Rubik cube...

**VtEC** · February 27th, 2008 07:08 PM

if you really want to learn, try this link......

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFiZrVSGeA&feature=related"]YouTube - How To Solve The Rubik's Cube[/ame]

**_Qwerty_** · February 27th, 2008 08:01 PM

my son can solve it in under 3 minutes.

**safeorigin** · February 27th, 2008 08:06 PM

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**Yoda** · February 28th, 2008 10:14 AM

I learned how to solve this back in college. I still remember the moves. The trick is not to solve it by sides, but by layers. Knowing how it's done does take the "magic" out of the experience, as in "Eh? Ganun lang yun?" Pero ok lang din, it's still enough to impress some people. "Wow, ang galing-galing mo naman!"

**dbuzz** · March 4th, 2008 08:54 AM

our ten year old nagyabang pa eh. sabi "8 minutes na'ko dyan" sabi ko, -nga tyman ko. anyway he did it at about 23min. hehehe. then katwiran nya eh kasi halos walang tinginan naman yun eh. then he explain na ganito yun.. ito pattern pag ganun.. etc.. etc.

kaya pag kabisado na pattern eh automatic na kilos.

ngayon sinusubukan nila ang 5-layers -magic cube- yata tawag. di gaya ng rubik's na 3-layers lang.

**van_wilder** · March 4th, 2008 09:17 AM

haha... mano mano ko napractice yan para matapos ng mabilis tapos mayroon lang pala sa youtube.com

**Galactus** · March 4th, 2008 01:40 PM

Yung anak ng officemate ko consistently can solve Rubik's cube in less than 23 secs. In-upload pa nga niya sa Youtube (keyword: Nico Elayda). According to my officemate, his son's personal best is under 18 secs.

As for me, 1 side lang talaga kaya ko (mga 15 mins. siguro).

**dbuzz** · March 5th, 2008 11:13 AM

ito ang world records:
from:http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/rubik.html

Edouard Chambon (France) Belgian Open 2007 10.36 secs
Thibaut Jacquinot (France) Spanish Open 2007 9.86 secs
Erik Akkersdijk (Netherlands) Dutch Open 2007 9.77 secs
Ron van Bruchem (Netherlands) Dutch Championships 2007 9.55 secs

5 attempts, average of all but fastest and slowest attempt: 11.76 sec, Yu Jeong-Min (South Korea) at the KCRC Championship 2007 in Seoul. The times for solving the cube were 11.66, 12.02, 13.09, 11.09 and 11.59 seconds.
blindfold, fastest time (including memorising): 54.83 seconds, Mátyás Kuti (Hungary) at the Czech Open 2007 in Pardubice (DETAILS)
blindfold, fastest time (time does not include memorising): 23.06 seconds, Clément Gallet (France) at the European Rubik's Cube Championship 2006 in Paris
blindfold, most cubes: 15 by Mátyás Kuti at the World Championships 2007 in Budapest (DETAILS)
one handed: 15.81 sec, Thibaut Jacquinot (France) at the Murcia Open 2007 in Puente Tocinos (Spain)
with feet only: 39.88 sec, Anssi Vanhala (Finland) at the Finnish Open 2007 in Helsinki
24 hours: 3,390, Zbigniew Zborowski (Poland) on 23/24 June 2006

The largest Rubik's Cube was built by Daniel Urlings (Luxemburg). It could contain 64 normal sized Rubik's Cubes.

The best known algorithm for solving the cube needs only 26 face turns. It is described in the article
Kunkle, D.; Cooperman, C. (2007): Twenty-Six Moves Suffice for Rubik's Cube. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC '07), ACM Press. DETAILS

The most expensive Rubik's Cube was the Masterpiece Cube, produced by Diamond Cutters International in 1995. The actual-size, fully functional cube features 22.5 karats of amethyst, 34 karats of rubies, and 34 karats of emeralds, all set in 18-karat gold. It has been valued at about US-$ 1.5 mio.

The youngest person who solved a Rubik's Cube in a competition was Enxi Xie (China), who was 4 years 6 months 10 days old when he solved the cube in 1:28.06 minutes at the Guangdong Open 2007. 4x4x4 CUBE

fastest time: 46.63 Sekunden, Mátyás Kuti (Hungary) at the UK Open on 10 November 2007 in Birmingham
blindfold, fastest time (including memorising): 5:26.03 min, Mátyás Kuti (Hungary) at the Swedish Cube Day 2007 in Kungsängen
5x5x5 CUBE

fastest time: 1:30.03 min, Erik Akkersdijk (Netherlands) at the Swedish Cube Day 2007 in Kungsängen
blindfold, fastest time (including memorising): 10:05.16 min, Mátyás Kuti (Hungary) at the Czech Open 2007 in Pardubice

stand corrected nga pala ako doon sa 5-layers eh rubik's din pala lahat yun ni mapa 3X3X3, 4X4X4, or 5X5X5 pa sya.