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  1. Kabuthunk

    Pretty Patterns cube website gone?!?

    It seems to be this way for me, I discover or am shown a really interesting webpage, and just about immediately after I start to enjoy it, the website decides not to exist any more. Long story short, someone on this board posted a link to the Pretty Patterns webpage (which would normally be...
  2. Kabuthunk

    Looking for smallest possible 3x3

    I'm wondering what the smallest commercially available 3x3 is (not a custom-made thing that's not for sale). I tend to always have a Rubik's Cube with me just because I like to mess with it while waiting, and have always just used one of the Rubik's brand mini cubes. Said Rubik's mini cube...
  3. Kabuthunk

    4x4x4 edge parity - is there a shorter alg that doesn't preserve corners?

    Whup, for the title, I meant to put edge-pair locations, not corners... since the parity can be spotted before even starting corners (I'm still doing a beginner method that does corners last). Ok, first up, I'm still fairly new to cubing, and albeit I wouldn't mind going faster, I'm not...
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    Found a Rubik's Cube shirt for sale

    At HMV of all places! In either case, once my wife pointed it out to me, I had to get it. Figured I'd snap a picture and show the forum... this shirt might be available in HMV near your area too. I like it, anyway... really like the simple design and colour. Not outrageously bright...
  5. Kabuthunk

    Turning the cube into part of a puzzle - need suggestions

    I wasn't entirely sure what forum to post this is, but going off the descriptions of the forums, this seemed to be the best bet. In either case, to make a long story short, I'm trying to find the best way to put a set of coordinates onto a Rubik's Cube, so that it needs to be solved in order...
  6. Kabuthunk

    Improving a Rubik's Cube keychain

    Bit of backstory, I like to keep a cube with me to play with when I'm... wherever. But since it isn't winter, I don't have a jacket or other article of clothing with large pockets to comfortably hold a regular Rubik's Cube. Thus, I ordered a Rubik's Cube keychain to fill that need, but turns...
  7. Kabuthunk

    Direction-specific centers - conversion ideas

    So I've been wanting a Rubik's Cube with a direction-specific center square for a while now, pretty much for the added challenge. Although I could technically buy one online, it's just a thousand times easier and cheaper to do it yourself. So since I generally carry a keychain cube with me...
  8. Kabuthunk

    Homemade 3x2x1 cube (or rectangle, I guess)

    I figured I would post the near-final results of my 3x2x1 Rubik's Cube. The stickers look pretty poor quality, since my order of replacement stickers hasn't arrived yet, so I just put the old stickers from the cannabalized cube back onto here as best I could for now. Otherwise, turned...
  9. Kabuthunk

    Rubik's Ukrainian Easter Egg

    Wasn't sure if this should maybe go in the 'hardware' area... but given it's lack of ability to rotate, I figured I'd toss it here. I just made this Easter egg today after work (yes, a bit late for Easter, but I like making them). A Rubik's Cube made Ukrainian Easter egg (Pysanky) style...
  10. Kabuthunk

    Rubik's cubes 3x3 and 2x2 - why the colour pattern differences?

    There's something that's always confused me, and figured I might as well ask before it... keeps bugging me some more. On the actual Rubik's brand cube, store-bought, the colours are as shown on any solving website. Yellow opposite white, blue opposite green, orange opposite red. However...
  11. Kabuthunk

    Looking for a cellphone java app of a Rubik's Cube

    Does anyone know of any applications/games that is basically just solving a Rubik's Cube on one's cellphone? The only thing I've found is some program called "Rubik's Cube 3D" by Azew, which from what I can tell only has a one-use trial. Their website no longer exists, so I can't even buy the...
  12. Kabuthunk

    Your very first Rubik's Cube, and a tale of despair and triumph

    Figured I'd post this, since it took a fair amount of effort. But first... a question. Who else still has their very first, original Rubik's Cube... and to what lengths would you go if a problem arose with it? Like say... a missing cubie. The location of my first Rubik's Cube came to...
  13. Kabuthunk

    Marking the center square- anyone else, and what methods?

    For the heck of it one day at work, I decided to mark the Rubik's cube that I had with me with little pieces of post-it-note, pretty much identical to the top-left cube in the attached picture. The added bit of challenge of orienting the center square to the rest of it was pretty fun actually...
  14. Kabuthunk

    The lengths you go to to lubricate your cube

    I'm just curious as to the processes that people go to in order to lubricate their cubes. Being new to this as a whole, I followed a youtube instructional type video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHEbHWD8Z_8 for the sanding, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4__-eRccGHU for the lubing) on my...
  15. Kabuthunk

    DIY assembly cube - advice on assembly order?

    I've just received my DIY rubik's cube (the white one from the Rubik's site), and am debating what would be the best order in which to assemble it. Obviously, the assembly of it itself is just that, however, since I'm planning on lubricating it (after going over it with a fine-tooth comb so...
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