A dude solves a 3x3 without help?!?!?

[Yann1qua12DagOat]

Wow this looked cool so I clicked on it

Do you guys think this is legit? I personally am very suspicious, due to a couple of things:
His language went from absolutely abominable (first two rows, middle pieces) to calling them the first two layers and edge pieces.
He literally used the exact same Niklas algorithm from the beginner method?!?!
He also mentioned that if he "get the top yellow edges to line up, if I get that 25 times today, I should be able to get lucky at least one of those times"....... he's not too far off the 1 in 22 PLL cases (including PLL skip)
I don't know - maybe I'm even wrong - but it seems highly suspicious mainly due to the Niklas.

Anyway, good job on solving it!


I swear if it turns out that all the stuff I've just said is absolute garbage, then...........

 

[L4NC3_D4_AS14N]

Wow this looked cool so I clicked on it

Do you guys think this is legit? I personally am very suspicious, due to a couple of things:
His language went from absolutely abominable (first two rows, middle pieces) to calling them the first two layers and edge pieces.
He literally used the exact same Niklas algorithm from the beginner method?!?!
He also mentioned that if he "get the top yellow edges to line up, if I get that 25 times today, I should be able to get lucky at least one of those times"....... he's not too far off the 1 in 22 PLL cases (including PLL skip)
I don't know - maybe I'm even wrong - but it seems highly suspicious mainly due to the Niklas.

Anyway, good job on solving it!


I swear if it turns out that all the stuff I've just said is absolute garbage, then...........

i actually saw a reel come across my feed on this. i think its legit

 

[Michael Wimberly]

i actually saw a reel come across my feed on this. i think its legit

I saw it a month or 2 ago in my feed. When I saw the Niklas alg I was kind of suspicious tho

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I didn't watch the whole video but I plan on doing it later.

The method he used to reverse engineer the solution is really good and we can learn a lot from it.

I try to use this method when I'm learning new puzzles, like the Maple Leaves and this is how I solved the 7x7x7 for the first time when I was traveling back to my town some years ago (I solved under 45min, I knew how to solve a 4x4x4 really fast)

The way he used a spreadsheet, took notes or drawn the cube state is really important to understand what is going on, because if we only trust in what we see or think at the moment we might miss a lot.

When I was traveling and trying to solve 7x7 I asked my sister to record with my phone the movements I was doing and also take pictures. I would then compare the effect of some common triggers and algs and understand what was happening on the cube. That way I developed my own parity algorithm and some useful triggers and algs.

Is not impossible to learn to solve a puzzle on your own, excellent video from this gentleman!

By the way, the history says that the creator of the Rubik's Cube, Erno Rubik, took him 1 month to learn to solve the problem he himself created

 

[Deleted member 36445]

guys, if this was fake explain this

 

[Yann1qua12DagOat]

I know that it doesn't seem so likely anymore, but it could still be staged (come to think of it, I dunno if I'd be willing to fake this by sitting there for 5 hours "trying" to figure out how to solve the cube). Even then, there is no "direct proof" that he did indeed sit there for 43 hours but still great job to this guy for managing this!

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Tbh I thought they streamed it which would be a reason to say that it werent staged, especially if they reacted to some comments and donos etc.

If it werent streamed then idk how to tell if its real or not.

(Havent watched it yet, dont have time rn)

 

[Yann1qua12DagOat]

You should definitely watch it, because it's still very entertaining (he likes to drop f-bombs)

 

[abunickabhi]

Wow this looked cool so I clicked on it

Do you guys think this is legit? I personally am very suspicious, due to a couple of things:
His language went from absolutely abominable (first two rows, middle pieces) to calling them the first two layers and edge pieces.
He literally used the exact same Niklas algorithm from the beginner method?!?!
He also mentioned that if he "get the top yellow edges to line up, if I get that 25 times today, I should be able to get lucky at least one of those times"....... he's not too far off the 1 in 22 PLL cases (including PLL skip)
I don't know - maybe I'm even wrong - but it seems highly suspicious mainly due to the Niklas.

Anyway, good job on solving it!


I swear if it turns out that all the stuff I've just said is absolute garbage, then...........

Insane effort from this youtuber yoooooo

He does good challenges

 

[qwr]

When the Rubik's cube came out, many people we will never know about had to figure it out on their own.
The document approach looks legit. I did something similar for skewb, a much easier puzzle, where I made up my own terminology and drew diagrams where all the pieces moved to.

 

[UMichSpeedCubist]

I was on the guy's 24-hour live-stream attempting this feat, off and on for a few hours and I'm convinced it is legit.

 

[bldcuber314]

There are a lot of people who've solved 3x3 without help, and 43 hours is the same as spending half an hour a day trying to solve it for like 2 months(taking into account breaks and stuff, I haven't watched the vid so idk how long he spent actually doing this). The first time I solved 3x3 it was without help, and it was when I was like 7 years old so if I(or other people) forgot everything I know now and tried this challenge, I don't think 43 hours is unrealistic.