Do You Have to be Smart to be Good at the Rubiks Cube?

[tfkscores]

I don't mean like good grades smart just generally smart. Im not asking this becuase I want to know if i can solve it i already can [23 seconds]. Particularly do you have to be smart at math because everyone i know says "oh you can do the rubiks cube you must be great at math". I mean i am but im still wondering lol?

 

[Rubik's Exer]

I don't think so I am like my papa and think logically at first I thought it was impossible to solve it.

 

[(X)]

No No No No No

 

[GermanCube]

You don't have to be smart, but you need to be interested in things like learning algorithms and stuff like that - and that's a thing more so called 'smart' people are interested in.
But it definitely doesn't mean that one has to be smart to solve the cube!

 

[Enter]

no you must be wiling to sacrifice free time and learn lots of algorithms

 

[AvGalen]

no you must be wiling to sacrifice free time and learn lots of algorithms

Close, but you don't need lots of algorithms. Turning fast is much more important.

The most important factor is patience, not smartness.

 

[enigmahack]

No, but it helps

 

[endless_akatsuki]

No, you don't have to be smart, but being able to solve it fast really boosts peoples' opinion of you (dang, you a genius!).

 

[ISuckAtCubing]

no, i think im stupid and im can solve the cube

 

[Me Myself & Pi]

I think most of all cubers are mathematically minded. (The people I know of, & myself, are that way.) But I think it would make a good poll to see how many of us are that way.

 

[Yoshikee]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the youngest person to solve the cube like 3 or 6 i bet that person isn't good at math...

 

[d4m4s74]

you have to have some common sense while learning it (I've seen people who can't even make a cross if I tell them the exact moves)
but you don't really have to be smart

 

[xEscapeFatex]

Ya, I've tried to teach my friends just the cross, and when i say 'move the face directly in front of you 180 degrees' they move like the R or L. But on the other hand i think that just learning the cube makes you more logical at thinking because you have a different view of how to do it, unlike other people that think that if they move a face nothing else moves behind it.

 

[Sa967St]

It depends on your definition of "smart". You definitely don't have to get good grades in order to be able to solve the cube fast, but there are certain qualities that you need (patience, ability to memorize, recognition etc).

 

[rahulkadukar]

You have to have fast fingers and good recognition

 

[tfkscores]

Yea thats what i think. I think you need a high intelligence i guess but you dont need to be like super smart to do it. I mean especially with the tutorials that are out now there are very little people that figured out how to solve it on there own. and it changes the way you look at almost every puzzle. something like the gordians knot or whatever its called i never could do it before cubing but after its very easy. i guess its just the way your mind develops by cubing. idk if that made sense though

 

[nitrocan]

Define smart.

 

[TemurAmir]

you need to have really strong muscles in your hands

 

[endless_akatsuki]

Actually, you just need to be Yu Nakajima.

 

[gpt_kibutz]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the youngest person to solve the cube like 3 or 6 i bet that person isn't good at math...

Why can't a three year old person be good at math? Obviously he/she wil not prove mathematical theories, but he/she may be good at counting, etc