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blagoonga123
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2068 Posts
December 04 2007 19:14 GMT
#1
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



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Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
December 04 2007 19:16 GMT
#2
man thats crazy, would take me days to figure one out
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22258 Posts
December 04 2007 19:25 GMT
#3
Hahaha, that's awesome dude...
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Daigomi
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
South Africa4316 Posts
December 04 2007 19:26 GMT
#4
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!
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Snet *
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
December 04 2007 19:37 GMT
#5
lol I just noticed your WoW shirt >_<
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25991 Posts
December 04 2007 19:51 GMT
#6
oh man thats awesome
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Storchen
Profile Joined September 2006
Sweden4385 Posts
December 04 2007 19:54 GMT
#7
Mad skills!
I never finished one
nA.Inky
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States794 Posts
December 04 2007 20:03 GMT
#8
Wow, very impressive!
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KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14902 Posts
December 04 2007 20:34 GMT
#9
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
Profile Joined December 2004
United States439 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-12-04 20:59:16
December 04 2007 20:59 GMT
#10
sweet!.. wait there is a class on speed solving?!
I can beat you one handed
milkshakespeare
Profile Joined October 2007
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?
When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so, of course, I was surprised.
Pressure
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
7326 Posts
December 04 2007 22:15 GMT
#12
300th? insane :D
Gokey
Profile Joined November 2006
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
Profile Joined November 2005
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
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
2235 Posts
December 04 2007 22:51 GMT
#15
dude, your so asian
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Night[Mare
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
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
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Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
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.
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mikeymoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
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.

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roadrunner_sc
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1220 Posts
December 04 2007 23:23 GMT
#19
haha man that's great
btw does mackey still hold the record? Haven't been keeping up.
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Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-12-05 00:09:18
December 05 2007 00:06 GMT
#20
14 secs! how u lubricate that cube? u spinning it so fast that i can't seen u spinning it, impressive man..
thanks for sharing -
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blagoonga123
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2068 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-12-05 00:32:13
December 05 2007 00:30 GMT
#21
I don't really know toby mao, but I've met him before I believe, at the competition I went to.
I was using F2L, which is Friedrich. And yeah, normally you can tell when youre gonna finish a cube, but this one finished just after I did OLL (orientation of Last Layer). Normally you have to do a PLL after that (permutation of last layer), but this time I got lucky so I didn't expect it XD

Also, I don't know who has the current world record, I think it's some french dude. But one of the guys who taught the class was #1 in one handed solves for quite a while. I myself can't really do it one handed in less than a minute. It's pretty hard ><
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
December 05 2007 00:51 GMT
#22
Holy christ that's amazing, the best i've seen is a friend who can do it in 3 minutes :p
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mikeymoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada7170 Posts
December 05 2007 01:12 GMT
#23
On December 05 2007 09:30 blagoonga123 wrote:
I was using F2L, which is Friedrich. And yeah, normally you can tell when youre gonna finish a cube, but this one finished just after I did OLL (orientation of Last Layer). Normally you have to do a PLL after that (permutation of last layer), but this time I got lucky so I didn't expect it XD


Haha I was wondering. You looked at the cube and were like "oh I'm done. Hit the timer fast!"

Maybe I should learn Friedrich. It seems easier to memorize than what I'm currently using.
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Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20661 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-12-05 01:16:01
December 05 2007 01:15 GMT
#24
On December 05 2007 08:23 roadrunner_sc wrote:
haha man that's great
btw does mackey still hold the record? Haven't been keeping up.


Toby took it

then someone took it from him [forgot who]
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Titusmaster6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5937 Posts
December 05 2007 01:17 GMT
#25
14.85? Wow that is impressive! well done dude. thanks 4 the vid, that was great.
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Superiorwolf
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States5509 Posts
December 05 2007 01:18 GMT
#26
That was really impressive man! Btw, did you almost drop it at -0:22 seconds?
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blagoonga123
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2068 Posts
December 05 2007 02:41 GMT
#27
Hahaha yeah, i also almost dropped it. Kinda embarassing, but the end result was still pretty fast
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Refrain[FriZ]
Profile Joined June 2003
Canada4337 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-12-05 03:57:12
December 05 2007 03:54 GMT
#28
Wow nice job. I used to be pretty obsessed in high school. I do layer by layer and it's slow as hell but I can consistently do it around the 45 s mark. I don't know how to do it by Petrus or Friedrich (although I've looked, lots of memorization) but maybe you could be my guide!

:edit: by the way your expression at the end is priceless
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-12-05 05:08:07
December 05 2007 05:06 GMT
#29
nice solve!
i noticed you did your cross slow yet still had a big delay to first c-e pair - do cross slower so you can lookahead to the pair better

well i'm not really in a position to tell you anything you don't already know as i used to avg 30sec, but my excuse is that i used 4lll (edit: b/c i was too lazy to learn more than the minimum 3 algs to solve a cube with fridrich) so the only reason i could get that low is because of a fluid f2l

i got bored of speedcubing though
i learned blindfold cubing (best was a bit under 3minutes, 50sec+120sec memorization and execution respectively..nowhere near the suggested 50-50 split lols)
which i also got bored of

still fun to watch videos of others though <3 have a visit at speedsolving.com if you haven't already
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jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
December 05 2007 05:19 GMT
#30
I can do it!

But in like 5 min :D
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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
December 05 2007 06:31 GMT
#31
Damn I can only do Friedrich but I hate memorizing the last layer so I never rly finished one in reasonable speed.
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Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6657 Posts
December 05 2007 07:22 GMT
#32
impressive indeed!
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Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17733 Posts
December 05 2007 09:46 GMT
#33
Im getting into rubiks cubes

Trying to find a way to solve it

Anyone recommend me a site/video that has the easiest way without any complicated notations to solve. I just want to know how to solve it even if it takes like 5 minutes or more.
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il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
December 09 2007 13:00 GMT
#34
Wow,in the begnning I was like this kid is slow and then all of a sudden your hands were flying.
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
December 10 2007 05:47 GMT
#35
On December 05 2007 15:31 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Damn I can only do Friedrich but I hate memorizing the last layer so I never rly finished one in reasonable speed.


you don't really need algs to be able to do the cube in about 30 sec
i do intuitive f2l which requires no algs at all (ofc the cross doesn't either)
so only LL is the problem

for LL you need 2 simple algs for orientation (making the face all 1 color) and 0-2 algs for permutation (moving pieces to correct places)

i say 0-2 because the algorithms (edge cycle called Uperm and corner cycle called Aperm) can be done intuitively also, but if you want algs optimized for speed, it wouldn't hurt to learn them

so really if you want to solve it in way less than a minute, you only need very few (less than 5) algorithms which can be learnt in a day as they're very short =)
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SirKibbleX
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States479 Posts
December 10 2007 07:20 GMT
#36
I've been trying to ignore all 'intuitive' systems ever since I met Andrew Kang at a summer camp I went to. Sometimes the best way to do things is just counter-intuitive. He got me into the cube back when he was like #20 in the world and now he's #2, awesome.

Basically he said 'just learn the damn fastest algs if you wanna be fast.' So I have been learning. I'm sub-35 average now with all 21 PLL moves, and my fastest time (no skips) is about 24 seconds but I need to learn the rest of the OLL and get a faster F2L before I'm actually going to be any good.

For all you people looking to get into speedcubing, or to just solve one for the first time, try one of Thrawst's videos YouTube. They're pretty good. And if you're using a rly old cube, stop. Newer store-bought cubes aren't half bad, and with a little work they can be quick enough to do most of the advanced finger-tricks to accelerate your turns and such.
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