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Just an interesting question but has anybody here ever solved a Rubik's cube before? I need some serious help with solving one and it is driving me nuts! Anyone have some good tips?
Thanks!
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gabee said:When you are done with this, your chosen face will look like a cross of yellow, and above each side's center piece will be that face's color (except for the bottom of course). Then solve the corner pieces for your chosen face. After that you'll have the whole first layer solved. Then, solve the edge pieces for the middle layer (this will be a little harder).
gabee said:I can't remember exactly, but I think the way I solved the middle layer was by doing things like L2, U2, R, U2, L2. I think this would work if you can position the piece on the right on the bottom face so that if you were do R the piece would be in the correct position on the front face (of course this would mess up the top face). So, you would do L2, U2, R, U2, L2 and it wouldn't mess up any face. I also think I was able to solve the middle edge pieces by doing opposites one after another...that is, looking down on the middle layer from above, I solved the bottom right edge piece then top left, then bottom left then top right. The last piece was harder to get in the right spot without messing the others up and to tell you the truth, I got it by accident :X!
I hope this helps!
That was my average as well when I used to play with that.DyslexicHobo said:I can solve the rubix cube in ~45 seconds.
I do it a bit different:DyslexicHobo said:By the way, my method is the layer method. Solve the bottom layer, then middle layer, then top layer.
cyrusabdollahi said:Snap appart the cubes, then re-assemble them by snapping them back together.
Moo Of Doom said:while trying to apply group theory to the thing
Integral said:Take a randomized cube, snap out a single piece, rotate it and replace it. Now give it to one of these 45sec whizes and watch them go crazy! :rofl:
DyslexicHobo said:I can solve the rubix cube in ~45 seconds.
Hah! That only works on those 45 sec fools. Us true 80 sec people will take less than 2 minutes to figure out that it is an impossible combination.:tongue:Integral said:Take a randomized cube, snap out a single piece, rotate it and replace it. Now give it to one of these 45sec whizes and watch them go crazy! :rofl:
Do you have a reference for that? As far as I know the minimum number of moves from any initial position has never been mathematically proven.Donski said:It maybe hard to believe, but with the proper algorithms you are never more than 10 moves from solving the cube.
MeJennifer said:Do you have a reference for that? As far as I know the minimum number of moves from any initial position has never been mathematically proven.
According to Wolfram MathWorld the current best proven algoritm is 29 turns (or 42 "quarter-turns") by Michael Reid (1995).
Donski said:I got bored with that 3x3x3, so I bought a 4x4x4 called a Rubik's revenge. After that I bought a Rubik's Professor that's a 5x5x5. I was never able to do the regular one in 45 secs, it takes me around 3 min. It takes me around 15 min to do the 4x4x4 and 30 min to do the 5x5x5. No one ever taught me how to do them, I figured them out on my own. I guess that's why it takes me so long to do it, I put one or two pieces in at a time without algorithms. It maybe hard to believe, but with the proper algorithms you are never more than 10 moves from solving the cube.
Mk said:Ah, always check the wiki. They even have a textbook on it!
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_solve_the_Rubik's_Cube