nostalgia
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My personal best so far is 47 seconds. I'm rolling with an F-II and a Dayan GuHong. I also put mosaic stickers on my store-bought Rubik's for fun
-Joe
-Joe
Best I ever did was 1:12, though my average is probably closer to 1:30. Do you speed cube, or do one of the layer methods?
Jeezus! You mean there's "methods" other than randomly coming across the right combination?
Well there are only 6 moves you need to know for the layer method(although some need to be repeated several times).
2 different moves for getting the top layer right
1 move to get the middle layer right
1 move to get the bottom corners in the right spots
1 move to get the bottom corners facing the right way
1 move to get the bottom center pieces facing the right way.
Once you figure it out, it isn't really that hard and it becomes an odd sort of muscle memory. I don't actually know how to solve it anymore. If you ask me, I can't tell you how. If I try to fiddle with it I always mess something up, but if I've had a few beers I can just grab the cube and do it. Thinking just gets in the way of solving.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I had a cube when I was a kid. I solved it once but I don't really remember the details. But what I do remember is that I disassembled it, and it somehow involved a closet door for reassembly.
That's a DaYan GuHong "Color Cube". Yes, the cubies have the color molded right in. I thought it was cool as hell so I had to get one I picked it up from Lightake.com.By the way, that is a sweet cube with the Asian symbol on it. The cubes look like they are solid color plastic. Where did you get it?
I used mine as a skeet "pigeon" back in the 80's. It was infinitely satisfying to see the f*&*er that I couldn't solve get blow apart by the blast of a 12 gauge.
I can solve one side in under 1 minute if I haven't been drinking. Doing the whole thing takes much more time (gotta peel off the stickers and put them back on in the right order).
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