tfkscores
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wow that method seems terrible to how many we have today. you made it your self right? do you know what cube your going to get? you should go to a competition im pretty sure there are some in atlanta.
Wow, a blast from the Past!
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Back in the day they marketed a cube with raised tiles instead of stickers. it was called "Rubik's Deluxe". I much preferred the mechanism but they disallowed us from using them in competition. In fact, they supplied crappy cubes for us. We didn't get to use our lubed up cubes. I just remember that. That probably cost everyone a second or two.
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Stefan
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Your pizza photos make me salivate...
WHERE WERE YOU LAST YEAR WHEN WE HAD THE US COMPETITION IN ATLANTA????? DARN!!!!!Any speed cuber bringing me a cube will get fair value in pizza
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Oh man...back in 1981 my best was about a minute. There was no Internet and the books were not great. I was really jealous of Minh Thai or anyone else that could get down around 0:30. Good times!
Welcome to the forum! I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at what you can do with the modern cubes they're making now.
Welcome to the forum! I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at what you can do with the modern cubes they're making now.
LOL, yeah, well you guys have had like 28 years to think about it. The logic was sound and if you think about it some of the methods today are similar in theory. By getting a bad X I have just 6 patterns on the opposite side. Then when I finish that I'll have 5 more patterns. So one could, in theory just develop 6x5= 30 separate methods to optimize (I'm forgetting about alignment of the top and bottom at step 3, but you get the point). But that would have taken a long time to work out and lots of patterns to memorize.
Over time you've done just that. By getting pairs of corner/edges to finish the cross layers, rather than corners then edges, you are exponentially increasing pattern recognition but reducing overall moves. The way they do the final layer is logically similar but more extreme than what I did. I got just the corners on one side aligned; this forced the opposite corners into a limited number of orientations. I did orientations first, then position second. What Eric seems to be doing is the same only he's doing both corners AND EDGES. To reduce the patterns on the final layer he does 4 corners AND 8 edges. Since I was only doing corners I only had to deal with those. But then if you look at the last layer, they are logically quite similar. Orientation first, then position. The only thing is that he's doing a LOT more patterns cause he's doing both corners and edges. That had to take a long time and probably multiple people to work out. It really is quite impressive.
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I still have a Rubik's Deluxe that I bought in London in the early 80's (soon after MIT grad school, on a business trip with a computer company). That cube has simply crumbling apart due to rusted screws (due to water collecting in the centers from washing) and old plastic weakened by Vaseline. I got my first "Magic Cube" around 1980 (maybe December?) and spent nearly 2 days solving it.
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"...Let's do the Time Warp Again!..." (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
I think I also attended the first ever competition. It was in Boston on July 25, 1981. Ideal was shocked that 1100 people showed up. I had several sub 45 times including a 36 that day. At the time, those were serious numbers. But the last round I did a 51, which was closer to my average of around 48 then. A 9 year old, Jonathan Cheyer, beat me with a 48. But that was his best time ever. He was really a 1:30 guy at the time. I actually became good friends with his brother Adam and we all had dinner last year in SF. They are (surprise, surprise) out in Silicon Valley. But the funny thing about that competition was that Ideal Toys was totally unprepared for the turnout. They had set up these elimination rounds. So people that got under 3min were coming back over and over into other rounds. it was like an 11 hour day. When I posted my 36, the next best time before me was over a minute. So the news crews rushed over to me and I got on Boston news. They were long gone by the end of the day when I came in 2nd. So really it worked out well for me. It was out of an article written that day that I found my publisher.
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amostay2004
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That seems like a pretty cool method of solving..hardly any pauses!
SaberSlash49
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-gasp- XD, wasn't even born back in the 80s, WOW. -shakes hand of jeff-
Nice to see you've join the forums, I myself aren't even close to 35 seconds but then again I've worked on speedcubing for a good 3 months or so with a storebought.. >_>
Nice to see you've join the forums, I myself aren't even close to 35 seconds but then again I've worked on speedcubing for a good 3 months or so with a storebought.. >_>
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One of the colleges I'm looking at is right by Atlanta, and If I go there or visit again I'll be absolutely sure to stop by.
Edit: I've been watching the FOX videos on your site, and I was very surprised to learn that in the South people eat pizza with a knife and a fork
One of the colleges I'm looking at is right by Atlanta, and If I go there or visit again I'll be absolutely sure to stop by.
Edit: I've been watching the FOX videos on your site, and I was very surprised to learn that in the South people eat pizza with a knife and a fork
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masterofthebass
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If anyone hasn't caught on, his method is just the same as the ortega method. Almost everyone here already knows it (at least the corner part).
@verasano, btw... people have started learning the combination of your corners steps. Bad X on one side -> solved corners in one algorithm.
@verasano, btw... people have started learning the combination of your corners steps. Bad X on one side -> solved corners in one algorithm.
4Chan
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Welcome to a cubing legend!
One of the colleges I'm looking at is right by Atlanta, and If I go there or visit again I'll be absolutely sure to stop by.
Edit: I've been watching the FOX videos on your site, and I was very surprised to learn that in the South people eat pizza with a knife and a fork
Lol, us in the south arent TOO much different from yall up north.
However, ive noticed that you dont use "yall". People from my region use it so commonly, that we dont even notice.
brunson
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Don't forget how much we've all benefited from computers. Now a days you take a case, plug it into CubeExplorer and pick your favorite from the 300 algs it pukes up.
IamWEB
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Wow, that was in incredible first post, that's so amazing.
Welcome to the forums, enjoy yourself, and have fun surrounding yourself with the the next generation of the cube.
Welcome to the forums, enjoy yourself, and have fun surrounding yourself with the the next generation of the cube.
I'm looking at the Ortega method here:
http://erikku.er.funpic.org/rubik/2x2_ortega.html
I must say I find it a 'little' hard to call it that. So can I interest anyone in a name change? I wrote that in early 1981. I'm going to check but I think the cases are even given in the same order. There are some very minor cosmetic differences:
- his last 2 cases on the bottom row are actually mirrors of the middle 2. Exclude the solved case and like I said, it's 5 cases.
- On the top row, I showed all 7 cases, including the mirrors (first pair). So that part is identical to what I did, except that his move for case 5 is different (shorter) than mine
- On some of the moves he's starting from a different orientation but the moves are the same.
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