[Unofficial] Yu Nakajima Rubik's Magic sub-1!

[Paris]

in my opinion he doesnt have real life .....

cubing > real life

and he doesnt have friends .... only cubies and stuff ....

i think that's just silly...you don't know what he does outside of his cubing, u just make stupid assumptions because hes good at what he does...

ehhhh its my opinion so f$#k of :*

He's the world record holder for goodness sake. He did 8.72, twice, at an official comp. Ever seen anyone do that? No. Can YOU do it? No. So get over it.

Why hate on someone because he's good?

and so ? you should check any other categories 5x5x5? pyraminx? square-1? even his 4x4x4 official times are not as good as you are saying about his godness he is good at 3x3 because he is cubing mostly 3x3, now he is doing magic so he will get skill in it but carpet is very helpful like Dan said so if he will make a vid on stackmat on hard ground like table or sth i would that he is good ... now nth special for me

in his case I am on Dan's side

so finally dont say that he is good cuber because he has WR in 3x3 He is only good 3x3 cuber

Peace Paris

 

[Erik]

@ DAE_JA_VOO: you make it sound as if we should be in total awe and worshipment. Basically you are missing the point here. Sub-1 is good of course, but indeed it's a lot harder to pick it up from a stackmat or (what I do at home) just picking it up from the hard desk.
Seeing how much time it took him, this is probably the same amount of time I spend on magic ever, only he cought it all together in a week.
Yes he's good, we know! He's crazily fast at stuff, but not superhuman or something like that. We don't hate him....

 

[Kenneth]

Picking up the magic is almost half the solve. Having it on carpet makes it 10000000% easier to pick up, making all of your solves faster.

Agree to some degree =)

Carpeting is always easy but it can be equally easy to do it on table...

what's important is that the chair and table has good heigths, for a normally high table and a normal chair I usally turn the chairs back towards the table and sit on the back of the chair. that makes a half standing position and if I do that my times are a lot better than if I sit on the chair in a normal manner.

I have done this in competition(s) and have seen others do so too.

If there are stackable chairs available then I stack 2-3 and sit on them.

 

[Dene]

in my opinion he doesnt have real life .....

cubing > real life

and he doesnt have friends .... only cubies and stuff ....

I have to completely disagree. Life is what you make of it. How could any particular way of life be inferior to another in terms of how "real" it is?

As for friends: the impression I get is that he has a lot of friends who help him with his cubing, so your statement doesn't have backing. In addition: what difference would it make either way? Why does he have to have friends? You answer for me, satisfactorily, my second question, and I will take back all that I have said here.

 

[Paris]

Why does he have to have friends?

You've got me here

and for me having no friends is not normal for a someone who is a human it's sth related to emo .... but its only my opinion and you should respect it ...

 

[Dene]

Why does he have to have friends?

You've got me here

and for me having no friends is not normal for a someone who is a human it's sth related to emo .... but its only my opinion and you should respect it ...

In this case, sure I can respect that it's your opinion - that doesn't stop me from expressing mine.

 

[fanwuq]

Can I have a Magic? I'll practice like crazy and get sub-1 on carpet too in less than 3 days. I know I can do it, seeing how I'm a master of folding things. .

Serious, doing a Magic is brainless. Half the solve is picking it up. I don't solve it yet. But I understand that it is really easy. Every solve is the same. I won't even call it a puzzle. It's like practicing the U perm.

Nakaji is fast. But no better than any other fast cubists.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

Very true

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Can I have a Magic? I'll practice like crazy and get sub-1 on carpet too in less than 3 days. I know I can do it, seeing how I'm a master of folding things. .

Serious, doing a Magic is brainless. Half the solve is picking it up. I don't solve it yet. But I understand that it is really easy. Every solve is the same. I won't even call it a puzzle. It's like practicing the U perm.

Nakaji is fast. But no better than any other fast cubists.

Except faster than the U perm.

 

[hdskull]

Except faster than the U perm.

Not if you're Nakaji.

 

[jackolanternsoup]

Serious, doing a Magic is brainless. Half the solve is picking it up. I don't solve it yet. But I understand that it is really easy. Every solve is the same. I won't even call it a puzzle.

Well it still is a puzzle the first time, before you find the solution.. I'm sure.. After that I agree but before, when one is still trying to figure it out, it is totally a puzzle.. Bet I'd be puzzled trying to solve it for a certain duration of time...

 

[AvGalen]

Serious, doing a Magic is brainless. Half the solve is picking it up. I don't solve it yet. But I understand that it is really easy. Every solve is the same. I won't even call it a puzzle.

Well it still is a puzzle the first time, before you find a solution.. I'm sure.. After that I agree but before, when one is still trying to figure it out, it is totally a puzzle.. Bet I'd be puzzled trying to solve it for a certain duration of time...

How many people have actually found a/this/the solution? Most seem to have learned it in a matter of minutes from someone else.

What about this proposal:
Magic is an average of 5
For each of the 5 "solves" you need to "solve" it differently
That means you should learn at least 5 different ways to get the Magic from A to B (which is not much, I can think of 7 entirely different ways from the top of my head and dozens of small variations)

Good luck training judges for this though

 

[Inusagi]

C'mon people. If anyone wants to pray that guy so don't stop them. If you really gets irritated just because someone thinks he's amazing then I would call that jealousy....

 

[alexc]

in my opinion he doesnt have real life .....

cubing > real life

and he doesnt have friends .... only cubies and stuff ....

Why does he have to have friends?

Because, in my opinion, it's not good to just devote your life to doing these puzzles. It's a great hobby, but I think Yu almost has taken it to the extreme, what with practicing 6 hours a day at least. And dominating at a new puzzle in the first few days just makes me wonder, "Did you do anything else but practice that puzzle in those days?" So in short, friends are infinitely more valuable than cubes. (I have nothing personal against Yu, I think he is amazing at 3x3 and OH and Bld and now Magic, but what I said above is sort of the impression I got from seeing his videos and what other people have said about him.)

 

[Raffael]

How many people have actually found a/this/the solution? Most seem to have learned it in a matter of minutes from someone else.

I actually did figure it out myself.
I got one, when they first came out in the 80's but never solved it on purpose.
(Only by accident while playing around with it, not really knowing what I was doing)
Well, I bought an original Matchbox Magic again on this years German Cube Day and finally figured it out by myself.
So it only took me 22 years

On topic:
Yeah, it's pretty easy to become really fast with just a few days of practice.
Personally, I havn't done a sub-1 but I havn't tried on a carpet yet.
Due to a ripped string I can't right at the moment.

Nonetheless, Yu is a great cuber, he's insanely fast and if he decides to devote his life to puzles and even practicing the magic until he's faster than the rest of us so he can get the WR, that's ok with me.
It's his life and his decision on what to spend his time on, so who are we to judge him for that?

 

[hdskull]

Because, in my opinion, it's not good to just devote your life to doing these puzzles. It's a great hobby, but I think Yu almost has taken it to the extreme, what with practicing 6 hours a day at least. And dominating at a new puzzle in the first few days just makes me wonder, "Did you do anything else but practice that puzzle in those days?" So in short, friends are infinitely more valuable than cubes. (I have nothing personal against Yu, I think he is amazing at 3x3 and OH and Bld and now Magic, but what I said above is sort of the impression I got from seeing his videos and what other people have said about him.)

What do you think of Michael Jordan? He practiced 8 hours a day. Maybe Yu's life is cubing while school is over and now that it's summer time. Indubitably, he has cubing friends, are they not friends? Let those who are obsessed be obsessed, it may be their passion.

 

[Dene]

Why does he have to have friends?

Because, in my opinion, it's not good to just devote your life to doing these puzzles.

Well that would answer the question "why shouldn't he devote his life to his cubes?" It doesn't directly imply that you should devote your life to your friends.

So in short, friends are infinitely more valuable than cubes.

Maybe for you. This of course would answer the question, but not satisfactorily.

 

[alexc]

Why does he have to have friends?

Because, in my opinion, it's not good to just devote your life to doing these puzzles.

Well that would answer the question "why shouldn't he devote his life to his cubes?" It doesn't directly imply that you should devote your life to your friends.

So in short, friends are infinitely more valuable than cubes.

Maybe for you. This of course would answer the question, but not satisfactorily.

Yeah, Yu can do what he wants with his life, I'm just giving my opinion.

@hdskull
But Michael Jordan gets paid millions of dollars to play basketball and it's his job. But Yu doesn't get paid for cubing, he just does it a lot because he loves it. There is nothing wrong with that, but I just think 6 hours a day cubing is a little excessive. (It's just my opinion.)

 

[mrbiggs]

It seems like we're experiencing a case of counterstrike-itis here.

Everyone worse than you is a worthless noob.

Everyone better than you has no life.

 

[pcharles93]

^^ Just like Youtube idiots. You know, the ones who spam on our videos calling us fakes and no-life nerds even though we're all more successful than them.