days.

This is literally the best thing that has happened in the past 4 months.

Feel my joy.

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Your joyance is palpable!

Good job, I could never finish those things!

That's not as bad as you think you said.
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Dang man.

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David R
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My mate finished a "Professor's Cube" (a 5x5x5 version) some time last year.. he had been doing it for about 3 or 4 months. Congrats. on completing the "normal" Rubik's (which is still a feat to achieve)


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I'm learning to juggle, just did it...yet I can't do it again! haha

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Ah, those are so fun, it takes me about five mins now to complete one.

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Venge
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Posted: 31st Mar 2007 19:15 Edited at: 31st Mar 2007 19:16
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Yey rubix cube...

Kills time while waiting for blender render

EDIT: got it down to 2 minutes, woo

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Nice. Could you post a photo of it?

Make games, not war.

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Drew Cameron
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Yeah sure, *one sec*

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nice job man, i'll get it one of these days

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Jeku
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I've worn out a few rubix cubes already--- one of them literally burst in my hands (lots of pent up energy in the core). Got my time to under 2 minutes a few years ago, but I was lubing it up with vaseline to make it quicker to turn.

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Drew Cameron
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@ Jeku; they wear in a little bit after a while which makes them easier to turn. I was mucking about with one a few decades old and it turned like a breeze.

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Milkman
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Posted: 1st Apr 2007 01:37 Edited at: 1st Apr 2007 01:39
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Jeku: try Crisco,works wonders

2mins 30secs is my average time.

I don't solve mine the standard way that most people do though (top to bottom), but rather i solve all edges first, and then all corners.

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Posted: 1st Apr 2007 02:34 Edited at: 1st Apr 2007 02:42
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I've got 2 rubix left from the 80's, regular cube (i could only solve it by breaking it apart, but it's one up from peeling the stickers off like some did) and the other is rubic snake... er.. um.. I can make the dog and a ball



Like this but mine is an oh so trendy brown and cream colour

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Congratz Drew! Rubix cubes are great. I once did it in just over two minutes, but after months of not touching one, my time has increased dramaticaly.

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I hate rubix cubes, I always mess upp when I get down to the last side!

I will Learn to rule 2d. Someday...
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GatorHex
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Is there a solution to it? i can never get more than 2 sides.

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Yes there's a solution. But you're not supposed to solve it by sides, you solve it by layers. Google 'how to solve a rubix cube' and they'll explain it. The first 2 layers are very easy but the last is very hard. I can solve it in about 4 minutes if I can remember the patterns. Memorizing them is the hardest part.

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I've seen the stuff on google it make my brain hurt

I think I'll stick with putting presure on the corner block until it pops out of the cube configuration and the whole cube falls apart then re-assempling it in the correct colour combination.

Like my programming style... i find the simplest solutions are often the quickest... hehehe

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Yeah, the most common way to solve it is layer-by-layer. As code dragon said though, memorizing the sequences for the last layer is a pain. However, if you solve all the edges first and then all the corners, you don't have to memorize more than two simple sequences for the whole cube

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I have a 5x5 one, I'm thinking on doing that all Spring Break.
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good work mate

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I could never do it, I remember a few years back I couldn't do it so I removed the stickers and put them back on, unfortunately they wouldn't stick properly and made my sister angry. Cheating doesn' pay.

Congrats Drew.

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Good work dude! I once solved an oxo cube by crumbling it into a gravy boat.


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Tom J
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Well done I was never any good at Rubix cubes

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hey i've got a rubix snake as well!


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Quote: "Good work dude! I once solved an oxo cube by crumbling it into a gravy boat. "



How on Earth does one construct a boat out of gravy? Surely this is an april fools joke. Isn't wood or metal much more likely to float and maintain a static shape?

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My buddy's roommate at college can do the standard cube in under 20 seconds... he's a master of all the others as well, I dunno his speeds on them though.

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Good job man! It's loads of fun especially when you get fast. I've won a good few bets off rubik's cube My record's 1 minute 14 seconds but I average around 1:45. I just bought a rubik's Revenge (4x4x4) and it fell apart the first time I twisted it I didnt even do it hard...

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Quote: "How on Earth does one construct a boat out of gravy? Surely this is an april fools joke. Isn't wood or metal much more likely to float and maintain a static shape?
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if a tin whistle is made of tin, what is a fog horn made of?

btw, great job drew, i'm never any good at those things.

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to say you're so happy, you could have cracked a smile drew!

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I can do the cube in 10 seconds... it all depends on how little time i spend reandomizing it in the 1st place

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Haha, one turn left and one right....NOW SOLVE!

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I still have a few, I find by far the best cubes are the originals before they went to junk workmanship and cheap clones. I have the cube, snake, revenge, pyramid, and links. Have a knock off style sphere that never turned well. I always found starting with a 2x2x2 easiest over a corner method.

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Drew Cameron
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Thank you all. I've always wanted to be able to solve them, as like a party trick, so I made the plunge the other week and got one.

I will put a video of me solving one 'live' on YouTube at one point, just need to get more practice with the top layer.

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Friend of mine won the manchester grand final when it was big when we were kids. Apparently he could finish a cube in about half a minute. Think the record was like 20 secs or somesuch. I still have a corny book somewhere on tactics on how to beat it from the world record holder (some kid or other). Found it the other day when unpacking my stuff from moving house. I was useless at the cube though, and bust both my big and small snake thingy...

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I'll just play online rubix cubes or maybe get a friend to do it for me.

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I think the record is 10:48 according to the YouTube stuff. Crazy fast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pqUedt1HdI


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Actually to get the record the person will have to solve it 10 times. They'll remove the worst time and the best time, and average out the remaining 8.

The judges will start off before each round and mix up the cube a prescribed number of random turns.

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In another clip of that vid though, they are all cheering and the announcer is claiming it's a new world record. Maybe there are multiple variations on the record, like "fastest single solve" and "fastest average solve".


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Quote: "I hate rubix cubes, I always mess up when I get down to the last side!"


How do you get them all but the last side 0_o

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@Fallout: There's probably a world championship and a Guinness world record.

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i need one of them!
i've lost mine
i'm gonna go order one right now.

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i could never solve rubix cubes, always ran out of patience and ended up destroying it.

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My time is under 5 minutes now! (No book)

Just thought you'd like to know

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i got 1:06 yesterday, i think it was a fluke.
I usually get about 1:40

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I started wearing out the colours on my cube so I need to buy a new one soon. Problem is it's hard to find them in stores nowadays

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I finished the Rubix Cube in X minutes. (Not going to say, I like to flame people's curiosity.

I met a 3 year old who could do a rubix cube in 60 seconds. It was quite amazing.

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Just get some colour markers or something and shade the squares back in. Don't bother getting a new cube.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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