Justin Bieber can solve a Rubik's Cube.

[DavidWoner]

And by good, I meant in regards to spreading the cube virus around. I assume females listen to him ( based on the fact that my tween sisters listen to him), so maybe more females can be persuaded to cube.

I'm not into 12 year-olds.

 

[cubeslayer]

. The big thing I REALLY miss about chess though is how much more... Finesse it is to speedcubing. It's one thing to solve a cube in sub-ten seconds, but it's another to actually understand what you're doing. I'm considering going into fewest moves (and BLD) because of this. The "speed" part in "speedcubing" isn't what caught my fancy. It's the "cubing" part, if you know what I mean.

I understand what you mean. In chess, if you've ever taken blitz seriously to any degree, in order to do well one memorizes traps, traps, and traps. But chess isn't memorization. Chess is a medium to create art, not mechanically produce results.

And cubing is that: an art. I like the speed part of cubing, but I am going to be realistic: I am not going to be sub 10, sub 15 , or even consistently sub 20 anytime soon. But I can still enjoy what I can do, and relish in the imperfect beauty I am creating.

Kasparov has said that every game is flawed. But therein lies the beauty. For were something not flawed, then it has reached perfection: it has reached its end.