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Two words: Holy. Crap. I haven't even lubed them yet, and still... holy crap.

A co-worker was interested in learning to solve and asked for a recommendation. After reading a lot of your helpful posts I decided the pre-assembled C4U was the direction to point him. http://cube4you.com/cube4you-3x3x3-speed-cubenib-p-104.html Since he was ordering I told him to get me a...

Has this been posted yet? 4,050 cubes. Someone has way too much time on their hands. :-)

(Question mark in title for Lucas) Am I misunderstanding something about CxLL? I thought the following: http://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/CxLL_D#CF_.2F_2x2x2 Would be where I would find alternative algorithms for a 2x2x2 LL with orientation correct, but two diagonal corners needing...

This is psychology 101. Jerks like the guy I just banned are in it for the attention. The more you give it to them, them more they get off on it. Here's how you deal with it: Use the report button Ignore them, do not engage them, do not respond to them, do not call them names, do not use...

This was posted in a different thread, but pushed me ask a question that's been bugging me for a long time. I've seen this sort of position in other discussions and it confuses me. I'd like to turn it around and ask: Why would you *not* want to know 100+ CLS algorithms? Why would you not...

An exercise in thermodynamics. A student and his physics professor are discussing his grades at the campus coffee shop. They both order coffee, which the waitress pours and delivers, piping hot, to the table. The student immediately picks up the small pitcher of room temperature cream that is...

With respect to cubes. It's thrown around a lot, I know what it means in computer science and mathematics, but, in the words of Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." I'd just like to see a rigorous definition of what people that use the...

I created the start of an outline for FAQs on the wiki: http://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ Please contribute answers to the questions I've started with and feel free to add new questions and answers. I think this will go a long way towards keeping the annoying repeated posts off...

For the games, the shape of things to come. From GA Tech, this augmented reality game seriously rocks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNu4CluFOcw After they incorporated the skittles I thought they might do something with the cube on the table, but no.

The video and pictures the old thread linked to have been taken down. Anyone have pics of this mod?

I'm trying out the latest Firefox 3.5 beta on Linux and I notice a lot of stray horizontal lines in the posting pages. Is anyone using the beta on any other platforms and see the same? I don't see the problem on FedoraForums.org, which also uses vBulletin, I wonder if there's a problem in the...

I was just clicking around on the WCA site and didn't find a history of records by event. I was interested in seeing the trend for 3x3 and try to extrapolate when somone may bread a 10s average. Am I just missing the feature? I thought I'd post here to make sure I'm not blind before posting a...

On last night's American Idol there was a guy solving a cube while waiting. I looked up his name on WCA but he's never competed. The video of him solving was chopped up, but the timer implied a 20ish second solve. I'm skeptical, though, because he was barely looking at the cube during the...

I'm getting sick of all the finger pointing, bickering and remonstrations about forum etiquette that has sprung up here in the past several months. It seems like I spend more time looking at this person telling that person they're doing something wrong and three other people telling the first...

I know there are many musicians and at least one Rachmaninov fan here, I thought you may enjoy this. Sometime called his "Impossible Prelude": <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ifKKlhYF53w&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen"...

Check out todays "Featured Article" on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25s It's kind of cool that they use a 4x4 rather than a 3x3 for their decoration.

Tom Rokiki posted to the yahoo group: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/message/41750

I finally saved enough pennies to place a order with cube fans. I've been using type As from Puzzle Proz and like them a lot, but I have to see what all the hype around the type Ds is about. I ordered a white and a black type D. I thought about some of the other colors, but couldn't find...