Not that I can speak from personal experience, but I always understood that chicks generally were not impressed by anything in the bedroom that could be completed in 55 seconds.
I solved one in about 3 weeks, but I didn’t use a book or any tricks. I’ll stand by that achievement. I never understood how it’s an achievement to read a book on how to solve it, then do it really fast… kind of like memorizing the solution to a crossword and patting yourself on the back because you write it out from memory really fast.
I didn’t mean that to sound rude to the OP… I was just thinking of when I was a kid, and some kids would have read the book, etc. Sorry if I came off as an ass.
I don’t “get all pissy.” I answer their questions politely. And then I come here and pit them. Isn’t that the point if the pit?
I agree. I came up with my solution on my own, although it is very similar to the most common solution given in books or online.
I’m just saying that if you can do something that amazes people, don’t pit them for asking “how’d you do that?” Isn’t that the whole point? It’s like magicians who get pissed when people ask how the trick was done. It’s human nature to ask. If you don’t want people to ask how you pulled a quarter from behind their ear, pull it from your pocket instead.
Case closed.
All right. Under a minute? 11 seconds?
Sometimes it takes me a whole minute to get one face.
Do people who speed-solve in 11 seconds have some sort of graphite they use to make the thing turn faster? And if they do that, then what keeps it in place during…uh, I think what I am trying to say is, wouldn’t one that easy to turn also slip OUT of position, as you worked it?
One of the guys who was on the WB show “Beauty and the Geek” is a speed cuber. His record is 14.something seconds, I believe. He did it on the show several times. He can also solve it behind his back :eek: and blindfolded :eek: :eek: .
People are scary sometimes.
Well, not so fast, boy wonder.
Before you were born my father heard of Rubik’s cubes before they were popular, bought a couple mail order (they weren’t at that time easy to find) and, knowing what she likes, scrambled one and sent it to my grandmother (his mother) with no explanation or covering note of any kind, just for a bit of fun. She was in her late seventies at this time.
She said nothing to him about it and vice versa until the next time we visited. We live in a different country, so this was years later.
She was very much the type of person who liked to secretly and quietly beaver away at something and then just present the finished effort as if no work had gone into it at all.
When we visited my father saw the cube sitting kind of half hidden on her mantelpiece with a single corner wrong, which is of course ordinarily impossible. She saw my father looking at it and said something like “Oh, darn it, I meant to put that dratted thing away so you wouldn’t see it until I’d got it solved”.
Of course, she’d worn it out and somewhere along the way must have twisted one corner without noticing, so she’d effectively solved it but didn’t appear to have done so, and she’d been racking her brains to try to figure out what the trick was to finish it off.
The moral of the OP’s story is that if you come across someone who has solved a cube, do not speak to that person about it. Just walk on by.
I used to be able to solve it in about 3 minutes. I learned a formula from a book.
This impressive skill never got me laid.
But what used to piss me off was people who’d pull the things apart to see how they worked. It’s six spindles, people! There’s really no mystery!
wow, memories of lonely nights and sore wrists
So it didn’t get you laid either?
Son, it was the Berklee College of Music. The only people there that got laid were the girls. Both of them.
Crimoney. Somebody with ΛΛ@d (цБع sK1//z like that has to constantly get offers of sex from cube-groupies.
You sound disingenuous. Like you’re using a pit to “brag” about how fast you can solve the cube while couching it more innocently. Why don’t you just go to MPSIMS or IMHO and ask “how great do you think I am because I can solve Rubik’s Cube in 55 seconds?”.
If your anger over people asking you questions was really pit-worthy, you wouldn’t sit around solving it in public.
Really, is there a point to solving Rubik’s cube in public except to get people to ask you questions about it?
this space, I think you missed the mark between being able to successfully pit minor annoyances and coming off as a jerk. You do come off as a jerk in the OP.
I think your misstep is calling people idiots for minor offenses.
But hey, I was born in 86 too.
I have a friend who solved his rubik’s cube by getting so frustrated that he threw it at the wall and it came apart, so he put it back together solved. I thought it was a funny story.
Oh nerdy person stuck in the 80s, are you perchance my soul brother?
By the way, anyone seen Jenny?
Hey! Does that make you . . . Timecube Guy?! 
Mebbe. l33+ sk1llz, OTOH . . .
Did she lose your number?