How to Solve a Rubiks Cube

Don’t Tell me you DON’T have your OWN Cube!?!

how2writeastory — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:54:53 +0000

Now look, how am I supposed to teach you HOW to solve a Rubik’s Cube, if you don’t even HAVE your own Rubiks Cube to solve?

I mean really… it’s like showing up at the buffet line without a plate!

And you really can’t use that Cube you had in a box in the garage since 1986. You need a NEW one, they’ve changed a bit. they move smoother, they look cooler, and they only cost like 8 bucks!

You spend more on coffee in a week than a Brand New Rubik’s Cube would cost, and that along with my tips will impress your friends a whole lot more than your ability to swill caffine!

Seriously…

Click this link, go to amazon and buy a new cube. Sure, it’s an affiliate link, but really, a Cube is SOO cheap that I will make less than a quarter per sale…

And this is not about me making money…

It’s about your satisfaction when you everyone’s jaws hit the floor as you solve one of the worlds most complex puzzles with ease.

Can you say 43 quintillion combinations mastered and exhibited in less than 120 seconds!

Because that’s what your $8 bucks is going to get you.

And if you are seriously against me making a quarter on the sale for some reason, drive down to your local walmart and pick one up, but do yourself a favor and just GET A NEW CUBE!!!

You WILL thank yourself after, trust me!

Click here. Buy the Cube. PWN the Cube

WTF!? SuperComputer Wasted learning how to solve a rubiks cube!?!

how2writeastory — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:00:39 +0000

This one is pretty funny. A British journalist rants on the waste involved in using supercomputers for trivial things like learning how to solve a rubiks cube.

I can’t argue with the logic really (time being better spent figuring out a cure for the common cold etc.) but it’s a funny way to get your point across.

Click here to go to the Guardians site and listen to the podcast

Great Guide article on how to solve a rubiks cube!

how2writeastory — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:55:14 +0000

Found this interesting article on solving a rubiks cube. Thought I would share it because of the great Guide images they have at the bottom of the article.

If you want to learn how to solve a rubiks cube, this is definitely the type of information you need to get started.

Here’s a screen shot of the cube info they have, you will have to click here and visit them to see the enlargements.

Can you beat a supercomputer?

how2writeastory — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:37:23 +0000

Found this article here. I think it’s pretty funny that the person they found to ‘beat’ the supercomputer takes 109 seconds to solve the Cube (I’m not saying this is a BAD time… actually that’s right about my record too) when there is a world of Rubik’s Geeks who can solve the Cube in under 25 seconds

Scientists Daniel Kunkle and Gene Cooperman, from Boston’s Northeastern University, used a supercomputer and a two-step number-crunching technique to crack the cube.

The supercomputer took 63 hours to calculate the 43 billion possible cube positions, eventually overhauling the previous theory that all configurations could be unscrambled within 27 moves.

Melbourne Rubik’s whiz Paul Fijn has been cracking the cube since the age of nine, and has solved it in as little as 70 seconds. But the 25-year-old, who is completing a PhD in combinatorics, a branch of pure mathematics, has never tallied up his moves.

Presented with a cube by the Herald Sun, Mr Fijn unscrambled it in an impressive 109 seconds — and 118 moves.

“I never expected to beat the supercomputer,” he said. “I’m just glad I was able to solve it and not embarrass myself.”