RUBIK CUBE - Anyone know how to do?

Took me a couple of weeks to solve at Junior school if I remember rightly. I used to be quite obsessive about such things. The trick with the 'slow' method of doing it is just to be methodical and not to over complicate it.
 
Is there a cube more perfect than the Gans 356?

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harry5522 said:
Just popped in here to see me being called out :D! so to clarify my words were slightly inopportune. I had a small pamphlet that came with the cube containing some algorithms explaining how to move pieces to where you want.

I read that and then "fiddled" with the cube until i got it right.

Sorry for any confusion.
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Thank you
 
banja said:
I was right there when they came out. Everyone had one. I didn't know a single person who solved the whole thing by themselves. In fact in our school only two kids managed to learn how to do it - with books.
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Yeah thats true. I managed 2/3 by myself but the last section was impossible to figure out with random twiddlings. I did solve it eventually by using directions in a book.
 
I would argue that even the ninjas who do it in under 10 seconds didn't solve it themselves. The moves do get refined, but the basis is already there.

We bought two books and I got down to about 1 minute. The weird thing is I recall finding it quite easy to memorise the moves (I was 10) I bought another cube about 5 years ago, found the same book I had in 1981 on Ebay, but I still can't (re)commit the moves to memory cos I'm now old and my brain has been ravaged by booze and age :)
 
Been doing the cube since I was at school, about 80\81 when I learnt. Must do it every day. I annoy the hell out of the wife with the constant clicking and if I ever see one in a toy shop or similar that is not done I just simply HAVE to do it.

Fastest I can do is just over one minute but I keep meaning to buy a speed cube do I can get it under 60 seconds.

Also got a 2x2, 4x4 and the professors 5x5. Now these can be tricky.

Not seen a 1x1 but I would buy one just for the laugh.

I use to say I am so 80's, cut me and I bleed Rubik's cube.

I was given a sudoku style cube but not been able to get it exactly right, yet.
 
tnx said:
and if I ever see one in a toy shop or similar that is not done I just simply HAVE to do it.
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I had to do unfinished ones wherever I saw them however it sometimes came with drawbacks.
eg I was gigging at a Workingmens Club and saw a child messing with one so offered to do it, the next thing there was quite a few people around me but when I finished there was one piece the wrong way round.
Of course anybody who has done cubes knows that you can't have one piece the wrong way round, somebody must have removed the block and inserted it back wrong or stickers changed. I explained that the cube was wrong but I walked away a failure :)
 
Being one of the only two kids in my school who could do it I remember standing during lunch break doing one after another for the other kids. They stood in a queue and left happy - until they scrambled them again :) I became a sort of minor celebrity.
 
My old landlord seen my cube on the table when he was visiting.

Told me he could do it in ten minutes. I asked if he knew the algorithms, he told me he just turned the cube and it always feel into place haha

I asked him to show me but he made a lame excuse and left lol
 
The last time I finished a Rubik's Cube was 1981. The novelty kind of wore off. Not entirely sure I can remember how to complete the first layer now, let alone the whole thing.

Mind you, I can barely remember how to tie my shoe laces these days, so that's no surprise.
 
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