kcl
Legend
:fp :fp :fp I've gotten that a good 15 times in the last week.
Non-Cubers say the darndest things!
- Thread starter Paul Wagner
- Start date
:fp :fp :fp I've gotten that a good 15 times in the last week.
ThomasJE
Premium Member
I took my 2x2 in to school and I played a joke on one of my friends by twisting one of the corners so it was impossible to solve 
TDM
Legend
I did that with a 3x3 to someone once. They were doing Sune for almost 5 minutes before they realised what I'd done.I took my 2x2 in to school and I played a joke on one of my friends by twisting one of the corners so it was impossible to solve
CubeSurfer
Regular
Haha i'm going to try that with someone! That's funny.
TDM
Legend
Some people see it faster than others. Someone else I tried it on (accidentally with a FangShi) took less than 10 seconds to before he realised the corner had been twisted.
googlebleh
Veteran
When my friend was asking about shorter names for 6x6x6: "What is it called? Like a 6-spin?"
Ωgawd where do they come up with these
Ωgawd where do they come up with these
SpeedSolver101
Regular
My dumb bro thinks modding a 6x6 is bad for it.... 
kcl
Legend
No no, I did it to my.. Acquaintance? He uses dan brown method, and he always does the sexy move one time too many because of the corner without realizing he just screwed up the rest of the cube.
TDM
Legend
lol, it does work better for that method. Way more difficult for beginners to see what's wrong. When they do EO-CO-CP-EP, beginners learn to recognise impossible OLLs.
Well, some do
So true. People think that a speed cube makes it easier to solve the cube.
People always think that there is only one brand that sells a genuine 3x3.
Many of my friends have a bad opinion on Chinese cubes but in real life brands like DaYan and ShengShou are taking over the cubing market.
rj
Veteran
Next time, just say "Yes"
Today I was solving a 3x3 and a small kid approached me and said that 1 second is the current WR.
Also some people think that you need a very high IQ and that you need to be really good in mathematics for solving a cube.
The best is when I took my pyra for a train trip, a fellow passenger asked me if that was called the Rubik's Tetrahedron.
Also some people think that you need a very high IQ and that you need to be really good in mathematics for solving a cube.
The best is when I took my pyra for a train trip, a fellow passenger asked me if that was called the Rubik's Tetrahedron.
Nilsibert
Veteran
I'm in the army at the moment so I have a lot of time to learn OLLs and cubing in general. Most guys were pretty impressed with what I did, but one of them said something like "there is a certain algorithm(yes he actually said algorithm 
) which solves it every time".
Where do people get this nonsense? I explained gods number to him and that it's impossible to just know the alg cause of the huge number of possible states, but that's not what he meant. Weird..
) which solves it every time".Where do people get this nonsense? I explained gods number to him and that it's impossible to just know the alg cause of the huge number of possible states, but that's not what he meant. Weird..
typeman5
Regular
*cube pops* when i try to put it back in they say "so thats how you do it!"
sneaklyfox
Legend
I'm in the army at the moment so I have a lot of time to learn OLLs and cubing in general. Most guys were pretty impressed with what I did, but one of them said something like "there is a certain algorithm(yes he actually said algorithm
Where do people get this nonsense? I explained gods number to him and that it's impossible to just know the alg cause of the huge number of possible states, but that's not what he meant. Weird..
Well, there IS the Hamiltonian circuit aka Devil's Algorithm.
aznanimedude
Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2012
- Messages
- 666
ahh yes. Just print that out and give it to your friends with the explanation that this is the only alg you need to solve it. As for the whole solve using R U continuously was because of some YouTube video that said such
Nilsibert
Veteran
Oh I didn't realize that, thanks! Pretty sure tho that that was not what he meant 
I've always been doing 3x3 up until today, when I wanted to do a 7x7 solve. One of the guys sees me and goes "well now you're just kidding.."
I've always been doing 3x3 up until today, when I wanted to do a 7x7 solve. One of the guys sees me and goes "well now you're just kidding.."
Torpedoes to the rescue!
TDM
Legend
I've tried practising lookahead a lot, and although I haven't yet tried 2-sided PLL recog, my lookahead is still awful in some solves. I average similar times with slow turning F2L (just sub-18) and fast turning (~17.4). I've only recently tried slow turning a lot (before I've been using a metronome with the occasional slow solve), and although I am beginning to see slight improvements, I'm not improving much - my times have only gone down by 0.1s in the past few weeks. But at least my lookahead is improving. I am noticing that a lot more of my solves have no pauses between the first F2L pair and PLL, and I am getting a lot more sub-15s. My consistency within sessions is improving, but between them changes by a lot. I've had one where I've averaged sub-16 for over 75 solves, whereas in some smaller sessions (~30 solves) I've averaged sup-19. Sometimes my lookahead is so much worse than other times.
Last edited by a moderator:
KongShou
Veteran
when i was around that time i just turned as fast as possible and tried as hard as i can to actively look ahead. So try to track and predict each piece etc
Similar threads
