Have you ever solved a Rubix Cube before?

Broads.ie

I haven't... I never even tried actually. Just arsed around with one for a few seconds.

chin_grin

Broads.ie wrote: »

I haven't... I never even tried actually. Just arsed around with one for a few seconds.

Is that what the x rays showed? Hweh hweh hweh.

Pherekydes

Never seen or heard of it. What's it like?

chopperbyrne

I removed all the stickers and put them on as if it had been solved.

Also, it's Rubik's not Rubix.

discombobulate

Yeah by changing the stickers!

Logical Fallacy

I used to be really good at them when i was a kid but i can't do them anymore...I got stupid as i grew older.

Kojak

Pherekydes wrote: »

Never seen or heard of it. What's it like?

It must be like an older version of the tv programme "the cube" on ITV.

Pherekydes

Kojak wrote: »

It must be like an older version of the tv programme "the cube" on ITV.

I thought it might be a new type of Vitamin C soluble tablet in the shape of a cube, but that would be Rubex cube.

janja93

If you follow a fairly long series of set movements, anyone can do it!

It's easy once you know how, search youtube for a tutorial and you'll see.

Sykk

Rubix cubes are solved using algorithm's.

My girlfriends brother is a programmer and can do one easily.

Anyway he got himself a new one and she sent me a picture.

Try solving this!

ejmaztec

I did it quite easily.

after paying 20c for an instruction book that I found in a second-hand book-shop

Cypher_sounds

Yeah, once you get it the first time its handy enough.

Sabre0001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYv_oB_PXSg

Paddycrumlinman

Pulled the stickers of me self and placed them back on in the right order... Parents thought I was a 4 year old genius. More fool them..

RichieC

Broads.ie wrote: »

I haven't... I never even tried actually. Just arsed around with one for a few seconds.

I done one in the back of a Taxi to impress a high flying executive who then offered me a job and bailed the taxi fair

geetar

no. i just peel the stickers off and rearrange them.

mkdon05

I done it when i was about 10 and thought, Jayz thats easy, so I jumbled it up again and had another go. Never solved it a second time

Professey Chin

Just tried. Still can. Eggcellent
Managed to do the 4x4 one before aswell! Never tried any bigger

laugh

I learned an algorithm.

Canis Lupus

I just broke it and reassembled it. Why bother with algorithms when brute force and ignorance is just as effective

4leto

NO
I think I got 4 sides once

I then got the instructions and lost patience, then asked why and I threw the thing in the skip, being happy ever since.

Lady Chuckles

No. :mad:

... So I simply decided Rubik's cubes are stupid and I wouldn't want to solve them anyway :pac:

Kontakt

Nope. I don't think it's that hard.. I've looked at instructions online but never bothered to actually complete one.

-Kenny-

I can do it in two mins . handy out to win bets and stuff

When I was in 6th year in school I brought it in and my honours maths teacher saw it and said there impossible to solve. so I made a cheeky grin and bet her we could get homework off if I solve it , did it and homework off. Happy days .

I have a mini keychain one on my set of keys its handy for betting and winning free drinkings on nights out.

General General

Just pull the stickers off & DON'T replace them, then write a song or poem about your emo rubik's cube refusing labels...

mathie

Have you ever solved a Rubix Cube before?

Before what?

decisions

Ive always found them easy

Chuck Stone

I solved it by smashing it into tiny pieces.

FetchTheGin

I'm not up on these modern contraptions.

SV

No..came very close though.
I never even learned how to do it though..I only started to come close once I realised the colour of the centre cube was the colour that side was meant to be (Thank you Pursuit of Happyness )

Handy11

chopperbyrne wrote: »

I removed all the stickers and put them on as if it had been solved.

snap!

chin_grin

chin_grin wrote: »

Is that what the x rays showed? Hweh hweh hweh.

I just thanked that for the "hweh hweh hweh". Reminds me of Dustin the Turkey.

Between this and the Clarissa/Sabrina thread, it's like Den Central here....

SEPT 23 1989

I was too busy on my space hopper to get involved in the Rubik cube scene

neil_hosey

i can do them.. took about an hour to learn the 6 or so algorithms needed..

i can now do it in about a minute

Dingatron

I can do it in around 2-3 minutes usually. All the rage for a while when I was a kid.

Deus Ex Machina

Broads.ie wrote: »

I haven't... I never even tried actually. Just arsed around with one for a few seconds.

You don't need much motivation to start a thread, do you?

Sonnenblumen

I managed to do it once (probably a fluke because I failed many times). Recently I saw a news item in which robots were able to complete the puzzle very quickly. A fascinating piece of film, well worth watching.

Bobby Baccala

i got angry and absolutely mashed one when i was younger then i superglued it
back together so it looked as if i had solved it

Me clever.

CrazyRabbit

Hell, it was too easy so I use a 7 sided one now.

x_Ellie_x

I had one when I was a kid and I solved it easily enough. I don't think I could solve one now. I don't have the patience anymore.

LH Pathe

No.

are there still teachers that break them out in class?

Mickey H

Yes I have solved one.

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Hell, it was too easy so I use a 7 sided one now.

They have 7 sided ones now?! Didn't know that. Good luck with it.

Ditch

Too busy trying to make a living. All that just sort of passed me by.

Sid_Justice

The amount of people that said they changed the stickers or broke it and rearranged it. Idiots.

I'm usually good at those sort of puzzles but no. I lost patience as well :pac:

Chuck Stone

Sid_Justice wrote: »

The amount of people that said they changed the stickers or broke it and rearranged it. Idiots.

I just smashed it to pieces. I took it out the back and smacked it off the concrete and then got a hammer and smashed the components.

I saved some of the stickers though and stuck them onto my sisters one so that she couldn't solve hers - she toiled for months before she gave up.

I just watched with a calm smile saying 'you almost have it there sis' and other platitudes.

Happy days.

stoneill

I used to be able - now I can only get one side done.

sbsquarepants

I done it - but i cheated. I printed out the instructions off a website. basically you only need to do one layer and then just learn and repeat a couple of moves over and over. It looks cool when you do it fast, like you're rain man or something, but in reality you're only mindlessly parroting 2 or 3 steps.
I used to be amazed that people could do the things so quickly, while i spent days getting nowhere - now i just feel cheated! Ha ha:D