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How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:35 pm

I bought a rubik's cube a couple of years ago, and I picked it up earlier today and starting working on it. I searched the internet for ages to find a guide, but couldnt find a useful one! So any of you PPTers know how? Or know a good guide? Please post:

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:58 am

Step one -
Peel off stickers

Step 2 -
Put stickers on in correct place.

:D SOLVED!
Narh try this guide -
http://www.rubikssolver.com/

Thats how I learnt how to solve it a few years ago, I also got a pretty nifty .exe program back then (I stilll have somewhere, buried in my F drive somewherE) into which you enter the colors on the rubiks cube you have IRL, and it gives you step by step solutions!

I wait for the day I can have that app on my ipod (along with wikipedia :D)

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:05 am

Many Rubix Cubes actually come with a solution sheet nowadays, and Rubix Cube competitions are really "Read the colors, do the appropriate equation, don't slip." Granted, the people that do it behind their back, one-handed, while upside down are pure win, but the general solving comes down to basic memory recall.

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:51 am

I can get about 1/2 of the way through, then can never be bothered learning the sequences to move things to their correct place.

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:21 am

zorg wrote:Step one -
Peel off stickers

Step 2 -
Put stickers on in correct place.

:D SOLVED!

haha thats what I did as a kid.

or pop off the blocks and put it back together correctly.


...god I broke so many toys as a kid.

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:13 am

zorg wrote:Step one -
Peel off stickers

Step 2 -
Put stickers on in correct place.

:D SOLVED!


XD That's what we did, too. After a while, the stickers start losing their stickem, though. :/

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:57 am

I did get a guide how to do it when i bought the cube. But it was all in dutch!

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:05 am

oops wrote:I did get a guide how to do it when i bought the cube. But it was all in dutch!


Step 1 - Learn Dutch
Step 2 - Read Dutch 'how to solve a rubiks cube' guide
Step 3 - Solve Rubiks Cube

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:04 pm

zorg wrote:
oops wrote:I did get a guide how to do it when i bought the cube. But it was all in dutch!


Step 1 - Learn Dutch
Step 2 - Read Dutch 'how to solve a rubiks cube' guide
Step 3 - Solve Rubiks Cube


I can sortof understand dutch. Although I cant find that guide anymore!

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:06 pm

i can do all except the last side... i'm learning though. although it doesnt help that i dont actually own one myself, i have to go to my friends place to practice on his.

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:14 pm

Rachel wrote:i can do all except the last side... i'm learning though. although it doesnt help that i dont actually own one myself, i have to go to my friends place to practice on his.


That is a small problem! Before I used to just keep twisting and hope the colours would match :D Didnt work out though

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:47 pm

oops wrote:I did get a guide how to do it when i bought the cube. But it was all in dutch!

babblefish.com my friend.

they translate all my stuff for me.

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:02 pm

http://jonnyblackler.com/wp-content/upl ... c00220.JPG

http://jonnyblackler.com/wp-content/upl ... c00224.JPG

yay I did it!

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:13 pm

I can never get more than one side at once, and even that's an accomplishment for me. I just take them apart and put them back together. I hate peeling off stickers and putting them back on though, so I don't do that.

One of my brother's friends is one of those freaky Rubik's Cube prodigies who can do it in a few seconds or so. I don't get how that's even possible. I guess nobody does. There's those people and the rest of the world, no in-between. You can't learn it...

Re: How to solve a rubik's cube?

Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:54 pm

METHOD ONE.
1. Break the cube into pieces.
2. Superglue it back together, in the right order.

METHOD TWO.
1. Have a high-sugar drink ready to keep you awake.
2. Stay up at night, drinkig said sugary drink, and peel off stickers.
3. Stick stickers back on.
4. Boast to you friends about how you are so cool, you stayed up at night and solved the cube.
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