Comments on: 26 Years Later, Man Finally Solved Rubik’s Cube

By: Scooter

Scooter — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:40:10 +0000

I started a rubiks cube when I was a kid. I have never finished it and I don’t plan to. So when I die years from now without ever solving a rubiks cube will I have beaten this record?

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:48:17 +0000

lol

*Done it! And now for PacMan”

By: Nathan Miller

Nathan Miller — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:17:43 +0000

I love the idea that someone has wasted 26 years trying to accomplish something that so many others have accomplished more efficiently or at least faster, in the process missing “major life events,” and this is considered “neat.”

Is there an article soon planned for a man who spent 55 years buying 90 lottery tickets a week, just to never win?

By: JAck Gill

JAck Gill — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:49:18 +0000

Wow Good job

By: FreakyPolarBear

FreakyPolarBear — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:25:22 +0000

And that’s why you don’t give a rubik’s cube to someone with OCD…

By: Gonzo

Gonzo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:18:53 +0000

My dream is to one day want something so badly.

By: just a guy

just a guy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:06:58 +0000

solving the cube with no help – in fact figuring out the ‘moves’ yourself, is quite an acomplishment.

Still, this has the halmarks of an unhealthy obsession. It would suck to have your life influenced so much by trying to solve that little cube.

By: Leah

Leah — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:02:18 +0000

Well now what’s he going to do with himself?

By: hohop

hohop — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:29:59 +0000

I smell a movie deal

By: Neslock

Neslock — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:30:55 +0000

Also, this typical statement (probably from the advertising) has always been misleading:

“there are an astonishing 43 quintillion different possible configurations and only one solution.”

That makes it sound like solving it is finding a very small needle in a very big haystack. The truth is that the same general set of moves will solve any scrambled cube. There are really only about 6 or 7 different moves you need (more if you want to be more efficient at it).

By: Neslock

Neslock — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:24:33 +0000

He did well – anyone who designs their own set of solutions to the cube has done something impressive, no matter how long it takes.

There are some simple general strategies that he could have learned without having the solution given to him, though. Fairly simple moves for solving the whole cube can be built up using the idea of conjugates (see http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/conjugates.html), if you use a standard notation and write down what you’re doing as you go. The cube is not actually as difficult as most people think. It’s only difficult if you try to solve it with no particular method.

By: rika

rika — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:49:02 +0000

wow! extremely slow!

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:10:10 +0000

Wow, that has to be the record for slowest Rubik’s cube solution on record. Good for him.

Someone could have been a jerk and messed it up when they came across it as he was nearing completion