RIP Rubik's cube

Learn two-look OLL and then learn full PLL.

That'll keep you busy for a year or so!

I'm at 10 to 15 mins with instructions still. It could take a long while* to memorise the moves.

'* forever.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/202­4/11/16/50-years-of-the-rubiks-cube-3993­62

Thanks for this, my 9yo son and I enjoyed it immensely. Made extra special by being in that lecture hall at the Royal Institution.

Proper made me grin, it did.

Lovely stuff

Ended up with this phantom cube. Totally a gimmick. The colours activate on heat and don't fade quickly, so it's more like a cube you have to warm up before solving. Bit tricky solving yellows/whites in poor lighting and slightly colder conditions, but that's it.

Pic was taken in sunlight, so colours are more visible than normal.

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And here it is after a brisk (light on hands, not particularly fast) solve.

You can see which faces (yellow, white) I didn't handle as much!

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I thought you'd keep our Christmas present for mashton a secret!

This is cool! (Hot?)

I've asked AI for a single view cribsheet of beginner algorithms. Yet to test to completion and it was hard to prompt it correctly to recognise a need for this Layer 2 fix.

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^ it is missing a Layer 3 edges step I think.

I've got myself confused.

Edit It didn't give correct moves for last layer edges, I had to manually prompt.

Revised version mk2 (works if you know a couple of other bits aboit orientation):

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I'm crap with the 'official' terminology, but guessing from your pic, it doesn't show you a second layer edge solve?

Yeah it's cool, but would've been nice if the tiles activated/deactivated a bit quicker, which would've triggered some haste in solving. Also for an official Rubik's cube, the quality is lacking slightly, though it's smoother to use than the bog standard cube.

Yes, that was the case. I'm contiuing to prompt it.

The summary wouldn't help a complete beginner know where the backwards L or Line should be positioned before moving, but I find that easier to picture & recall than the move sequences which remain a blur of letters for now hence this as a crib sheet rather than video re- watch & pause or long wordy explanation to scroll through.

Solving my memory is like a side-puzzle to go with the cube it seems.

would've been nice if the tiles activated/deactivated a bit quicker, which would've triggered some haste in solving. Also for an official Rubik's cube, the quality is lacking slightly

I'll stick it on my cool but not needed list of money saving things.

Very sensible choice. A nice bright speed cube (which you already have?) is all you need IMO.

Mega

Crib sheet means L1 is 2 mins, L2 is 4 mins, L3 is 4 mins.

I reckon this means I can practice through more quickly now so learn the patterns through repetition whilst glancing at the algorithms instead of pausing at times to watch video or scroll text that I can't memorise.

Whoopsie!

Now watching scrambling videos, this seems reasonable?

https://youtu.be/lz0TxGiIstc

Nah mate, this is too much for me now lol.

I think too much for me will be building a computer solver / scrambler.

P.s. Sub 8 solve now, making progress and was defo helped by having a better scramble technique after watching that video ;)

Also, hoping to get back on my feet / bike after a week of lurgy/covid so will be quieter in here then.

Nice, is that 8 minutes or moves? ;)

Get well soon.

8 move solve would reflect a very shabby scramble.

7m30s by bed time. Not likely to have opportunity to better that today.

Edit 10pm: 1 sneaky go, 6 minutes

Cool, maybe I'll give it a try.

Next on the agenda is to buy a cube I can actually see. I must've had ice-cold hands earlier, as I got what I wished for - tiles were fading before I could complete a move!

I got a 1:40 solve earlier, I’m not sure I enjoy the pressure of a ticking stopwatch though. Movements I can normally do smoothly and fairly fast all go to shit when timed and I find myself moving other faces of the cube accidentally.