Rubik’s Cube
Feb 26th, 2009 by Brian
Considering the lofty goals Anna has on her “100 Things” list, I feel a bit silly admitting this, but one of the things I’ve always wanted to learn was how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. I’m not sure exactly where this comes from, but I suspect it is some sort of repressed childhood frustration (I have a distinct memory of disassembling the cube I had as a kid in order to “solve” it).
I don’t think that I had ever voiced this desire to anyone, but by pure coincidence a Rubik’s Cube is precisely the birthday gift that Oscar picked out for me. This had to be some sort of sign, right? The universe was clearly telling me it was time to fulfill this goal.
So, for the past few weeks I’ve been studying the various cube solving strategies and practicing whenever I had time. Just yesterday I managed to complete the cube for the first time and am now at the point where I can consistently solve it! Lest anyone get too impressed, there’s not much too it beyond recognizing a handful of patterns and memorizing a series of associated algorithms (pretty much the same thing I do for my day job). Nonetheless, I’m proud to have finally mastered the cube and would be crossing this off my list if I had one.
In order to preserve a record of my achievement, I shot a video which you can find below. Note that I’m not particularly fast yet so I’ve sped up the video to 1.5x so that you don’t have to suffer through 4 minutes of me spinning plastic cubes around.
Enjoy.
Rubik’s Cube from Brian DeHamer on Vimeo.
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Bravo! I was ready to jump back into the past to my own frustrations, but you lost me at memorizing algorithms. Sorry I missed the video.
Memorizing algorithms? Who does that?