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Monday, June 19, 2006

Rubik's Cube


Once upon a time, my Dad, my Uncle, and me were wandering down the street when we came across this guy demonstrating how to solve a new puzzle - the Rubik's cube. He sold us a couple of cubes and a solution book. We all went home and memorized how to solve it.

A few weeks ago, a work collegue brought his Rubik's cube into the office telling a story of how some person had broken the world record for solving the cube. My work collegue used to be able to solve the cube himself but could only remember how to do the first two layers. I picked up the cube and could only do the first two layers myself.

So I had to find out how to solve it without resorting to the picture above, so performed a search on the internet using Google. There is some really great stuff out there about the cube. If you are interested take a look at the following sites:

Dan's Cube Station

Joel's Speedcubing Site


My record at the moment is just over 2 minutes. I am hoping that soon I will be able to bring that down to under 1 minute and eventually down to under 30 seconds.

Happy speed cubing!!!

2 Comments:

  • At 2:35 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Its about time someone left a comment on your great blog Jeff.

    Whats wrong with people out there -They should be responding a bit more...

    Have you got the speed cubing down to under a minute yet?

    cheers,

    Andrew

     
  • At 8:25 pm, Blogger Jeff Plumb said…

    Hi Andrew,

    My fastest time is around 1 minute 30. I still spend way too much time between each move in deciding what move to make next.

    And that is an excellent point you make. What is wrong with people?

     

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