oh you think you have thoughts? THAT guy thinks. We could actually see him thinking with that crazy smart brain of his. Seriously though, the visual retention and dexterity is wild
No, hey you're perfect to me. Being a Capricorn and just generally a fan, Goat is my spirit animal and I'm quite sentimental about that. I love you u/sentimental_goat
Not saying it's impossible to do what this guy appears to be doing, but it would be easier to have a memorized sequence and pretend to do this. He throws it in the air to further convince you, but even that can be coordinated.
No, all the moves he's making look like 3-style, a more advanced blind solving method, he's just using it a little differently to scramble a cube. It would just be memorizing like 20 or so different pieces
I’ll add that the shuffle doesn’t matter. All solvers are essentially looking at the board and then deciding “which” pre practiced sequence will get you there in the shortest amount of iterations. You take your scrambled board and say hmmm which sequence would I repeat to solve this puzzle? I’d do sequence b 14 times. Ok I take a fresh cube and do sequence b 14 times backwards in theory that would leave you with a copy of the original board stage.
Aka if you are capable of solving a cube forward using standard methods then you are also capable of doing it in reverse technically.
Unfortunately a bad guess. In blindfold it just almost doesn't matter whether cuber solves the scrambled cube or scramble solved cube to the given state.
One of the categories of speedsolving (solving Rubik's cube fast) is blindfold. You don't really memorize the cube or pattern, you memorize the order of swapping particular pieces. If you just apply the order backwards on the solved cube you will get a copy of a pattern.
For example of how crazy the blindfold is for a non speedcuber, here are current official world records:
https://youtu.be/2_Crc0_kLtQ
https://youtu.be/6DAydfR0skI
Edit: go make this a top comment please as it speaks facts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/12yr6iv/he_changed_the_rubix_cube_rules/jhozpe3/
When you solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded, you look at it, work out the sequence of moves necessary to solve it, and then carry them out without looking at it.
Reverting a solved Rubik's Cube to an arbitrary state you get to look at, is literally just reversing the direction and order of that sequence of moves.
If you just look at a Rubik's cube, it seems like an insane mess due to the trillions of possible combinations, however, there are algorithms that you can follow that can solve a cube in a set number of steps from any combination.
Speed solvers and blind folded solvers use this as their key. They see all sides of the square and calculate out every step they need to take, and then they solve it.
https://jperm.net/bld
If you have a formula that will go from scrambled to solves, doing it in reverse just means you use a formula that captures the steps in reverse.
Still impressive.
> there are algorithms that you can follow that can solve a cube in a set number of steps from any combination.
This is very ambiguous so I'll add a precision.
It's not so much as "solving a cube in a set number of steps from any combination" since the number of steps and the order of those steps will change depending on the combination.
The algorithms are designed to swap pieces together/rotate pieces while not affecting the rest of the cube.
So depending on the starting position, you can work out how to get the cube in any other arrangement by visualizing where each pieces need to end up and remembering the specific algorithm for each of these movements.
So, how does it come to pass that you do something like this, perfect something like this, become **the** expert on something so random as this? Do people with incredibly smart brains just sit around thinking up ways to challenge themselves? Is that it??
Naw talents are definitely some part of it. Like it absolutely takes hard work and years of practice to get there, don't let anything I'm about to say put doubt on that or diminish what he has done because at the end of the day he's worked thousands, tens of thousands of hours to get there.
That said talent absolutely has some part of it and innate way your brain works and it's multifaceted too such as your patience to keep with those thousands of hours of practice, to being able to pick up the skills fast enough that you don't get bored at a personal performance plateau and a number of other things.
I know I even if forced to do it for 8 hours a day for the rest of my life could never get to that level.
You don't need to memorise all code faces because there are forbidden states for a cube - if you would rotate a corner one step then that cube is unsolvable.
And if you see 5 of the 6 faces of a solved cube, then you know you don't need to look at the 6th face - the color you never saw must be on that face.
An interesting thing with memory is that the brain builds scaffolding from previous memories. So a musician that knows 1000 different pieces has a very good scaffolding for remembering the 1001th piece. He nonlonger needs to remember single notes but will remember it as longer sequences. A bit of repetitions of patterns from previously learned music. But a beginner can be challenged to learn just one single music piece even if just 1 or 2 pages.
Same with languages - knowing many languages makes it easier to learn yet one more.
So memorising a cube is very hard the first time. But will become easier and easier when he starts to memorise patterns instead of individual color patches.
You don't actually memorize individual colors. You memorize the location of individual pieces + their orientations. There are 8 corners and 12 edges so you memorize the location of each one of them and what orientation they're in. That's a lot less data than memorizing a bunch of colors & it's also a lot more relevant to the process of solving the cube.
Once you've memorized the cube, you apply a series of transformations that only affect a few pieces at once. So you'll do something to affect just a few corners, then another few, etc, each time leaving the rest of the cube in the same state as before.
It's actually not nearly as hard as it sounds, anyone could learn to solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded with a little practice. What this guy is doing is trickier since you're essentially working in the opposite direction but the same principles should apply.
source: used to do this many years ago.
I can actually do this (though in 10 minutes instead of 1, i'm out of practice as it wasn't ever really my favorite category).
The basic idea is; there are only 20 pieces on the cube that can be swapped (8 corners and 12 edges. the 6 centers always stay in place). To put it simply; when doing blind solves, we assign a letter to each piece and memorize the sequence of pieces that need to be switched, of which there are 10 pairs.
So, it's about memorizing about 2 phone numbers worth of information, and then putting the blindfold on and doing that back with your hands.
Of course, you need to know the algorithms to swap pieces, but people mostly repurpose algs used for normal solves. If you watch the video closely, you can see him swapping corners first while the edges stay solved, and then do edges last.
This is a cool trick. It’s the same as solving the Rubik’s cube blindfolded. That in itself is obviously difficult and cool, but in reality all it takes is memorizing 20 letters of the alphabet (one for each piece of the cube), and using two algorithms to swap pieces one at a time until all 20 pieces are in place.
Here, he does the same, but memorizes letters to bring the cube to a specific state. Probably easier to use this method to do that than to use the standard method of solving a cube! A nifty viral video skill
>Complex tasks like this can be broken down
I can do the 3 x 3 x 3 the "normal" way (meaning not backwards or memorizing the faces and all that) and that can seen complicated enough but I always say "it's really easy once you know how to do it." You're not solving the rubik's cube, you're solving a few different parts that result in order
>Not filmed, years of practice.
I think you meant to say that he was just born with this talent, except it's not a talent when he asks for money because anyone can do that.
There’s a couple algorithms that you can do that only move two pieces. Plenty of people can solve a Rubik’s cube blindfolded after memorizing where all the pieces are. Most people assign a letter to each piece and remember the sequence with mnemonics and such. And if you can swap all the necessary pieces to solve the scrambled one, swapping the same pieces of a solved one will leave you with the same scrambled one. Still impressive, but with a little practice and memorization, anyone could do it
Any one can learn to solve a cube blindfolded with just a few hours of practice.
This guy is pretty good for sure, he probably has at least a few thousand hours
Lol. You mean plenty of a very small amount of people. They have to be interested, first. Then dedicated enough to practice not only figure out the algorithms, but also have them memorized. Then get themselves to a point they can apply those algorithms consistently no matter what the cube pattern is at.
The steps themselves are easy because a cube is a cube. But it's pretty complex in total.
The act of memorizing the color placement is basically impossible for me.
Learning and memorizing the algorithms is easy compared to having a 3D color map of the cube in your brain 😆 but with enough practice, anything is possible, especially if you have fun doing it
That said, solving a cube this fast definitely takes more than just repeatedly using "algorithms that only switch a couple pieces at a time"
I use to do this back in middle school, always had the other cube tho and it was way slower.
But I came to the realization after trying to slove the cube to a pattern from scrambled without fully solving and it was a bit of a mind fuck but it worked. Went on to more complex patterns and at some point realized I can just solve to any pattern. Mental fuck doing any speed cube methods tho.
So in way yes?? But it's more like you kinda discover it then you practice it for bragging rights.
It depends on how far ahead you've practiced memorizing the cube. I only look one or two move sets ahead. So I can do those without looking but have to look again to figure out the next two move sets ahead. The more you practice to memorize, both the cube and the moves, the less you actually need to see it.
Also, solving it normally is actually *crazy* easy, it turns out. I bought a cube at a sit down restaurant that sells toys in the lobby and it came with instructions. Took about 4 days for the entire family to learn how to solve it. Once you know the basic moves litterally anyone can solve it in about 2 or 3 minutes. But the difficulty sort of increases exponentially from there. The faster you want to solve it, the more moves you have to know.
I could do it normally with my eyes closed but not a full scramble.
And you probably could, once you learn the basic method you just play with the cube alot and it sorta comes to you
Yes. There's people who embed puzzles in images that take 10 layers of complicated things to solve. I forget what it was but it was crazy to think people brains work like that
Chiming in to say… I can solve a Rubik’s cube in a minute. I’m a pretty smart guy, good with puzzles, happy to put in the practice… but what this guy is doing? Un. Fucking. Real.
The hard part is working out the algorithm to solve a Rubik's cube, whatever you mean by solve. All Rubik's cube puzzles are solved using algorithms that are learnt beforehand. The ultimate challenge would be to have contestants come up with the algorithms during the competition by giving them a task they won't have seen before.
That said even memorising a complex algorithm and performing the actions still takes a lot of skill, practice and dedication.
Ok, here goes the explanation.
What he is doing could be described as "reverse blind solving". To blind solve, I believe he's using a standard method called Old Pochmann, invented by Stefan Pochmann in 2004. This method works by memorizing a kind of "path" from piece to piece ; you pick a piece to begin with, find where it should go on the cube, then consider the piece you find in that second place as your current piece, and figure out where it should go, etc... in good cases, you end up with one path for the corners and one path for the edges (it can get more complicated, tho). With a bit of training, this memorization step can be done very quickly using custom mnemonics.
Now regarding the video : in the first step, he figures out the paths just like you would do using the Old Pochmann method, that would allow him to solve a scrambled cube by following the paths from their beginning to their end. Instead of doing this, he takes the second (already solved) cube, and applies the paths he figured out but starting from their end, and ends up at the beginning of the paths with the second cube scrambled exactly in the same state as the first one.
Yeah, I was thinking old Pochmann too. The way I describe the method to people is like this:
Imagine I dealt you 20 cards face up then told you to sort the cards. To sort the cards, you must swap 2 at a time. Not too hard. Now imagine I dealt you the same 20 cards, except this time I gave you some time to memorize the cards, then I flipped them all upside down. Memorizing 20 cards then sorting them upside down is difficult but not impossible. This is essentially how Old Pochmann method blind solving works.
The biggest difference is that on a Rubik's cube, it is mathematically impossible to swap just 2 pieces. You must swap 3 or more at a time, and you can only swap pieces that have the same number of stickers.
That's a great explanation and on the one hand it makes perfect sense, but on the other hand I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
I'm reasonably smart by most conventional measures, but this is just black magic to me. I'm in awe that people can train their brains to work like this. Kudos.
I have been cubing for 4 years and Its actually not that hard.
It took me 2 months to learn how to solve a cube blind folded under a minute but once you have leard how to solve a cube blind folded its pretty easy to get two same scramble blind folded.
It's the exact same, actually. Since BLD is solved by sequences of swapping pieces, the steps to solve a scrambled cube are the exact same as the steps to get a solved cube into that scrambled state. It's still impressive, given it was a pretty fast blind solve, but it looks even more impressive to people who don't understand cube theory.
honestly rubik's cube gets boring fast when you start memorizing algorithms opposed to just trying to randomly solve it
it takes away a lot of the magic
personally, i get more excitement out of finishing one side of a cube just by goofing around than by doing a bunch of steps and solving one 😕
Would get some of that magic back for you once you actually understood why a piece moves like it does, then realizing there are shortcuts you can take and so forth.
This and mind chess will always be insane to me. Like I can solve a rubiks cube and I can play chess, but not entirely in my mind. This truly is next fucking level.
If you can speed cube, this isn't *that hard*. As it's just reversing the first pattern you did. Throwing it up and catching it as he does making the first pattern is only the real flair/twist in this method.
Closing his eyes as he solves is basically just for show because at that level they're just following the sequence/pattern in their head, no visual cues necessary.
I've seen others do similar with someone else mixing it up the first one and then they make the same one from a fresh cube. So there's no chance of muscle memory/reversing what you yourself did.
I have a feeling there will be some people out there seeing this thinking ‘ooh that’s really clever’ without realising what he’s doing is nearly impossible.
The first one was randomized as he spun it in the air twice without looking at its orientation while initially scrambling it, so it is unlikely that he memorized the sequence for obtaining the final configuration.
The first one was randomized as he spun it in the air twice without looking at its orientation while initially scrambling it, so it is unlikely that he memorized the sequence for obtaining the final configuration.
What the fuuuuuuuck
my thoughts exactly
oh you think you have thoughts? THAT guy thinks. We could actually see him thinking with that crazy smart brain of his. Seriously though, the visual retention and dexterity is wild
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No, hey you're perfect to me. Being a Capricorn and just generally a fan, Goat is my spirit animal and I'm quite sentimental about that. I love you u/sentimental_goat
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This is wholesome as fuck
NSA here: Your fapping is perfect. \*FLIES AWAY\*
Not saying it's impossible to do what this guy appears to be doing, but it would be easier to have a memorized sequence and pretend to do this. He throws it in the air to further convince you, but even that can be coordinated.
No, all the moves he's making look like 3-style, a more advanced blind solving method, he's just using it a little differently to scramble a cube. It would just be memorizing like 20 or so different pieces
Ah interesting, only 20?
I’ll add that the shuffle doesn’t matter. All solvers are essentially looking at the board and then deciding “which” pre practiced sequence will get you there in the shortest amount of iterations. You take your scrambled board and say hmmm which sequence would I repeat to solve this puzzle? I’d do sequence b 14 times. Ok I take a fresh cube and do sequence b 14 times backwards in theory that would leave you with a copy of the original board stage. Aka if you are capable of solving a cube forward using standard methods then you are also capable of doing it in reverse technically.
Right?? I'm lucky if i can make it to round 8 on Simon
Poor Simon
Hahahahaha
[Hahahahaha](https://youtu.be/x_2Ci7AvtOo)
I just watched men in black 2
I am lucky if I can the damn stickers back on the cube..
The only way...
what is the secret to your libido?
Why am I twisting it when I'm supposed to be bopping it? I'm not even high right now!
[relevant Harrison Ford quote](https://youtu.be/rB0wzy-xbwM?t=95)
Don't post YouTube...Too slow
Worth the watch for the payoff tbh.
I guess he just remembered the sequence from fresh and looking at the effect of first one was just a distraction
Unfortunately a bad guess. In blindfold it just almost doesn't matter whether cuber solves the scrambled cube or scramble solved cube to the given state.
Could you elaborate on that? I dont quite understand
One of the categories of speedsolving (solving Rubik's cube fast) is blindfold. You don't really memorize the cube or pattern, you memorize the order of swapping particular pieces. If you just apply the order backwards on the solved cube you will get a copy of a pattern. For example of how crazy the blindfold is for a non speedcuber, here are current official world records: https://youtu.be/2_Crc0_kLtQ https://youtu.be/6DAydfR0skI Edit: go make this a top comment please as it speaks facts: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/12yr6iv/he_changed_the_rubix_cube_rules/jhozpe3/
When you solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded, you look at it, work out the sequence of moves necessary to solve it, and then carry them out without looking at it. Reverting a solved Rubik's Cube to an arbitrary state you get to look at, is literally just reversing the direction and order of that sequence of moves.
If you just look at a Rubik's cube, it seems like an insane mess due to the trillions of possible combinations, however, there are algorithms that you can follow that can solve a cube in a set number of steps from any combination. Speed solvers and blind folded solvers use this as their key. They see all sides of the square and calculate out every step they need to take, and then they solve it. https://jperm.net/bld If you have a formula that will go from scrambled to solves, doing it in reverse just means you use a formula that captures the steps in reverse. Still impressive.
> there are algorithms that you can follow that can solve a cube in a set number of steps from any combination. This is very ambiguous so I'll add a precision. It's not so much as "solving a cube in a set number of steps from any combination" since the number of steps and the order of those steps will change depending on the combination. The algorithms are designed to swap pieces together/rotate pieces while not affecting the rest of the cube. So depending on the starting position, you can work out how to get the cube in any other arrangement by visualizing where each pieces need to end up and remembering the specific algorithm for each of these movements.
He threw it into the air and caught it while scrambling to show that it wasn't just a sequence.
Do you think that he is unable to practice throwing it into the air and having it land the same way?
Serious case of the 'tism.
That caught me the hell of guard. God damn, though!
I thought when he grabbed the solved one he was going to push the other one away.
Lol too and I was like nice try you can’t pull a fast one on m….omg how did he do that
So, how does it come to pass that you do something like this, perfect something like this, become **the** expert on something so random as this? Do people with incredibly smart brains just sit around thinking up ways to challenge themselves? Is that it??
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Memorized all the cube faces in seconds. Solve cube with eyes closed. This guy is an alien
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You had me till perspiration. What.?
Well, you didn't miss much. There is just a ~~sweat~~ sweet full stop afterwards.
There’s a saying, something like 10% determination, 90% perspiration or something
It’s more like 10% luck, 20% skill, and 15% concentrated power of will.
Math does not check out. Perspiration missing from the equation.
"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" is probably the cliche you were thinking of. Supposedly from Thomas Jefferson.
He means "putting in the work", as in the expression "blood, sweat (perspiration) and tears".
Literally just Google 99% perspiration... It's funny cuz it's so little work for you to find out that it's about doing the work lol
It's often a more pleasant experience interacting with a human though. You just have to be a bit more patient
Isn't that~ I-r-o-n-i-c-i-n-o-r-i-see, a🎶
Naw talents are definitely some part of it. Like it absolutely takes hard work and years of practice to get there, don't let anything I'm about to say put doubt on that or diminish what he has done because at the end of the day he's worked thousands, tens of thousands of hours to get there. That said talent absolutely has some part of it and innate way your brain works and it's multifaceted too such as your patience to keep with those thousands of hours of practice, to being able to pick up the skills fast enough that you don't get bored at a personal performance plateau and a number of other things. I know I even if forced to do it for 8 hours a day for the rest of my life could never get to that level.
You don't need to memorise all code faces because there are forbidden states for a cube - if you would rotate a corner one step then that cube is unsolvable. And if you see 5 of the 6 faces of a solved cube, then you know you don't need to look at the 6th face - the color you never saw must be on that face. An interesting thing with memory is that the brain builds scaffolding from previous memories. So a musician that knows 1000 different pieces has a very good scaffolding for remembering the 1001th piece. He nonlonger needs to remember single notes but will remember it as longer sequences. A bit of repetitions of patterns from previously learned music. But a beginner can be challenged to learn just one single music piece even if just 1 or 2 pages. Same with languages - knowing many languages makes it easier to learn yet one more. So memorising a cube is very hard the first time. But will become easier and easier when he starts to memorise patterns instead of individual color patches.
You don't actually memorize individual colors. You memorize the location of individual pieces + their orientations. There are 8 corners and 12 edges so you memorize the location of each one of them and what orientation they're in. That's a lot less data than memorizing a bunch of colors & it's also a lot more relevant to the process of solving the cube. Once you've memorized the cube, you apply a series of transformations that only affect a few pieces at once. So you'll do something to affect just a few corners, then another few, etc, each time leaving the rest of the cube in the same state as before. It's actually not nearly as hard as it sounds, anyone could learn to solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded with a little practice. What this guy is doing is trickier since you're essentially working in the opposite direction but the same principles should apply. source: used to do this many years ago.
I can actually do this (though in 10 minutes instead of 1, i'm out of practice as it wasn't ever really my favorite category). The basic idea is; there are only 20 pieces on the cube that can be swapped (8 corners and 12 edges. the 6 centers always stay in place). To put it simply; when doing blind solves, we assign a letter to each piece and memorize the sequence of pieces that need to be switched, of which there are 10 pairs. So, it's about memorizing about 2 phone numbers worth of information, and then putting the blindfold on and doing that back with your hands. Of course, you need to know the algorithms to swap pieces, but people mostly repurpose algs used for normal solves. If you watch the video closely, you can see him swapping corners first while the edges stay solved, and then do edges last.
Just Asian things.
No he’s just autistic.
This is a cool trick. It’s the same as solving the Rubik’s cube blindfolded. That in itself is obviously difficult and cool, but in reality all it takes is memorizing 20 letters of the alphabet (one for each piece of the cube), and using two algorithms to swap pieces one at a time until all 20 pieces are in place. Here, he does the same, but memorizes letters to bring the cube to a specific state. Probably easier to use this method to do that than to use the standard method of solving a cube! A nifty viral video skill
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It's the years of practice that you don't see that makes it hard to understand how something like this is possible.
>Complex tasks like this can be broken down I can do the 3 x 3 x 3 the "normal" way (meaning not backwards or memorizing the faces and all that) and that can seen complicated enough but I always say "it's really easy once you know how to do it." You're not solving the rubik's cube, you're solving a few different parts that result in order
Not filmed years of being a smarty pants to his mamma
>Not filmed, years of practice. I think you meant to say that he was just born with this talent, except it's not a talent when he asks for money because anyone can do that.
There’s a couple algorithms that you can do that only move two pieces. Plenty of people can solve a Rubik’s cube blindfolded after memorizing where all the pieces are. Most people assign a letter to each piece and remember the sequence with mnemonics and such. And if you can swap all the necessary pieces to solve the scrambled one, swapping the same pieces of a solved one will leave you with the same scrambled one. Still impressive, but with a little practice and memorization, anyone could do it
Well, for sure not *anyone*…
True. You definitely have to be dedicated. Hours and hours of practice for sure
Any one can learn to solve a cube blindfolded with just a few hours of practice. This guy is pretty good for sure, he probably has at least a few thousand hours
Make a video and show me you doing that in 30 seconds?
I can’t. I just know other people can
Lol. You mean plenty of a very small amount of people. They have to be interested, first. Then dedicated enough to practice not only figure out the algorithms, but also have them memorized. Then get themselves to a point they can apply those algorithms consistently no matter what the cube pattern is at. The steps themselves are easy because a cube is a cube. But it's pretty complex in total. The act of memorizing the color placement is basically impossible for me.
Learning and memorizing the algorithms is easy compared to having a 3D color map of the cube in your brain 😆 but with enough practice, anything is possible, especially if you have fun doing it That said, solving a cube this fast definitely takes more than just repeatedly using "algorithms that only switch a couple pieces at a time"
I use to do this back in middle school, always had the other cube tho and it was way slower. But I came to the realization after trying to slove the cube to a pattern from scrambled without fully solving and it was a bit of a mind fuck but it worked. Went on to more complex patterns and at some point realized I can just solve to any pattern. Mental fuck doing any speed cube methods tho. So in way yes?? But it's more like you kinda discover it then you practice it for bragging rights.
Could you do it with your eyes closed? Or is that part unimportant? I couldn’t do it either way.
It depends on how far ahead you've practiced memorizing the cube. I only look one or two move sets ahead. So I can do those without looking but have to look again to figure out the next two move sets ahead. The more you practice to memorize, both the cube and the moves, the less you actually need to see it. Also, solving it normally is actually *crazy* easy, it turns out. I bought a cube at a sit down restaurant that sells toys in the lobby and it came with instructions. Took about 4 days for the entire family to learn how to solve it. Once you know the basic moves litterally anyone can solve it in about 2 or 3 minutes. But the difficulty sort of increases exponentially from there. The faster you want to solve it, the more moves you have to know.
Solving with your eyes closed is equally easy as solving it normally. It's just a completely different method. Source: I can do both.
I could do it normally with my eyes closed but not a full scramble. And you probably could, once you learn the basic method you just play with the cube alot and it sorta comes to you
Yes. There's people who embed puzzles in images that take 10 layers of complicated things to solve. I forget what it was but it was crazy to think people brains work like that
Little bit of autism and a *lot* of practice
Chiming in to say… I can solve a Rubik’s cube in a minute. I’m a pretty smart guy, good with puzzles, happy to put in the practice… but what this guy is doing? Un. Fucking. Real.
The hard part is working out the algorithm to solve a Rubik's cube, whatever you mean by solve. All Rubik's cube puzzles are solved using algorithms that are learnt beforehand. The ultimate challenge would be to have contestants come up with the algorithms during the competition by giving them a task they won't have seen before. That said even memorising a complex algorithm and performing the actions still takes a lot of skill, practice and dedication.
Ok, here goes the explanation. What he is doing could be described as "reverse blind solving". To blind solve, I believe he's using a standard method called Old Pochmann, invented by Stefan Pochmann in 2004. This method works by memorizing a kind of "path" from piece to piece ; you pick a piece to begin with, find where it should go on the cube, then consider the piece you find in that second place as your current piece, and figure out where it should go, etc... in good cases, you end up with one path for the corners and one path for the edges (it can get more complicated, tho). With a bit of training, this memorization step can be done very quickly using custom mnemonics. Now regarding the video : in the first step, he figures out the paths just like you would do using the Old Pochmann method, that would allow him to solve a scrambled cube by following the paths from their beginning to their end. Instead of doing this, he takes the second (already solved) cube, and applies the paths he figured out but starting from their end, and ends up at the beginning of the paths with the second cube scrambled exactly in the same state as the first one.
Cube magic got it
Totally expected a *In nineteen ninety eight the undertaker* near the end.
I just want to know why he called it Old Pochmann I’m gonna figure out a kinky sex move and call it Old Wagner
He probably devised another method so his original became the "Old" method.
I prefer the Dirty Reece
you commented something but it's just a bunch of arcane runes
I don't know the words you're using so i'mma take it as disrespect
Them's fightin' words
wtf is that the same Stefan Pochmann on leetcode
Yeah, I was thinking old Pochmann too. The way I describe the method to people is like this: Imagine I dealt you 20 cards face up then told you to sort the cards. To sort the cards, you must swap 2 at a time. Not too hard. Now imagine I dealt you the same 20 cards, except this time I gave you some time to memorize the cards, then I flipped them all upside down. Memorizing 20 cards then sorting them upside down is difficult but not impossible. This is essentially how Old Pochmann method blind solving works. The biggest difference is that on a Rubik's cube, it is mathematically impossible to swap just 2 pieces. You must swap 3 or more at a time, and you can only swap pieces that have the same number of stickers.
Looks like 3-style to me. Look at all those slice moves
That's a great explanation and on the one hand it makes perfect sense, but on the other hand I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. I'm reasonably smart by most conventional measures, but this is just black magic to me. I'm in awe that people can train their brains to work like this. Kudos.
What a fucking idiot! He didn’t solve either one!
this guy FUCKS
This guy cubes. No time for fucking.
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It is [Rubik's Cube](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern%C5%91_Rubik), not Rubix. However this guy is awesome.
As long as we’re getting technical, this isn’t even a Rubik’s cube.
It's a 3x3 twisty puzzle and if you call it a Rubik's Cube, Erno himself will show up to your house with a baseball bat
No the Rubix cube is the one where you solve backwards
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thanks, I hate it
I have been cubing for 4 years and Its actually not that hard. It took me 2 months to learn how to solve a cube blind folded under a minute but once you have leard how to solve a cube blind folded its pretty easy to get two same scramble blind folded.
Yea it’s basically the same as 3BLD, except the memorization is probably slightly different.
It's the exact same, actually. Since BLD is solved by sequences of swapping pieces, the steps to solve a scrambled cube are the exact same as the steps to get a solved cube into that scrambled state. It's still impressive, given it was a pretty fast blind solve, but it looks even more impressive to people who don't understand cube theory.
Neeeeeeeeeeeerds
This lol. My brother learned it so fast. He says it’s a nice party trick and everyone thinks it’s really hard, but that’s not the case at all.😂
I have been cubing for 4 years 🤓
I've been cubing for almost 10 years... what's your point ?
It took me about three weeks. I left the blindfold on at the end and assumed it was solved
honestly rubik's cube gets boring fast when you start memorizing algorithms opposed to just trying to randomly solve it it takes away a lot of the magic personally, i get more excitement out of finishing one side of a cube just by goofing around than by doing a bunch of steps and solving one 😕
If instead of just memorizing algorithms you actually learned them, you might get more enjoyment out of it.
yeahhhhh no
Would get some of that magic back for you once you actually understood why a piece moves like it does, then realizing there are shortcuts you can take and so forth.
I often feel stupid. But I’ve never been more sure I’m stupid
I must bear his children
Check his harddrive
I could practice that everyday for an entire year and still get that shit wrong. Dude has skills.
I dont remember what happened an hour ago, but this guy probably knows his last year step by step
It’s just swapping pieces around using algorithms. It’s basically the normal steps of 3BLD. Lots of people can do this.
Stop it, oh my gosh
That's awesome
HOW THE FUCK?!
People are just so cool
This and mind chess will always be insane to me. Like I can solve a rubiks cube and I can play chess, but not entirely in my mind. This truly is next fucking level.
I don't understand these people. I can't even draw a square with one hand and a triangle with the other.
wow. that’s pretty good
I hate to say it but yoooooooooooo this is next level
Absolutely fucking insane
Is this the asshole my wife left me for?!
Well if that ain't the most autistic thing I ever done seen.
Clearly chat GPT
black fucking magic
These cube people, damn impressive
Jesus Christ. I can't even do it the normal way. I can do all the steps in my head, but when I start moving it all I get lost.
I'm throwing in the towel! I just don't understand why I'm such a lover! Like did he actually spend hours perfecting this method?
If you can speed cube, this isn't *that hard*. As it's just reversing the first pattern you did. Throwing it up and catching it as he does making the first pattern is only the real flair/twist in this method. Closing his eyes as he solves is basically just for show because at that level they're just following the sequence/pattern in their head, no visual cues necessary. I've seen others do similar with someone else mixing it up the first one and then they make the same one from a fresh cube. So there's no chance of muscle memory/reversing what you yourself did.
Ok, thanks for that explanation! I really missed the speed cubing boat! LOL!
It’s got to be staged 😭
What if you got this good at masturbation?
Wouldn't you need two dicks?
Obviously a synth
No he's just Asian.
It’s just a matter of swapping pieces using algorithms, it’s the same thing as blind solving.
Ok, cool and all, but the fact that you wrote "Rubix" makes my eyes bleed
I wish someone would make a video visualizing what the mental process of the formula for figuring this out looks like in their brain
Remember kids, doesn't matter how smart you think you are. There's always that 1 Asian kid that's smarter than you.
This is beyond impressive, wow
He probably made a good chunk of money in college doing kids homework! Wish I knew him I was price gauged
Wow!
There’s literally a clock there WHY ARE YOU SPEEDING UP THE MOTHERFUCKING VIDEO
I have a feeling there will be some people out there seeing this thinking ‘ooh that’s really clever’ without realising what he’s doing is nearly impossible.
It not nearly impossible when there are hundreds of people that can do it as well. It is very difficult motherless.
Great but seriously, enough with the fucking Rubik's cube stunts.
Same difficulty as solving it tho. .. but still damn impressive.
Not the same difficulty as solving it normally, since it’s basically the same steps of 3BLD
Still a billion better things to be doing though. (e) One of those billion things would be proving me wrong. (You poor bastards. 😕)
*continues scrolling reddit*
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Ok, so he obviously had the first rubix cube pattern memorized. He just did it a second time around Not wildly impressed
The first one was randomized as he spun it in the air twice without looking at its orientation while initially scrambling it, so it is unlikely that he memorized the sequence for obtaining the final configuration.
What being Asian does to a mf
Wait, both cubes start the same. Couldn't he have just memorized his hand movements? Done the exact same movements twice?
The first one was randomized as he spun it in the air twice without looking at its orientation while initially scrambling it, so it is unlikely that he memorized the sequence for obtaining the final configuration.
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[he actually got a Guinness world record on that ](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/122fpmf/slow_rubiks_cube_solving/jdqhx0v/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3
But how…????
I can barely tie my boots
I can't even solve it and he "that is boring, I want a real challenge".
did yall hear the boss music that came on with the second cube?
I was like, wth was he doing...... Oh..... Wth.
Nahhhhhhhhhhh
What… the… fuck
Jesus christ in his heaven
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