Rubiks cube

[EddieM]

Without looking it up on goggle, given that there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways of arranging the little blighter, how many moves, maximum, would you guess you needed to perform to rearrange the cube into it's uniformly coloured side state.

 

[enyam]

Infinite,could never master the blessed thing.

 

[snico]

this quick!

 

[Norcon]

My fastest was about 50 seconds. So pretty slow.

 

[calorific]

My fastest was about 50 seconds. So pretty slow.

Took me longer to get it out of the shrink wrap

 

[noseall]

I can still do the cube as per solutions that were available in the early '80's

I actually had a budget cube solution that was printed WRONG. The cubes' faces were orientated so that you had an upper, lower, back, front, l-side and r-side.

So a sequence of moves might read b,u,l,u,b,u,b. These moves would be shown as clock or counter-clock wise. Absolute b****er to master especially when one of the moves is printed wrong.

I can solve it upside down too.

My kids are impressed if only for a few seconds.

My fastest time was 47 seconds and that was a fluke.

If i go into someones house and there is a mixed up cube on the side, i will always solve it as i hate to see them mixed up......

 

[LastMagicBean]

Imagine, at night, in bed, reaching for the Rubiks Cube on the bedside table when your wife's on top......

Oooohhh the fun

 

[calorific]

Imagine, at night, in bed, reaching for the Rubiks Cube on the bedside table when your wife's on top......

Oooohhh the fun

Mental, physical and sexual stimulation all at one. Only one thing missing

 

[LastMagicBean]

Imagine, at night, in bed, reaching for the Rubiks Cube on the bedside table when your wife's on top......

Oooohhh the fun

Mental, physical and sexual stimulation all at one. Only one thing missing

Test my theory out.

 

[gregers]

bloody thing i only ever managed to do 2 sides,and that took me about a year to do.

 

[Harbourwoodwork]

I took the practical way out ,you can pull the corner cube's out and take it to bit's and re arrange ,I did It with out anyone seeing me then presented it to the house "Interllectual"it really pi22ed him off me just being a builder, but I did tell him eventually ,but once youv'e done it that way there's just no going back

 

[EddieM]

interestingly (don't ask me to prove it as I accept I don't understand the maths) it's only 18 moves from any combination.

 

[calorific]

it's only 18 moves from any combination.

What does this statement mean?

 

[EddieM]

it's only 18 moves from any combination.

What does this statement mean?

exactly what it says, from any of the combinations, you are only 18 moves max away from a solution.

 

[calorific]

it's only 18 moves from any combination.

What does this statement mean?

exactly what it says, from any of the combinations, you are only 18 moves max away from a solution.

That's not exactly what you said though However, given the speed of those who solve these little tinkers, it makes entire sense. Which begs the question as to whether a standard set of 18 movess will always work and indeed whether it is purely a routine of the intellect of the solver to identify and hence apply the correct algorithm.