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November 20th, 2007, 02:59 AM
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OT: I Can Solve It!
I can solve a rubik's cube! (Without cheating) Took me a month to learn how to do it proficiently, but I can now solve a rubik's cube in under 5 minutes.
Yes I have to use formulas, but still, a way cool feat to be sure. Once you know the way to do it, doing it becomes easier and easier.
*I just bet my brothers friend that I could solve it in under 5 minutes.... I WON $20.00. And he PAID ME too!
I am such a nerd. 
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November 20th, 2007, 03:23 AM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
That's something to be proud of.
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If I only could remember half the things I'd forgot, that would be a lot of stuff, I think - I don't know; I forgot!
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November 20th, 2007, 03:30 AM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
Hopefully this will be the right threat this time........Does this mean that if we can't do it there's something wrong with us? lol jk
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November 20th, 2007, 12:40 PM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
I can't, and there's nothing wrong with me.
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If I only could remember half the things I'd forgot, that would be a lot of stuff, I think - I don't know; I forgot!
A* E* Se! Gd! $-- C-^- Ai** M-- S? Ss---- RA Pw? Fq Bb++@ Tcp? L++++
Some of my webcomics. I've got 400+ webcomics at Last count, some dead.
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November 25th, 2007, 02:45 PM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
By memorizing the initial configuration and using a lot more moves than are normally necessary. The farther along you get in solving a Rubik's Cube the more you have to worry about not disrupting what you've already done. There are a bunch of somewhat long sequences of moves that end up changing the positions and orientations of a very small number of cubes (even as low as 2 or 3) while putting everything else back to where it was before you started the sequence. Normally you would use these only near the end of the solution, but blindfolded solvers use them from the beginning so it's easier to keep their memorized model of the cube up to date.
Note: I can solve a Rubik's Cube, but not blindfolded, probably not with one hand, and definitely not in 20 seconds. I haven't timed myself, but I think I'm somewhere in the "less than 5 minutes" range.
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November 26th, 2007, 02:13 AM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
I broke mine!
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November 26th, 2007, 03:34 AM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
ui ri li u d r l -
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November 20th, 2007, 12:49 PM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
Wow good job there AT. Now you can come back to the 21st century. On your way back though, can you pick me up a Members only jacket, some hairspray, and some parachute pants?
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November 20th, 2007, 03:47 PM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
$20 bucks for a bit of research... man I can fund a completely knew PC is I hit the party scene
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November 20th, 2007, 05:39 PM
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Re: OT: I Can Solve It!
I never could solve a rubik's cube -- then they came out with some sort of pyramid to solve, which was supposedly sooooo much harder, and I could solve that one. Meh. How did these fads catch us back then?
Now of I go to browse blogs for a couple of hours ...
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