SirKibbleX
Smash Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2006
- Messages
- 27
This summer I went to a gathering in Georgia called "Governor's Honors Program" which is a place where the best and brightest high-school minds in Georgia congregate to learn more about their specialties: some went in math, others communicative arts, and others social studies, etc.
While I was here I played a hell of a lot of smash and also got hooked on 'speedcubing' or solving Rubik's Cube and other related puzzles in the fastest times possible. I met Andrew Kang, one of the top 20 speedcubers in the world, who could solve a cube, no matter how scrambled in under 15 seconds.
So a bunch of us math nerds all began to learn various methods for solving (this was right before The Pursuit of Happiness sort of re-introduced people to the cube). I first solved a cube in June (it's a really weird, amazing feeling) and since then I've learned how to solve one in under 45 seconds. It may sound really nerdy, but just like Smash, a lot depends on dexterity, prediction, and being able to 'read' the cube. There's kind of a big community for solving and many various methods have developed, the most prominent being the Fridrich method. It's actually kind of interesting as there's a competitive scene and everything, sort of like a bizarre one-player mirror of smash.
If you're interested in learning how to solve one, there are some awesome videos on YouTube, especially by a user named THRAWST. It doesn't take long to get fast, and it's always really impressive and a cheap way to stay sharp and kill time on a bus, or in a waiting room.
So /b/ (lol) are there any speedsolvers here?
While I was here I played a hell of a lot of smash and also got hooked on 'speedcubing' or solving Rubik's Cube and other related puzzles in the fastest times possible. I met Andrew Kang, one of the top 20 speedcubers in the world, who could solve a cube, no matter how scrambled in under 15 seconds.
So a bunch of us math nerds all began to learn various methods for solving (this was right before The Pursuit of Happiness sort of re-introduced people to the cube). I first solved a cube in June (it's a really weird, amazing feeling) and since then I've learned how to solve one in under 45 seconds. It may sound really nerdy, but just like Smash, a lot depends on dexterity, prediction, and being able to 'read' the cube. There's kind of a big community for solving and many various methods have developed, the most prominent being the Fridrich method. It's actually kind of interesting as there's a competitive scene and everything, sort of like a bizarre one-player mirror of smash.
If you're interested in learning how to solve one, there are some awesome videos on YouTube, especially by a user named THRAWST. It doesn't take long to get fast, and it's always really impressive and a cheap way to stay sharp and kill time on a bus, or in a waiting room.
So /b/ (lol) are there any speedsolvers here?
