Here's one method that may impress some of your friends who can't figure it out: get a cube that is already solved. Videotape yourself quickly and frantically unsolving it. Go as long as you like. Then figure out how to play the video backwards. Be sure you don't do anything while taping that will make your trick obvious, like someone casually walking bakwards through the frame, or "pouring" a liquid from a glass back into the bottle. OK, people will catch on, but some may take a little extra time.
Personally, i prefer the fridrich method. You make a cross, do F2L (first 2 layers) all in 1 step, OLL (orientation of the last layer, basically means to make the whole top face 1 colour), PLL (permutation of the last layer, solving the final step of the cube.) Its requires 57 OLLS and 21 PLLS if im not mistaken. The f2l is intuitive. There are lots of tutorials about it on YouTube. Good luck.
http://www.cubelagoon.com/?ref=1285 Basically, you answer surveys to gain points and then use those points to claim prizes. Such as a rubiks cube. Its 100% free. I've gotten a 3x3 white cube and a 4x4 rubiks cube from here. Its very fast. For a 2x2 cube, its 4.75 points and each survey is around 0.5-2 points. So you can get it in no time. Just use that link and sign up and start answering surveys.
Go to cubewhiz.com and on the left there should be some tabs. Look at f2l, oll, and pll and there will be a bunch of algs to increase your speed.
Another tip is to break open the rubics cube, put in some jell in the center, perferably vaseline/ lotion. And the rubics cube will move lots faster!
This may not help but,
There aren't many fast methods out there that are easy to learn.
But my method is very easy, even according to my friends, and I can solve the cube with it in thrirty seconds or less.
I am writing a book about my method but you probably won't wee it for a year or two.
Either the Frindrich method or the Lars Petrus method.
-person number 2
I would say the Fridich method is fastest way.
this youtube video tells you how simply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsQIoPyfQzM
i recommend fedrich method but i still have a hard time learning it
the rubiks cube the rubiks cube
no way he is to stupid and self centered to solve a rubiks cube. im serious i know people. he might be the smarteset kid on earth but there is no way he could solve a rubiks cube!
Yes he does. He can solve a Rubiks cube in less than a minute.
No. Unless you buy the electronic rubiks cube called rubiks revolution. It has different games.
play with it for a long time
go to youtube, and there should be videos up by a person with the username 'pogobat' that has videos on how to solve the 3x3x3 and the 4x4x4 rubiks cube.
a mirror cube, the mirror cubes work the same as a rubik's cube, but takes more knowledge of the cube since you can't orient by just looking at the colours
The Rubik's cube is normally easier because you can us algorithms as techniques to solve it where as the rubik's 360 is based on luck and steadiness of the hand.
Plastic.
No, it doesn't but it can increase your understanding about various aspects of geometry. The people who are able to solve a rubik's cube don't really have higher IQ. They are able to do this because they have learn't the trick to solve it. They have hardcoded the algorithms in their brains. Anyone can solve a rubik's cube just by memorizing the algorithms and learning the technique to solve it.
a rubix cube!! :)
Rubiks Cube was invented in 1974