The Rubik's Cube

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Who here can solve it? And if so what is your fastest time and your average?

I've known how to solve it for about a year and a half now. I learned my own method then I started trying to learn other methods. The method that Dan Brown on youtube shows is way faster than mine. So I use it now.

My average with my method is about 2 minutes. My average with the faster method is about 1 minute and 15 seconds- about 1 minute and 30 seconds.

My fastest solve ever was 47 seconds.

I also learned to solve a 4x4 and my fastest solve with that is some where between 4 and 5 minutes.

I'm still trying to figure out this damned 5x5, though.

[Master Link]

I usually love puzzles but for some reason I don't like the rubix cube. I've tried it once, without help, and I obviously couldn't solve it.

[Hylian Hobbit]

I never was very good at it. But then again, I've never learned any methods on how to do it well. I just remember messing around with it one day when really bored, and I was able to do it. I've done it only like five times. :\ But it never really caught my interest.

[Alder Dragon]

I can solve every type of cube. I own 2x2 - 7x7, not including the 6x6 :(.

There is a picture of me with a solved 7x7 on the staff page of Zelda Dungeon. I first started cubing about 3 years ago, I learned by watching Thrawst's videos (which is a MUCH!!! better method than Pogobat's). There are about 7 algorithms you need to remember with Thrawst's general Fridrich method. Now I use several methods mixed into one, for my own best results.

My best times are:

2x2: 0:04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMtZftI5HnU&feature=channel_page

3x3: 0:21
4x4: 1:23
5x5: 3:53
6x6: -----
7x7: 14:34

Also, a great program is available online for virtual cube solving. It's called Gabbasoft - it's free. You control and rotate the cube with your mouse and keyboard. You can solve cubes from 2-20 layers. The biggest I have done on there is the 11x11. I could probably do the other ones, but it takes a while.

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I've heard of the Fredich method.

I'll check it out.

I used my own method for a while so Pogobat's is a big upgrade. I'll try and learn the Fredich method.

Where can I get help with the 5x5? I solve the 4x4 by doing the centers then the edges. I've gotten the centers with the 5x5 but I always screw up on the edges.

[Alder Dragon]

I've heard of the Fredich method.

I'll check it out.

I used my own method for a while so Pogobat's is a big upgrade. I'll try and learn the Fredich method.

Where can I get help with the 5x5? I solve the 4x4 by doing the centers then the edges. I've gotten the centers with the 5x5 but I always screw up on the edges.

I could probably help you if you have an instant messenger. I learned the 5x5 from Thrawst on youtube. The key to learning how to solve big cubes (edges, especially) is to either get firsthand help or to play around with it a lot on your own.

[octorok74]

I do own a rubik's cube and I've had it for 4 years now. I still can't solve it. I am so stupid.

[DisappearingMist]

^ I don't think you're stupid for it. I don't think that I could do it either, without some training.

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

I've never been able to figure it out, and I doubt I ever will. I don't see how you guys can do it so fast!

[El Bagu]

I haven´t done the cube in quite a while. But I have to tell you what happend to me a couple of months ago. I was at the airport and there was a family in front of me in the "check in". One member was a child and the child had a cube. For some reason the mother of the family told me I looked like someone who could solve the puzzle of the cube! I took it as a compliment :clap:

[Bluelink6]

I have a 4X4 cube. I cna do 1 side pretty quickly and nearly complete 2 but I've never completed it. Although, There is a guide you can buy that tells you how to complete it in 7 steps.

[Myyrä]

I cant solve it. I can't understand how some people can solve this. I have
2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4 and 5x5x5. I never solved any of them.

[Amelie]

I have tryed lots of puzzles before but this one seems to be the hardest... I have never solved it and I might not ever try. But my mother said she solved it when she was younger once. I didnt ask her how long it took her. She might not have kept track ^^

[zeldatwilight]

what i do is take it apart and then put it back together. i know its cheating but otherwise my brain would burst.

[Petman1325]

Yeah, I've been playing with my Rubiks Cube for 6 years, and I still haven't beaten it yet! Sad, isn't it? I was close to solving it once, but I only got it on one side. Everything else was heck...

[bellum]

I could never solve the rubix cube( I have a 3x3)(I couldn't even solve one side) D: and I probably wouldn't time it either but my dad can at least get one side unlike me D:

[Smitie]

I never had a rubiks cube and I will never buy one.

[Josh]

I have one cube that I got two Christmases ago, tried it for a while but could never really figure it out.

[Claire]

I own a 2x2x2 Eastsheen, and a 3x3x3 Hungarian Rubik's Cube.
I can solve them both, except I am still forgetting the algorithms (one, in particular) if I am not cubing often. I was taught by Tom (Alder Dragon), and he taught me via Friedrich method.

The fastest I've solved the 3x3x3 was 1 minute without algorithms on hand. Since my 3x3x3 is currently missing in action, I have been just playing with my 2x2x2.

[EponaOwns]

Ugh... i can't stand the rubiks cube. I stink at it so much. It can get very confusing at times and frustrating that you just want to burn it in flames :devil: But I on't think that just because I can't do it doesn't mean I am not smart. I'm very impressed by people's times:clap:

[LucarioMaster]

well by useing gabbasoft i can only get 1 side done on the 2x2
sad isent it?

[zeldafreak]

I've been messing with Rubik's Cube for a long time now... ever since I was 5.
The closest I've got was one side. :(

Now one of my classmates is teaching me how to solve it, but its very hard. (R, L, U, D, Ri, Ui, ??????????????)
Yeah, its confusing; I keep forgetting which way to turn the side.
But at least I can do one side with 2 layers correct at the other sides next to it.
I'm getting better!

~Edit by Smitie: use the edit button next time eventhough your previous post is old.~

[Midna666]

Rubik's Cubes are evil.
It seems like they are made for one purpose,and that is to drive people insane.
I've never been able to solve one,I hate them a lot.

[x-Link-x]

I love paying with these things but I can't frigging solve them....ever! Dx

[RyanNope]

I've had a few in the past before that I never finished/beat before they eventually got lost and or broken. At one point Alder told me how so I went out and bought a new one and almost had it finished until my sister who was 3 at the time broke it... oh well I guess one day I might buy another one and try again some day. Hopefully no accidents will befall it again if/when I do buy another one.

[HalfBlindGamer]

I hate rubik's cubes. I can't solve them so i throw them into the wall and fix it.
Then i try again and give up.
I cant understand how some people can solve it in under 2 min.

[Bob Majinki]

I remember I was watching Iron Chef with my family while fiddling with one. That was the first time (of three) I completed it. :D

[Zeruda]

I once solved a Rubik's cube when I was three. I sat and played at it the entire day, which is great concentration for somebody so young....... but of course, I didn't solve it by skill, just by randomly playing with it until I got it right. I still have that cube, untouched of course, since I know that I could never solve it with skill.

[Shnappy]

I once solved a Rubik's cube when I was three.
LOLWUT

I, myself am in to "cubing". I was surfing youtube and found a youtube video explain how to solve it, and it looked simple enough that I was compelled to buy a Rubik's Cube. I had like a day to see stuff in that video, and then I went to Utah for a week, constantly checking the tutorial every chance I got on a computer. By the end of the week, I had myself a solved Rubik's Cube. I've continued with this for about a year, picking up the cube every so often for a solve. My average is probably about a minute, and my best is 42 seconds, which I am not compelled to beat, as it is that epic of a number. Nah, I'll probably beat it some day, I just need to learn the Fridrich method and stop using the layer method, heh. As for the bigger ones, the only ones I've solved other than 3x3 are 4x4 and 5x5. I actually find 5x5 easier.

[arkvoodle]

Once at my friends house, we where playing on the Wii, I was waiting for my turn, so i started fiddling with a rubix cube, in less than 10-15 minutes, i realised that i had solved it without even realising! :)

[Yoshi_FTW]

I can only solve 2 or 3 sides of the 3x3 to be honest. :( Never could figure out how to get the other sides without messing up the first ones.

[Durion]

I use the standard way to solve a Rubik's Cube, It takes me roughly 1 minute to solve a Rubik's cube but it does take me between 1 min - 1 min 30.

I can solve it with one hand in about 4-5 minutes as well :L, Nothing special really though, Just makes it slower to solve.

Could you tell me what method you use please so I can learn that one. I wanted to try and learn the Friedrich method but going from a starters method it hard as I don't get the terminology and no method for Friedrich I have found actually explians any of it :kawaii:

[basement24]

I don't play with them often. I've tackled a few while laid up in bed after getting my tonsils and appendix out (not simultaneously!) I have solved them a couple of times, literally 2 I believe, but I think it might've been more of an accident. I do try to solve it though, I don't just spin them around aimlessly, but I have no pattern to do it. I couldn't give a best time either, since it's taken days for me to do.

The fastest I might've ever accomplished was when I was a child, and I peeled the stickered colours off and placed them where they should be. Of course, the glue wasn't as good the second time around, so everntually the cube was half black squared since the stickers fell off. :P

[-JelloGoMoo-]

I can only solve one side... So I'm basically challenged when it comes to those things.

It wasn't solved until I brought it to my friend's house and her dad solved it within a minute...

But I know someone who can do it without 25 seconds. Very amusing. :hmm:

[Phlegm]

My Best Times:

2x2: 2.14 seconds

3x3: 14.19 seconds

4x4: 1:36.?? minutes

Solving the Rubik's Cube is one of my favourite hobbies of all time! I have also been cubing for about a year.

[MetaPwn]

ok, i solve it by-
1. crying at it
2. throwing out the window
3. praising myself

[Aultimaespada]

I don't know how to solve it, but there is a guy in my classroom who can finish it in about 1 min and 30 secs.
I saw a 2x2 cube. At first I though it was very easy, but them some guys told me it was the hardest, because most of the techniques don't work with it.

[Atsuma]

My brothers are good for solving it, I've never tried it and probably never will. It's all simple once you learn how to do it, nothing to it. So why don't I try to solve it? Waste of time, I am not gonna win a prize or anything for doing it. Bragging rights? I don't care about that. :P

[Cowum]

I've been cubing for a few years. Best time is 16.31.

[NorthApple]

Ummm... lemme see. Oh, it takes me about 2 minutes, depending how fast it takes me to peel the stickers off. :D

No, honestly. They're the Bane. Of. My. Life.

Along with those sliding-square puzzles where you only have one space free. I can't do those either.
I clicked on this thread, and was like WHAAA at the first post. Damn, you're all awesome. Though probably with some training, I could learn to do them. But it never sticks in my head. I'm getting marginally better though!

...I often wonder how I even manage to complete some Zelda games, what with all the block puzzles. o.O

[Xinnamin]

I think I've tried to learn how to do these things before. Gave up after a while. I just don't have the patience.

There's this kid at my school who can do them in under 2-min, and he inspired this other kid in my orchestra class to learn. I remember it took him a few months to get it the first time, then after that, he could do it in about 5-min or something. It's amazing what you can do with practice, but there's no way I'd ever have the patience to work at something like this for that long.

[20Hearts]

Here are my fastest times

2x2x2 5.16 seconds
3x3x3 21.59 seconds
4x4x4 about 1:45:hmm:
5x5x5 about 2:00=\
6x6x6 2:53
7x7x7 about 3 minutes

[20Hearts]

I can do one in 20 seconds

My fastest for the 2x2 is 5.16 seconds
I have solved bigger ones but Im to lazy to look them up.

[Ninten*]

I have had my Rubik's Cube since Christmas 2007. It was a 3x3x3. My cousing messed it up and I was only able to fix it on Cinco de Mayo of this year. I got help from a video from a guy on YouTube called pogobat. I remember some of the algrithims but I invented some of my own. I just need to remember the algrithims used for positioning the top face corner pieces. If I'm lucky, I already have them positioned and I can use the algrithim to flip it. I also did try out my cousin's Rubik's Revolution.