If you don’t know, then you can’t. Like playing the piano, the only way you can do it is after study, practice and memorization. No one solves a Rubik’s Cube by just fiddling around.
I’ve also never tried solvng a Rubik’s Cube. I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone who had one I could try with.
I remember how to take them apart and put them back together solved, but I didn’t think that was in the spirit of the poll.
Yes. For decades. And not just the movie industry.
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I think it also depends on the age group. I got divorced after 25 years (not my choice) and started dating in my 50s. I find at that age most people just aren’t all that interested in a relationship. They date to have fun. The people who want a relationship are already in one. If they’re the woman, it’s low or no cost to do so. I have a good friend who IMO treats men like disposable toys – she’d go on 3-4 dates a week and just really wasn’t looking for a relationship. She only took a break when she started gaining weight from eating out so much. As a man, I found dating an incredible grind. I think I went on like 60 first dates in a couple of years. I made extremely good money, dressed well, had a good career, took care of myself. None of that matters if nobody is actually shopping for someone like me or, well, anybody.
Don’t get me wrong, I ended up in two different LTRs in 9 years but it was utterly random, not something earned. I’m joyously happy I met those people, I’m still in contact with both and good friends with the most recent. But I wouldn’t have been very surprised if I’d met nobody.
I didn’t really want to vote for any of the frostings in the first poll. But I want to vote for three in the second; and it’ll only allow me to pick two. So I’m not voting in either of them.
Mint, coffee liqueur, and raspberry all look delicious.
I prefer no frosting at all on my cupcakes. When I was little, my mom would make a special one for me with no frosting for my birthday parties.
I apologize to @thorny_locust - the original poll said the best, which of course, only implies one, and had a max of one choice.
And it included the request to create new polls with other options. Which, of course, I did, but I still felt obliged to keep to the “best” option, and was …fudging… it (you may now boo me, boooo!) to allow two. Obviously I should have just kept it as a single choice, or a much wider range of choices.
Oh, and all three are amazing, and I (or 90% of the time, my lovely wife) have made all three.
I used to be able to do a Rubiks cube after reading a book, but since then I’ve forgotten how to do the bottom layer.
I don’t use a lot of ketchup, but i can’t eat cooked cabbage (boiled or roasted) without it.
On the cupcake polls, I voted chocolate for the first and buttercream as one of the choices in the second, but what I was thinking of for both was chocolate buttercream.
Same here. Rubik’s Cubes were the Christmas gift when I was in 8th grade but I don’t think I’ve touched one in decades.
I’ve learned and forgotten and relearned how to solve the Rubik’s Cube several times. I’m currently in a know-how-to-do-it phase. I got a GAN speed cube as a gift about a year ago. It’s very cool, much better constructed, faster and easier to manipulate than the standard cubes.
Same here. When Rubik’s Cube first came out, in the early '80s, I bought a little book at the bookstore, that had a solution for solving it. I memorized the steps, and I could solve a cube in about 45 seconds.
But, that was 40+ years ago; I have no memory of the solution now. 
I held a Rubik’s cube when they came out and did a few turns. Never owned one. That’s as close as I can to solving it.
I think I may have bought, or been given, a book for how to solve a Rubik’s cube. I just took a screwdriver to it and reassembled it. Sort of an alternative solution.
It’s so interesting to me, as a self-taught solver… I solve the cube bottom to top* because then you can easily see what’s still wrong. All my friends were book-learned and solved top to bottom instead.
*Technically I solve the top layer and then turn the cube upside down so it’s on the bottom and go from there.
This is me exactly. I still have the little book.
Coincidentally, I picked up a Cube about a month ago and spend 5 minutes fiddling with it. I got one side a solid color and was satisfied.
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I mean, I solved the top two layers, then I flipped the cube over to solve the bottom layer, which had now become the top layer. So…
I never solved a Rubik’s cube, but my lifetime total time spent on it is under 15 minutes. I got a cheap one as a prize at a party, and peeled all the color squares off, leaving a totally black cube.