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Justin Bieber can solve a Rubik's Cube.

Some producer somewhere just realised how boring it is to have a slow solver doing the cube on TV... They should have given him one with the F2L already solved like they did for Will Smith on that chat show.
 
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Godmil said:
Some producer somewhere just realised how boring it is to have a slow solver doing the cube on TV... They should have given him one with the F2L already solved like they did for Will Smith on that chat show.
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You're right, the producer want the speed and above all originality. That is the reason why the cube was in shadow before me. I am the dark side of the cube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP6DZHvCYLU


I'm the one who placed the video on youtube will smith and similarly for Jessica Fridrich. My nickname of youtube is rubiks99

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUncHGvBuks

GG
 
What's with all the face palms? Wouldn't a celebrity solving a cube be good for our community?
 
Phlippieskezer said:
Not really. This celebrity isn't really famous. He's infamous. (Please don't rage at me if you're a fan. I just find this to be the case with most people. -.-)
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Haha. I am not going to put down any genre of music ( to each his own), but give me Bach and Megadeth rather than this___I am sorry but I can not call what Bieber makes to be considered " music ".

And by good, I meant in regards to spreading the cube virus around. I assume females listen to him ( based on the fact that my tween sisters listen to him), so maybe more females can be persuaded to cube. I am not sure how it feels to be at a cube competition yet, but at chess tournaments there is just far too much testosterone to feel comfortable.
 
cubeslayer said:
I am not sure how it feels to be at a cube competition yet
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There are a few female cubers, but not nearly as many as we should have.

cubeslayer said:
but at chess tournaments there is just far too much testosterone to feel comfortable.
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I haven't been to a chess tournament, but somehow I can't see chess players as having an above average amount of testosterone :p (I know what you mean, though, and it's too bad that more women don't play chess. Seems like all intellectual-seeming leisure pursuits suffer from this.)
 
cubeslayer said:
And by good, I meant in regards to spreading the cube virus around. I assume females listen to him ( based on the fact that my tween sisters listen to him), so maybe more females can be persuaded to cube.
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That was my initial thought too. Although I'm a girl and if I didn't already know how to solve the cube I'm not sure if him knowing how to would have persuaded me..but I'm not really that much of a fan so I guess my opinion doesn't count. Although even for the people who are huge fans, I can only see them like picking up a cube just to see if they could figure it out, but then giving up shortly after. I'm not sure if Justin Bieber solving a cube would give any huge fans significant determination to become amazing at solving the cube.
 
cubeslayer said:
Haha. I am not going to put down any genre of music ( to each his own), but give me Bach and Megadeth rather than this___I am sorry but I can not call what Bieber makes to be considered " music ".

And by good, I meant in regards to spreading the cube virus around. I assume females listen to him ( based on the fact that my tween sisters listen to him), so maybe more females can be persuaded to cube. I am not sure how it feels to be at a cube competition yet, but at chess tournaments there is just far too much testosterone to feel comfortable.
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Oh. By no means do I consider Bieber's "music" to be indeed "music," even though I, too, listen to all kinds of music. It's strange, but very few females I know actually like him (i.e. my sisters hate him), but there are those who do. I just figured since he's "infamous" (as I previously called him), many people would find that as "oh. That's just sad. Even Bieber can do that," if you understand what I mean. It could give cubing a bad "vibe." I agree that it can do good, though.

P.S. Since moving overseas, I could find much fewer people playing chess, which used to be my main hobby, and I substituted, probably converted, to cubing (I still need to find some chess players/clubs in my area, but that's another forum altogether). I've only been to one cube competition, but I've been to at least 20 (probably much more) chess tournaments, 5 - 10 of which were nationals. Maybe it's because of location (this was in South Africa, since I'm an Afrikaner), but I never really noticed a huge lack of females in those competitions. It always seemed near 50/50 (probably just slightly more male), other than the grandmasters I've met. Every grand master I have met was male. :P
At the cube competition, though, there seemed to be indeed a severe lack of oestrogen.

Interesting to find another what seems to be a chess player on speedsolving.com, though.
 
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Phlippieskezer said:
Oh.

P.S. Since moving overseas, I could find much fewer people playing chess, which used to be my main hobby, and I substituted, probably converted, to cubing (I still need to find some chess players/clubs in my area, but that's another forum altogether). I've only been to one cube competition, but I've been to at least 20 (probably much more) chess tournaments, 5 - 10 of which were nationals. Maybe it's because of location (this was in South Africa, since I'm an Afrikaner), but I never really noticed a huge lack of females in those competitions. It always seemed near 50/50 (probably just slightly more male), other than the grandmasters I've met. Every grand master I have met was male. :P
At the cube competition, though, there seemed to be indeed a severe lack of oestrogen.

Interesting to find another what seems to be a chess player on speedsolving.com, though.
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I play in the U.S. Asides from the elementary divisions ( which have both boys and girls in vast amounts), the higher up one plays , the less females there tend to be. By the time it has reached the high school division, there may be one or two. Now that said, those whom have remained can't be taken lightly ( never underestimate any opponent, for that matter)--I am speaking of tournaments where the brackets are created by grade levels, not necessarily rating.

I too first was a chess enthusiast before converting. However after the club I was in disbanded, chess became more of a burden to continue. Whereas back in those " golden" days one played live with soft drinks, junk foods, blaring music, and real conversations ( as in face to face) with the clock ticking, one couldn't help but feel excited. However the internet lacks that. Also, my style of play tends to be unsound ( I look up to Mikhail Tal and Morphy) , and the psychological effect of a sacrifice is significantly diminished over the internet ( since an actual clock is not ticking, one's real rating is not on the line, etc).

Any hoot, I switched to cubing some time afterwards because
1. I thought it to be cool
2. It is an activity one can do in solitude with great joy ( though I like cubing to the crowd whenever I can)
3. A Rubik's cube is a better ice breaker than a chess set and timer


Sorry this went off topic.
 
cubeslayer said:
I play in the U.S. Asides from the elementary divisions ( which have both boys and girls in vast amounts), the higher up one plays , the less females there tend to be. By the time it has reached the high school division, there may be one or two. Now that said, those whom have remained can't be taken lightly ( never underestimate any opponent, for that matter)--I am speaking of tournaments where the brackets are created by grade levels, not necessarily rating.

I too first was a chess enthusiast before converting. However after the club I was in disbanded, chess became more of a burden to continue. Whereas back in those " golden" days one played live with soft drinks, junk foods, blaring music, and real conversations ( as in face to face) with the clock ticking, one couldn't help but feel excited. However the internet lacks that. Also, my style of play tends to be unsound ( I look up to Mikhail Tal and Morphy) , and the psychological effect of a sacrifice is significantly diminished over the internet ( since an actual clock is not ticking, one's real rating is not on the line, etc).

Any hoot, I switched to cubing some time afterwards because
1. I thought it to be cool
2. It is an activity one can do in solitude with great joy ( though I like cubing to the crowd whenever I can)
3. A Rubik's cube is a better ice breaker than a chess set and timer


Sorry this went off topic.
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Yeah. Oestrogen level did decrease as the tournaments got more competitive (here as well). I've also about found chess as a burden lately, and have converted to cubing for extremely similar reasons. And I hardly ever (not since two years ago, and I've only done this about 3 times) play chess online. It just takes away way to much of the enjoyment. The big thing I REALLY miss about chess though is how much more... Finesse it is to speedcubing. It's one thing to solve a cube in sub-ten seconds, but it's another to actually understand what you're doing. I'm considering going into fewest moves (and BLD) because of this. The "speed" part in "speedcubing" isn't what caught my fancy. It's the "cubing" part, if you know what I mean.

And yes, this went very off-topic. Aw, well. Off-topic in the off-topic forum. Sorry for the other readers.
 
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