How many can solve a 3x3x3 in under a minute?

[hdskull]

lol, i have over 3000 ppl at my high school, lol

 

[Ton]

Every body could solve a cube in 1 minute , as long as he/she is willing to spend at least 8 hours for training.

Even more for any one -without disabilities- could do 30 seconds as long as he/she is willinmg to train....

It is all about willing... most of the people think they can not do it so they neverstart. But nothing is impossible as long as you set your mind to it ....I tought in 2000 I could never do 20 seconds , today my record in competion is 13.68 and average 18.53 , The trick... do not set a mind block that it is impossible for you. Everybody can solve a cube in 20 seconds


Ton

 

[jeff081692]

The trick... do not set a mind block that it is impossible for you. Everybody can solve a cube in 20 seconds

That is why my goal is 20 seconds then I will work from there.

 

[AvGalen]

I have set my mind block on "25 seconds on average in an official competition using keyhole + 4 look last layer" because of this quote on http://www.deepcube.net/intermediate.html: "With this method you should be able to average around 50 seconds, 40 if you are really good, and someone (sorry, I forget his name) averages sub 25, but that's just insane."

My point is this:
if you practise with a beginners method, 60 seconds should be doable for everyone.
if you practise with an intermediate method, 40 seconds should be doable for everyone.
if you practise with an advanced method, 20 seconds should be doable for everyone.
[optimistic_about_the_future]If you practise with a totaly insane method, 10 seconds should be doable for everyone [/optimistic_about_the_future]

 

[Johannes91]

I have set my mind block on "25 seconds on average in an official competition using keyhole + 4 look last layer" because of this quote ...

Why do you care so much about that quote? It's obviously total rubbish.

 

[AvGalen]

I like to set goals, reach them, feel good, set new goals, etc. I am not in a hurry bringing down my times. I will learn Fridrich F2L/OLL/PLL, but also Petrus, Roux, Eriks secret method and many others eventually.

That quote motivated me a lot to improve without learning many algorithms and I would like to reach that goal. Now that I have some more private time I think I will do it at the UK Open.

And I don't think the quote is rubbish. Some people have reached much better times (sub 15) and now they can do 25 with this method. Nobody I know has reached 25 seconds with that method though.

Or maybe I just like being "the fastest beginner"

 

[adragast]

What is Eriks secret method ? Isn't he using Fridrich ?

 

[Johannes91]

And I don't think the quote is rubbish.

I meant that saying a 40s average is "really good" and 25 is "insane" is just pointless exaggerating. Like those things some non-cubers say in YouTube comments, "only geniuses can do BLD", etc..

 

[joey]

What is Eriks secret method ? Isn't he using Fridrich ?

If we could anwser,it wouldn't be a secret! Yes he does use Fridrich, but also this other method.

 

[hdskull]

I like to set goals, reach them, feel good, set new goals, etc. I am not in a hurry bringing down my times. I will learn Fridrich F2L/OLL/PLL, but also Petrus, Roux, Eriks secret method and many others eventually.

That quote motivated me a lot to improve without learning many algorithms and I would like to reach that goal. Now that I have some more private time I think I will do it at the UK Open.

And I don't think the quote is rubbish. Some people have reached much better times (sub 15) and now they can do 25 with this method. Nobody I know has reached 25 seconds with that method though.

Or maybe I just like being "the fastest beginner"

erik can use that method and get sub 25 lol.

 

[aznblur]

Theres 800 people at my school. I think 100+ at least know how to solve the cube. Literally, at recess and lunch time, you can't walk anywhere without seeing a cube.

Maybe its something with my school being the smartest school in Australia. (Every year, year 6 student can choose to do a placement test for a selective school (there are about 30?) and only the best get into my school.

 

[badmephisto]

i dont know - does cubing have anything to do with being smart? Obviously I'd like to think so seeing as I cube, but there is a correlation at most. Having said that, most of the affinity towards cubing seems to come from people interested in areas of computer science/math. It would be interesting to conduct a poll here and see what kind of fields distribution we have

 

[ExoCorsair]

i dont know - does cubing have anything to do with being smart? Obviously I'd like to think so seeing as I cube, but there is a correlation at most. Having said that, most of the affinity towards cubing seems to come from people interested in areas of computer science/math. It would be interesting to conduct a poll here and see what kind of fields distribution we have

Solving it purely intuitively would require some spatial ability, otherwise, I don't see any reason for it to be related to intelligence/smartness.

 

[hdskull]

I'm dumb and I cube.

 

[Johannes91]

i dont know - does cubing have anything to do with being smart?

Depends a lot on what is meant by 'cubing'. Anyone can learn Fridrich and become good at speedcubing, but there are some other aspects of Rubik's Cube that have more to do with intelligence.