Bought a Rubix Cube

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I bought a Rubix Cube.
With the help of YouTube, I am able to complete two layers so far (repeatably)
I expect by next Weekend I will be able to complete 100%
Practice, practice, practice.

Maybe I'm just bored, but it's a nice accomplishment.

Has anybody conquered .... the Cube ?
 
One of the soldiers got some in the mail last time I was on Al Asad. In about a month we were all under 2 minutes. Haven't picked one up before or since.



Practice practice.
 
I bought this thing shortly after it came out in 1978. After weeks and hours on end my best time was 26 seconds.
The world record is around 5 sec. I believe.
 
When you get the hang of it and want to show off, get yourself a nice stickerless speedcube of Amazon, the original Rubiks brand cubes are horribly blocky and jar your wrist when they lock up when you try fast cornering.
 
They're really easy to solve, so is the Pyraminx. What you do is start on one edge and keep turning/rotating. What seems like forever and suddenly you have it all solved!!:D
 
aquariuscsm said:
They're really easy to solve, so is the Pyraminx. What you do is start on one edge and keep turning/rotating. What seems like forever and suddenly you have it all solved!!:D
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It is not easy when you have no one to show you the correct sequence of turns or you watched tutorial.
When I got mine I had no clue what to do so I tried and tried to oblivion till I got it. Than the AHA moment came and I could solve it quickly from any position.
 
Anyone ever have those "how to" books from back then? I had one (probably when I was in the 5th grade). 1980,I would've been 11.
 
They still make those? I haven’t seen one since I was a kid. I figured nowadays kids are too entertained by electronics to care about a Rubix Cube.
 
If anyone feels the need to go out and buy one, I'd buy this one, and as far as I know if you love made in the USA products, I don't think anyone actually makes them in the US, and in my experience the Rubix brand ones are more along the lines of Chinese junk than these designed in China and made in China cubes, I've broken several rubiks brand cubes because the plastic center caps eventually fatigue from fast cornering and break off, and never had any problems with these Stickerless cubes that have a mechanism designed for cornering.
 
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Anyone ever have those "how to" books from back then? I had one (probably when I was in the 5th grade). 1980,I would've been 11.
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I had one of those books when I was in grade school...around 1980. Memorized all the moves. Problem with that was everyone kept on asking me to solve their cube all the time. The tiny ones on keys chains were the worst to work with.
 
Toy4x4 said:
I had one of those books when I was in grade school...around 1980. Memorized all the moves. Problem with that was everyone kept on asking me to solve their cube all the time. The tiny ones on keys chains were the worst to work with.
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Haha I remember those keychain ones!! I also had one that had different fruit on the cubes instead of colors. I think a kid in school traded to to me for a Hot Wheels car or something (probably a crappy one I didn't like).

A cube also absolutely had to be a Rubik's brand. The knock off ones sucked and always fell apart. Same with the Pyraminx for the most part. I think it was made my Tomy? But my friend had a knock off one called "Pyramid Puzzle" that was actually pretty good, unlike most of the other knock off ones.
 
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