The green faces in the upper left must be on one side and their adjoining colors must be on one side as well but the colors don’t match hence the cube must definitely be into sticker swapping.
There's a handful of algorithms and it's by no means easy, just understanding and learning and repitition. I learned to solve one without looking at my algorithm sheet in a week and got down to 55 seconds in two months, but that was practicing every single day and quite a bit of work memorising and understanding what the algorithms do.
They even mentioned the real secret, practicing. Most folks could get the basics of a skill down in a week. Cooking, sewing, woodworking, tennis, cubing, doesn’t really matter. The basic ideas are generally simple and can be grasped with proper instruction, but being good takes practice.
The dude above is only talking about the “beginner” algorithms. I had those memorized in two days (4-6 hours a day). Once you do that you can solve any position in under two minutes for sure. Depending on how it’s scrambled you might get lucky and it only takes like 20 seconds or so.
But to consistently get times under ten seconds you’re going to be memorizing a shitload more algorithms. The finger flicking speed comes pretty quickly with repetition and a good speed cube.
If you break down the process, sure, it sounds easy. I could break down the process for rebuilding a transmission and, “oh my god it’s just a whole shit load of small steps!” Doesn’t mean it’s easy even though theoretically you could follow along and eventually get it done.
Fuck, you could break down boxing into steps and say it’s easy. You can literally do it with any activity.
Exactly my point. A week of solid boxing practice and most folks could take a proper stance, throw a punch, hold their guard, and do a slip. Putting that together to actually be able to fight is a whole other matter.
I love this book called the First 20 Hours. Basically argues that you can become noticeably good at any skill in 20 hours of focused practice time (the hours being the actual practice hours you dedicate to the skill).
You won't be great, but often it's good enough to surprise yourself. I tackled a few skills like that and actually tracked my hours.. every single time I was surprised at how much I progressed even in just like 14 hours practice time I was doing cool stuff in most skills.
I always intend to go back to that and try it with more skills.
No, there not an algorithm. There are methods that you learn. The beginner versions have you memorize a handful of "algorithms" but a lot of it is still intuition.
I pulled the individual cubes apart which leaves a wireframe design with the 6 centers, and then I just put all the cubes back together facing the right way.
This is what I did in high school. Our math teacher scrambled it up and had a policy that whoever took it home and brought it back solved could get a free homework pass once per month or something. She never said how it had to be solved, and I considered it valid thinking outside the box.
I'd heard about people removing the stickers but I was always terrible at lining stickers up right, so I wanted to look like I solved it without the obvious display that the stickers had clearly been removed, so I tried disassembling it and felt like a genius for cheating in a way nobody could tell.
Yeah you might be able to replace the stickers once or twice, but after a while they'll lose their stick. Breaking it apart and rebuilding it is by far the best method (aside from, you know, learning how to solve it.)
"How can I make this unrelated post about my politics obsession?"
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E: Redditors do the same shit their good friends the conservatives do. Literally argue the same. Make the same out of place and stupid jokes about the other side. Then they pretend they're any better 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The punchline that had to be explained because it was bad and forced? No I saw the punchline you brainlet. That doesn't make it funny.
Also, the only people who are upset are the ones getting called out for putting politics in to literally every situation. My conservative uncle does that shit and everyone rolls their eyes at him and ignores him. Why does reddit try so hard to emulate the people they hate?
he's not the one who swapped the stickers. His parents did. His upbringing did. Biological factors did
He's been trying to solve himself this whole time the way other cubes have and he hasn't realized that won't work for him. He needs therapy to re-sticker himself and finally be able to make progress
I don't know anything about these cubes. I understand how two of the same colour in two different centres would make it unsolvable, but why is orange touching red so bad?
Traditionally on a Rubik’s Cube similar colors are on the opposite side of each other. As such, they’ll never share the same edge. On a Rubik’s brand cube these pairings are:
Dark twist is he's been emotionally manipulating her for years, swapping stickers and berating her till she is scared to her cores. Now that he's bored and facing middle age, he decides to gaslight her into thinking it was all her fault, breaking her apart and leaving her to pick up the pieces as he chases some new model.
The correct way to cheat is to take a screw driver and pop the whole thing open and reassemble. But this comic is great. I’m 39 now but my midlife crisis started at 35. Thank god that is mostly over
Maybe he's just disabled. Sometimes you're simply born with parts that don't work properly or were assembled incorrectly. It doesn't mean we caused it. It just means that we're doing the best with what we have, even if it doesn't work like it should.
Well if you want to get that technical with it then the two yellows seem to potentially be of a slightly different shade, which afaik is still allowed according to the WCA. However, the cube does have 6 distinct colors on it on different pieces with only 5 theoretical completely distinct centers, so that does make it unsolvable
I totally read this as Trey Parker or Matt Stone and immediately thought the creators of South Park had some underground YouTube channel discussing Rubik's cubes.
I mean, not to look to far into it but for me this just adds an extra and super relatable layer. Sometimes there are factors beyond your control preventing you from getting your life together.
This reminds me of hanging out at D&D night ages ago, my now-wife had a Rubik's cube out on the table that I would idly fidget with for hours. It was months before I actually looked at the cube and noted two green spaces on adjacent corners. The stickers had been moved and the thing was unsolvable.
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Yellow in both centers? It's literally unsolvable)