What would you do with Faz's face in the newspaper?

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On 30/8 a grade 5 teacher gave us a piece of paper, it was a article on faz saying how he took 7.94 seconds at New Zealand Champs. Firstly I put it on my desk just because I was lazy to do anything with it.. Then Cameron drew a mustache!!! I decided to go with an draw a beard. (Sorry faz) After lots of pointless drawing, i decided to rub it out. While attempting to erase the marks, the ripped his face in half LOLOLOL!
 
If you can sub20, heck even sub30, try solving it in 5 minutes. It's so hard to take a full five minutes. The longest I was able to stall out to without feeling like it was obvious I was doing stupid stuff was 2:30. What sucks is when you get down to PLL. You either forget your alg due to muscle memory only retaining it how you finger trick it, or you show them all along you've been sandbagging. I usually do a 2LPLL when this happens along with the crappy U perms I'd been shown (but it's more fun when I do the wrong U Perm first so that way I have to do it again to solve it).
 
If you can sub20, heck even sub30, try solving it in 5 minutes. It's so hard to take a full five minutes. The longest I was able to stall out to without feeling like it was obvious I was doing stupid stuff was 2:30. What sucks is when you get down to PLL. You either forget your alg due to muscle memory only retaining it how you finger trick it, or you show them all along you've been sandbagging. I usually do a 2LPLL when this happens along with the crappy U perms I'd been shown (but it's more fun when I do the wrong U Perm first so that way I have to do it again to solve it).
Wow, what happened to posting about the thread, meh who cares
 
If you can sub20, heck even sub30, try solving it in 5 minutes. It's so hard to take a full five minutes. The longest I was able to stall out to without feeling like it was obvious I was doing stupid stuff was 2:30. What sucks is when you get down to PLL. You either forget your alg due to muscle memory only retaining it how you finger trick it, or you show them all along you've been sandbagging. I usually do a 2LPLL when this happens along with the crappy U perms I'd been shown (but it's more fun when I do the wrong U Perm first so that way I have to do it again to solve it).

Do xzzxy'z'xy'zy' to look for your cross and f2l pieces.
Spam sune randomly for oll or (RDR'D')*44513times.
Do pll intuitively.
Wrist.
With left hand.
 
I just did a "palm solve", a solve when I only used my right palm to rotate layers and left hand to rotate cube. No fingers were used in turning the cube, except rotating it as a whole.

Time: 43.62.

A wristing solve, at 1 tps max., with Dan Brown method (no variations, inverses, mirrors, and the like. Just as I would have solved it originally).

Time: 2:21.21.

A normal solve afterwards:

Time: 21.21. Felt SO SLOW.
 
I would photocopy a larger size of it, add a body, and transform it into a cardboard cut out.
 
I will take the photo to a shaman and curse him so at comp his hand will scramble the cube and not solving the cube. EVIL-Minded.

I will put the photo on a photoframe and put it in my room. WEIRD-minded.

FAIL, i will never both of them.
 
I just found this article:

Feliks the cube king

ATTENTION geeks of Australia, take off your Vulcan ears, put down your 20-sided dice . . . 'cause there's a new dungeon master in town.

Melbourne School boy Feliks Zemdegs has just twiddled his way to Rubik cube glory and into the record books at the World Cube Association-sanctioned New Zealand speed-cubing championships. Mastering the 43, 252,003, 274, 489, 856,000 (that's 43 quintillion) permutations of Mr Erno Rubik's fiddly little toy, the 14-year-old blew away 40 competitors to somehow get all the sides of a 3 x 3 cube the right colour - without the help of a hammer - in an average time of 8.52 seconds over five attempts.

Zemdegs' best time was a staggering multi-coloured haze of just 7.94sec and the seemingly normal young lad remains the only person in the world to have achieved a sub-10sec average. "He's done better than that at home, so hopefully he'll get faster and faster," Speed Cubing New Zealand president Joshua Brungar told AWAAT's man with a Rubik's snake.

(Or until he discovers girls.)
 
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Zemdegs' best time was a staggering multi-coloured haze of just 7.94sec and the seemingly normal young lad remains the only person in the world to have achieved a sub-10sec average.

All in all I think this is good press coverage relating to the cube. However, that doesn't change the fact that these kinds of statements still irk me when they happen.

Chris
 
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