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Just saw this brief article about Calvin Anderson who plays for Rice: http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/09/07/rice-football-calvin-anderson-rubiks-cube-behind-back-video?xid=nl_em There's a short video of him doing a BLD solve on that page. Can anybody tell what method he's using? Linked...

Congrats, Tim! Tim's new favorite song is by Paul Hardcastle (let the googling commence). I'm prepared with songs by Skid Row and Janis Ian for the next two times the FMC WR is broken...

Ravi Fernando (briefly) on TV clip show On TruTV's World's Dumbest Show Offs, they showed a 5 second clip of the end of Ravi solving a cube while juggling. It started roughly at this point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAIPL5O9Uwk&t=1m24s They spliced in audio of Noah Arthurs saying...

Feliks in a game show question Last night I was watching an episode of the trivia game show The Chase ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(U.S._game_show) ) which I had recorded on January 7. One of the questions was about Feliks! The question was something like: Teenager Feliks...

DYK When Kian announced that the second round of 3x3 would have everyone from Feliks Zemdegs to Ian Winokur, that that may be the only time my name is ever mentioned alongside Feliks'! BRING IT!

Bob is so slow...(how slow is he?)...that he lost 4 times in a single elimination tournament.

On May 15 I gave a 45 minute presentation on the Rubik's Cube at the Trevor Day School in Manhattan. The audience was high school students (about 250 of them). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCr-vuz0SSw&feature=youtu.be If you've watched any of my previous talks, you'll find a lot of...

Thanks for posting this, Chris. I totally forgot that there were other people who competed in the Rainbow event at Horace Mann. Just noticed a young Chris Hardwick in the background sitting at a table. Ian Fear the turtle.

You are my hero, Stefan! Congrats on the car!

I meant to say Feliks was the best in the 'world'. Probably should have said 'universe'! As far as using km and cm^2 goes, I'm still baffled that the US doesn't use the metric system. Apparently we are one of a whopping three countries that don't...

Many thanks for your feedback. Some follow-up questions below: •The commutators part was probably a bit overwhelming for them (which is expected). I also don't know if I'd consider the specific commutator you chose the easiest one to understand at first (I usually have more success with pure...

Thoughts on WC 2011 (in a talk I gave!) The day after WC 2011, I gave a talk on the Rubik's Cube to a group of sixth graders. If you jump to the 28 and a half minute mark of the video at the bottom of this linked page, you'll hear my thoughts on Worlds...

In mid October I gave a talk on the Rubik's Cube to a group of about 130 sixth graders in Connecticut. The video of the talk is here (scroll to the bottom of the linked page): http://www.hotchkiss.org/academics/a-smshing-day-at-hotchkiss/index.aspx I expect to give some version of this...

Thanks for the feedback so far. I now know the subtitles over Minh Thai's solve are not Hungarian and that Feliks is number one on the 6x6 (why didn't I just look that up the night before my talk??). In the coming months, I'll be giving a version of this talk to a group of 6th graders and...

I gave a talk on the Rubik's Cube at a Math/Science/Technology conference at Exeter Academy at the end of June. The talk is 50 minutes long. I'll be giving some version of this talk again in the near future so if you watch, please let me know what you liked and what you didn't think worked so...