New rubik's cube world record

Guess how long it took this guy to solve it?

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20 seconds.

Too much time on their hands...

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/24/cube030824

Some videos here:
http://www.speedcubing.com/multimedia.html

[PatrickDeese]

That's nothing. I've been working on mine for 20 years. Now, *that's* gotta be a record. ;)

[macrost]

PatrickDeese,
You are telling all of us that you haven't removed the stickers and placed them in the right order?
;)

Mac

[Clark]

When I was a kid around 13-14 I once did it in something like 23-25 seconds. I remembered it being around there because I had seen the best on TV which was in the same range and realized that I could definitely compete with them. Haven't touched it in years though..

[Trisha]

Many years ago on 'That's Incredible' there was a contest for it. I remember because someone from my highschool was on it, he didn't win though. I could have sworn the winner did it in 17 seconds though. But maybe that wasn't considered an official contest.

When they have contests for this, do they make sure that everyones cube is messed up exactly the same way? So that they start from the same point?

[Macguru]

macrost,

Spray paint did it faster for me. ;)

[mivox]

Spray paint did it faster for me.

Having six paint brushes of the proper width set up in six paint pots ahead of time is even faster. :)

[Strange]

20 seconds? That can't be right... It takes about a minute to get all of the little stickers off.

[Macguru]

mivox you know how a man can be when frustrated?

I sprayed it all in black so I win on every move!

[roscoepico]

Saw him on the news last night, this kid is insane. He looked like me trying to open up a snickers bar, yes it was that fast..

[dogboy]

peeling stickers off... too tedius.... I would just rip mine apart.... take the top level and twist an 1/8 of a turn, then YANK, and bam, there it was in pieces.... just separate and reassemble:)

[ogletree]

I guess there was a sticker camp and a Disassemble/Reassemble camp. I was the latter.

[dragonlady7]

>He looked like me trying to open up a snickers bar

LOL!

I never had a Rubik's Cube. Which, in retrospect, was very, very humane of my parents.
I've never tried one. I don't want to.

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When they have contests for this, do they make sure that everyones cube is messed up exactly the same way? So that they start from the same point?

I think they mess them up randomly. The contestants then sit there and plan their moves for something like 30 minutes. Then they pick it up and solve it.

It is all planned out beforehand - that's how come the blindfold speedcubing record is something like 44 seconds.

I've seen them done faster as well - but they must not be official. This kid does it in 17: http://members.chello.nl/~r.vanbruchem/ron3x3x3.mpg

[Trisha]

Messing them up randomly doesn't make sense to me. Someone could get one that is easy to solve more quickly than the others. I say that from experience, not that I've ever been in a contest for it. I can solve them though, and sometimes its just easier than other times because certain part/aspects of it are already in place.

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Well - if they mess them all up the same then solving them would be easy. At least if you do it randomly then there are any number of combinations which can be used as a starting point. It might be dealing a hand of poker - sometimes you get lucky - most of the time you don't.

I don't know how they do it in the competitions though - I can't seem to google it either.

[lawman]

Would seem fair if a random pattern were chosen and all were set to that pattern. Dunno.

lawman

[Liane]

I never had a Rubik's Cube. Which, in retrospect, was very, very humane of my parents.

My father gave me one and I have dyslexia. It was pathetic. I never once solved the darned thing. My father was a cruel, cruel man. I must have resembled a very unintelligent rat running around a maze with no exit.

Today, if someone were to give me a Rubik's cube to solve, I do believe I would find a new use for it! Perhaps they could nename it Rubik's Cubical Cork!

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I'm severely dyslexic and I remember being told as a kid that one thing which is very well developed is spatial awareness.

[dragonlady7]

I'm spatially dyslexic. Or something. That's not a technical term, but...
I have no trouble with words. Words of any kind give me no trouble. Math, I'm dyslexic at. Numbers just jump around, and i can't keep them in the right order.
And dances. My parents made me do Irish step dancing, which is like a Rubik's cube of footwork. I was hopeless.
So I don't know what it is, but I know I got some wires crossed in my brain. I can't sort any of that crap out. Words, fine, real world, not fine.
I, too, would find anyone who gave me a Rubik's cube to be cruel.

[JonB]

when i was a kid i solved it too wiht removing stickers :)

here is where i learned how to solve rubik cube,it is really foolproof way- scroll down..

[geocities.com...]

very easy,you can really impress your friends..if you dont have a system there is almsot no way you can solve it..

the recorsd is 16 seconds though:
[recordholders.org...]

this guy even says he has it in 14 seconds:

[homepage.ntlworld.com...]

on this

[Trisha]

I looked at the Geocities site, that's not how I do it though. But I do think you have to have a method you use to be able to do it too. Mine probably isn't that efficient, there is no way I could do it as fast as some people. I've never really timed it, but I'd guess it takes me a minute or 2.

[Fiver]

I got two sides once....

by accident.

but boy I was the fastest kid around to get one side at a time. I could do it with my eyes closed from like five moves left.

mmmm inferiority.