Rubiks cubes?

[nick]

So I thought I saw a thread on this before, but I did a search and came up with nothing.

Anyways, how many cubers (cubists?) are around here. I wonder if theres any cororlation between unicycling and cubing.

Right now im between 2 and 3 minutes, My goal is to get below a minute before the end of the semester, dont know if its ganna happen or not though. Im working on memorizing algorithms now, still have a ways to go.

[hell-on-wheel]

I can solve a Rubik's Cube, though I've never thought of myself (or anyone) as a "cubist" (except when refering to the art movement). My record is just under 5 minutes, though I haven't owned a cube in years. I'm not sure if I would draw a personal correlation between my ablity to solve Rubik's cube and my ablity to unicycle, except that I obviously have too much free time. I was actually recently thinking about getting a new one, maybe I'll go today.

[JJuggle]

Originally posted by nick
So I thought I saw a thread on this before, but I did a search and came up with nothing.

Nick,

You probably searched "rubiks". The search engine does not treat that the same as "rubik's". Search without the "s" and you get:

http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/sea...by=&sortorder=

Also, I hope you tried various misspellings of Rubik.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

By the way, I have never been able to solve one myself.

[nick]

Yeah, I got the same results from my search but none of the topics are really what im interested in, thanks for pointing out the ' thing though.

Rubik's cubes are tons of fun (probably like .00016 tons of fun actually), and its even more portable than a unicycle. I urge you all to pick one up and you wont be able to put it down untill its solved.

[trsrdr]

When I was in Junior High (a few years ago), I once solved it in 45 seconds and could consistently solve it in under one minute. I think I could still do it, but it'd take a couple of minutes at least.

[Sofa]

I'm into MUbik's cube. That's throwing it in the mud after 10 minutes of infuriation

[UniBrier]

Solve it? That's news to me.

All this time I thought it was a random color pattern generator!



I ran across http://www.speedcubing.com/ quite by accident during a "unicycle" search.

[Klaas Bil]

There was also a thread in rec.sport.unicycling, here:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q...foss&lr=&hl=nl>

Klaas Bil

[john_childs]

Do a forum search on "rubi*" and you'll get more hits. The star "*" is a wildcard and will match all words that start with "rubi" so you'll get hits on "rubik", "rubicks", "rubicon", and anything else that starts with "rubi".

Here is my cube.
<http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jchilds/>
Solving that one while on a unicycle would be a challenge because my computer is not that portable.

Something like 15 years ago I solved my real Rubik's cube while on my unicycle. I never got fast enough to be able to consistently solve it in under 90 seconds. Back then the fast algorithms were more of a secret and were not easy to find so I was not solving it very effieciently. Now the fast algorithms are easy to find on the web but I've lost interest in learning them.

[JonnyD]

I can do it, just not very fast anymore. . .

Once people stopped being impressed by me I had to learn to unicycle intstead.

just kidding

[jagur]

i think it was RSU member "cybeross" that is the uni rubik master.i think he said he was able to solve in 13 seconds while idleing.

he hasnt posted in awile.i think i even found him a Rubiks avitar?

[jagur]

yep its cybeross heres his Pro. check out his 1st interest.

http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/mem...fo&userid=1045


hasnt posted since last year,sombody wake him up!

[iunicycle]

I was doing it consistently in around 80-100 sec when I suddenly became interested in unicycling last year. I was probably using the fast algoritms John is talking about. I actually only need to memorize about six complex moves, and all are for solving the last layer. My tiny brain keeps me from memorizing any other shortcuts. I still make improvements in the first two layers, but my interest in doing it fast has gone away. I'm probably up over two minutes today.

One interesting thing about cubing is that those who don't know how to do it think there is some 'trick', so they want to mess it up a little themselves just in case.

[Unimoron]

I used to have a rubiks cube but, hell it was hard to solve. For the longest time, I remember that the challenge was not only getting it into matching colors but first you had to make it a square. It was always like a cube with a big dent in it. I got it into a square when I was about nine and gave up. This was either screwed up cube, Or was it a normal one?

[nu_uni]

The best I have ever gotten was one side with only two colours on it. OH YEAH



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