What puzzle do you think is most "shocking"?

[TheCuber]

If a friend asked you to solve a puzzle to amaze him/her what puzzle would you pull out?

A standard 3x3x3 cube? Solve it so fast they wont believe their eyes?

Ohhh.. maybe a skewb or another mefferts puzzle???

Or that giant Megaminx that has like 188212.000121 sides?

I would think Megaminx, its really easy to solve, and it looks INPOSSIBLEEE from a non-cubers side. (to be honest, it easier than the 3x3, just takes more time.)

 

[Leviticus]

If a friend asked you to solve a puzzle to amaze him (he didn't care what time you get), what puzzle would you pull out?

A standard 3x3x3 cube?

Ohhh.. maybe a skewb or another mefferts puzzle???

Or that giant Megaminx that has like 188212.000121 sides?

I would think Megaminx, its really easy to solve, and it looks INPOSSIBLEEE from a non-cubers side. (to be honest, it easier than the 3x3, just takes more time.)

A 5x5, i go really fast on it now and i barely pause, other then that a 3x3 because it takes such little time to finish.

 

[mrbiggs]

3x3x3 blind, no question. That's certainly the one I get the most amazement from when people see me cubing.

I'd even say that in some ways it's more impressive than bigger puzzles blind, because it's much faster and people don't understand how much harder it is to solve the larger cubes blindfolded.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Eh, 5 cubes multi. Even if I fail.

 

[shelley]

"shocking," you say?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ss5GyooSByM

 

[AvGalen]

People seem most amazed by blindfolded solves, but also by really fast solves like Magic and 2x2x2. Everyone is amazed if they see some actually solving that well known 3x3x3, especially if you do it fast one-handed.

But I think for optimal "shocking" effect you should:
1) Lay down a Magic, 2x2x2 and 3x3x3
2) Do the Magic blindfolded
3) Do the 3x3x3 blindfolded
3) Solve the 2x2x2 without a blindfold in a matter of seconds
4) Without looking around you and while acting that all of this was extremely easy, take out your 7x7x7 and solve it in about 1 minute (fake scramble)
5) If someone wants to test you if you can really do all of that so fast, just give hime the 3x3x3 and solve it in < 20 seconds and they will be convinced you can do the 7x7x7 in 1 minute

 

[Swoncen]

Once I showed a person the solve of the 7x7x7 by Frank Morris and he said that he thinks Frank is fooling around and at the end he is solving it. So people really think that you can solve a 7x7x7 in 30 seconds after they saw a 10 second 3x3x3 solve.

 

[Harry]

LOL......

Nice idea..... Maybe if I have the equipment I will do that.......

What kind of 'fake' scramble?

Btw, maybe I will just solve 2x2 and 3x3 and 4x4 without inspection......

 

[CAT13]

I would say megaminx, but out of all my puzzles it takes the longest. So I would probably end up pulling out my 5x5.

 

[MistArts]

A 3x3x3x3x3.... I've only solved a 2x2x2x2

 

[Mike Hughey]

A 3x3x3x3x3.... I've only solved a 2x2x2x2

That's cool - I'm impressed! I've never solved a puzzle in more than 3 dimensions before. I really need to try that sometime.

 

[Zava]

a sub2 oh-blindfolded, of course.

 

[fanwuq]

OH BLD 5x5x5.
That would take a really long time. They probably lose interest in the middle. But if they see it at the end, they would be amazed.

But to make sure they didn't leave. I do BLD 2x2 or speed 3x3.

 

[Flame838]

Megaminx. It's really easy if you know how to solve a 3x3 but of course the non-cubers don't know that and so they look at it as some weird impossible 50-sided puzzle when really it's as almost as easy as a 3x3.

 

[blah]

A 3x3x3x3x3.... I've only solved a 2x2x2x2

That's cool - I'm impressed! I've never solved a puzzle in more than 3 dimensions before. I really need to try that sometime.

http://www.superliminal.com/cube/halloffame.htm

I'm number 67

Trust me, that shocked all the cubers around me, let alone laymen. And the best part is when you start clicking the corners of the faces other than the center face (well a 4D face appears to be a 3D cube), and the whole layer rotates out of the screen and back in, then people go like "Whoa!" I had my share of amusement watching people's reactions to that thing

I've wanted to do the 4x4x4x4 for sooo long but I just haven't found the free time yet

 

[Hadley4000]

3x3x3 with feet. I HATE doing it, but people get a kick out of it (no pun intended).

 

[SkateTracker]

Hmm, 3x3 or 5x5 probably. My best event is 5x5, but the 3x3 is a puzzle that people are familiar with, and have most likely played with one/tried to solve it before.

The megaminx looks impressive, but it takes me a long time to solve since I haven't practiced it and people get bored watching you solve something for 5-6 minutes.

 

[Kenneth]

To non cubers, Magic, Master Magic and Snake seems to be impressive, it so fast.

Picking up a 2x2x2 has the opposite effect, normally people goes: "hehe, ok, that one can't be hard to do", aspecially if you do that after you showed them your 5x5x5. I have not tried a 7x7x7 yet, but that must kill the 2x2x2's impressability totaly

 

[ROOT]

megaminx. when i bring my puzzles to school, people are like woah when i solve them. I was too slow at the time to solve the 3x3 BLD in the talent show this year, but now im up to it. But i think people were mostly amazed is when i solved my megaminx with my sub-2 minute suckage

 

[Jilvin]

Solve a 1x1x1 blindfolded behind your back in less than 20 minutes.

blindfolded might be a little extreme.