Rubik's Cube

Bought one a couple weeks ago and it's driving me crazy, all these supposedly easy video tutorials don't help. Anyone good at these? I'm not asking for help, just curious

Ugh, no...I give you credit for even trying to solve a Rubik's Cube!

I don't know the pattern, but there is one. My friend could do it with his eyes closed....lol I have never solved one

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Your post set me off looking though the tutorials on this. I only ever thought that there was one cube. Oh my......!!!!

They look very hard. I think I would have pulled my hair out trying to do them.

Had one years and years ago when they first came out..never really gave it a chance. Probably got sold at a garage sale like the 8 ball.

My brother was good at it, he never revealed his secret though.

I don't know WHY I can type two paragraphs about this, but I can. It seems to me like:

To people who are new to the Cube and/or only care about solving it for its own sake, it's all about repeating patterns (or "algorithms", as they're called) every time you reach a "checkpoint". You want to get the Cube to "this" position, so you repeat a pattern with specific pieces (ex. the corner pieces) until you get there. The you need a different pattern with different pieces to get to "that" position, and so on and so on until BAM, it's done!

Experts seem to have a better understanding of patterns than most. They take it a step further and look like they take the whole cube into account instead of focusing only on the stuff needed for patterns. This allows them to improvise and find shortcuts outside of the suggested solution. It's really freaky because this results in my friends speed-solving it in, like, 15 seconds. (They were aiming to beat the current world record too. >_>)

So I've solved it before, but only in the sense that I stuck to the suggested patterns until I got to the end, at which point the Cube was somewhat therapeutic for me. But right now I can't remember the patterns for the life of me, so... blehhh. >_<

You're awesome! You got nice quoted quote down(up) there, I liked it.

2 paragraphs, they make perfect sense and I've just remembered that 'speed solving', I seen it somewhere before long long time ago. They are not super super super genius minds, are they? Math person(s) or idk what to call it, pattern recognizing person(s) can do that speed solving, I'm guessing..

I remember the corner pieces, we all have to use that to make one face of 'the Cube' first, but I never figured it out, 'how to keep the one I solved!!'.

Don't get emotional when you attempt to solve whatever you think is doing with that plastic piece of puzzle in your hands. If I were to play with 'the Toy', I'd use it as an anger management tool.

No offense intended for the OP, just that 'the Cube' gets into our mind, doesn't it?