Animals cubing?

[DavidCip86]

a chicken would be good at speedcubing because they know about eg

yeah and chameleons would be good because they're color neutral

 

[Rocky0701]

Eagles could only solve the red white and blue sides

 

[mDiPalma]

Porcupines would be good enough at 3x3 to give us all pointers.

 

[qqwref]

We'd need an animal with decent dexterity, color vision, and roughly the intelligence of a small child. Mentally, solving a cube really just requires recognizing the position and executing some memorized sequences. I'm thinking the best candidates would be cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish) or other primates (chimpanzee, gorilla). Cephalopods don't have language as we understand it, but they have a lot of dexterity and are impressively good at solving puzzles.

 

[Rocky0701]

If a trainer took week/months to teach each step, and rewarded the animal with food everytime time they got a step right, I think it would be very possible.

 

[rishidoshi]

they can have more categories. 4 Legged. 2 legged. 1... (never mind).

 

[Petro Leum]

"human-octupus teamsolve" official event incoming (no hentai intended)

i think for alot of animals color perception might be a problem. might need to work out a proper color scheme for those who arent able to distunguish the red/orange/blue/green/white/yellow

also i dont think they would be able to "figure it out themselves", because they would at least need some motivation, e.g. food rewards by a trainer etc.

 

[IRNjuggle28]

I doubt any animal could do it. Honestly, I don't even take for granted that an animal could understand the concept of the puzzle. They would not understand that the objective was to make each side a single color. I'm surprised that so many of you are talking about stuff like inability to differentiate colors. The problems start way before that. I don't know much about animals but this sounds completely unrealistic.

 

[BillyRain]

Most Zoo animals would be good at speedcubing because they know about the 'cage' method.

I doubt any animal could do it. Honestly, I don't even take for granted that an animal could understand the concept of the puzzle. They would not understand that the objective was to make each side a single color. I'm surprised that so many of you are talking about stuff like inability to differentiate colors. The problems start way before that. I don't know much about animals but this sounds completely unrealistic.

Not that I am comparing her to a monkey... but could the same not be said about Chan's little sister? I have a 2 year old myself and I cannot even start to explain the concept to him. But somewhere else in the world there is a 2 year old that can even understand intuitive F2L.

I also believe that some primates are just as intelligent as a 1-2 year old human.

 

[applemobile]

Most Zoo animals would be good at speedcubing because they know about the 'cage' method.



Not that I am comparing her to a monkey... but could the same not be said about Chan's little sister? I have a 2 year old myself and I cannot even start to explain the concept to him. But somewhere else in the world there is a 2 year old that can even understand intuitive F2L.

I also believe that some primates are just as intelligent as a 1-2 year old human.

I think its fair to say, that Chans little sister, does not posses the normal intelligence or aptitude of her age. Their may well be apes that that have the mental age of a two year old, but ts fair to say that any two year old that can solve a cube, does not have the mental age of a two year old.

 

[BillyRain]

I think its fair to say, that Chans little sister, does not posses the normal intelligence or aptitude of her age. Their may well be apes that that have the mental age of a two year old, but ts fair to say that any two year old that can solve a cube, does not have the mental age of a two year old.

Regardless, she is still a 2 year old and an ape is still an ape. That's my point

 

[applemobile]

Can't fail with that argument!

 

[DaveyCow]

If I learned, then anypony can learn

 

[IRNjuggle28]

Not that I am comparing her to a monkey... but could the same not be said about Chan's little sister? I have a 2 year old myself and I cannot even start to explain the concept to him. But somewhere else in the world there is a 2 year old that can even understand intuitive F2L.

I also believe that some primates are just as intelligent as a 1-2 year old human.

Intelligence isn't something that develops, really. Smart people are smart from the day they are born. Some primates may have the reasoning skills of a 1-2 year old human, but they do not have the intelligence of one. It's an important distinction to make.

I think that a young human could simply develop reasoning skills exceptionally fast, and learn skills that are usually not learned until years later. But there's a big difference between developing normal human skills abnormally fast (the 2 year old) and developing skills that likely don't even exist within a species (other primates). I find the idea of a 2 year old human learning advanced concepts less extraordinary than a non human learning them for this reason.

 

[cygorx]

i think we should teach a mole bc they're the best at blind

 

[Tempus]

I'd like to see a video of an animal cubing.

Here you go:

And he's doing it OH, too!

 

[applemobile]

F2Lephant

 

[mark49152]

F2Lephant

LLama

 

[TDM]

LLama

ZZebra? (E: how did I miss kangaroux?)

 

[applemobile]

I was wondering what order to put all of my speedcubing chickens. So i put them all Layer by Layer.