Being able to watch someone scramble a cube and reverse their moves from memory, would be way more impressive than what is actually being done to solve it
I actually brag in front of my non-cuber friends. Saying you could scramble it for years and I'd solve it within a minute. Then I pretend like I'm doing math in my head and solve it real quick. And they think I'm a math-god 😆😂
Before I learned how to solve a rubiks cube,I used to think you had to be like a super genius to do it. Like I literally thought they were calculating it all like this in their head. Now that I know how to do it, you could literally teach it to a little kid if they're patient enough. Like, anyone can learn it lol it doesn't even feel like it requires any math at all. Just pattern recognition and a few basic moves. You could probably teach a monkey to do it honestly but I swear if I met someone that could solve it I thought of them like "that's the guy that's gonna get us to Mars right there 😏" lol
Nobody has mentioned the correct branch of maths that the cube relies on. It's group theory and transformations. It's not even particularly helpful in human cube solving!
As a former non-cuber I always thought that you build first one side, then another, then another and so on. I could never figure out how to build a second side without destroying the first😂
Same here. After my brother, cousin and uncle taught me, I felt so dumb, and wished I had tried to do it myself, just knowing that the strategy is just stripes.
The way I like to think about it is that speedcubing is the physical version of speedrunning. There's the method developers equipped with their extreme knowledge and expertise in their field, and they hand us runners with algorithms, methods, and techniques to practice.
My son is a speed cuber (pb 7.93) … he once left his cube , fully solved , at a cafe. When we went to pick it up from lost & found the next day, it was scrambled. 😮 He did a quick sub 10 solve, as staff (having tried to solve it) stood amazed. They applauded him. I felt so proud. ❤
@@baronfox8829 ok,so,tell me,how do other sports like basketball or vollyball or swimming help humanity in any way,how do film industries help humanity,go on,answer as to why people invest millions in sportsmen for them to achieve mastery in there professions,while we're at it,how does you watching RU-vid help humanity huh, what efforts are u putting in?? Sitting on your bed with snacks and drinks around u??
@@baronfox8829 why do we need to find out what the limit of a person actually exists with sport events more than you need other hobbies such as chess or cubing
I’ve seen videos online showing/claiming how to solve a cube with one pattern of moves repeated x number of times. Obviously geared towards non-cubers LOL. I’m always like “that’s not how that works!”
@maximized I wish I could prove it, but sadly I dont have video footage of myself over that 10 year period. Maybe if we hit up the CIA, they could help us out? 😂
When learning how to solve the cube, the biggest reveal was that you don't solve the sides, but the layers. In hindsight it makes so much more sense, but it was genuinely what was stumping me for the longest time.
@@zelpazz you start solving the top, then you solve the blocks in the middle, and last the bottom. Solving the sides doesn't work, because all sides are connected on the edges, and the middle square on all sides don't actually move, since they are all connected at the core. so when you solve a rubiks cube, you need to keep that in mind: that you can't solve the up-side and the left side without affecting all other sides. so instead you pick a strategy that does work: solving one side, declaring that side as up, and then move down one layer to solve the blocks in between the upper and under side, before lastly fixing the underside.
I figured out the first layer through trial and error. That felt pretty easy. A classmate showed me how to do the 2nd layer. I used a book solution to finish it. I sometimes wonder if I could have figured it out on my own.
its how i learned to slve it in HS in the 80s but not doing it much since then i have forgtten the lst layer solution. I tried the 4x 4 x 4 rubick's reenge ut it fell apart not fixed center makes the whole less stable
Too true. Every time I tell or show people that I'm into speed solving, they always comment "You must be good at math". Nope, just a lot of mis spent time...
When a friend taught me how to solve the cube, he actually made me think how to do the cross and first layer with a bit of guidance. Needless to say it took quite some time. Then I realized it has more to do with being conscious about where the pieces move and how you move them. Which was hard to figure out for me. As I advanced to the 2nd layer he just told me "memorize this, you'll figure how it works later if you are interested enough" . So while it doesn't have to do much with math, I would say it has to do with three dimension thinking.
That’s kind of how my mom taught me! She doesn’t do really fast solves, but can easily solve 2x2-5x5 cubes. When she first thought about teaching me a couple years ago, she told me how to do the first layer of a 2x2 (I didn’t have the sides of the bottom lined up a lot of the time, so her old cube just sat there on my desk for a while). More recently I brought that up and asked if she could teach me the rest. I learned and memorized in a weekend, and might try to start doing it fast now. When I asked if she could teach me 3x3, she told me to try to solve the first layer while she went and did something else. We worked through it together, while she used an older cube she had. I memorized the newer algorithms and now I can solve 3x3 easily (sort of) too. Basically, she had me try to do first layers myself. We started 4x4, but I, with my autistic mind, quickly lost interest. Since Christmas is coming up, I’m getting my own 2x2 and 3x3, along with a megaminx, rediminx, a 1x1 megaminx because why not, and a couple other Rubik’s cubes and similar puzzles. All stickerless, my mom has a hatred of stickered cubes, and so do I, naturally This was a lot lol
I was also gonna add this: I see in a lot of these videos that people first solve using a cross (? I’m not sure how that would be used in a sentence), but I’ve never learned that. My mom taught me to just put in pieces for the 1st layer, line up the centers, put in the 2nd layer edges, then make a cross at the top, line up the corners, switch any if needed, do a thing to make all of the top the same, then do a thing to switch the 3rd layer edges, then solve I guess the cross thing is better for speed? Or just better in general? Idk
As somebody who cubes constantly, I can confirm that I can’t solve the cube without my trusty pen, paper, and calculator Edit: WOOOOOOOOOOOO 1K LIKES THAT’S MY FIRST TIME
Before I learned how to solve a cube, I thought the way you did it was by remembering every single turn ever performed on that particular cube over its lifetime, and then reversing the scramble.
I can usually solve a cube that's been scrambled six or fewer turns by reversing them if I know that's the case. Beyond that I need a more general solution.
To be fair, most speedcubers initially 'solved ' the cube by watching youtube videos, learning an established method. It is the development of these various methods which I think of as solving, and which most impresses me. I'm not a speedcuber, but I did develop my own method in 1981 when there weren't any materials available.
I like to think of speedcubing as speedrunning the cube: you have the people creating methods and maneuvers using a fuckton of math, and then you have the competitors learning those methods and executing them as fast as possible while barely understanding a sliver of math involved
I developed my own method in the early 2000s. I had been trying to solve it for years and could only do the first two layers. Then I had an hour commute each way on the subway. Used a lot of pen and paper and solved it. A few months later, I could do the 7×7 (which was newly commercially available) in under 15 minutes, also using my own developed method.
Yeah it’s interesting how every scientist is doing what speedrunners all do. Like all mathematical and physics principles are developed off of knowing what other people have done, so like solving a calculus problem is just using what the people before invented to do so. And the innovators are just the ones who learn from the past and push it just a bit further.
My girlfriend keeps picking up my cube and starts turning. And I’m like “oh, do you want me to show you the beginner method?” And she’s like “nah, I want to figure it out for my self.” And I’m like “um, that’s technically possible, but without algorithms that would be very difficult.” And she’s like “I think I can do it” A few minutes later she usually throws my speed cube across the room in frustration.
@@Orangecat17 You can figure it out, and only if you understand what each rotation does to the configuration of the cube. And since all scrambles are at most 20 moves from being solved. Theoretically you can look at a cube, and just from seeing which tiles are where and what rotation each one has, you can unscramble it with the least amount of moves possible. And if someone like Max Park learned how to do that, then I wouldn't be surprised if he could push the time down for the WR to under 3 seconds from the current 4.86.
@@Orangecat17 No, that's not true. I figured it out myself. It's not even that difficult. Granted, my method is not particularly efficient, but it works. I didn't use a calculator, but I did use pen and paper.
@The Major you would have to memorize about 43 quintillion patterns and algorithms to solve the patterns to be able to do that, so yeah possible but...
Man, I just couldn't stop myself from laughing as loudly as I could for two minutes straight. You've done a great job writing down all of that math on paper just to make a video for us. I was literally like, "Damn! This guy has written more complex math just for a video than I myself have written.....". Appreciate the effort you put in to make these videos! I'm waiting for more videos like this!
When I first saw someone doing a Rubik's cube, looks like that you change the tiles lol, because also it looks like that theres no way that you can put that specific tile on the same side with other tiles lol
@@thea2404 I guess there is a relation between being good at maths and being interested in solving puzzles bcos thats also the case for me🤔. But my point is you dont have to be good at maths to know how to solve a cube. A misconception I often heard back when I was solving cubes in highschool😅
Either that or ppl think we just remember how we scramble it with our nonexistent photographic memory and reverse it 💀 PEOPLE IN SCHOOL SAW ME WITH IT AND ASKED TO SCRAMBLE IT FOR ME, BUT THEY’D HIDE IT FOR ME OUT OF VIEW LIKE ME SEEING HOW THEY SCRAMBLE IT WILL HELP 😭
i told my uncle i can solve the rubiks cube blindfolded, and he said "how is that possible?" i explained how you have to memorize the location of the pieces and he said "you'd have to be a genius to do that" he was baffled when he saw me do it
I’m still working on this myself! I think I’m using a method call Old Pockmon… or something. Goodness 😅 Using letters to memorise a sequence of pieces to rearrange them. I’m only guessing that this is the most tedious method but I would like to master it before attempting easier/advanced methods. All I know is that if I wrote the sequence down and take my time, it’s possible for me to solve the cube while not looking but blindfolded with the sequence memorised? Not yet there 😅
0:53 That American pen grip. I have an acquaintance from the US and he holds his pen exactly like that. Were you guys taught this from kindergarden or what? lol
even after learning to solve a 3x3 rubic cube by follow existing patterns to solve it years ago, i still believe even now that there are legit formulas they do to solve cubes like the ones described in this video.
Yeah so last year I went to live with some girls and one had a Rubik's cube, not hers. As they were pretty much assholes, I spent a lot of time minding my own business in my room and one day I decided to look at how to solve a Rubik's cube on RU-vid. Can you imagine my surprise when I learned that it just takes practice and a little bit of attention and not a PhD in Quantum Physics to solve it? Mind blowing! Also I've understood 2 things about the human race: 1) Everyone is too afraid to even look up a tutorial because they've been told all their life that only geniuses can solve a Rubik's cube, so they think they wouldn't be up to it anyways. 2) It's beautiful to be recognized as COOL even if you didn't do anything special. This is why cubers will never tell you "hey you can learn it too, RU-vid is full of tutorials!" when asked "How did you solve it?".
@@Qubecumber There's math involved in cubing algorithms. It reduces the number of possible moves to scramble a cube to about 20 moves maximum. That's the math part done. You would know this if you watched the video.
@@Noone91875 Since E = mc² and a²+b² = c², we can substitute the equation for E = m(a²+b²). a is the minimum amount of moves needed to solve the cube with the Kociemba algorithm, and b is the edge orientation of the cube. With this information, we can calculate the least amount of energy needed to solve the cube, maximizing efficiency. This is also the reason why a cube that has less mass takes less energy to be solved.
I've solved exactly one Rubik's cube in my life, following a step by step RU-vid tutorial. When I was done, I thought: "So this is it? Ok, I'm done with this for life. I can't be arsed to learn this movements by heart, much less practice to get fast at them"
I remember before I learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube, I thought it was like some crazy complicated math formula. Turned out it was still a little complicated but not impossible to learn. 😅
There is math involve but not numbers math. The people who created fast algorithms uses computers to search for this algorithms and they use group theory and symmetry to reduce the search space.
@@kazedcat Sure it's math but the majority of non cubers have never heard of group theory. Even then, having a computer do the work is also not using math to solve the cube yourself. You're having a computer use the math to do it for you.
There is a discipline in math which is called Group theory. In one shot I thought that I saw polynomial division but I think it was more about solving a linear system of equations. But everything was very good. The chaos was very accurate!
I asked my dad what he thinks im thinking while solving a rubik's cube. He said "i think your making insane calculations in your head with geometry to exactly know which move to do" . Meanwhile me "mmmm i can do R' U' R U to put this f2l pair in, nice!"
Bro reminded me when I used to come home from school with no homework but my mom wouldn't believe me so I'd write quite literally the most random math equations and geometry drawings, had 2 pages of randomness done within 30min.
He wrote all that down?just for non-cubers think u did 30 minutes of biology and geography for chemistry and 1.6272 centi meters is rlly all that for ur 5k subs.huge respect
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That is more or less how I solved it for the first time. I didn't use a tutorial... but I did take Group Theory at Cornell. First solve took me years. Second one took me hours. Before long, it took minutes. Once I hit around 1 minute using my own algorithms, that was about as fast as I cared to get. My method is easier than Beginner's method.
