Google Doodle Rubik's Cube

[o2gulo]

Have you guys checked out Google today? There's a new doodle that lets you solve a 3x3 cube. Pretty awesome stuff, though it lags for me most of the time so I haven't gotten yet good times. Makes me want to go back to cubing lol. What are your records?

 

[tikhung01]

Awesome......Just noticed 6 minutes ago lol................

 

[uesyuu]

He got 10 seconds
http://youtu.be/FGPAoZtzUqQ

 

[tikhung01]

He got 10 seconds
http://youtu.be/FGPAoZtzUqQ

>Doesn't know that you can play with the keyboard
>Spent an hour solving it with mouse
>Too hard
>FML

 

[TDM]

That's tomorrow's doodle for me, so... guess I'll have to wait.

 

[Cm_Hu]

Today's Google Doodle is Rubik's Cube

I just found out that today(2014/5/19)'s google doodle is a solvable rubik's cube. You can solve it using keyboard(RUFBLD,shift) or just drag it(also on your phone).

After a few solve, i realize there is only ONE state, so i turn to Cube Explorer. The optimal solution is B R L' D2 B2 U' L F' U' B U D R B2 D F'(16f.White on the top and green on the front)

 

[Cubo largo]

LOL, we'll see it tomorrow, in Italy is still the 18th

 

[Cm_Hu]

LOL, we'll see it tomorrow, in Italy is still the 18th

Haha. Finally find something good being in China.

 

[Daniel Wu]

Why wait when you can google.com.hk?

 

[antoineccantin]

I thought Google wasn't available in China?

 

[XTowncuber]

I can't get the keyboard controls to work. RUFLBD doesn't seem to work. What am I missing here?

Edit: naturally as soon as I posted it started working

 

[ajayd]

This is so painfully difficult to control. As a whole, it's far less polished than what I have come to expect from Google.

 

[Daniel Wu]

I thought Google wasn't available in China?

Hong Kong has less restrictions on the internet compared to mainland China as far as I know.

 

[Marco Cuber]

My PB is only 22 not sub-20

 

[SolveThatCube]

It took me 3 mins.
I'll try with the keyboard now, dragging it is so hard!

 

[Kirjava]

He got 10 seconds
http://youtu.be/FGPAoZtzUqQ

solving optimally...

 

[scottpeterson]

B R L' D2 B2 U' L F' U' B U D R B2 D F'(16f.White on the top and green on the front)

I wana ask what does L' means and how to use d2 or b2, also 16f? can u be clear on that.

Thanks in advance.

 

[MWilson]

B R L' D2 B2 U' L F' U' B U D R B2 D F'(16f.White on the top and green on the front)

I wana ask what does L' means and how to use d2 or b2, also 16f? can u be clear on that.

Thanks in advance.

L' is "L prime", which, in the context of turning faces on a cube, means turn the face counter clockwise 90 degrees instead of clockwise 90 degrees.

D2 and B2 are 180 degree turns. The capitals are important because a lower case letter means to do a wide turn, which means to include the middle layer in the turn. The move "r" is equivalent to "L" and an x rotation.

16f means that the solution is 16 turns using FTM, or "Face Turn Metric", also known as HTM[/HTM]

 

[Zeotor]

This is so painfully difficult to control.

I agree. I used the keyboard controls. It didn't help that the R key does R', F does F', and so on.

Spoiler: My result

I didn't use the shift key for turning in the opposite direction though. I didn't know that I could.

 

[cubingawsumness]

I agree. I used the keyboard controls. It didn't help that the R key does R', F does F', and so on.

I didn't use the shift key for turning in the opposite direction though. I didn't know that I could.

If you put caps lock (on your keyboard obvs), the moves are the normal direction (pressing r = R, shift+r = R').