There comes a time in everyone’s life when you have to impress. And while I (ahem) use a repertoire of tools to achieve the aforementioned, nothing gets people’s attention as solving the Rubik’s Cube. Everyone’s seen one, everyone’s tried one, and almost everyone’s failed at getting more than one side. I however slaved nearly four months at it to finally be able to solve the whole cube fully. I use a time consuming layer by layer method, which anyone with any previous cubing experience will laugh at, (I did try learning the fridrich’s method, but didn’t get the time).
But yes, I can solve the cube fully, and from any random state into the final state in under 2 minutes. I was reminded of this when I read an article in arstechnica about someone solving it in 26 moves, better than the magical 27 minimum moves. No human(atleast none I know of) can solve it within 27 or even close to that as these employ powerful forward looking algorithms.
Solving the cube is something I’d suggest anyone to try if they got a couple of months to kill. I know only one person personally who can solve it, and he uses a corner by corner method(here’s to you bhat boy). Don’t peek at algorithms on the net and cheat your way through, it removes most of the fun from it(but is still mighty impressive)
Do read the article btw, really nice.
Latest Comments
RSS