Where to order 1000 cubes and more?

[Neroflux]

汕头澄海裕鑫塑胶制品厂 says (4:55 PM):
我们这出了一款新魔方,是六阶的

anyone here understands chinese?

i think they said they made a 6x6x6!

btw, that's yjtoy...

 

[DcF1337]

汕头澄海裕鑫塑胶制品厂 says (4:55 PM):
我们这出了一款新魔方,是六阶的

anyone here understands chinese?

i think they said they made a 6x6x6!

btw, that's yjtoy...

Google Translator says:

Shantou Chenghai Yu Xin plastic products factory says (4:55 PM):
We have this out of the Magic a new, six bands

Interesting...

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Awww... the poor boy. Enjoys being the celebrity and getting the attention but never eager to really prove himself. Could turn out bad, I guess.

But yeah, that's why I said "any kind of serious memory competition or anything remotely equivalent". So... anything?

You are possibly the most pessimistic person i have come across in my entire life. Just about every single post of yours is negative, and some how arguing whatever it is that's been said before...
You're either an incredibly negative person, or a forum troll of note.

 

[Rune]

Awww... the poor boy. Enjoys being the celebrity and getting the attention but never eager to really prove himself. Could turn out bad, I guess.

But yeah, that's why I said "any kind of serious memory competition or anything remotely equivalent". So... anything?

You are possibly the most pessimistic person i have come across in my entire life. Just about every single post of yours is negative, and some how arguing whatever it is that's been said before...
You're either an incredibly negative person, or a forum troll of note.

The truth has very often a pessimistic colour.

 

[AvGalen]

You guys should get way more cubes than that if you want to beat my attempt of the last 1.5 weeks guys. I have the entire attempt on video, but youtube keeps giving me timeouts I am not telling you how many I did or how many of them were succesfull because I am hoping you will try a lot, but then I can reveal my number and bring you all to shame

Some tips for doing all of this:
1. Use keychains because they are cheaper and smaller so you don't need a big gym for your attempt
2. Don't eat during your attempt. You can live without food for that long and not having to poop greatly helps your time in case you want to beat others or want to do a "mean-of-3*1000"
3. Fluid through an IV works just fine. 1 bucket is enough for the urine.
4. Get used to the color scheme. I gave up on restickering
5. Make sure that you get someone you REALLY dislike to hold the paper between your eyes and the cubes.
6. IF you decide to sleep, make sure you go over your already memoed cubes before, during and after sleeping
7. Don't trust that if you order 1000 cubes you will receive exactly 1000 cubes
8. stacking cubes 2 dimensionally might require more space, but stacking them vertically is just not a good idea

I have many more tips, but I will keep those to myself.

And Stefan is not a pessimist, he is a sceptic. That means he thinks a little more about things that other people just assume is/might-be true or false. (I would actually like to see Stefan as a mythbuster)


P.S. It's good to be back on the forum

 

[CharlieCooper]

You guys should get way more cubes than that if you want to beat my attempt of the last 1.5 weeks guys. I have the entire attempt on video, but youtube keeps giving me timeouts I am not telling you how many I did or how many of them were succesfull because I am hoping you will try a lot, but then I can reveal my number and bring you all to shame

Some tips for doing all of this:
1. Use keychains because they are cheaper and smaller so you don't need a big gym for your attempt
2. Don't eat during your attempt. You can live without food for that long and not having to poop greatly helps your time in case you want to beat others or want to do a "mean-of-3*1000"
3. Fluid through an IV works just fine. 1 bucket is enough for the urine.
4. Get used to the color scheme. I gave up on restickering
5. Make sure that you get someone you REALLY dislike to hold the paper between your eyes and the cubes.
6. IF you decide to sleep, make sure you go over your already memoed cubes before, during and after sleeping
7. Don't trust that if you order 1000 cubes you will receive exactly 1000 cubes
8. stacking cubes 2 dimensionally might require more space, but stacking them vertically is just not a good idea

I have many more tips, but I will keep those to myself.

And Stefan is not a pessimist, he is a sceptic. That means he thinks a little more about things that other people just assume is/might-be true or false. (I would actually like to see Stefan as a mythbuster)


P.S. It's good to be back on the forum

oh my goodness arnaud ...

and yay it's great to have you back

 

[shelley]

Pessimistic? If someone's skill can't be proven in a competition or other situation that acts as a controlled experiment, why wouldn't you be skeptical? Or do you just believe anything anyone claims?

 

[qqwref]

I'm inclined to agree with Stefan, pessimistic or not. It's always more reasonable to assume someone is normal and expect them to prove they are special than to unquestionably accept that they are amazing. If someone tells you their friend got a 5 second blindfold solve, what would you be more likely to say: "That's amazing! I wish I could do that!" or "I don't believe you, got any proof?" Exactly.

 

[Stefan]

My biggest problem with Mr Peek and similar people isn't even that their claims usually aren't verifiable, but that we don't even get to know the details in the first place. Or at least comparisons with other people. Fuzzy anecdotal claims are pretty much useless.

Take the book reading. What kind of books? Children's books by Dr. Seuss or Feynman's lectures on physics? Danielle Steel or Plato? And what kind of questions? Fifth word in the 17th line on page 218, or "What is the 'Bankruptcy' chapter about?", or anything in between? And when is he asked? Right after reading the book, or years later? And does he know all books he ever read that well, or just some? And how much did he know about the book subject beforehand? And and and...

Until I'm exactly told what the achievement really is, I'm not going to get all excited. This is where competitions come into place. I get to know what they do there, and comparisons are possible. Both reading and memory competitions. Those are out there! If you want to tell me you have super reading or memory skills, don't tell me fuzzy anecdotes. Go to a fracking competition.

Mr Campayo is better, though I don't like his 23200 words claim because there's no proper documentation. What words? Including long complicated words? Or just easy short ones? Were they chosen randomly or did their sequence make sense? Were they chosen from a small pool of words and repeated, or from a large pool without repeating? And and and. How am I supposed to assess the magnitude of the achievement if I don't really know what the achievement is?

In the discussion here, I simply wanted to see justification for the assertion that Mr Peek would excel at multiblindcubing. Because as far as I know, he has never done anything like it. I'm not pessimistic, I just don't like myths being spread. I wish Mr Peek would start cubing, then the media would go all "Ooh" and "Aah" and "Look Rainman can solve Rubik's Cube and it only takes him amazing three minutes OMFG!!!". Then you guys here would understand better.

Mr Peek would be an awesome name for a blindcuber, btw.

 

[krazedkat]

Why would you want 1000 cubes? To have the biggest cube collection?

Have you read a single post in this thread?

I'm not going to read 11 pages !

 

[tim]

Why would you want 1000 cubes? To have the biggest cube collection?

Have you read a single post in this thread?

I'm not going to read 11 pages !

Wow, you didn't even read the first page?

 

[shelley]

Why would you want 1000 cubes? To have the biggest cube collection?

Have you read a single post in this thread?

I'm not going to read a whole page of posts. I'd need an attention span of more than a few seconds for that!

FTFY.

 

[jcuber]

Why would you want 1000 cubes? To have the biggest cube collection?

Have you read a single post in this thread?

I'm not going to read a whole page of posts. I'd need an attention span of more than a few seconds for that!

FTFY.

It is pretty pathetic that you didn't even read the first page. I have read all of them. Although, you do have a point, the three (or more) of you who are doing this marathon would have the top 3 largest cube collections in the world, except maybe the people who run the factories that make cubes.

 

[qqwref]

I think several of the bigger collectors on Twistypuzzles already have well over 1000 puzzles. They might have one of the biggest 3x3 'collections' in the world, though.

 

[crabs!!!]

My biggest problem with Mr Peek and similar people isn't even that their claims usually aren't verifiable, but that we don't even get to know the details in the first place. Or at least comparisons with other people. Fuzzy anecdotal claims are pretty much useless.

Take the book reading. What kind of books? Children's books by Dr. Seuss or Feynman's lectures on physics? Danielle Steel or Plato? And what kind of questions? Fifth word in the 17th line on page 218, or "What is the 'Bankruptcy' chapter about?", or anything in between? And when is he asked? Right after reading the book, or years later? And does he know all books he ever read that well, or just some? And how much did he know about the book subject beforehand? And and and...

Until I'm exactly told what the achievement really is, I'm not going to get all excited. This is where competitions come into place. I get to know what they do there, and comparisons are possible. Both reading and memory competitions. Those are out there! If you want to tell me you have super reading or memory skills, don't tell me fuzzy anecdotes. Go to a fracking competition.

Mr Campayo is better, though I don't like his 23200 words claim because there's no proper documentation. What words? Including long complicated words? Or just easy short ones? Were they chosen randomly or did their sequence make sense? Were they chosen from a small pool of words and repeated, or from a large pool without repeating? And and and. How am I supposed to assess the magnitude of the achievement if I don't really know what the achievement is?

In the discussion here, I simply wanted to see justification for the assertion that Mr Peek would excel at multiblindcubing. Because as far as I know, he has never done anything like it. I'm not pessimistic, I just don't like myths being spread. I wish Mr Peek would start cubing, then the media would go all "Ooh" and "Aah" and "Look Rainman can solve Rubik's Cube and it only takes him amazing three minutes OMFG!!!". Then you guys here would understand better.

Mr Peek would be an awesome name for a blindcuber, btw.

You are an amazing troll. I mean I took you seriously for a while, but now I see the truth. You are easily one of the best trolls I've ever seen in my 10 years on the internet, congratulations (no sarcasm).

 

[joey]

..snip..

You are an amazing troll. I mean I took you seriously for a while, but now I see the truth. You are easily one of the best trolls I've ever seen in my 10 years on the internet, congratulations (no sarcasm).

Reminds me of http://i35.tinypic.com/2cr7sqq.jpg

 

[Tomarse]

WHAT DA S##' IS GOING ON!

 

[James Kobel]

Sooooo...........1000 cubes multi BLD.I wonder how tired your hands will be when you're done
Sorry to ruin such a meaningful argument where only one person is consistently posting back against a bunch of people who think he's the most pessimistic person in the world.

 

[DcF1337]

Sooooo...........1000 cubes multi BLD.I wonder how tired your hands will be when you're done
Sorry to ruin such a meaningful argument where only one person is consistently posting back against a bunch of people who think he's the most pessimistic person in the world.

First post? Welcome!

Or are you an old member disguising yourself as someone else? Sorry if you aren't.

 

[Odin]

hey i think im the only one thinking this but what are you going to do with 1000 cubes when your done with this!?!?