cubingawsumness
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Once in a while people say "pyramid shaped rubik's cube", but it's still not a cube.
I guess "rubik's cube" simply refers to any twisty puzzle. What would they call a megaminx?
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Once in a while people say "pyramid shaped rubik's cube", but it's still not a cube.
I guess "rubik's cube" simply refers to any twisty puzzle. What would they call a megaminx?
emolover
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During my freshman year of high school I took out my shitty chinaminx at the time and some methhead was like, "Holy **** man! It's a Satin cube! He's a satinist!". I had to deal with that crap for a few months.
Other names I have heard:
Ball puzzle
5 sided cube
"Doedecker"
8 and 12 sided thing
Star thing
Impossipuzzle
ZamHalen
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The ball....
cubingawsumness
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They almost always incorporate "rubik's cube". Probably just any twisty puzzle, like square 1 would definitely be weird shaped rubik's cube.
ball? I suppose it's somewhat like a sphere.. ish...
5 sided? Counting problems...
I have no clue what doe decker would be.
impossipuzzle is probably the best.
what's a satin cube? or a satinist?
/going off topic
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Rpotts
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5 sided - they mean each face has five sides. Sorta akin to how some non-cubers refer to a 2x2 as a "4 cube" since it has 4 stickers.
Doedecker - short for dodecahedron, the shape of the megaminx (12 pentagon sides)
Satin cube - he means Satan, lord of the Christian hell.
Satanist - one who worships Satan.
Satan-cube because of all these pentagrams over it.
BrainOfSweden
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My friend just said "That's not a Rubiks Cube (referring to 3x3 as Rubiks), it's a Pentagram Cube". Acutally a legit name if you ask me, except that it's not a cube
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My math teacher actually hated the cubes she took them away if she saw one, even though she showed us Pursuit of Happiness because it had like 2 scenes with the rubik's cube, and my Com. Tech teacher saw my megaminx and just shook his head
n00bcub3r
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"Dude, you are such an Asian(I actually am Asian, an ABC to be exact); I could never solve that because I'm white."
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During a discussion about colour neutrality (comes from a cuber, but i don't know where to put this. plus it sounds non-cuber-ish:
You know who's really color neutral? Martin Luther King Jr.
You know who's really color neutral? Martin Luther King Jr.
RNewms27
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Because one of my family members called my megaminx a ball, I figured it would be a good gambling mechanism as a 12-sided die. Most of them are gamblers so I will have to host something for them.
retep
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I most often get:
"get a life"
"cool, now can you help me with my math homework?"
"I can't even solve one side"/"I can only solve one side"
"wow, you're a genius"
"I bet you can't solve mine" (like mine is some kind of elaborate cheat of some kind...)
"get a life"
"cool, now can you help me with my math homework?"
"I can't even solve one side"/"I can only solve one side"
"wow, you're a genius"
"I bet you can't solve mine" (like mine is some kind of elaborate cheat of some kind...)
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One time on the bus I got ,"You could never solve mine! I've been mixing it up for 3 years!" I think that he thinks that you have to reverse every single move you have done.
hyunchoi98
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friend: isn't the 2x2 (4x4) harder since it has no centers so you don't know where the colors go?
me: oh, white opposite yellow, blue opposite green, red opposite orange, with white blue red clockwise.
friend: ...
what's the biggest cube?
me: oh, the 17x17 but it costs 1700 dollars, you can buy an 11x11 for around a hundred dollars (i think, i guessed)
can you solve it?
me: yeah, if you buy me one
what's the biggest cube you have?
me: oh, the 7x7
can you bring it to school?
me: no
why?
me: it cost me 70 dollars, and if someone drops it, BOOM, also it's way too big to fit in my bag
...
*walking down hallway to class*
random girl: are you seriously (insert accented voice) CUBING while going to class?
me: yea... (breaks me off)
random girl: yeah, i know your language now, CUBING
me: ok...
me: oh, white opposite yellow, blue opposite green, red opposite orange, with white blue red clockwise.
friend: ...
what's the biggest cube?
me: oh, the 17x17 but it costs 1700 dollars, you can buy an 11x11 for around a hundred dollars (i think, i guessed)
can you solve it?
me: yeah, if you buy me one
what's the biggest cube you have?
me: oh, the 7x7
can you bring it to school?
me: no
why?
me: it cost me 70 dollars, and if someone drops it, BOOM, also it's way too big to fit in my bag
...
*walking down hallway to class*
random girl: are you seriously (insert accented voice) CUBING while going to class?
me: yea... (breaks me off)
random girl: yeah, i know your language now, CUBING
me: ok...
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that's seriously how you do a 2x2?
hyunchoi98
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no, but i wanted to explain that cubers know how a cube is stickered, so it isn't just harder because it has no centers. I personally solve the 2x2 using LBL.
my response should have made more sense when i explained it for a 4x4.
Robocopter87
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If I do the same thing over and over will it eventually solve itself?
cubernya
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Devil's alg
Robocopter87
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I've actually never heard of this. What is this? Or is it a joke?
cubernya
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It's real, not a joke. It's been found for 2x2 an 3x3
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?35505-A-Hamiltonian-circuit-for-Rubik-s-Cube!
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