Rubik's Cube

[TurbulentTurtle]

It's 21 moves, and there's only one proven permutation of the cube that requires all 21 moves. It's called the Superflip, and honestly, any speedcuber would know it when they see it. I just did a test and it took me 5.45 seconds to do the algorithm, so there's no way you would be able to see it in a competition.
There might be more stuff that I don't know about, I have no clue. I stopped following up on the speedcubing news when I got banned from that speedsolving forum a year+ ago.

[BobCox2]

New World Record 6.777 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/user/fazrulz1

[ragnar_ii]

Heh, I thought this was my old thread from a few years back.

Good to see this place still kicking around. I've been out for quite a while. I don't know how long my stay here will be. I'll leave my shoes on for now.

Oh yeah, I'm still around the 1.5-2 minute mark. Haven't practiced in quite a while.

[BobCox2]

[Evilfury]

Ahhhh... the Rubik's Cube.

I currently own (3) 3x3x3, two were given to me, but for my first cube, I purchased the one celebrating the 25th anniversary of the cube, the one that features the "mirrored" stickers in place of the "white" faces.
Two of them came with a mini guide book. I was able to memorize the sequences depicted there.
As such I am able to work the cube to the extent where I can solve it, just not as fast as the speediest of cube mongers.
However I would enjoy a crack at the cube using another method.
As for the duration elapsed that I take to solve the cube, I currently take about just under 2 mins~ give or take.

[TurbulentTurtle]

I haven't practiced in a very long time. I'm back up to the peasant time of 20-25 seconds again.

[BobCox2]

Try this TT


I'm a master at grandmas house

[Twoflower]

Somehow I lost interest since we found out that you never ever need more than 20 moves to solve a cube : http://www.cube20.org/

Our minds are just too weak to compute the proper solution. :( But I think if one of these high speed solvers would also have the proper solution, we could bring down the world record to 2 or 3 seconds.

But as with any game that has been solved completey, I am no longer interested.

[krischan]

Solving each scenario on its own doesn't mean that an algorithm for the solution itself is known. That's like showing that you can smash every coconut with a single stroke of a hammer by doing it instead of calculating the perfect hammer stroke which cracks open any coconut :azn:.

[ThunderCat]

Somehow I lost interest since we found out that you never ever need more than 20 moves to solve a cube : http://www.cube20.org/

Our minds are just too weak to compute the proper solution. :( But I think if one of these high speed solvers would also have the proper solution, we could bring down the world record to 2 or 3 seconds.

But as with any game that has been solved completey, I am no longer interested.

My brain hurts.

I'll stick to my 50 second average method and live happy.