Nerd here. I definitely relate to your story, riding on the wave of impressing people and then eventually realizing it's not a very useful skill. I definitely got deeper than you did (around 30 seconds per solve) and I couldn't just stop, and you could say I was addicted at that point. Solving the cube at school kind of isolated me from social interaction, which I didn't realize at the time, and eventually made me want to quit cubing to work on something that would be more important. But of course I've been back for many years now, and the reason I keep going now is because it's fun! I've done a lot of stuff that really has no impact on my life anymore, like various sports, video games, and just stuff that felt like the centerpiece of my life at that moment, yet I rarely think about those anymore. But when I do remember them, it's just happy memories and friends who shared those moments with me. And if you ask me, that's the best thing I could have traded my time for.
To be fair, for people who don't know how to solve it, that method is probably just as plausible as any other lol. I remember when I was beginning to learn, and I had a hard time accepting that some people can solve it in less than 5 seconds using intuition. That seemed just as impossible to me as someone memorizing the entire scramble
I never became a speedcuber but I did put in the time to be able to solve it without assistance. Cut to a few years later I was quoting a job for a client and he had a cube on his desk, when I picked it up he said: "it had been on his desk for years and never been solved." He was very impressed when I solved it in front of him and I also got the contract so win-win.
haaha! deadset, when i left school I put "i can solve the rubik's cube" on my resume at the bottom, kinda as a joke but kinda not at the same time. at a job interview someone asked me about it, and they happened to have a cube in the office, so I solved it for him and he gave me the job! haha! true story :)
Thank you for these stories!! I'm a high school computer science teacher who teaches solving the cube as an example on how to understand computer algorithms. One time I said to the students (and I really meant this),"You know I can really see this happening. One day down the road, whether it's 1yr., 5yrs, 20yrs, knowing how to solve this cube will indirectly open a previously locked door for you that's going to bless your life."
“What happens when you learn to solve a Rubik’s Cube” you scramble it and start over, thousands of times for the next 3 years of your life. you are now addicted.
Salahaddin Albahri dang bro, that’s good! My best is 18.8, but my average was like 26 or so. But yeah, now I’ve forgotten most of the algorithms so I’m pretty slow ☹️ of course, my best cube was 5$ so maybe a good cube would’ve helped.
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Yes indeed! I solved it first for 2 weeks, and I play with it all the time, my best time is about 2 minutes with the learned solution..
My answer: I can relate because I too used to be a cubing nerd to the point where I was getting like sub15-20. You can go deeper than I did but to me, that’s where I stopped because I was happy with my average score.
I used to try to solve one color at a time. One day i had a tiny cube and messing around with it i almost got 2 colors at once. I then spent like 2 hours+ trying to get opposing faces to be complete. I felt like if i had been around before the universe i woulda beat god and made everything in 20 mins. Not 7 days. Thats when i then started looking into it online
I work an office job (essentially IT, but a little different) where aside from the occasional typing, my hands are free most of the day. I picked up a Rubik's cube just so I could have something to fiddle with at my desk to help the day go by. I didn't really plan on learning to solve it. I just wanted something to keep my hands busy that was more fun and complex than a fidget spinner. Then I stumbled onto the video showing Felix getting his 4.73 WR.... Long story short, here I am now almost 1 year later. I've spent a couple hundred dollars on speed cubes, now averaging around 25 seconds, and I'm 100% fully addicted to cubing. I literally can't stop, nor do I want to. I'm hoping to be around sub 10 or 15 within the next year or so
I’m 50 years old. I remember noticing one of my class mates with a cube for the first time back in middle school around 1980. But I never owned a cube as a kid, I was very poor. I never even tried one out until about 30 years later. Anyway, fast forward to when I was about 39 years old and on vacation on Sanibel Island, for some reason I just made my mind up to learn how to solve a 3X3, I figured it was about time to learn this mysterious cube once and for all. Recently, I just got into it again, one of my temporary obsessions, and bought my first speed cube and trying to take it to the next level
Start off with the 2x2 then move up to 3x3 so more makes sense for a 3x3 then try a 4x4... ya know, baby steps Btw im quite young and its very simple for me because im learning as i grow so its easier for me...
I want you to know that I legit figured it out without googling it and I’m very proud of it. I spent 3 months addicted to it. My approach was I knew there were patterns so I created my own patterns that kept the first layer together and analyzed what happened. Over and over and over again. I made like 6ish patterns and can solve it in like 3-4 minutes. I then got the 4x4 and can complete it 50% of the time. Sometimes I get a bad pattern on the last layer and never figured it out the solution. So I start over. I got a 5x5 and haven’t figured it out yet. I appreciate this video! 🙌🏻
No one on here has mentioned how impossible it is to not have someone say "i'd just peel the stickers off" every damn time like they came up with the joke
today it was pretty funny, i had my cube in class and a couple of people were messing with it. tried to jokingly peel the stickers off but its a newer rubiks brand so they plastic
Personally, I was a speedcuber for the majority of the time that I solved cubes. And I honestly relate too much to this, though I stopped for a different reason. I know no one asked, but here's my story. I got addicted to speedcubing in 5th grade, and got my avg of 5 down to about 13 seconds around the end of 6th grade. I neglected my homework, and neglected friendships. I just went down the rabbit hole learning more and more, speeding up, faster and faster. Each second I shaved off only fueled my desire to get quicker. That went on for about 2 years. Then I hit my peak. A personal best of 7.3 seconds, and personal best avg of 5 of 13.4 seconds. Once that happened, I got frustrated, which was when my brother showed my a card trick. I got into card magic, and once again got addicted to learning new tricks and effects. Again, I wanted to get better and better. But I just couldn't. Eventually, I dropped it all for video games, and I'm still gaming to this day. But I still quite fondly think upon those days of glory when I could get a random sub-10 solve. Every once in a while, I pick up my MoYu WeiLong GTS (yes, I know it's old) and solve it. And it honestly just brings me back to the old days, the days when I felt life only had one goal. Get Faster. In hindsight, those hobbies may not have been healthy socially, but it taught me and probably everyone else my age (10) a valuable lesson. How to learn a new skill. I'm seen as smart to many people around me not because I knew how to solve a Rubik's Cube in 15 seconds, or because I can pick your chosen card out from a face down deck of cards, but because of the many skills I learned. Today, I can visualize concepts, physical or abstract, in my mind easily, which is a skill I learned from developing my own algorithms for the Cube. I can take an idea and work backwards from how I could make that possible in the real world, which comes from watching magic shows and figuring them out. These skills are basically essential for young adults, if they want to produce quality work. Overall, I just think that whereas yes, solving a Rubik's Cube isn't very useful for the future, the journey that children especially go through learning how to solve a Rubik's Cube, can help them in a tremendous way. Maybe I'm just projecting, but I hope I'm not. Okay, this comment is way too long. I just kind of spouted out my own thoughts.
I would agree that a natural desire to learn and solve problems has served me well. I did learn to solve the cube until I was 39. I was stuck in bed for a couple of days and decide to occupy my mind. I am not fast at it, but the confidence to solve problems and find solutions will carry you a long way in life.
@@niri6559 Yes, but I have no proof. I got in the habit of memorizing algorithms to speed up my learning progress, so I never wrote anything down. I made 3, I believe, and even then it's been so long, I only remember one of those cases, which was an F2L case. Regardless, I bet you could find at least 2 other ways to solve the case more efficiently. I may have made them myself, but I was 11 or 12, how good could they have been anyways?
Firelord Kushroll the new Rubik's cube 2.0s with tiles actually turns quite well (although it still barely corner cuts) but as for why they haven't made a good one: it's because they don't need to. They have the branding that no one cares most cubers start on a Rubik's brand cube.
My fastest time in nearly 40 years of solving: 17.5 seconds. Typical: 30-35 seconds. Everyone: Wow! Just work a little harder and you'll get the worlds record.
Everyone always asks me what my fastest is, and when I tell them 30 seconds, they always want to see it like I do that all the time lol my fastest is NEVER my consistent time. If i could do a 30 second solve consistently, 30 second would not be my fastest solve lol that’s just not going to happen.
@@SS____________ I've been solving the 3x3x3 since it first was commercially available in the early 1980s. Back then we didn't have computers to calculate optimization sequences like today's top solvers use to learn from. My method is nowhere nearly as efficient (and my hands move nowhere nearly as fast) as the top people today. In order for me to improve I'd have to un-learn almost 40-years of my solving method. Still my typical 30-35 seconds solving time is not bad, it just isn't world class by a long-shot.
That's true, but your muscles in your hand are also improved in some ways.If i solve it( need about 40 to 50 seconds), i dont even think about it.I just see what i have to do and my hands start to work without thinking.That can be usefull...
As a speedcuber, I relate to this, but I got so passionate about cubing that I don't care what other people think and I'm gonna pursue it purely because i enjoy it
That's why you should do anything, because you love it. Impressing people wears old very fast. I learned how to solve the cube and got it down to 1 minute average. Learned tricks i discovered on my own and the proceeded to learning music, drums, then the bass, then the guitar and finally what I always thought was the hardest but i enjoyed the most, the keyboard. Solving the cube gave me an ego boost that showed me I could learn anything I want, I even learned pen tricks the Chinese kids brought from overseas.
Hello Darius, I am now almost 50 years old and after a break of more than 35 years I came back to cubing because the tooth fairy brought my son a rubik's cube. Since then i have collected a lot of cubes. My motivation is not to break records. But it's fun to learn and use different methods. I think it's important to keep your brain fit with constant learning, even at my age. In addition, a Rubik's Cube is small and you can have it with you when you are out and about. Obviously, as an adult, I don't have much time to practice, so my progress is slow. But my average is around 30 seconds. Have fun and happy cubing ... :-)
I learned how to solve it, and did it in high school once. A crowd of kids gathered around me and cheered when I finished it. A girl hugged me at the end. It was like a movie. People really were impressed. I also learned the 5x5, the tetrahedron, and the dodecahedron versions without instructions. Surprisingly I did it at a party as an adult and a cute girl was really impressed and asked me to show her how to do it. I taught her for a few hours. So it’s not a completely useless skill, haha
Step 1. Make time Step 2. Learn algorithms Step 3. Memorize Step 4. Practice, practice, practice Step 5. Resort to a never ending black of knowledge Step 6. Become Felix Bombgardner
Follow the arc exactly haha For me it's literally the same, every single aspect of it. I did try learning the quicker CFOP method but never could wrap my head around it. Either way, it still impresses people that see it for the first time, and always impresses my younger cousins no matter how many times. It's a fun thing to know EDIT: I was solving the cube in front of my second aunt and they were impressed by it so ended up buying a cube and a few days later messaged me saying they learned how to solve. That was pretty awesome
I’m a 77 year old retired doctor. Solving the cube was at the top of my bucket list so at 73 I spent at least an hour a night for three months until I could solve it in under 9 minutes . Not a record but a worldly feat at that age. I agree with your insight: it is really analogous to life. Almost anyone could do it if they were willing to put in the time and effort. I, after many years had the time could take it off my bucket list and will bask in the glory of my accomplishment every sunny morning I am lucky enough to wake up.
I was looking for an older person's perspective. I mean speedcubing is such a new thing to this hobby. Sub 30 seconds was such a big feat for a long time until recently. I was around when they first came out - but it wasn't until 2005 I learned how to actually solve it. I was around 3-4 minute mark (with a Rubik brand!), I didn't care if I was fast or slow, just knew that I could actually tackle it and solve it whatever state it was in. It was only 2018 I actually started to learn CFOP and the following year ROUX. I'm a twisty puzzle collector first - solver second.
basically all the quotes you see are lines that everyone says when they see someone solve a rubiks cube. "I'm gonna mess it up so hard you won't be able to solve it" for example. Turning it around excessively doesnt actually make it harder to solve, if you're using a specific method you'll solve it in the same amount of time mostly, so when we hear that we're just internally facepalming since it doesn't make any difference whether they mix it up for 30secs or 30 minutes. All the other quotes you see are along those lines as well
Kind of uncanny how much I relate to your story, one difference though: I went to a small public high school in the south. A lot of yee yee dip packers and people who really were just trying to make it out of there alive. I wasn't one of the popular kids, but I do think that in some way, learning the 3x3 put me "in" with the popular kids. After 7th/8th grade, I went on to try and be the kindest I could to everyone, and everyone really grew to like me. It's funny thinking back on it now, that little thing I knew really got me in contact with some cool people. I actually participated in a rubiks cube race against one of the seniors in my 7th grade year, it was a part of our talent show that we dedicated to just us racing to see who was faster. I personally used that to try and spread kindness through the school, once I was forgotten as the cube kid, I was just known as Logan, and I think that's something really nice. Everyone has a unique personality and quality to them, just getting to know others and being open minded can really take you far.
through middle school i was known as "that weird kid who freaks out in typing class and can solve the rubix cube really quick", i defiantly started cause i thought people would think im smart if i could solve the cube but as i learned it turned into a actual addiction. i would spend hours trying to memorize all my 1 look oll cases and such. i started to get so good i would go to competition. the largest one i went too was the 2015 US Nationals. i could solve the 3x3 cube in about 20 seconds on average. i was never really that good at 3x3 so i always competed in 2x2, skewb, and pyramix. i can still solve it kinda fast (like 40 seconds) and its more of just a party trick. good video man!
Ph4nt0m you can get pretty quick at pyramix. My pb was like 4.3 seconds in competition. I think it’s a good one to compete in as a beginner. Same as 2x2
I average around 25 seconds on 3x3 but I don’t practice very many other cubes out of my 43 cube collection. But I just learned full PLL and am working on full OLL. I also need to get better at cross to F2L and F2L look ahead
Noncubers when seeing his cube: oh, it's just some dumb offbrand Cubers when seeing his cube: I see, you are a man of culture. Good choice of the little magic. Edit: My mistake for calling it a little magic. I just saw the Yuxin sticker and assumed it was a little magic because it's cheap and everyone knows about them.
I was 50 something when I learned to solve. One day my grandson said a kid in his class was a genius who could solve the cube. So, of course, I had to learn how to do it so that I could teach him. I wanted him to know that he didn't need to be a genius in order learn to do what he wanted. That was a few years ago, and we still have so much fun racing to see who can solve it faster. I enjoyed your video. Keep solving!
It took me three years to learn how to solve a 3x3. When I knew how to do it for the first time, it took me 5 minutes. 3 years later, my PB is 58.7 seconds. Big improvement if I must say so myself.
@Prime Ex my friend is a national speed cuber here in the Philippines. He taught me his preferred tricks and methods until I got faster. It took years for me to get better at it though
Creative Sparks I wasn’t as stupid as you lol, I knew it had to go layer by layer... I’m pretty sure I got the entire first two layers before I folded and looked up a tutorial
Step 1. Make time Step 2. Learn algorithms Step 3. Memorize Step 4. Practice, practice, practice Step 5. Resort to a never ending blackhole of knowledge Step 6. Become Felix Zemdegs
Daniel Ta Thanks! I was trying to find his name earlier. In my original comment I said “becomes Felix Baumgartner” he was the guy who skydived from the edge of the atmosphere. I had the totally wrong person! Haha! I still solving a cube in sub 5 seconds is more impressive. I can solve it in .254 secs though. The trick is to only turn one side once. Ima genius
Man, so much relatable. I've learned how to solve the cube in 2009 and gone through every single one phase you mentioned, but in 2016, after I gave up cubing for 2 years or so, I started to go in my city's annual championship. AND IT WAS SO GOOD! I could meet people from diferent cities who comes play and talk and interact to them reacended my passion for cube. I gave up on training and trying to hard to improve my times, but I still go to the championships just for the people, the friends I made in this community. 2020 has beeing a huge blow to it, with all presencial competitions being cancelled, but through WhatsApp and online championships I still in contact with this friends. And I leave my 3x3 in my desk, next to my computer, is a great distraction when I get stressed or bored by college or whatever. Without this, I would probably quit cubing at all, even as a hobby, but friends make everything better and this is a way to connect me to them.
Hey, you said to leave a comment, so here’s my cube story: I got a cube for Christmas when I was 11, scrambled it to the point of no return, and I couldn’t solve it. I personally hated seeing it unsolved, and since I already knew there were unlimited sources of tutorials for many things on TH-cam, I learned how to solve it then. It impressed my family and friends, so I continued the process. I thought of it as fun at first and I liked the satisfaction of solving it. Then I learned about the cubing side of things; the competitions, world records and things like that. It prompted me to be flashy and make the “really fast turns like cubers do.” I started moving faster til I got to around 1:00 for a PB, and I couldn’t progress further. When I was 15 I learned about CFOP, so I started going crazy on it. Ever since then I don’t cube to impress anyone, being 19 no one around me is impressed by it at all. So I relate heavily to that. I just do it for me, and getting better times drives me and learning better algorithms. Still just a hobby. Now, as I’m writing this: PB single: 23 seconds, PB average: 31 seconds. Thanks for reading whoever did. WOO! Edit: 6 months later my current PB is 13.66 and I average around 20 seconds lol 🚀
Hey I am following your story and currently sit at PB of 1:27 just starting to look at CFOP ( thanks J Perm) enjoy the process. Irst decent cube in the post right now, don't know howw long I'll keep going but it's good fun aand satisfying and every time you beat a time you do want to push further. Looking forward to aa good cube my rubiks iss great but catches loads.
I never learned to solve a cube for other peoples reaction. At first it was on my bucket list. Once I figured it out my OCD kicked in and I got obsessed with getting faster and faster times. Once I realized there was no point in solving it fast it now acts as a fidget spinner. I just play with a cube while I watch Netflix or youtube.
Them: "What? You can't solve it? I knew you were all talk." Me: "Someone either took out the pieces and put them back in wrong or took off the stickers and put them on wrong. There's no algorithm that'll.... Them: "Shutup nerd.. I knew you couldn't do it."
I was trying to solve a cube that my girlfriend bought at a garage sale as a fidget toy for her classroom (she’s a teacher). And I was so confused when it wouldn’t solve because the colors were all in the wrong spots lol but I guess someone took it apart and moved the pieces. I need to see if i can take it apart. Almost speed cubes have that ability
My dad bought me a 1.5ft x 1.5ft x 1.5 ft storage box that has a cube design pattern on it (you can see it here: officenstorage.com/cube-strorage-box). The colors don't even come close to what a cube has on it. In fact some of corner cubes even have 2 of the same color on it. I can't even look at the thing without going a little nuts.
I remember this was my science project in 8th grade because i got paired with a guy who was in electronics club and i was in comp club (i joined that solely to play warcraft on the school comp)... so my partner was a robotic genius he built the stands to hold the cube and prongs and mechanisms to move the cube around and i felt like i wasnt contributing anything so i forced myself to learn C++ and kinda try to do the coding but in the end i just gave up and his dad did the coding for us... we were 3rd and i definitely didnt deserve it... i still remember that guy till this day and his passion for building... that being said even after passing comp engg i still dont know how to solve a rubicks cube -_-
This video is a few months old and I don't know if you'll see this comment, but I hope you realize how brilliant you are. You're inspiring, even just talking about a Rubik's Cube. It's not so much the content as the insight you bring to the table. That's an incredibly powerful skill you have. Great as the entertainment aspect of your channel is, I'd love to see what kind of impact you can make beyond that. Anyway, thanks for all the content. :)
I was a child when i first learned from my classmate friend about the rubix cube. My mother loved that I loved figuring it out since i was a girl she thought it made me interested in math. I hate math and when I got a D in my math class that same semester i was learning the rubix cube she took my cube away and never let me use it again. Now that im an adult I bought my own cube and now realized that cube was the reason I didn't get a C in that math class. I put in so many hours to memorizing it all that 5 years later, from when my mother took my first cube to me getting another one out of curiosity, I instinctively knew what I was doing, but needed a cheat sheet for the algorithms. It was wonderful re-living a part of my childhood i had forgotten. Thank you for your time.
I wish people would ask me more often to teach them. I figured out the cube a long time ago on my own, first becoming sub-25 in a Corners-first approach then later figuring out a different approach similar to Petrus and getting around sub 25 and faster. I have figured out 200 or more puzzles without any help. I care less about speed and just enjoy it for the simple pleasure of doing it.
I encountered the Rubik's cube in the 70's growing up but we were so poor that we couldn't afford to buy one. I remembered salivating over my classmates having the cube since it was the "in" thing at that time. Fast forward 40 years and I bought myself a cube during the quarantine and borne into finding ways to alleviate my stress, I learned how to solve the Rubik's cube. I am no genius by any stretch of anyone's imagination but I challenged my 52 year old brain to learn algorithms, follow directions and develop the mental discipline of focusing on details. Thank you for posting the video. More power to you.
ᴡᴀʀᴘʀᴏᴍᴏ / E D I T S I know, but after 10 years, it only makes sense to be able to solve a 4x4. EDIT: There is a Mistake. See the 2 replies below this one.
I got a rubik's cube when I was 19 and I learned how to solve it in the most basic easiest way. I cut like maybe one corner. But after a couple years I stopped picking it up and it's just been gathering dust on my shelf. I'm 24 now. Maybe I should go back to practicing because I forgot everything at this point
As a cuber, I can definitely relate to you in my first interactions with the cube. In one part of the vid you said that learning new algorithms stopped being worth it and you just stuck with what you already knew. Personally, I enjoy learning algorithms because it gives me satisfaction in conquering a certain case and something else to add to my collection of them.
The Rubiks Story: Buy a cube 1 year later: still fun to try and solving it 3 sides done🥳 Learn how to solve it Well now my time on the cube is 30 seconds..
My pb is barely sub 30 and I average just sub 40 I think with an average of 5 pb that's 32.42 but no more sub 30 solves😔 i forgot my cube from a party so rn I can't practise.
More than 20 years ago my father had a cube and figured out how to solve it. He taught me and my brothers. Later in elementary school someone brought one to show it to his classmates. Over the years I almost forgot how to solve it, but still shocked them when only I could do it. I think things mostly changed because of internet. I still rarely meet anyone who can solve it, but people know it has different methods. My 3 minutes average solving time is still the same after 15 years. 😀
Yo try to improve....I learned to solve it before 1 year and my average was 5mins....but for the past 5months I am learning the advanced method and now my average is 30sec...still improving till I reach 10sec😂
Even though I can solve in a minute, l like solving in like around 5 minutes if I'm in front of some one. They don't realize I'm doing a system and they are more impressed
@Chris Williams same I learned the beginner's method and I've loved it even more. Maybe in the future, I'll learn faster algorithms but for now, I'm just happy I can finally solve a cube
since i learned how to solve a rubik's cube i use it to relax, it helps me with anxiety so every time i feel uneasy i find myself solving it over and over again, so it's not that useless at least :P
definitely relate to your story quite a bit, especially the parts about not trying to be the fastest and about bringing it to class i had an unsolved rubiks cube sitting in a toy box for 7 years until one day i found it, and my brain lit up and i looked up a tutorial on youtube didnt stop from there i fell in love with all things twisty puzzle and cubing, love watching speedcubers do their thing sometimes the only thing that can bring me back from a panic attack is one of my puzzles the impact these have had on my life is incredible my puzzle collection grows, my skill with the puzzles grows, and my appreciation for the puzzles also grows i was surprised when i saw your video about this on my timeline, i remembered loving your vines but didnt really keep up with you once vine died but i am so glad your video did pop up on my timeline, seeing perspectives of people who didnt dive head first into collecting like i did and who didnt start working on trying to get a world record really helps expand the community in my eyes, there is such a wide range of ways to enjoy these puzzles
I seriously expected this to be a comedy video, because I only know him mostly from Vine. I didn’t expect to be sucked back through my entire childhood like this. I was exactly the same way, except I dove deeper rather than putting it on a shelf. It’s actually become a pivotal part of my personality. My roommate actually just learned how to solve one, and seeing him going through this arc is really fun. The first day he took it with him to work, and got to actually experience the way people react, that’s all he talked about. How awesome it was for people to be like “Nahhh, I’m gonna mess it up so much you can’t fix it.” And then a minute or so later, they come back and it’s just sitting on the table solved like it’s nothing. I told him that feeling never goes away, at this point in my life, I have an entire box full of various cube sizes and variants, and anybody who knows me isn’t as impressed when I finish a 3x3 in 30 seconds anymore, because it’s just normal. But when I meet someone new, or I’m just out and about, and someone sees me, and gets so excited. That’s a feeling I live for, it’s seriously like a drug. You can probably just tell, but I’m not necessarily a super social kind of guy. I didn’t really hang out with people much in high school, but anytime I was going to a party or was going to be around a bunch of new people, I would always have at least one 3x3 on me. It’s like a child’s security blanket, whenever I’m uncomfortable I can just find a spot to chill and just fuck with it. And 9 times out of 10, someone will come over and say something about it. My favorite moments are probably when I can tell someone’s watching from across the room, and I’ll make eye contact while I do the last moves just to see their face. Dude, thank you so much for the nostalgia trip. Cubes have seriously changed my life, and it’s really nice to take a minute and really process what that’s been like.
CptRussia i quit for many years after learning before becoming inspired to teach students how to solve it. It made me learn about Rubik’s cube competitions which after 39 competitions are pretty fun. There are national and international championships which get streamed on twitch. And the puzzles keep getting updated so they’re really better than ever.
The part where he talks about adults not being impressed is a good life lesson. Do things because you enjoy them and they're fun, not because of what other people will think or say about it. As long as it's not hurting yourself or anybody who cares?
I took some interest in the 3x3 cube in 2013. Couldn’t really solve it until I fully immersed myself at the end of 2013, early 2014. Solved it after learning the basic method in a week. At the time that impressed teachers, and peers. Everyone wanted to learn how to solve it, so they’d come to me. I’d try to usually shut that stuff down. I came to know about the wolrd record, was totally amazed at how insanely fast people solved it! I beleive Lucas ether was the fastest at the time with his 4.96. I tried to reduce my time but could only get it down to 40 seconds with finger tricks. Couldn’t really find a solution to get it down to 20 or below that. Around 3 years later, it’s 2017, and suddenly my peers and classmates had taken an interest in solving the Rubik’s cube 3x3. I was shocked and at the same time happy. And at last, I had found CFOP, the solution to my problems. Bought my first Gancube, the gans 356 air UM magnetic which at the time was the cube used by the wr holder feliks zemdegs. Lovely cube, really great cube, worth the extra cash. Had a little cfop pamplet which helped me master all the OLLs and PLLs. 2Look F2l took me a while but I learnt that as well. Now that I had learnt CFOP, my times were averaging around 18-20seconds. It was insane. Took me a while, but I finally found a way to get my cross done in 8 moves or less, and so I brought my times down to 15 seconds and lesser. And eventually it came to 10 seconds. After getting sub 10s I didn’t really try that much, I was satisfied. Entered multiple completions in my area, won all of them for the most part. Not WCA affiliated tho. WCA doesn’t hold many competitions in my state. My classmates and I at the time used to have little competitions in our class as well, I lost like 2 of them in the beginning and won many later. Great times. Now I don’t really bother with the cube anymore, I stopped making cube related content and I just play with it occasionally. My times have increased doe, I’m no longer sub 10, mostly sub 15, sub 12ish. Definitely satisfied with my journey. still impresses people to this day haha, but remember to never let the ego get the best of you! All the best to anyone who wishes to learn how to solve one! It’s relatively easy. Even CFOP. It’s just a matter of memorizing, and efficiency. There’s other methods out there which are becoming popular like ROUX, ZZ, and what not. So do feel free to check them out.
If it’s boring you can learn different methods, if you feel invested enough. CFOP is probably the easiest speedcubing method to get into after you learn the beginners method
It took me 1 year to learn how to solve it each day trying to figure how to do it,and soon i became a Rubik's fanatic,learned hot to do 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, pyraminx, irregular 3×3,and the Pentagon Rubik's cube, i think thats what its called
This is such an inconsequential topic in the grand scheme of things and yet so relatable. Amazing. I love your style of storytelling! I first figured out how to solve a side by myself. Then I learned how to turn that side into a layer, and finally I learned to solve the middle layer. After that, I couldn't solve any further without disrupting what I had already solved, so I looked up solutions online and learned the last layer. I got a 2x2x2 and 4x4x4 cube also, and learned a couple of things like OLL/PLL, but I still use the layer-by-layer method and can do it in about 40 seconds on average, give or take. I also played with some LEGO Mindstorms stuff to solve it but I didn't really get into speedcubing beyond all that, and by the end of high school, I just kind of let it catch dust, because it's just not as interesting anymore.
I can average sub 25 consistently and yeah I can definitely relate , people told me I am smart or even a genius for solving it but I think it's the wrong compliment.. I think it's a skill rather than a test of intellect. Solving a cube faster and faster is much more impressive than just solving a cube. I stopped learning the algorithms when those pll olls didn't show up often enough for me to invest the time to learn them. My 3*3 is now kept in a drawer somewhere and I go back from time to time just to see if I still got the speed I don't find many opportunities to show it off nowadays tho compared to 8thgade when literally all my friend group was cubing
I can relate to this. In seventh grade Rubik’s cubes became a fad and so I got a 2x2. I did the same thing you did and went online to help me solve it until I did it so many times that I could do it without help. Eventually I did 2x2 for a year never really too invested in it but I could solve it in 30 second or less. I got board of it so I got a 3x3 to see if I could solve it. I watched tutorials and found solutions online but I was just overwhelmed by what I would have to remember so I gave up and stuck with 2x2. I had many hobbies at the time like Lego, art, video games, making model cars and biking, just to name some, so I didn’t want to invest to much time into something that would take away from other hobbies. I also didn’t have much that drove me to learn. I was in a small school with not more that 35 students per grade level. By grade 10 nobody cubed and my friends and brother had no interest in the topic, sometimes thinking it was stupid. Therefore I never brought my 2x2 to school or into public thinking that it was a long dead fad that nobody cared about. At the end of grade 10, My family had to move do to work related things but the house sold during school so I would have to finish the final 3 months at my grandparent’s ranch. This was in a rural community in northern Alberta and I was completely separated from my friends while not at school. Just the bus ride was upwards of 2 hours. Now that I had to live in the middle of the woods nowhere with barely a wifi connection I had nothing to do but attempt to learn 3x3. It wasn’t hard at all. Some of the algorithms I already knew from 2x2 and after a few days of practice I could solve the cube without the internet averaging around a 2 minute solve. I kept at it and got my time down to a minute. Once I moved and got some free time from school and working at my grandparents ranch, I eventually found out that there was an avid speed cubing community on TH-cam. I realized that my hidden hobby was a thing that people actually still do. This motivated me more to get my solve time on 3x3 down to 45 seconds and to learn pyraminx and 4x4. I am still learning 4x4 but I have solved it a couple times without the internet. I can’t wait to get a better 4x4 tho because the one I have is a rubiks brand from the early 2000s so the turning in horrendous. I have learned a lot from getting into speedcubing like that I can learn anything if I put my mind to it, however I still can’t take my skill out in public. I tried to bring all my cubes to my new school, which is 8x the size of my old one, maybe to see if there are others there that have interest in the community but of course people just made rude comments about me for absolutely no reason beside I was playing with a pyraminx! I quickly put those away and never brought them back. Hopefully next year will be different because I’ve never really had friends that shared the same types of hobbies to the extent that I like them. It’s just hard to find such a niche demographic in a school with over 1000 students. Let’s just hope that next year, even tho it’s my last, will be different and that I can finally get a new 4x4!
I’m 12 and learned to solve the cube when I was ten. After that I took a break. Then came quarantine. I rediscovered my interest in the cube learned all the way from 2x2-5x5 and learned more methods for the original cube. In short I relate to this story. Thank you!
My journey: - I was gifted old school Rubik's cube brand cube - Can't figure out and give up - Many years later found tutorial on Metacafe on how to solve cube in 4 parts: the beginner's method. - Actually learned and managed to solve in average 3 minute. - Try to teach other family members that visits but none ever finished learning. - Lost the cube and stopped solving. - Many years later found the cube again and relearning how to solve it. - Found other tutorial on youtube because the old tutorial is gone from Metacafe. - No one on youtube is teaching it the way it was taught to me and I can't seem to get the new methods to work. - Retried to relearn from memory and finally figured out how it goes using the old method. - I then learned that there are speed cubes out there that are less than $10. I bought one for $5. - I managed to cut down my time to average 2 minutes. - I've been solving so much that I learned that there are patterns to some of the repeating algorithms that is always occurring and that speeds up the solves. - Learned some finger tricks on youtube to speed up the algorithms. I also learned to rotate the cube less and only rotate the top row using finger during the last layer solves. - For the longest time, I'm stuck at around 1:30 solve time. - Bought two more cheap speed cubes and a 2x2 cube, and found one to be better than my current one. I kept that one and the 2x2 and gave the other two to my nephew and my sister. - Learned some janky 2x2 beginner's method that is not very reliable to solve. Got almost discouraged on keep solving it. - Found a new method by incorporating 3x3 algorithm into the 2x2 solve and found it to be very easy and reliable now. - Back to the 3x3: Learned how to speed up solving the white cross. Then intuitive F2L. Found that white top on the corner is now a blessing and very speedy way of solving instead of hindrance. - The initial learning slows the speed a lot. But after many practices I decided to cut down on the look around and just reincorporate what works from the beginner's method and what can be done to speed it up. - I also learned Z and H permutation to speed up the last layer special cases that require two permutations to solve. - I'm now at around 1 minute and I will stop because it will require a lot of memorization to cut it down to under 30 seconds. - Maybe in the future I will learn more algorithm that will cut down on a lot of the sune and A perm moves.
Learn trigger algorithms. it would really help because most F2L OLL and PLL algorithms have parenthesis which indicate trigger algorithms. Examples: Sledgehammer, anti-Sledgehammer, Sexy move, inverse sexy move, etc.
Okay, i would've liked your comment, but the way you ended it was quite sad. KEEP TRYING !!! Okay. If you've had such a passion with solving, why lose the passion all of a sudden and throw it away like it never happened? Here, listen. Go learn the eight basic cross OLL cases. That way, you can solve OLL super fast in a 2-look fashion. Glad you learned H and Z perms first cause those are arguably the most important PLLs to learn first. Your story is very inspiring and empowering. Keep it up man. Know this, the cross can ALWAYS be solved in less than 8 moves. Watch example solves and figure out how to pair those cross pieces efficiently to minimize the moves. Remember that you don't have to adjust the cross to match the centers, you only have to do that after you get all the cross pieces there or unless its necessary to minimize the moves further. Red is opposite of orange, green opposite of blue. Keep practicing f2l until its second nature and learn some very convenient algs to make some of the cases easier and WATCH EXAMPLE SOLVES. If we want to learn Calculus, isn't it easier if a professor guides you and helps point things and highlight things out, rather if you just flipped open a book? You got this !!!! (21 second average solver btw) :)
I got very deep into speedcubing, and I've gotta say, the collecting cubes, solving, and competing part is very, very fun! It has actually made me gain some new perspectives on things, really. I got some new perspectives into things I previously wouldn't have gotten and I appreciate that, stuff like memorizing, mnemonics and even spatial awareness were things I actually felt improvement from solving my cubes. It's just a fun hobby currently and I appreciate that. It's a great pastime and I think it's worth it.
In 2019 i realized I was having a really hard time finishing things I started ...books ...tv shows..I even had thoughts of quitting college...whatever it may have been...and I felt like I had lost all my aspirations ..and so I bought a rubik’s cube and told myself I was going to learn how to solve it...after working for several hours i got frustrated and quit..a couple days later I picked it up again and started working the algorithms and before i knew it I had solved it.. I felt a sense of accomplishment from that and it instilled drive back into my life ...kinda weird since it’s just a kids toy but it kind of changed my life ...
yeah. i felt a huge sense of accomplishment when i finally solved it in under one minute. still going strong and i want to be able to solve in 30 seconds. also, it's not a kids toy. that's just a cultural conception. an average small kid would never have the brain power to learn to solve it. I tried it when I was a kid and it was super complex for me. 10 years later, i'm 18 now, and it's almost too simple. It's so intriguing how something can feel so complex at first and many years later become the simplest thing ever.
I definitely relate to your story. I've been interested and challenged by and in the rubiks cube for 6-7 years now. Starting small with my father, and impressing people throughout the years. That feeling of impressing people made me go on and try to be even better. But by now, i still do the rubiks cube and i solve it in around 45 seconds. And not to impress people anymore but it makes me relax and feel good. It makes my mind empty. At this point, i don't see myself stopping and putting away my cube, but that obviously will happen at some point. It's just an awesome feeling overall and great challenge. It just never disappointing me in any way after each solve and that's what keeps me going i suppose. Hope you all have a wonderful time with the cube and if anyone is reading, let me know if it makes you feel the same way, i'm very curious.
Nerd here.
I definitely relate to your story, riding on the wave of impressing people and then eventually realizing it's not a very useful skill. I definitely got deeper than you did (around 30 seconds per solve) and I couldn't just stop, and you could say I was addicted at that point. Solving the cube at school kind of isolated me from social interaction, which I didn't realize at the time, and eventually made me want to quit cubing to work on something that would be more important.
But of course I've been back for many years now, and the reason I keep going now is because it's fun! I've done a lot of stuff that really has no impact on my life anymore, like various sports, video games, and just stuff that felt like the centerpiece of my life at that moment, yet I rarely think about those anymore. But when I do remember them, it's just happy memories and friends who shared those moments with me. And if you ask me, that's the best thing I could have traded my time for.
Does this guy even know you replied
Oh wow it's j perm
Hi j-perm
Hi Dylan!
The funny part is most people in the comment sections will have no clue who J Perm is hahahaha hes just casually commenting
A non cuber once said to me:
"Dont look at the cube while im scrambling it, you might memorize it"
To be fair, for people who don't know how to solve it, that method is probably just as plausible as any other lol. I remember when I was beginning to learn, and I had a hard time accepting that some people can solve it in less than 5 seconds using intuition. That seemed just as impossible to me as someone memorizing the entire scramble
I can scramble faster than actual solve, so I won't mind if they gonna look at :)
And reverse the moves😂
Honestly if somebody can solve a cube by reverse scramble.. that person might be a genius lol
@@garys261 it's just short term memory
'You solved the cube but you still a baby for buying those boneless wings'
Parity 😂
Hahaha nice
Ahh yess. ..A real one💯💪
Dem boneless wings😄
Parity lmaooo
"i can solve 5 sides but i cant solve the 6th side"
ah yes, non cubers love to lie
@Truong Martin ik thats why its a lie xDD
Even when they say they could solve 2 sides I automatically press X to doubt
Bruh if u solve 5 sides, the whole cube should be solved
Edit: i learned this from j perm :p
@@Ex7r4ct WELL NO SHIT SHERLOCK
That's not possible
I never became a speedcuber but I did put in the time to be able to solve it without assistance. Cut to a few years later I was quoting a job for a client and he had a cube on his desk, when I picked it up he said: "it had been on his desk for years and never been solved." He was very impressed when I solved it in front of him and I also got the contract so win-win.
That’s such a cool story!!
Wow dude
haaha! deadset, when i left school I put "i can solve the rubik's cube" on my resume at the bottom, kinda as a joke but kinda not at the same time. at a job interview someone asked me about it, and they happened to have a cube in the office, so I solved it for him and he gave me the job! haha! true story :)
Thank you for these stories!! I'm a high school computer science teacher who teaches solving the cube as an example on how to understand computer algorithms. One time I said to the students (and I really meant this),"You know I can really see this happening. One day down the road, whether it's 1yr., 5yrs, 20yrs, knowing how to solve this cube will indirectly open a previously locked door for you that's going to bless your life."
Now _this_ is a quality comment!
“What happens when you learn to solve a Rubik’s Cube”
you scramble it and start over, thousands of times for the next 3 years of your life. you are now addicted.
I’m going on 6 years
I was only into it for 6 months. I hit my goal of sub 20 seconds and then we moved and I got a job 😂 now my average is up to like 45 seconds again.
Salahaddin Albahri dang bro, that’s good! My best is 18.8, but my average was like 26 or so. But yeah, now I’ve forgotten most of the algorithms so I’m pretty slow ☹️ of course, my best cube was 5$ so maybe a good cube would’ve helped.
Yes indeed! I solved it first for 2 weeks, and I play with it all the time, my best time is about 2 minutes with the learned solution..
way more than 3 my dude
EVERYONE : What happens when you solve a cube??
CUBERS : Nothing.
But breaking pbs always makes your day
CUBERS: I scramble it again and do it faster
Im a cuber and thats what i litealry think lol
Exactly
But what happens when you beat your PB? joy
"Dude you gotta look away cos your just gonna reverse the moves"
That is true why is it In quotations?
It’s a joke btw
@@UncreativUsername because its what all my non cuber friends say when I ask them to scramble one of my cubes
i made a joke on your comment i get the joke. i literally said "its a joke btw"
100th like
"i'm gonna mess it up so hard you won't be able to solve it"
This sentence HURTS me
Oh my goodness you have no idea how many times I've heard that. I can hear people's voices saying that
😂 heard that before
I can only do 1 out of 3 layers, too hard for me😳
I lost brain cells reading this
Ya reminded me that people can connect over anything, even the smaller stuff. Thank you, really.
💜
Cardistry
C u b i n g i s n ' t s m a l l s t u f f
Mine makes sense
You're welcome
My answer: I can relate because I too used to be a cubing nerd to the point where I was getting like sub15-20. You can go deeper than I did but to me, that’s where I stopped because I was happy with my average score.
what was your average, I took a break on cubing too cause I was happy with my average,
average was 15. something
This is exactly me lmao, learnt basic cfop and just stopped after
7nhz my average was 15-20 and my best was 9
seconds
Yeah my average is somewhere around 35, but my best is 21.25
Hm.
When u first solve a Rubik’s cube, u feel like a *g o d*
No, higher
Facts
Bro I think I’m addicted now
I used to try to solve one color at a time. One day i had a tiny cube and messing around with it i almost got 2 colors at once. I then spent like 2 hours+ trying to get opposing faces to be complete. I felt like if i had been around before the universe i woulda beat god and made everything in 20 mins. Not 7 days. Thats when i then started looking into it online
I felt like, "wow everyone can do this" ... only the ones who found out abt all the algorithm are the real "gods"
What happens when you solve a cube?
Me: You get addicted
This... this is the most accurate thing.. ever...
I meen do i have only 3 hours sleep every night because of cubing? YES AND I LOVE IT!!!
I work an office job (essentially IT, but a little different) where aside from the occasional typing, my hands are free most of the day. I picked up a Rubik's cube just so I could have something to fiddle with at my desk to help the day go by. I didn't really plan on learning to solve it. I just wanted something to keep my hands busy that was more fun and complex than a fidget spinner. Then I stumbled onto the video showing Felix getting his 4.73 WR.... Long story short, here I am now almost 1 year later. I've spent a couple hundred dollars on speed cubes, now averaging around 25 seconds, and I'm 100% fully addicted to cubing. I literally can't stop, nor do I want to. I'm hoping to be around sub 10 or 15 within the next year or so
You buy 15 more cubes and another 15 cubes. Start glueing in magnets maybe make a shrine
yep happened to me
People: I solved one *side* once
Cubers: Laughs in CFOP
jamen Neptune a lot of people reading over this comment cause they don’t understand 🥺
Wut it mean?
Phoenix Woolfolk Cross, F2L, OLL, PLL it’s the sequence of certain algs people use to solve the cube it’s faster than the regular way
Can confirm
I bet half the people who saw this didn't get it
I did it at a party while we were all drunk so naturally I became a god there.
Lmao
What "it" are you referring to? Does it involve anything resembling a Mississippi log jam or an Alaskan pipeline?
Lol maybe if it was a comic com party jk well played
Oh a friend of my older brother did that and the 2020 New Years party we hosted (p.s. I was 10 and he was like 22
How drunk were you?
My social studies teacher called my 4x4 a “Rubik’s Cube on steroids” 🤣
Lolmao
:D
17x17: consumes 20 trillion drugs a second
I mean, I’d stay anything bigger than the standard 3x3 is a Rubik’s cube on steroids
wait till you see the megaminx
I’m 50 years old. I remember noticing one of my class mates with a cube for the first time back in middle school around 1980. But I never owned a cube as a kid, I was very poor. I never even tried one out until about 30 years later. Anyway, fast forward to when I was about 39 years old and on vacation on Sanibel Island, for some reason I just made my mind up to learn how to solve a 3X3, I figured it was about time to learn this mysterious cube once and for all. Recently, I just got into it again, one of my temporary obsessions, and bought my first speed cube and trying to take it to the next level
Nice. You conquerer the 4x4?
Pure Intellectual Being I also have a 4x4 and 5x5 but the word “conquer” might not be the best choice to describe my interactions with them...
Michael Devito jperm’s tutorials are a great way to learn basic to advanced concepts and tips for 3x3 to big cubes you should check him out.
Xander Smith Awesome, thanks. I sub’d and ALREADY learned some good stuff
Start off with the 2x2 then move up to 3x3 so more makes sense for a 3x3 then try a 4x4... ya know, baby steps
Btw im quite young and its very simple for me because im learning as i grow so its easier for me...
“Hey you can solve that? When I was a kid we used to peel the stickers off.”
(Heard this from every single adult who’s seen me solve one)
I think I have heard it about 15 times.
Straight facts. I actually heard this today
That's when I got a stickerless cube frick the boomers
Shiftz fr i only use stickerless. I have a 2x2 3x3 4x4 and 5x5 and the only one that has stickers is the 4x4 but only cuz it was a Christmas gift
That comment always really irritated me
I want you to know that I legit figured it out without googling it and I’m very proud of it. I spent 3 months addicted to it. My approach was I knew there were patterns so I created my own patterns that kept the first layer together and analyzed what happened. Over and over and over again. I made like 6ish patterns and can solve it in like 3-4 minutes. I then got the 4x4 and can complete it 50% of the time. Sometimes I get a bad pattern on the last layer and never figured it out the solution. So I start over. I got a 5x5 and haven’t figured it out yet. I appreciate this video! 🙌🏻
Matthew Paquette That’s pretty impressive, must take a lot of commitment
NOW THIS IS A GENIUS . But seriously how do you do last layer intuitively?
Respect man👌🏾🤙🏾
Mad respect bro. You must have a lot of time
I couldn't solve any of them without googling lol. Pretty impressive on how you solved them. My cousin taught me years ago.
noobs be like: "imma scramble for 30 minutes so it will take you 30 minutes to solve"
Lmao it doesnt work like that, the gods number for 3x3 is 20 so any scramble would always take 20 moves to solve it
@@Ex7r4ct bro thats why I said "noobs be like"
@@Ex7r4ct r/woooosh
It's so funny. They be like "I'm gonna mix it up so hard you can't solve it." I'm just like "try me, bitch" and proceed to solve in 45 seconds.
@@thewizard-edits my friend mixed it up so hard, I could only solve 5 sides of the cube. I could never solve the last one til this day...
No one on here has mentioned how impossible it is to not have someone say "i'd just peel the stickers off" every damn time like they came up with the joke
Everyone of them says that and they kinda think it's cool to say tha
NON CUBERS JOKES LOL
I always respond to that by showing them that you can just pull out the cubies and rearrange them instead
What if its a sticker less cube
@@Tynah4729 see previous comment
today it was pretty funny, i had my cube in class and a couple of people were messing with it. tried to jokingly peel the stickers off but its a newer rubiks brand so they plastic
Personally, I was a speedcuber for the majority of the time that I solved cubes. And I honestly relate too much to this, though I stopped for a different reason. I know no one asked, but here's my story.
I got addicted to speedcubing in 5th grade, and got my avg of 5 down to about 13 seconds around the end of 6th grade. I neglected my homework, and neglected friendships. I just went down the rabbit hole learning more and more, speeding up, faster and faster. Each second I shaved off only fueled my desire to get quicker. That went on for about 2 years. Then I hit my peak. A personal best of 7.3 seconds, and personal best avg of 5 of 13.4 seconds. Once that happened, I got frustrated, which was when my brother showed my a card trick. I got into card magic, and once again got addicted to learning new tricks and effects. Again, I wanted to get better and better. But I just couldn't. Eventually, I dropped it all for video games, and I'm still gaming to this day. But I still quite fondly think upon those days of glory when I could get a random sub-10 solve. Every once in a while, I pick up my MoYu WeiLong GTS (yes, I know it's old) and solve it. And it honestly just brings me back to the old days, the days when I felt life only had one goal. Get Faster.
In hindsight, those hobbies may not have been healthy socially, but it taught me and probably everyone else my age (10) a valuable lesson. How to learn a new skill. I'm seen as smart to many people around me not because I knew how to solve a Rubik's Cube in 15 seconds, or because I can pick your chosen card out from a face down deck of cards, but because of the many skills I learned. Today, I can visualize concepts, physical or abstract, in my mind easily, which is a skill I learned from developing my own algorithms for the Cube. I can take an idea and work backwards from how I could make that possible in the real world, which comes from watching magic shows and figuring them out. These skills are basically essential for young adults, if they want to produce quality work. Overall, I just think that whereas yes, solving a Rubik's Cube isn't very useful for the future, the journey that children especially go through learning how to solve a Rubik's Cube, can help them in a tremendous way.
Maybe I'm just projecting, but I hope I'm not. Okay, this comment is way too long. I just kind of spouted out my own thoughts.
@Pulling the Strings that's just rude mate.
I would agree that a natural desire to learn and solve problems has served me well. I did learn to solve the cube until I was 39. I was stuck in bed for a couple of days and decide to occupy my mind. I am not fast at it, but the confidence to solve problems and find solutions will carry you a long way in life.
@@LazerBlade-yp1lf He didn't even make it through the first paragraph. :/
Andre L you developed your own algorithms?
@@niri6559 Yes, but I have no proof. I got in the habit of memorizing algorithms to speed up my learning progress, so I never wrote anything down. I made 3, I believe, and even then it's been so long, I only remember one of those cases, which was an F2L case. Regardless, I bet you could find at least 2 other ways to solve the case more efficiently. I may have made them myself, but I was 11 or 12, how good could they have been anyways?
I learned how to solve 1 side, I’ll get around to rest one of these decades
I can teach you to solve it if you want. I got my first official solve in October. I'm currently averaging around 27 or do seconds
@@Notyurr please teach me
@@whatyoulookinat9291 Google?
@@cfdbackup3751 did I ask u
You don't solve it side by side but instead you solve it layer by layer
5:35 I was so ready to hear him say that this is sponsered by Skillshare.
Are you glad or disappointed he didn't?
Lmao imagine the whole video was just a prtomotion
Finally youtuber who started cubing that DOESN'T buy the rubik's brand, instead the yuxin little magic
So true
Why do people care. People don't need speed cubes as first cubes
Firelord Kushroll the new Rubik's cube 2.0s with tiles actually turns quite well (although it still barely corner cuts) but as for why they haven't made a good one: it's because they don't need to. They have the branding that no one cares most cubers start on a Rubik's brand cube.
@@reeceherman555 its completely terrible, the rubiks cube 2.0 is still pretty shitty
Reece Herman You can get a much better cube probably for cheaper as well
he knows how to solve a 3x3, but he still hasnt found his supersuit
It's in the wash
Yeah yeah, I get it
you bastard
lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣👌
What happens when you learn to solve a cube:
All 6 sides are solved
*cough* octagonal rubik's cubes
Octagonal isn’t a cube
that one kid with white next to yellow and blue next to green: "why does mine look a bit different for some reason?"
A cube has 6 sides what are you talking about...? Front, back, up, bottom, left, right.
AndrewFerrer3d yes
My fastest time in nearly 40 years of solving: 17.5 seconds. Typical: 30-35 seconds.
Everyone: Wow! Just work a little harder and you'll get the worlds record.
Everyone always asks me what my fastest is, and when I tell them 30 seconds, they always want to see it like I do that all the time lol my fastest is NEVER my consistent time. If i could do a 30 second solve consistently, 30 second would not be my fastest solve lol that’s just not going to happen.
I've been playing 3x3 for years, my current pb is 8s, and I can tell you, the faster you get, the harder you improve
My pb is 15.003 and I’ve been doing it for 3 years
lol they think u just need to solve it in 10 less seconds as a record but it actually is like 3x faster
@@SS____________ I've been solving the 3x3x3 since it first was commercially available in the early 1980s. Back then we didn't have computers to calculate optimization sequences like today's top solvers use to learn from. My method is nowhere nearly as efficient (and my hands move nowhere nearly as fast) as the top people today. In order for me to improve I'd have to un-learn almost 40-years of my solving method. Still my typical 30-35 seconds solving time is not bad, it just isn't world class by a long-shot.
The only thing that happens when you learn to solve rubiks is:
You can solve it
And impress people
yeah and people will think you do magic
That's true,
but your muscles in your hand are also improved in some ways.If i solve it( need about 40 to 50 seconds), i dont even think about it.I just see what i have to do and my hands start to work without thinking.That can be usefull...
I was hoping they would discuss what happens in our brain with neural growth and reinforcement.
step one on working your way towards solving a cube:
buy any other brand of cube other than rubik's
Exactly, I bought the Valk 3. Been solving for a few years now.
Lmaooo this got me 😂😂😂
MF3RS is my personal pick for a beginner cube, cheap and reliable.
Theres still the gan rubik's cube
Why?
As a speedcuber, I relate to this, but I got so passionate about cubing that I don't care what other people think and I'm gonna pursue it purely because i enjoy it
Did you really just call yourself a speedcuber?
Khalil Mccollum
Guess it depends on what his average time is
@@dolo6475 what's wrong with that?
Whatz ur speed?
That's why you should do anything, because you love it. Impressing people wears old very fast. I learned how to solve the cube and got it down to 1 minute average. Learned tricks i discovered on my own and the proceeded to learning music, drums, then the bass, then the guitar and finally what I always thought was the hardest but i enjoyed the most, the keyboard. Solving the cube gave me an ego boost that showed me I could learn anything I want, I even learned pen tricks the Chinese kids brought from overseas.
Hello Darius, I am now almost 50 years old and after a break of more than 35 years I came back to cubing because the tooth fairy brought my son a rubik's cube. Since then i have collected a lot of cubes. My motivation is not to break records. But it's fun to learn and use different methods. I think it's important to keep your brain fit with constant learning, even at my age. In addition, a Rubik's Cube is small and you can have it with you when you are out and about. Obviously, as an adult, I don't have much time to practice, so my progress is slow. But my average is around 30 seconds. Have fun and happy cubing ... :-)
My cubing story:
Learn, Get faster, Go through 4 mains, amass a collection of 50 cubes
Elijah Ramsey lmaoooooo
I am still on the second stage
Yep
I’m on the re-entry stage I’m getting back into it
Amassing a collection is so easy. I couldn't sleep last night so I bought $60 worth of cubes online
People were surprised when I solved it
*inserts scene with himself talking to himself about himself
But if you like me take the cube evryday they will get bored
*inserts nice comment*
I dunno. Looked like very impressive reenactment acting chops to me.
I learned how to solve it, and did it in high school once. A crowd of kids gathered around me and cheered when I finished it. A girl hugged me at the end.
It was like a movie. People really were impressed. I also learned the 5x5, the tetrahedron, and the dodecahedron versions without instructions.
Surprisingly I did it at a party as an adult and a cute girl was really impressed and asked me to show her how to do it. I taught her for a few hours. So it’s not a completely useless skill, haha
a girl hugged you????? lucky bastard lol
A cute girl: hugs
Me: buys 5x5, tetrahedron and dodecahedron
it's only useless if u don't know how to use it ;)
@@yeahyeah9552 which is me ;-;
This sounds like a Disney movie scene
a non cuber once said to me while I'm solving the 2 × 2 :
"man that thing is easy af"
his stupidity is stupidly stupid
Yeah lol most of the people learn to solve 3x3, and only then 2x2
I mean, it really is easy. Some people can one-look the whole thing. The record is like less than half a second IIRC
@@theroyalkiwi8848 It's easy for someone who can already solve the cube, most people learn the 3x3 before the 2x2
@@theroyalkiwi8848 bro that aint true 1 looking 2x2 is like doing 3 bld and the execution needs to be perfect and it takes months to make it perfect
if you already know how to solve a 3x3 then solving a 2x2 is a piece of cake
*How to Solve the Rubik's Cube in a Nutshell:*
1. Algorithms
2. Algorithms
3. Algorithms
4. Algorithms
5. Algorithms
6. Practice
7. Practice
8. Practice
9. Practice
10. Practice
Step 1. Make time
Step 2. Learn algorithms
Step 3. Memorize
Step 4. Practice, practice, practice
Step 5. Resort to a never ending black of knowledge
Step 6. Become Felix Bombgardner
You forgot...
Algorithms
Shut up why are you here again
@@acidic18 who dat?
Follow the arc exactly haha
For me it's literally the same, every single aspect of it. I did try learning the quicker CFOP method but never could wrap my head around it.
Either way, it still impresses people that see it for the first time, and always impresses my younger cousins no matter how many times. It's a fun thing to know
EDIT: I was solving the cube in front of my second aunt and they were impressed by it so ended up buying a cube and a few days later messaged me saying they learned how to solve. That was pretty awesome
id go back and try to give another shot at cfop sometime if i were you. it's way more efficient and you might enjoy improving your times
I’m a 77 year old retired doctor. Solving the cube was at the top of my bucket list so at 73 I spent at least an hour a night for three months until I could solve it in under 9 minutes . Not a record but a worldly feat at that age. I agree with your insight: it is really analogous to life. Almost anyone could do it if they were willing to put in the time and effort. I, after many years had the time could take it off my bucket list and will bask in the glory of my accomplishment every sunny morning I am lucky enough to wake up.
I was looking for an older person's perspective. I mean speedcubing is such a new thing to this hobby. Sub 30 seconds was such a big feat for a long time until recently. I was around when they first came out - but it wasn't until 2005 I learned how to actually solve it. I was around 3-4 minute mark (with a Rubik brand!), I didn't care if I was fast or slow, just knew that I could actually tackle it and solve it whatever state it was in. It was only 2018 I actually started to learn CFOP and the following year ROUX. I'm a twisty puzzle collector first - solver second.
I guess I’m a “non-cuber”, and I’m reading these comments like wtf is going on that I’ve been unaware of all my life.
R N Jesus lmao
Lmaoo hahahha
basically all the quotes you see are lines that everyone says when they see someone solve a rubiks cube. "I'm gonna mess it up so hard you won't be able to solve it" for example. Turning it around excessively doesnt actually make it harder to solve, if you're using a specific method you'll solve it in the same amount of time mostly, so when we hear that we're just internally facepalming since it doesn't make any difference whether they mix it up for 30secs or 30 minutes. All the other quotes you see are along those lines as well
I know right? I mean I'm a 'non-cuber' who just got a cube.. seems we've been missing out :)))
Do I relate? Lol this is my actual life story.
2 likes and a heart lmoa
;) the people that didn't like this comment are the people that didn't get the joke.
Same
Sammeeee
Same
When i first time solved my cube
I was like i am smart man alive
Wait so does that mean their is a “smart man dead”? I never seen somebody say “I am smart man alive” so I’m not sure
@@bruhmoment595 'I'm the smartest man alive', context clues. ^
@@bruhmoment595 rip English
The 19 people who disliked were the ones who rage quit.
FallenDogo Man 4x4, megaminx, 5x5 and skewb has me feeling that way when I was learning to solve them.
@charlescdot 72
71 now
Cubed Communities_MN skewb is one Alg, 4x4, megaminx, 5x5 is hard
FallenDogo Man th-cam.com/video/9Kt1Y2uMKwI/w-d-xo.html
Kind of uncanny how much I relate to your story, one difference though:
I went to a small public high school in the south. A lot of yee yee dip packers and people who really were just trying to make it out of there alive. I wasn't one of the popular kids, but I do think that in some way, learning the 3x3 put me "in" with the popular kids. After 7th/8th grade, I went on to try and be the kindest I could to everyone, and everyone really grew to like me. It's funny thinking back on it now, that little thing I knew really got me in contact with some cool people. I actually participated in a rubiks cube race against one of the seniors in my 7th grade year, it was a part of our talent show that we dedicated to just us racing to see who was faster. I personally used that to try and spread kindness through the school, once I was forgotten as the cube kid, I was just known as Logan, and I think that's something really nice. Everyone has a unique personality and quality to them, just getting to know others and being open minded can really take you far.
Darius: You eventually just leave it sitting on a shelf
Me who hasn't left my house without a cube in my pocket for 6 years: seems legit
Relatable
How do you even get it in your pocket without a huge bulge??
@@RayyanAshraf you can't, you just have to deal with it. ☹️
Lol same
Lol same
through middle school i was known as "that weird kid who freaks out in typing class and can solve the rubix cube really quick", i defiantly started cause i thought people would think im smart if i could solve the cube but as i learned it turned into a actual addiction. i would spend hours trying to memorize all my 1 look oll cases and such. i started to get so good i would go to competition. the largest one i went too was the 2015 US Nationals. i could solve the 3x3 cube in about 20 seconds on average. i was never really that good at 3x3 so i always competed in 2x2, skewb, and pyramix. i can still solve it kinda fast (like 40 seconds) and its more of just a party trick. good video man!
Definitely*
dude my PB in pyraminx was 26 seconds but im still learning the fastest way
Ph4nt0m you can get pretty quick at pyramix. My pb was like 4.3 seconds in competition. I think it’s a good one to compete in as a beginner. Same as 2x2
@@waffles9771 my pb was 23.079
I average around 25 seconds on 3x3 but I don’t practice very many other cubes out of my 43 cube collection. But I just learned full PLL and am working on full OLL. I also need to get better at cross to F2L and F2L look ahead
Noncubers when seeing his cube: oh, it's just some dumb offbrand
Cubers when seeing his cube: I see, you are a man of culture. Good choice of the little magic.
Edit: My mistake for calling it a little magic. I just saw the Yuxin sticker and assumed it was a little magic because it's cheap and everyone knows about them.
I'm a Pseudo-Cuber
Wait,someone who doesn't use v cube? YOU ARE A TRAITOR!
It’s a yuxin black kirin
I use Gan.
@@mtvcubing66 got em
I was 50 something when I learned to solve. One day my grandson said a kid in his class was a genius who could solve the cube. So, of course, I had to learn how to do it so that I could teach him. I wanted him to know that he didn't need to be a genius in order learn to do what he wanted. That was a few years ago, and we still have so much fun racing to see who can solve it faster. I enjoyed your video. Keep solving!
It took me three years to learn how to solve a 3x3. When I knew how to do it for the first time, it took me 5 minutes. 3 years later, my PB is 58.7 seconds. Big improvement if I must say so myself.
@Prime Ex my friend is a national speed cuber here in the Philippines. He taught me his preferred tricks and methods until I got faster. It took years for me to get better at it though
@Prime Ex My average is 22 seconds
this is considered slow
I learned to solve a 3x3 beginners method for two days, a year later (with CFOP) my pb is 16.33
U should rather try improving your average over 5 solves
@@lv.99mastermind45 nah, its around average, if not a litrle fast. Its just that competitions are mostly filled with the best cubers
When you learn how to solve one, you forget how to NOT solve one
FACTS, i wish i could go back to the feeling of sitting there trying to figure it out on my own...
I remember looking back at how dumb I was to think you solve it side by side😂
@@creativesparks2164 ikr
Creative Sparks I wasn’t as stupid as you lol, I knew it had to go layer by layer... I’m pretty sure I got the entire first two layers before I folded and looked up a tutorial
eric Gallant
Well I was like 6 so how was I supposed to know every single person I see know EVEN ADULTS feel accomplished when they get one side
Step 1. Make time
Step 2. Learn algorithms
Step 3. Memorize
Step 4. Practice, practice, practice
Step 5. Resort to a never ending blackhole of knowledge
Step 6. Become Felix Zemdegs
Feliks*
Geniuses aren’t created, they’re born.
Daniel Ta Thanks! I was trying to find his name earlier. In my original comment I said “becomes Felix Baumgartner” he was the guy who skydived from the edge of the atmosphere. I had the totally wrong person! Haha! I still solving a cube in sub 5 seconds is more impressive. I can solve it in .254 secs though. The trick is to only turn one side once. Ima genius
@@jamesavery4016 aaah a 2set fan
james avery aaah a 2set fan
Man, so much relatable. I've learned how to solve the cube in 2009 and gone through every single one phase you mentioned, but in 2016, after I gave up cubing for 2 years or so, I started to go in my city's annual championship. AND IT WAS SO GOOD! I could meet people from diferent cities who comes play and talk and interact to them reacended my passion for cube. I gave up on training and trying to hard to improve my times, but I still go to the championships just for the people, the friends I made in this community. 2020 has beeing a huge blow to it, with all presencial competitions being cancelled, but through WhatsApp and online championships I still in contact with this friends. And I leave my 3x3 in my desk, next to my computer, is a great distraction when I get stressed or bored by college or whatever. Without this, I would probably quit cubing at all, even as a hobby, but friends make everything better and this is a way to connect me to them.
Hey, you said to leave a comment, so here’s my cube story: I got a cube for Christmas when I was 11, scrambled it to the point of no return, and I couldn’t solve it. I personally hated seeing it unsolved, and since I already knew there were unlimited sources of tutorials for many things on TH-cam, I learned how to solve it then. It impressed my family and friends, so I continued the process. I thought of it as fun at first and I liked the satisfaction of solving it. Then I learned about the cubing side of things; the competitions, world records and things like that. It prompted me to be flashy and make the “really fast turns like cubers do.” I started moving faster til I got to around 1:00 for a PB, and I couldn’t progress further. When I was 15 I learned about CFOP, so I started going crazy on it. Ever since then I don’t cube to impress anyone, being 19 no one around me is impressed by it at all. So I relate heavily to that. I just do it for me, and getting better times drives me and learning better algorithms. Still just a hobby. Now, as I’m writing this: PB single: 23 seconds, PB average: 31 seconds. Thanks for reading whoever did. WOO!
Edit: 6 months later my current PB is 13.66 and I average around 20 seconds lol 🚀
Hey I am following your story and currently sit at PB of 1:27 just starting to look at CFOP ( thanks J Perm) enjoy the process. Irst decent cube in the post right now, don't know howw long I'll keep going but it's good fun aand satisfying and every time you beat a time you do want to push further. Looking forward to aa good cube my rubiks iss great but catches loads.
I'm impressed, congratulations!
Well, same PB, 1:00 with CFOP
Yeah I started really practicing at 50 seconds average on January and am now at 14 second average on may! Yay!
I've been cubing since 3 months ago and I average 20-23(I'm inconsistent I know) and I use Roux Method
People: omg this is impossible I give up
Me: *laughs in cuber*
Laughs in ↪️✅🅱️3️⃣
Cfop
Cfop
I never learned to solve a cube for other peoples reaction. At first it was on my bucket list. Once I figured it out my OCD kicked in and I got obsessed with getting faster and faster times. Once I realized there was no point in solving it fast it now acts as a fidget spinner. I just play with a cube while I watch Netflix or youtube.
Wait... is fidget spinner a rubik's cube for slow people?
@@zarinjanis pretty much.
💯, that’s facts
@@zarinjanis no, cuz the fidget spinner is retarded and useless, and the rubicks cube does something
@@theheadpriest rubicks
Them: "What? You can't solve it? I knew you were all talk."
Me: "Someone either took out the pieces and put them back in wrong or took off the stickers and put them on wrong. There's no algorithm that'll....
Them: "Shutup nerd.. I knew you couldn't do it."
Damn I just got the urge to punch someone in their stupid fucking face
so true
I was trying to solve a cube that my girlfriend bought at a garage sale as a fidget toy for her classroom (she’s a teacher). And I was so confused when it wouldn’t solve because the colors were all in the wrong spots lol but I guess someone took it apart and moved the pieces. I need to see if i can take it apart. Almost speed cubes have that ability
Damn...so true. Well for me, the 'them' are my fricking friends who always do this to embarrass me in front of others
My dad bought me a 1.5ft x 1.5ft x 1.5 ft storage box that has a cube design pattern on it (you can see it here: officenstorage.com/cube-strorage-box). The colors don't even come close to what a cube has on it. In fact some of corner cubes even have 2 of the same color on it. I can't even look at the thing without going a little nuts.
I remember this was my science project in 8th grade because i got paired with a guy who was in electronics club and i was in comp club (i joined that solely to play warcraft on the school comp)... so my partner was a robotic genius he built the stands to hold the cube and prongs and mechanisms to move the cube around and i felt like i wasnt contributing anything so i forced myself to learn C++ and kinda try to do the coding but in the end i just gave up and his dad did the coding for us... we were 3rd and i definitely didnt deserve it... i still remember that guy till this day and his passion for building... that being said even after passing comp engg i still dont know how to solve a rubicks cube -_-
"gonna sit on the shelf next to your juggling balls" This man figured me out in less than 7 minutes
Riz same
Riz th-cam.com/video/9Kt1Y2uMKwI/w-d-xo.html
At least he used a little magic instead of a Rubik's brand
YEA haha, same here ^^
I broke my first ylm lmao 😂
its a yuxin kylin, not a little magic
@@silverback_gorilla397 ohh my bad
This video is a few months old and I don't know if you'll see this comment, but I hope you realize how brilliant you are. You're inspiring, even just talking about a Rubik's Cube. It's not so much the content as the insight you bring to the table. That's an incredibly powerful skill you have. Great as the entertainment aspect of your channel is, I'd love to see what kind of impact you can make beyond that. Anyway, thanks for all the content. :)
I was a child when i first learned from my classmate friend about the rubix cube. My mother loved that I loved figuring it out since i was a girl she thought it made me interested in math. I hate math and when I got a D in my math class that same semester i was learning the rubix cube she took my cube away and never let me use it again. Now that im an adult I bought my own cube and now realized that cube was the reason I didn't get a C in that math class. I put in so many hours to memorizing it all that 5 years later, from when my mother took my first cube to me getting another one out of curiosity, I instinctively knew what I was doing, but needed a cheat sheet for the algorithms. It was wonderful re-living a part of my childhood i had forgotten. Thank you for your time.
I have OCD and when you spelled Rubik’s wrong... yeah
I learned and I always hated when people said “tEaCh Me” like, it’s not that simple😂🤦♂️
THAT'S SOOO TRUE. I freaking hate it and it's to the point where i say "just search it on TH-cam"
I wish people would ask me more often to teach them. I figured out the cube a long time ago on my own, first becoming sub-25 in a Corners-first approach then later figuring out a different approach similar to Petrus and getting around sub 25 and faster. I have figured out 200 or more puzzles without any help. I care less about speed and just enjoy it for the simple pleasure of doing it.
“Buy me a steak dinner and I’ll show you the first stage of solving. (Yoda voice) Slow but your learning steady will be, young Padawan”
It's not that hard. You just don't have a teacher's gene
IT IS THAT SIMPLE.
"How far did you go down the rabbit hole??"
Me glancing over to my 2x2 - 7x7 cubes "ummmmm..."
I encountered the Rubik's cube in the 70's growing up but we were so poor that we couldn't afford to buy one. I remembered salivating over my classmates having the cube since it was the "in" thing at that time. Fast forward 40 years and I bought myself a cube during the quarantine and borne into finding ways to alleviate my stress, I learned how to solve the Rubik's cube. I am no genius by any stretch of anyone's imagination but I challenged my 52 year old brain to learn algorithms, follow directions and develop the mental discipline of focusing on details. Thank you for posting the video. More power to you.
Nobody:
Darius: Can’t solve a 4x4 yet has been twisty puzzling for over 10 years
Dang
Ive been cubing for like 3 years now and I still cant do 4x4... I can solve 5x5 but for some reason I cant get parity right
ChaseusOSRS So then just practice parity, but he literally can’t solve a 4x4 at all except for the 1st layer.
@@ILoverMining its not about how long you have been cubing lol
ᴡᴀʀᴘʀᴏᴍᴏ / E D I T S I know, but after 10 years, it only makes sense to be able to solve a 4x4.
EDIT: There is a Mistake. See the 2 replies below this one.
"What really happens when you learn to solve the Rubiks cube"
*Literally nothing*
A sense of accomplishment
I got a rubik's cube when I was 19 and I learned how to solve it in the most basic easiest way. I cut like maybe one corner. But after a couple years I stopped picking it up and it's just been gathering dust on my shelf. I'm 24 now. Maybe I should go back to practicing because I forgot everything at this point
I could never forget haha
Yes, learn CFOP and attend a world cube association competition in your area.
Pick it up again and give it a shot, you never forget, it might take some time, but you will get back into it
As a cuber, I can definitely relate to you in my first interactions with the cube. In one part of the vid you said that learning new algorithms stopped being worth it and you just stuck with what you already knew. Personally, I enjoy learning algorithms because it gives me satisfaction in conquering a certain case and something else to add to my collection of them.
The Rubiks Story:
Buy a cube
1 year later: still fun to try and solving it 3 sides done🥳
Learn how to solve it
Well now my time on the cube is 30 seconds..
Learn advanced f2l and oll
My pb is barely sub 30 and I average just sub 40 I think with an average of 5 pb that's 32.42 but no more sub 30 solves😔 i forgot my cube from a party so rn I can't practise.
Sorry for my bad grammar😅😅
Kamiel De Koning just practice la I started half a year ago, cfop solver now averaging 25 seconds and Pb 18.13
I solve it in 17 seconds
More than 20 years ago my father had a cube and figured out how to solve it. He taught me and my brothers.
Later in elementary school someone brought one to show it to his classmates. Over the years I almost forgot how to solve it, but still shocked them when only I could do it.
I think things mostly changed because of internet. I still rarely meet anyone who can solve it, but people know it has different methods.
My 3 minutes average solving time is still the same after 15 years. 😀
Yo try to improve....I learned to solve it before 1 year and my average was 5mins....but for the past 5months I am learning the advanced method and now my average is 30sec...still improving till I reach 10sec😂
Even though I can solve in a minute, l like solving in like around 5 minutes if I'm in front of some one. They don't realize I'm doing a system and they are more impressed
@Chris Williams same I learned the beginner's method and I've loved it even more. Maybe in the future, I'll learn faster algorithms but for now, I'm just happy I can finally solve a cube
since i learned how to solve a rubik's cube i use it to relax, it helps me with anxiety so every time i feel uneasy i find myself solving it over and over again, so it's not that useless at least :P
Same case with me. It helps my mind to focus on one thing, which helps me because i tend to worry and overthink too much. it keeps my mind busy :-)
At 3:06 that reaction clip is honestly how people react when they see me solve a rubik’s cube. That was a spot on reaction😂😂
TRUEE!!
100% true
I was part of the majority that put it down after 5 min.😂
Murda musa th-cam.com/video/9Kt1Y2uMKwI/w-d-xo.html
I hate that my Rubik’s cube is actually sitting next to my juggling balls right now.
same i was so triggered by his sentence
Wtf 🍕
Juggling balls
Ah, a fellow master of useless talents, I see.
*throws knife into wooden board*
definitely relate to your story quite a bit, especially the parts about not trying to be the fastest and about bringing it to class
i had an unsolved rubiks cube sitting in a toy box for 7 years until one day i found it, and my brain lit up and i looked up a tutorial on youtube
didnt stop from there
i fell in love with all things twisty puzzle and cubing, love watching speedcubers do their thing
sometimes the only thing that can bring me back from a panic attack is one of my puzzles
the impact these have had on my life is incredible
my puzzle collection grows, my skill with the puzzles grows, and my appreciation for the puzzles also grows
i was surprised when i saw your video about this on my timeline, i remembered loving your vines but didnt really keep up with you once vine died
but i am so glad your video did pop up on my timeline, seeing perspectives of people who didnt dive head first into collecting like i did and who didnt start working on trying to get a world record really helps expand the community in my eyes, there is such a wide range of ways to enjoy these puzzles
Darius: “When you’re an adult the reactions are a *little* bit more mixed”
My Mind After the skit: *throw your Rubik’s cube awayyyy*
Man I could listen to h talk forever, he has a pleasant voice.
"Ok so my group chat thinks you're a lottle weird and nerdy... So imma go"
Bruh I busted out laughing
I seriously expected this to be a comedy video, because I only know him mostly from Vine.
I didn’t expect to be sucked back through my entire childhood like this. I was exactly the same way, except I dove deeper rather than putting it on a shelf. It’s actually become a pivotal part of my personality. My roommate actually just learned how to solve one, and seeing him going through this arc is really fun. The first day he took it with him to work, and got to actually experience the way people react, that’s all he talked about. How awesome it was for people to be like “Nahhh, I’m gonna mess it up so much you can’t fix it.” And then a minute or so later, they come back and it’s just sitting on the table solved like it’s nothing.
I told him that feeling never goes away, at this point in my life, I have an entire box full of various cube sizes and variants, and anybody who knows me isn’t as impressed when I finish a 3x3 in 30 seconds anymore, because it’s just normal. But when I meet someone new, or I’m just out and about, and someone sees me, and gets so excited. That’s a feeling I live for, it’s seriously like a drug.
You can probably just tell, but I’m not necessarily a super social kind of guy. I didn’t really hang out with people much in high school, but anytime I was going to a party or was going to be around a bunch of new people, I would always have at least one 3x3 on me. It’s like a child’s security blanket, whenever I’m uncomfortable I can just find a spot to chill and just fuck with it. And 9 times out of 10, someone will come over and say something about it.
My favorite moments are probably when I can tell someone’s watching from across the room, and I’ll make eye contact while I do the last moves just to see their face.
Dude, thank you so much for the nostalgia trip. Cubes have seriously changed my life, and it’s really nice to take a minute and really process what that’s been like.
Took me a while to learn how to do it, but after i did it kinda became dull
tho fun to do it from time to time
if you want a challenge, find out how to solve it blind. old pochman method only takes 3 algorithms, i bet you could do it in under two months
Same
CptRussia i quit for many years after learning before becoming inspired to teach students how to solve it. It made me learn about Rubik’s cube competitions which after 39 competitions are pretty fun. There are national and international championships which get streamed on twitch. And the puzzles keep getting updated so they’re really better than ever.
Check out cubing TH-cam
The part where he talks about adults not being impressed is a good life lesson. Do things because you enjoy them and they're fun, not because of what other people will think or say about it. As long as it's not hurting yourself or anybody who cares?
I saw my friend finish the cube in 24 sec and i lost my shit got the whole class hype and I think it made her day she was impressed with her self.
That's a not bad solve tbh I average 22 seconds
Nice
My pb is 13.27 and i average 20 ish
@@savage_giant1072 holy same
i feel like she would have known how fast she can solve the cube and maybe she was embarrassed but it looked like that. happens to me sometimes.
I took some interest in the 3x3 cube in 2013. Couldn’t really solve it until I fully immersed myself at the end of 2013, early 2014. Solved it after learning the basic method in a week. At the time that impressed teachers, and peers. Everyone wanted to learn how to solve it, so they’d come to me. I’d try to usually shut that stuff down. I came to know about the wolrd record, was totally amazed at how insanely fast people solved it! I beleive Lucas ether was the fastest at the time with his 4.96.
I tried to reduce my time but could only get it down to 40 seconds with finger tricks. Couldn’t really find a solution to get it down to 20 or below that.
Around 3 years later, it’s 2017, and suddenly my peers and classmates had taken an interest in solving the Rubik’s cube 3x3. I was shocked and at the same time happy. And at last, I had found CFOP, the solution to my problems.
Bought my first Gancube, the gans 356 air UM magnetic which at the time was the cube used by the wr holder feliks zemdegs. Lovely cube, really great cube, worth the extra cash. Had a little cfop pamplet which helped me master all the OLLs and PLLs. 2Look F2l took me a while but I learnt that as well. Now that I had learnt CFOP, my times were averaging around 18-20seconds. It was insane. Took me a while, but I finally found a way to get my cross done in 8 moves or less, and so I brought my times down to 15 seconds and lesser. And eventually it came to 10 seconds. After getting sub 10s I didn’t really try that much, I was satisfied.
Entered multiple completions in my area, won all of them for the most part. Not WCA affiliated tho. WCA doesn’t hold many competitions in my state.
My classmates and I at the time used to have little competitions in our class as well, I lost like 2 of them in the beginning and won many later. Great times. Now I don’t really bother with the cube anymore, I stopped making cube related content and I just play with it occasionally. My times have increased doe, I’m no longer sub 10, mostly sub 15, sub 12ish. Definitely satisfied with my journey. still impresses people to this day haha, but remember to never let the ego get the best of you!
All the best to anyone who wishes to learn how to solve one! It’s relatively easy. Even CFOP. It’s just a matter of memorizing, and efficiency.
There’s other methods out there which are becoming popular like ROUX, ZZ, and what not. So do feel free to check them out.
It’s kinda boring after you have learnt how
Its not. After a year od solving I can solve it under 20 seconds
You can always go faster
Try Roux it's never ending brainstorm
@@defrost7184 unless you're aiming to be a speedcuber otherwise...like my cube...has been sitting in my room for the last 10 years untouched...lol
If it’s boring you can learn different methods, if you feel invested enough. CFOP is probably the easiest speedcubing method to get into after you learn the beginners method
As someone who averages 11 seconds I really enjoyed this. Probably safe to assume I’ve gone too far down the rabbit hole lol
There's no such thing as too far. Anyway, I gotta buy some new cubes now
@@The_NSeven too far to others maybe. I still am really enjoying it and made all my friends from it so I'm still going
@@damianwilding I think as long as it makes you happy you're not going too far.
@@iDoqz Unless you're happily jogging and go a mile past your destination. That's too far.
@@dylanfagle3409 I meant in terms of a hobby lol, not travel. If you're having fun on a jog, why not go for a little longer if you have the time?
Who else knows how to solve a Rubik’s cube but doesn’t solve it often
It took me 1 year to learn how to solve it each day trying to figure how to do it,and soon i became a Rubik's fanatic,learned hot to do 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, pyraminx, irregular 3×3,and the Pentagon Rubik's cube, i think thats what its called
@@bobbabscoobydoo7115 the pentagon cube is called a megaminx
@@philliam999 ok thanks
I can solve the 2x2
I learnt the classic 3x3 in four hours
This is such an inconsequential topic in the grand scheme of things and yet so relatable. Amazing. I love your style of storytelling!
I first figured out how to solve a side by myself. Then I learned how to turn that side into a layer, and finally I learned to solve the middle layer. After that, I couldn't solve any further without disrupting what I had already solved, so I looked up solutions online and learned the last layer. I got a 2x2x2 and 4x4x4 cube also, and learned a couple of things like OLL/PLL, but I still use the layer-by-layer method and can do it in about 40 seconds on average, give or take. I also played with some LEGO Mindstorms stuff to solve it but I didn't really get into speedcubing beyond all that, and by the end of high school, I just kind of let it catch dust, because it's just not as interesting anymore.
I can average sub 25 consistently and yeah I can definitely relate , people told me I am smart or even a genius for solving it but I think it's the wrong compliment.. I think it's a skill rather than a test of intellect. Solving a cube faster and faster is much more impressive than just solving a cube.
I stopped learning the algorithms when those pll olls didn't show up often enough for me to invest the time to learn them. My 3*3 is now kept in a drawer somewhere and I go back from time to time just to see if I still got the speed
I don't find many opportunities to show it off nowadays tho compared to 8thgade when literally all my friend group was cubing
yeah i can relate its so weird when people call you smart cause its like, really easy. Anyone can learn how to solve it in 20 seconds
What about going to competitions?
I just remembered how to solve one tonight and showed my girlfriend on FaceTime, and she was definitley not as impressed as I was 😂😂
She not the one
I can relate to this. In seventh grade Rubik’s cubes became a fad and so I got a 2x2. I did the same thing you did and went online to help me solve it until I did it so many times that I could do it without help. Eventually I did 2x2 for a year never really too invested in it but I could solve it in 30 second or less. I got board of it so I got a 3x3 to see if I could solve it. I watched tutorials and found solutions online but I was just overwhelmed by what I would have to remember so I gave up and stuck with 2x2. I had many hobbies at the time like Lego, art, video games, making model cars and biking, just to name some, so I didn’t want to invest to much time into something that would take away from other hobbies. I also didn’t have much that drove me to learn. I was in a small school with not more that 35 students per grade level. By grade 10 nobody cubed and my friends and brother had no interest in the topic, sometimes thinking it was stupid. Therefore I never brought my 2x2 to school or into public thinking that it was a long dead fad that nobody cared about. At the end of grade 10, My family had to move do to work related things but the house sold during school so I would have to finish the final 3 months at my grandparent’s ranch. This was in a rural community in northern Alberta and I was completely separated from my friends while not at school. Just the bus ride was upwards of 2 hours. Now that I had to live in the middle of the woods nowhere with barely a wifi connection I had nothing to do but attempt to learn 3x3. It wasn’t hard at all. Some of the algorithms I already knew from 2x2 and after a few days of practice I could solve the cube without the internet averaging around a 2 minute solve. I kept at it and got my time down to a minute. Once I moved and got some free time from school and working at my grandparents ranch, I eventually found out that there was an avid speed cubing community on TH-cam. I realized that my hidden hobby was a thing that people actually still do. This motivated me more to get my solve time on 3x3 down to 45 seconds and to learn pyraminx and 4x4. I am still learning 4x4 but I have solved it a couple times without the internet. I can’t wait to get a better 4x4 tho because the one I have is a rubiks brand from the early 2000s so the turning in horrendous. I have learned a lot from getting into speedcubing like that I can learn anything if I put my mind to it, however I still can’t take my skill out in public. I tried to bring all my cubes to my new school, which is 8x the size of my old one, maybe to see if there are others there that have interest in the community but of course people just made rude comments about me for absolutely no reason beside I was playing with a pyraminx! I quickly put those away and never brought them back. Hopefully next year will be different because I’ve never really had friends that shared the same types of hobbies to the extent that I like them. It’s just hard to find such a niche demographic in a school with over 1000 students. Let’s just hope that next year, even tho it’s my last, will be different and that I can finally get a new 4x4!
That's nice! I hope other people near you will understand the fun and how addictive it is! Good luck :)
I’m 12 and learned to solve the cube when I was ten. After that I took a break. Then came quarantine. I rediscovered my interest in the cube learned all the way from 2x2-5x5 and learned more methods for the original cube. In short I relate to this story. Thank you!
My journey:
- I was gifted old school Rubik's cube brand cube
- Can't figure out and give up
- Many years later found tutorial on Metacafe on how to solve cube in 4 parts: the beginner's method.
- Actually learned and managed to solve in average 3 minute.
- Try to teach other family members that visits but none ever finished learning.
- Lost the cube and stopped solving.
- Many years later found the cube again and relearning how to solve it.
- Found other tutorial on youtube because the old tutorial is gone from Metacafe.
- No one on youtube is teaching it the way it was taught to me and I can't seem to get the new methods to work.
- Retried to relearn from memory and finally figured out how it goes using the old method.
- I then learned that there are speed cubes out there that are less than $10. I bought one for $5.
- I managed to cut down my time to average 2 minutes.
- I've been solving so much that I learned that there are patterns to some of the repeating algorithms that is always occurring and that speeds up the solves.
- Learned some finger tricks on youtube to speed up the algorithms. I also learned to rotate the cube less and only rotate the top row using finger during the last layer solves.
- For the longest time, I'm stuck at around 1:30 solve time.
- Bought two more cheap speed cubes and a 2x2 cube, and found one to be better than my current one. I kept that one and the 2x2 and gave the other two to my nephew and my sister.
- Learned some janky 2x2 beginner's method that is not very reliable to solve. Got almost discouraged on keep solving it.
- Found a new method by incorporating 3x3 algorithm into the 2x2 solve and found it to be very easy and reliable now.
- Back to the 3x3: Learned how to speed up solving the white cross. Then intuitive F2L. Found that white top on the corner is now a blessing and very speedy way of solving instead of hindrance.
- The initial learning slows the speed a lot. But after many practices I decided to cut down on the look around and just reincorporate what works from the beginner's method and what can be done to speed it up.
- I also learned Z and H permutation to speed up the last layer special cases that require two permutations to solve.
- I'm now at around 1 minute and I will stop because it will require a lot of memorization to cut it down to under 30 seconds.
- Maybe in the future I will learn more algorithm that will cut down on a lot of the sune and A perm moves.
I started learning the expert method, when i could solve it with the beginner Methode in like 30 seconds
CFOP is the method you used
Learn trigger algorithms. it would really help because most F2L OLL and PLL algorithms have parenthesis which indicate trigger algorithms. Examples: Sledgehammer, anti-Sledgehammer, Sexy move, inverse sexy move, etc.
I'm stuck at 1 minute
Okay, i would've liked your comment, but the way you ended it was quite sad. KEEP TRYING !!! Okay. If you've had such a passion with solving, why lose the passion all of a sudden and throw it away like it never happened? Here, listen. Go learn the eight basic cross OLL cases. That way, you can solve OLL super fast in a 2-look fashion. Glad you learned H and Z perms first cause those are arguably the most important PLLs to learn first. Your story is very inspiring and empowering. Keep it up man. Know this, the cross can ALWAYS be solved in less than 8 moves. Watch example solves and figure out how to pair those cross pieces efficiently to minimize the moves. Remember that you don't have to adjust the cross to match the centers, you only have to do that after you get all the cross pieces there or unless its necessary to minimize the moves further. Red is opposite of orange, green opposite of blue. Keep practicing f2l until its second nature and learn some very convenient algs to make some of the cases easier and WATCH EXAMPLE SOLVES. If we want to learn Calculus, isn't it easier if a professor guides you and helps point things and highlight things out, rather if you just flipped open a book? You got this !!!! (21 second average solver btw) :)
Not gonna lie, I was sure a sponsorship from SkillShare was coming at the end 😂
I learned how to throw cards but then my girl moved her mum in and I haven't gotten to practice since.
my condolences
Wait...you're girlfriend moved her mom in?
Bruh get out of that house.
target practice
@@moldyshoess True madlad here.
I got very deep into speedcubing, and I've gotta say, the collecting cubes, solving, and competing part is very, very fun! It has actually made me gain some new perspectives on things, really. I got some new perspectives into things I previously wouldn't have gotten and I appreciate that, stuff like memorizing, mnemonics and even spatial awareness were things I actually felt improvement from solving my cubes. It's just a fun hobby currently and I appreciate that. It's a great pastime and I think it's worth it.
In 2019 i realized I was having a really hard time finishing things I started ...books ...tv shows..I even had thoughts of quitting college...whatever it may have been...and I felt like I had lost all my aspirations ..and so I bought a rubik’s cube and told myself I was going to learn how to solve it...after working for several hours i got frustrated and quit..a couple days later I picked it up again and started working the algorithms and before i knew it I had solved it.. I felt a sense of accomplishment from that and it instilled drive back into my life ...kinda weird since it’s just a kids toy but it kind of changed my life ...
yeah. i felt a huge sense of accomplishment when i finally solved it in under one minute. still going strong and i want to be able to solve in 30 seconds. also, it's not a kids toy. that's just a cultural conception. an average small kid would never have the brain power to learn to solve it.
I tried it when I was a kid and it was super complex for me. 10 years later, i'm 18 now, and it's almost too simple. It's so intriguing how something can feel so complex at first and many years later become the simplest thing ever.
Am I the only one who's watching this while solving a cube? xD
I did this while solving a pyraminx
im not home rn and forgot to bring my cube so no sadly
i did it
I was solving a 5x5, lol
Nope lol
My homeboy used to be able to solve one side
I definitely relate to your story. I've been interested and challenged by and in the rubiks cube for 6-7 years now. Starting small with my father, and impressing people throughout the years. That feeling of impressing people made me go on and try to be even better. But by now, i still do the rubiks cube and i solve it in around 45 seconds. And not to impress people anymore but it makes me relax and feel good. It makes my mind empty. At this point, i don't see myself stopping and putting away my cube, but that obviously will happen at some point. It's just an awesome feeling overall and great challenge. It just never disappointing me in any way after each solve and that's what keeps me going i suppose. Hope you all have a wonderful time with the cube and if anyone is reading, let me know if it makes you feel the same way, i'm very curious.