Have you ever solved a Rubik's Cube?

Yeah, without cheating.

What? This isn't my survey! I just tried to fix it! If you fix it it puts your name on it? What?!

Is is currently rank 71.4%! Relax!

can get two sides only

I downloaded a 4-dimensional Rubik's Cube program. It's insane.

Alright.

And I've been very close to solving a pyamid one too.

i hate those things. i hate those things. i hate those things...

four dimensions? how does that work?... it's bad enough with three

yup yup yup!!
go me go me
i guess its pretty easy when you have no friends and you're depressed

It was something I knew how to do for a while in grade school, I learned a method (from a book and from a friend - a mix). It would take me about 3 minutes I think. At this point, I doubt I could do it, but with a little time and experimentation I could probably pull it off.

That's weird, there's a book on how to solve them? I was drunk when I solved it. I can't do it now though.

I believe there are several methods for solving it. The book I owned was called "The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube", it was about 30 pages long (with pictures). It went something like this: solve one side, get all the corners right as well, flip it and solve the corners on the opposite side of the side you solved, here is where I used a handful of memorized moves, solve for the rest of it -- the "edges" with more moves from the book.

I believe that I once solved it "by accident" before I learned the solution. Also, I took my cube apart a lot to solve it, before I knew how. My friends and I actually lubricated our cubes so they would move better. I remember they got too lose (they would burst apart when we tried to solve them quickly), we had to clean them after that. This was in the early 1980's.

yes!

Lubik's cube!

lol I should learn how to solve it so people will think I'm really really smart. Were these things really popular or something then, because I never see them anymore.

i just can't help it !, once my brother got mad at me, coz all the colored dot's where letting loose...

It has been over twenty years since I have even tried

Yeah they were really popular. The year I got mine, it seemed like all my friends got them for christmas, too.

Really? I didn't know they were a big trend. To me, they've just sort of always been around.

Hare Krishna!

I solved one a dem tings REAL good. Took ed oud back an' shot it with my shagun.

Can you provide me with a link to somewhere I can download that? Or if you still have it send it to me by email attachment?

Thanks

I was otherwise occupied with other things when it first came out. My middle son is not known for his patience and he managed to solve it. I was so impressed until I found out he had taken off the stickers to solve it. I'll bet he's far from the only one.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CUBE... it's heyday was ~1982.

No, I was absolutely hopeless at it. Even when I cheated, I couldn't do it

No, I would get really happy when I got one side. I wasn't the sharpest tack on the bulletin board when I was a kid.

Oh wait, I'm not now.

It was around 1976--possibly before your time

Oops!! I just noticed that you said its heyday was 1982--I knew it was a long time ago

Yeah, it is.

It's too hard.

I took all the stickers off, and put them in the place where they would match up... I had my sisters confused for days... Until the sticker stared to fall of...*pout*

I bought the book.

My dad knows the system of how to solw it, he made it up himself. He taught me.

used a book to do it, had some good techniques

I disassembled it, with a screwdriver, and put it together again.
Does that constitute cheating? The cube came without any
instructions, so maybe I am missing something.

Yes that is most certainly cheating.

all I can say is that yes I have cheated and it made me feel bad, so I kept on trying to solve it untill I did and I guess luck looked my way and let me have the solution. big deal huh?

with and without cheating

When I was little I peeled off the colors, that hurt my fingers, they made that difficult.

No. I have gotten all but the four in one corner...then I got stuck. When I tried to continue, it got all mixed up again.

A Long Long time ago, I can still remember how that cube used to piss me off.....