One of my few obsessions! I learned how to solve them back in high school, but in my first year of college I took a class on speed solving a cube. At first I was pretty slow, and it took me around a minute. But then after obsessing for the rest of the year, I'm down to a 20 second average, with my fastest time ever being 14.85 seconds.

I went to a competition a little bit ago, and it turns out according to the association that hosted it, I'm the 300th fastest person in the world

Snet

United States3573 Posts

December 04 2007 19:16 GMT

man thats crazy, would take me days to figure one out

EvilTeletubby

Baltimore, USA22254 Posts

December 04 2007 19:25 GMT

Hahaha, that's awesome dude...

Daigomi

South Africa4316 Posts

December 04 2007 19:26 GMT

I can do it in about 2 minutes, but I'm doing in a basic row by row way. I've always wanted to learn how to do it faster, and I tried another method that I found on the internet but I couldn't figure out the last step.

So that means I'm still a beginner Rubix Cuber!

Snet

United States3573 Posts

December 04 2007 19:37 GMT

lol I just noticed your WoW shirt >_<

Chill

Calgary25986 Posts

December 04 2007 19:51 GMT

oh man thats awesome

Storchen

Sweden4385 Posts

December 04 2007 19:54 GMT

Mad skills!
I never finished one

nA.Inky

United States794 Posts

December 04 2007 20:03 GMT

Wow, very impressive!

KOFgokuon

United States14899 Posts

December 04 2007 20:34 GMT

haha i thought the best part was the temporary pause to make sure you had it complete, then you hit the button

good ish, i'll never be able to do it that fast until i switch methods. my best is still around 45-60 seconds (never timed) cause i can't visualize the cube, and cause i waste moves doing top bottom middle

MoogleSATx

United States439 Posts

December 04 2007 20:59 GMT

#10

sweet!.. wait there is a class on speed solving?!

milkshakespeare

Austria19 Posts

December 04 2007 21:20 GMT

#11

I started going for speed back in April, using the basic layer-by-layer approach. Never got faster than 40 seconds. Did you attend the WC in early October? A friend and me went to Budapest, just for the experience and for getting owned :p
At the moment, I'm teaching myself the Heise method. You're using Friedrich, right?

Pressure

7326 Posts

December 04 2007 22:15 GMT

#12

300th? insane :D

Gokey

United States2722 Posts

December 04 2007 22:17 GMT

#13

a class on speed solving? that's amazing... i'd definitely take it if i had it in my school

TopGear

United Kingdom796 Posts

December 04 2007 22:39 GMT

#14

I don't think i've ever even completed a rubiks cube... i am impressed.

Folca

2235 Posts

December 04 2007 22:51 GMT

#15

dude, your so asian

Night[Mare

Mexico4793 Posts

December 04 2007 23:14 GMT

#16

On December 05 2007 04:54 Storchen wrote:
Mad skills!
I never finished one

never will i :p

Last Romantic

United States20661 Posts

December 04 2007 23:16 GMT

#17

Do you know Toby Mao?

I love that man. In the most platonic way possible.

mikeymoo

Canada7170 Posts

December 04 2007 23:17 GMT

#18

Which method is that? Doesn't look like F2L to me, unless you're doing the last layer on your left or something?

I'm trying to learn F2L Permute corners permute edges, I'm doing 35 seconds at best. I haven't fully memorized it so hopefully I get faster once I know all the moves.