[Member Intro] Hello from Warsaw — cubing on and off since 1981

[Pawel_Skimmiq]

Hi, I'm Pawel, 60, from Warsaw. I got my first cube in 1981 and I've been forgetting and relearning LBL ever since
Last year I built my own cube-like puzzle and the method discussions here fascinate me. Happy to be here.

 

[abunickabhi]

Hello Pawel, welcome yo

 

[Khadija Tavares]

Welcome!

 

[acrystal]

Welcome!

 

[Powstick]

Welcome to the forums!

 

[Sub 20 Cuber]

Cubing on and off since 1981 is crazy! Welcome!!!

 

[microchado]

welcome

 

[iguana]

hi

 

[stoic]

Welcome Pawel!
Do you have any photos you can post of the puzzle you built? Would love to see it.

 

[Pawel_Skimmiq]

Thank you all for the warm welcome! Here's the screenshot after only one first move. The faces don't turn, the stickers slide around the cube in closed bands. I wrote the whole story with numbers and links in Puzzle Theory, over here:

Thread 'A cube where bands of stickers slide. Humans went from 240 to 107 moves in four days. AI needs about 50-60.'

Aug 24, 2026

Hi, I'm Pawel, 60, from Warsaw. I made a puzzle and I need your theory brains.The puzzle looks like a 3x3, but the faces don't turn. Each move slides a closed band of 12 stickers around four faces. There are nine bands and they cross each other. Nothing on the cube is fixed. Single stickers just move along their tracks.AI did the heavy math for me. The nine band moves generate every permutation of the 54 stickers, so every color arrangement is reachable. The state count is 54!/(9!)^6, a 39-digit number. The proof and the write-up are here: skimmiq.com/human-method/For a year nobody solved...

• Pawel_Skimmiq
• Replies: 5
• Forum: Puzzle Theory

• 

Fair warning to everyone: your cube instincts will not survive the first minute