I had a knack for disassembling them by hand. Several people in my senior year of high school (2010) had them, would get them all mixed up and couldn’t solve them. I promised solved cubes in 15 minutes for $15. I think it surprised everyone the first time someone saw me pull one apart, rearrange all the squares properly, and hand it back over.
Was easy money at the lunch table, and bought me many a pizza when I got home.
I remember seeing some kid during lunch go over to his friend with one, asking for help. The cube was almost completely solved except for two squares. The friend said that it had been messed with, and that’s why it couldn’t be solved. First time I even realized that was possible.
We had a guy at work who could solve them in no time. Especially if he could ‘spin’ the sections. One time for a prank, we switched 2 of the stickers. He got a little angry, until he figured out what we had done. Never seen him laugh that hard, ever.
my solution involved a small screwdriver and some force.
I had a knack for disassembling them by hand. Several people in my senior year of high school (2010) had them, would get them all mixed up and couldn’t solve them. I promised solved cubes in 15 minutes for $15. I think it surprised everyone the first time someone saw me pull one apart, rearrange all the squares properly, and hand it back over.
Was easy money at the lunch table, and bought me many a pizza when I got home.
I remember seeing some kid during lunch go over to his friend with one, asking for help. The cube was almost completely solved except for two squares. The friend said that it had been messed with, and that’s why it couldn’t be solved. First time I even realized that was possible.
There are six different sets of configurations that a Rubik’s Cube can be in, called “orbitals”. Only one orbital contains the “solved” configuration.
Watching solving competitions is absolutely nuts. I stumbled into a livestream of one once and never saw rubix cubes the same way again.
YouTube has a video of a 17 year old solving a Rubick’s cube while juggling two others and riding a unicycle at the same time.
“I never bothered learned” should be “I never bothered to learn”.
Or, “I never bothered learning”.
“You Can Do The Cube” by Patrick Bossert is a great guide to the algorithm.
I have two copies now, because my first one was second-hand when I got it, and it’s been wearing a bit since then.
We had a guy at work who could solve them in no time. Especially if he could ‘spin’ the sections. One time for a prank, we switched 2 of the stickers. He got a little angry, until he figured out what we had done. Never seen him laugh that hard, ever.