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
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.
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!
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
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? 😂
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 UA-cam 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
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.
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.
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
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...
I actually wasn't able to get into solving Rubik's cubes until I learned abstract algebra and knew why the algorithms are what they are just a little bit more than I did before the class. Hi, I'm a Math major. I don't try for the fastest solve, I try for the most elegant.
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!
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
@@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😅
I love it when someone sees me solving my Rubik‘s cube and wants to know how it works. I try to show them, I‘ve already taught some friends of mine how to do it, and nothing compares to the joy and excitement me and them feel when they solve it :)
My sister saw me practicing and asked me what the formula is. I asked her "which one?" and she said "the one to solve it." She legit thought there was one single foolproof formula to magically solve any cube.
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 😅
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 UA-cam. 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, UA-cam is full of tutorials!" when asked "How did you solve it?".
I used to think that it was something complex like that, but then a friend at a summer camp showed me that it was actually just a series of steps to memorize and I immediately lost all respect for Rubik cubes and interest in solving them, haha I still hold respect for people who memorized those sequences, though. Fun trick to know and show off.
this is so accurate lmao, people will see me solving a rubiks cube and think i'm like the smartest person in the world meanwhile i just looked it up and took a few days to memorize it.
I've solved exactly one Rubik's cube in my life, following a step by step UA-cam 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"
@@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.
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
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
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!"
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 😭
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
@ace5161 I said my method was EASIER, not faster. It's VERY slow. But if you'd like to see it, search Rubik's Cube Cheeseburger. Then go to the channel that video is on and watch the playlist. The method I teach and what I use when going top speed are not the same. What I use at my best is basically very similar to beginner's method. Except I do use my own algorithms that are in that playlist for the top. But it isn't faster than the ones you'll see most places online.
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.
What method do you use to solve the Rubik’s cube?
cfop
Cfop
pEtRUs
CFOP
Beginner method + F2l
As a mathematician, I can confirm that the formula "Photosynthesis x radius per turn" is applicable in this situation.
As a biochemist and cuber, I can second this opinion XD
I really wish this was true 😂
As a cuber, I can confirm
Weird. As I was reading this comment the video synced and my brain exploded.
As a cuber i can say that I absolutely solve a rubix cube using biochemistry merged with algorithms
My favourite is when they want to scramble it for you and say "don't look!" As if I'm memorising all of their moves
Oh I look away,
Just for me to laugh my ass off
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
@@royalobasi1938 THAT'S SO FUNNT
XD I can relate
Yeah that’s funny
There’s no math during actual solves, but the math behind cubing theory is absolutely fascinating.
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.
No shit sherlock
There's maths cuz actual solves are just memorizing algorythms but anyway those are algorythms so there's maths
@@nanamacapagal8342 I think actual running is the physical version of speedrunning 😂
@@mastershooter64 fair point
bro my friend actually scrambled it for like 4m cuz he thought the longer he did it the harder it was
💀 🤣
I had a person who scrambled it for 10 minutes. Now I ain't great but I solved it in a minute and a half. Confused em greatly
That's what my brother does
No, don't look while I'm scrambling it, that's cheating! 😤
Oh my god dawg
"Oh you can solve a rubik's cube ? You must be great at calculus then."
"I am great at calculus, but not because I can solve the rubik's cube!!!11"
I was one told that I must be good at physics to be able to keep track of the pieces.
@@stereng oh i wish it worked like this 😭
@@modycebula8161 fr I wish it did (I want a heart)
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!
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.
The layers, what does that mean?
@@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.
OLL
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
As a non-cuber, I can confirm this is exactly what we think
Me to!
i actually cant telll if ur joking
NOT
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I was gonna say the same thing lol
As a cuber, it is completely opposite, you use Beginner method, CFLOP and all sorts of methods and you use algorithms to solve it. R u dumb
Just imagine what speedcubers do to get sub 10 with only 15 seconds of inspection with this method
In their head
look ahead and many algorithms
@@moduleapothem6446 r/whooosh
@@moduleapothem6446 r/whoooosh
I can solve without inspection 24 sec with 21
My friend was like"I can solve 5 sides, but i can't solve it fully"
Me: BRUH!
Reminds me of when people claim to have gotten one off a perfect score on a matching quiz. Like, no you didn't.
it's physically impossible to get 5 sides solved because 1 being messed up forces another side to be messed up
@@TroyBoyJoyBig brain
as a cuber, I can confirm this is how it works
Haha
same
I have a t-shirt with all the important formulas 😀
Solve quantum machenic equation to solve a rubix cube
As a begginer cuber, i can say i peel the stickers i after giving up halfway
It annoys me to no end when 6 years of learning and practicing boils down to "Oh, there's a trick isn't there?"
Yeah its so annoying
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!”
‘Umm yeah, yeah. It’s called hard work’
Ya thats ehy for me I dont use videos. Took me like 10 years to figure out the 3x3, but it was so much mor satisfying that way
@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? 😂
Calculating the photosyntesis of the radius is always the hardest part for me
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 UA-cam help humanity huh, what efforts are u putting in?? Sitting on your bed with snacks and drinks around u??
Sports such as cubing or chess are like any other, sources of entertainment or just a bubble that people come in enjoy
The sole purpose is COMMUNITY
@@baronfox8829 🤓
@@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
@@baronfox8829 God forbid people have hobbies, how awful of them.
1:33 Bold of you to assume non-cubers think in layers
Bold of you to assume I think
*Bold*
Bold of you to think
Bold of you to be alive.
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 lmao at least now we know!!
The trick is to pay attention to the pieces with multiple colors on them.
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.
Thats the neat part...ya dont
For real.
This is so true. Knowing how to solve a Rubik’s cube immediately makes you look like a genius 😂
I got called a genius by a speed cuber who I know. Not because I could solve a Rubik's Cube, but because I learned in less than an hour.
“This is 3x3 so that equals 9” bruh I felt like that joke was so underrated lmaooo
the amount of dedication you put into all this maths is incredible
i bet your hand hurts more from writing that down than cubing
bruh
@@jarencetan7553 ?
it’s literally just him saying random numvers to sound smarter lmao
@@DaMenchaShorts r/whoosh
@@DaMenchaShorts 🤯🤯that's crazy bro
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.
It so funny when they say something as "Okey let me scrable it for you, Im going to make it really hard to solve"🤣
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.
@@nanamacapagal8342 Matrice transforms = fuckton of math.
Manually executing simple Do {...] while () loops = solving without thinking about it.
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.
@@teaganmccluskey8644 that is a good point actually.
Instead of rediscovery the knowledge, we memorise it and build upon it.
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 a mathematician, I too can confirm that the formula "Photosynthesis x radius per turn" is applicable in this situation
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...
Ikr
legit they like u so smart, im like i just found out some algs
@@GamingEwees I tell people it's the easiest way to look smart lol
A few kids thought I was a genius after solving my cube in 30 seconds
don't forget all of the dissapointments you've gained from your judgemental family
Alternate title “how teachers expect you to solve math vs how you normally solve math
I mean yeah 😂
LOL
1:48 photosynthesis 💀
holy shit the fact that he actually wrote random math stuff shows his dedication
Fun fact: When Ernő Rubik created the cube, he actually calculated a huge method to solve it. It took him a month.
i mean ya gotta get somewhere to get dem algorithms :p
only for the average person to solve it in less than a second with a few algorithms and patterns
I actually wasn't able to get into solving Rubik's cubes until I learned abstract algebra and knew why the algorithms are what they are just a little bit more than I did before the class.
Hi, I'm a Math major. I don't try for the fastest solve, I try for the most elegant.
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.
that's always what it is. People thing I "figured out" how to solve a rubiks cube. No. you just learn.
@@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.
@@livedandletdie Sure, it's..technically possible. For like .01 percent of the population lol
@@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!
I'd like to see a video of you laughing. I don't believe that it was for 2 minutes exactly.
@@kenbrunet6120 dude, who cares? Why do you feel the need to point that out? Yeah, he probably didn't laugh for 2 minutes straight. Does it matter?
@@DeltaInsanity Dude who cares? Why do you feel the need to take a comment seriously that was trolly in nature. Does it matter?
@@kenbrunet6120 lol you're a lost cause. People in your life must find you quite annoying.
@@DeltaInsanity woosh
It took the creator of the rubik's cube a month to solve it the first time. Speedcubers truly stand on the shoulders of giants
I literally solved my first Rubik's cube yesterday and now UA-cam is serving me up Rubik's cube memes. I love it. I'm in the club now
Same
samee
same
welcome to the clubb
"alright 24 bottom layer moves" i hope you know double flicks
That does nothing
Bro better have stardust lube
@@Not_That_Drake 🤓
um actually 24 divided by 4 has a remainder of 0 so it does nothing 🤓🤓🤓
@@crappy_usename 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
I always tell people it’s like learning a recipe. And then memorizing the steps for that recipe so you don’t have to keep breaking out the cookbook.
The calculus involved in that solve was insane!! I was impressed with the applied quantum physics knowledge as well, excellent solve
Ya, and dont even get me started on those wuadratic equations!
@@trueblue97Yeah, he's a genius. I'm very smart, but even I don't understand wuadratic equations.
@davinfriggstad No one does but him. He is the one.
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
You use a calculator?? I just do it the old fashioned way.
Slide ruler?
You trust your pen? My pen is not, my friends will always borrow it for their satisfaction
@@HyperFocusMarshmallow No, Straight Edge and Compass.
i do it in my head
He’s scrolling TikTok on his empty phone case-
"Wow....u know how to solve the rubiks cube!? You must be a genius in math". This is definitely a statement I've heard so many times as a cuber.
Same
actually most of the people that I know who can solve a rubik’s cube are math nerds (including me)
@@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😅
@@muhammadniyaz4039 Hell my teachers said a person had to be good at math to solve Rubik's cubes.
im not even good at math, i just capable of solving a rubiks cube and thats it. yet people praise me like im some kind of a second coming of einstein.
The fact the non-cuber can imagine what F2L is is insane.
I love it when someone sees me solving my Rubik‘s cube and wants to know how it works. I try to show them, I‘ve already taught some friends of mine how to do it, and nothing compares to the joy and excitement me and them feel when they solve it :)
Dude this is insanely accurate lmao. Every time I solve a cube, my family thinks I'm a prodigy.
As a non-cuber, I think you just move the cube randomly and get lucky
That's ridiculous.
You just have to pray, until you hit on the right prayer. Everybody knows that.
That's ridiculous.
You just have to put it in your Rubik's Microwave on high for 9 hours. Everybody knows that.
@davinfriggstadohhhhh so thats how they do it, i thought to put it on the sun
My sister saw me practicing and asked me what the formula is. I asked her "which one?" and she said "the one to solve it." She legit thought there was one single foolproof formula to magically solve any cube.
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 😅
@@ETPangilinan1 I use Old Pockman too!
I can do the last few moves with my eyes closed. I always pretend like im falling asleep when showing new people I can solve it, lol
@ᴄᴏᴠᴏɪᴅ • 13 years ago Ya, for people who dont know it blows their mind
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 UA-cam.
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, UA-cam is full of tutorials!" when asked "How did you solve it?".
I used to think that it was something complex like that, but then a friend at a summer camp showed me that it was actually just a series of steps to memorize and I immediately lost all respect for Rubik cubes and interest in solving them, haha
I still hold respect for people who memorized those sequences, though. Fun trick to know and show off.
"yeah i remember I got 4 sides once. But that's as far as i got"
"It's just using math isn't it?"
"I PeEleD ThE sTiCkeRz tO SoLvE iT"
Now we can trick those people who say the third one: give them a stickerless cube
All three, especially the third one, are super annoying to hear, lol.
Hats off to the dedication to draw and write all that
Bro did so much math, he became Albert Einstein.
0:11 As a cuber, I can confirm this is exactly what we say to non-cubers.
As a cuber, I can confirm that I write random math formulas and figure out how many turns it takes to solve a cube
this is so accurate lmao, people will see me solving a rubiks cube and think i'm like the smartest person in the world meanwhile i just looked it up and took a few days to memorize it.
I've solved exactly one Rubik's cube in my life, following a step by step UA-cam 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"
As a not cuber, This is very accurate.
Literally when I solve a cube in front of My friends they literally went like "bro using all the math equation we've ever learned 💀"
Non-cuber: MATH😱
Cuber: Algs🤠
But algs are also part of math, so
@@denimgubantes5454 how are they apart of math?
@@mojolmao1752 algorithms are a part of math,
cubing algorithms are not a part of math
@@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.
@@DarkVoidIII there is math behind everything. But for the practical purpose you are not doing math.
This is so true. Whenever I solve a rubik's cube, my friends go like "I'm not good enough in math to solve this complex thing"
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
My bother is into Rubik’s cubes and literally my entire extended family all say, ”he can solve a Rubik’s cube? He must be amazing at math”
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
The fact that you actually wrote an entire page of math equations just for this video is insane. Dedication
can we just appreciate how good his 3d arts are?
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!"
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 used to think they solved it by using a different algorithm for each scramble 😂
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!
What I think is that they just twist the cube sides randomly… cuz that’s how I try to do it
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.
This is actually how my mom thinks you solve it. I can’t rn 😂😂
I'm not into Rubik's cubes, but I remember always trying to finish 1 side first, and being upset when I found out I had to ruin that side 😂
lol the f2l kinda makes sense great work buddy
as someone who is good at math and can solve the cube, I have no idea what you did
whenever someone asks me how I do it I just say "sorcery", throw 'em a curve ball.
In a 20 move solve speed contest, you would indeed need pen and paper (the rule is to only use 20 moves, the minimum, which requires insane knowledge)
This is so accurate! Before I learned cubing, even I thought the same way.
You have potrayed it beautifully!
“I
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S T I C K E R S”
That's what I did to my dad's rubik's cube when I was 10
bro lowkey completed his homework while filiming this video...😉
This may be true for the people who invented CFOP for the first time. After that, they made the Rubik's Cube tutorial trend on UA-cam.
Not even lol. Anyone who contributed to building cfop didn't do any math at all. I'd say it's all spacial reasoning + trial and error.
@@kenbrunet6120 and math
@@AngelPlayz_II theres like 0 math involved in solving a cube.
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.
As a cuber I can say that non cuber think that's the way we solve it but it's more simple than that
I mean, it's kinda easy. You just use E =MC2 and some a²+b² = c²
Bro u just can't put this a^2 + b^2 = c2 with theory of relativity.
@@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.
@@BlueRS123 Man, you are a monster
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
A man scrolling on a phone cover can never solve a cube though😂😂
I bet the non-cuber is smarter then a cuber lol
These videos are always so hard to make because you have to make up equations. Kudos to you though!
I haven't learned how to solve a cube
So i just randomly shuffle it even more when i find one
Appreciate the effort you pun Into the video
No pun intended? 😂
@@cornbob976 he definitely did 😂
0:04 that is a phone case, not a phone
Duh
Oh wow really
They think solving a cube makes you good at math but in reality it makes you addicted to cubing
1:47 photosynthesis
i’m so happy he made a photosynthesis joke, i’ve been doing this for years
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.
Can you show us your method please? I will do anything to get faster.
@ace5161 I said my method was EASIER, not faster. It's VERY slow. But if you'd like to see it, search Rubik's Cube Cheeseburger. Then go to the channel that video is on and watch the playlist.
The method I teach and what I use when going top speed are not the same. What I use at my best is basically very similar to beginner's method. Except I do use my own algorithms that are in that playlist for the top. But it isn't faster than the ones you'll see most places online.
As a cuber, I can confirm to non-cubers this is how we do this.
2:57 what phone is that lol
iPhone 9
Bro I was literally about to comment that@@Aferretslife-youtube
He’s probably using his phone to film so since he doesn’t have an extra phone for the video he used his phone case
Actually so true
One day a friend of my mom came to visit and saw me solving a 3x3, she asked me if ever thought of working at NASA.
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.
Bro just made a utube vid while finishing his maths hw and it still works 🤣
Yeah bro they seriously underestimate how hard it is. This makes it look so easy
De hecho es bastante fácil, solo requiere un mínimo de coeficiente intelectual o lógica matemática jajajaja
I actually used to think that you had to finish one face at a time