My newest hobby
Well, I went online to www.toysrus.com and I bought myslef a world famous Rubiks Cube. Pretty amazing little toy. I got it scrambled it, then got stuck. I looked online for some algorithms (steps to achieve a predictable outcome), used them, then solved the cube. Easy. It took me nearly 20 minutes to solve after I had found the sequences. Next I want to work on speed. With this, I not only need to oil up my cube, but to either discover or look up some more optimized algorithms built for speed. Currently, according to www.speedcubing.com which is the unofficial world records page, the record is 7.12 seconds to solve the cube. That’s SECONDS. My best time right now is 2:27.265 minutes, so I’ve got a long way to go. According to Jessica Fridrich, who is a leading Rubik’s cube expert and mathematician, there are about 1211 possible algorithms that could potentially be used to solve a cube. She uses about 80 on a regular basis often getting times of less than 15 seconds. Wow. Well, I’m going to try to break from my current method which is slow and tedious, and ATTEMPT to learn some new stuff.
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
these thing been out for years i solved it a way back when. i was little, butt those things came easy to me. it was like beauty, mixed with magic. thats what the new hiphohoney.com is. And the magic made is beatiful women.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:15 am
I bought a book, learned a solution method, and had my solution times down to less than 2 minutes in the 1980s. But I have since forgotten the last half of the routine.
Yes, it does help to take your cube apart and have the mechanisms cleaned up and lubricated!
March 27th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I can’t believe that Paula learned her solution from a book and Aaron from a Web site. I had to figure it out on my own (and never fast).