Rubik's Cube

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Post by kade » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:15 am

i did it a few times long ago. all you have to do is memorize the patterns.

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Post by HK-47 » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:23 am

sam fisher wrote:
Sparkfist wrote:Yeah your right its a system of patterns you perform. There is really no way you can go systimaticly through every combination, there are over 4 quadrillion conbinations (you'll either die or lose interest first).

I guide would really be the only way.
not true! theres only 387,420,489 combinations!
No theres 43,252,003,274,489,856,000...

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Post by demonofaj » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:46 am

What sucks is that when you want to arrange a color, so you finish one side, the OTHER side is messed up, hate it SO much :evil:
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Post by Sparkfist » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:47 am

Its possible to solve any rubiks cube is 29 moves or less?! Thats suprising.
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Post by soundwave » Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:26 am

Look in my sig, I think its there.

EDIT -- No its not, its here:
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EDIT EDIT -- If I had a camcorder I could make a video, but I dont, so I cant, unless I use my friends, which is very possible, but probably wont happen. I solve it step by step, which is kind of bad if you want a female of the dog species' time, the really fast guys will do several steps in one combination.

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Post by demonofaj » Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:13 pm

Soundwave, u and I have the sAME WATCH!!!!!! :shock:
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Post by F » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:23 pm

I learned how to do a rubik's cube in the summer of '04. It's been a while since I've solved one, but I think my best time ever was about 1 minute and 9 seconds.

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Post by MM007 » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:47 pm

9^6 = 531441

Of course, I dunno if the odds are really thus, because the middle ones are always stuck in the middle, and the other eight are all physically connected to other squares.

Normal computation of odds won't work here.
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Post by soundwave » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:49 pm

When solving the number of possibilites for any of the rubik's cubes, it involves exclamation points and a crap of powers, a lot more complex then 9^6.

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Post by *o* » Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:46 am

my cuz can do it in 20 sec (ive seen it 10 or so times)
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Post by Turbo Tax 1.0 » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:29 am

soundwave wrote:When solving the number of possibilites for any of the rubik's cubes, it involves exclamation points and a excrement of powers, a lot more complex then 9^6.
yeah i think there is some
361000000000000 possibilities we went over this in geometry the other day cause our teacher didnt have anything to do :lol: he also said if you did one combination every second it would take you like 5160years or something
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Post by Sparkfist » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:52 am

Big coincidence. There was a digg story about just this subject on the front page last night. Basicly the person who dugg the story is trying to solve the thing in 30 or less. So if your looking to solve the damn thing check that out. Also I dont know if that many stories got promoted but you might have to look on the second page if it was push back.
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Post by wallydawg » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:55 pm

My dad taught me how to do it a long time ago, I can do it pretty fast, around a minute thirty seconds each time. I also have one of these: :lol:

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Post by kade » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:59 pm

demonofaj wrote:Soundwave, u and I have the sAME WATCH!!!!!! :shock:
i had the same one then i moved on to the one that looks like a clock with the little hands but it goes on my hand.

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Post by MIRAGE » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:33 pm

theres a short chick at my scholl who carries it around and does it like 50 times during the school day...

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