My dad bought me that same book, “The Simple Solution to the Rubik’s Cube” when I was a kid in the 1980s. I memorized it in a couple of days and was solving the cube with an average time of 60 seconds. I was charging 25 cents to kids at school to solve their cubes. I was making a couple of dollars per day until a teacher shut down my enterprise. 😅 I can still solve it today, over 40 years later.
@@Pomni740 I know I was faster as a kid than I am now. It seems like my hands just moved faster back then. Today my average is around 90 seconds and back then it was 60 seconds.
I got into rubix cube watch speed cubers. I bought a cheap on then decided to buy a gan11 M Pro. I don't try to be a speed cuber but I use it a lot as a fidget toy something to do when I am bored or sometimes I just practice it. I was also hooked to trying to get better with it for a few weeks I am no speed cuber, I can solve it in under a minute tho.
I was an 80's kid and had a Rubik's cube but was never able to solve it. Fast forward to 2020 and COVID lockdown. While other people were baking bread and hoarding toilet paper, I made it my mission to learn how to solve the cube. I watched a couple of RUclips videos and finally learned. The addiction began ... I now own numerous Rubik's brand cubes that I let me students play with (I'm a teacher) and I have my own collection speedcubes that I purchased from China. I ❤ cubing. Even when I'm not solving one, I like to hold one in my hand and scramble it. It works kind of like a fidget spinner and reduces anxiety. Thank you for this video!!
@@alanfikepattern? There are literally 7 steps to solve the cube for beginners and 4 steps for pro cubers (although we need to learn almost 100 algorithms to do it). For the beginners method, it is so simple, you onky need to do like 2 or 3 algorithms. Just watch the tutorial from a channel called J Perm and I am sure that you will be able to solve it.
@@alanfike I personally memorized 7 algorithms...one algorithm per day. I mostly followed the pamphlet of algorithms that came with the product. After solving it continuously for a week...I had all 7 algorithms memorized! Good luck! This was during the 1990's. If you can train your brain to remember seven phone numbers...than you can solve a rubik's cube. Good luck!
I had a cube in the 80s and could never solve it. About 3 years ago I watched J Perm’s video on how to solve it in 10 minutes, and now I scramble and solve my cube during conference calls. I’m not a speedcuber-it takes me about 3-5 minutes to solve it. For someone who was around in the 80s it’s really cool to be able to pick up a scrambled cube and solve it. I had the original in the 80s. 3 years ago I bought a new official 3x3 cube and 2x2 cube, and an off-brand 3x3 cube (which is my favorite).
People haaaate when you bring one of those to a meeting, but I wasn't meaning to be rude, it really helped me focus. Nowadays I still do it, but it's off frame so no one knows.
Rubik's brand is TERRIBLE quality, and ower-priced. In the hobbyist and competition scenes, literally nobody uses Rubik's brand, coz they're so slow, poor quality, and bad value. Chinese brands like Moyu and Qiyi make cubes 1/3rd the price of Rubiks, faster, better quality, with better features and MUCH nicer to use. (Rubik's were innovators in their day. And to be fair, they don't make cubes for hobbyists; They make toys for kids, where being indestructible matters more than speed or features. And thats a way bigger market, so it's a sensible choice for them... But they're still awful, slow, jam-prone, puzzles...)
@@baconsarny-geddon8298 But Rubik's the original and its the best. Its supposed to be fun, not some mind numbing exercise to remember codes and sequences. You arent solving anything you are just following a code. Those Chinese ones from this video look crappy and cheap. I would rather have a real one then some knock off and I would rather solve it on my own rather than by some code. You just bought a book that gives you a code to solve it knowing when to turn what row when and memorizing that is following instructions, not solving anything. Just dumbing down the whole process. A false sense of accomplishment. This turned me off to them in the 80s originally. They were fun and a real challenge. But then some dope who bought a book could do it by a remembered sequence of moves and had to start out in a specific place. It ruined the feeling of accomplishment. I think that's what killed the original craze. Every store had books on how to solve the Rubik's Cube and how to solve the knockoffs and different shaped cubes or orbs. Its nice to see kids doing something other than video games but I dont see it lasting long after awhile trying to do it faster becomes boring. For most people solving it is the accomplishment. It might take forever but its your mind figuring it out. But after reading a book or watching a video to learn how to do it you figure it out then what. After you solved it once, then what? Now you know how to solve it great but figuring it out on your own was the mission, not putting the cube together. You didn't accomplish anything but follow a pattern.
I remember the Rubik's Cube fad in the 80s... everybody seemed to have one and the keychains were everywhere. In the 1990s I owned a small toy/game store and still sold 1-3 Rubik's Cubes per week.
@@sirBrouwerit doesn't work for speedcubers. The difference in performance between the original rubik's brand cubes and the newest cube from brands like Moyu, Gan, Qiyi, and YJ is night and day. The cubes from the chinese brands kept developing the cubes and now one brand called GAN just opened their own retail store in China.
IMO speedcubing is stronger than ever before! More cubers than ever, more official competitions and events than ever… never been a better time to pick up a Rubik’s Cube!
@@ryanjohnson4565 Honestly, there's no cutoff time for someone to be considered a speedcuber, it's just about trying to push your own boundaries and solve it as fast as you can. If you can solve the cube in 10 minutes and wanna try to solve it in 9, you're a speedcuber in my opinion
I was really good at taking off the stickers and putting them back on, so back in middle school kids would give me their Rubik's cube and $5 to take it home and rearrange the stickers so they could pretend they completed it. Those same kids are actually in charge of things today and I don't know how I feel about that. 🤔
It seems like the stickers were easy to take off on the knock-offs, from what I remember my cousin showing me. The real ones -- not so much to have them appear to be un-altered.
@@patfrat666 I used a heat gun, a dull X-acto knife (too sharp and it could gouge the plastic), and rubbing alcohol if I really needed it. Never use new adhesive. The heat gun was the key.
@@RT-qd8yl that's what I would have done... Heat weakens the adhesive, and you get under the paper sticker with a dull small blade and SLOWLY lift for no damage sticker removal.
@@Pomni740 Max Park is 22 yrs World Record Holder on 3x3 as of 2024. Many 6 year olds do 4 second solves but to be champ you must average the winning times to be official out of 5 solves throw away fastest and slowest times andavg the other 3, bikkity bam. Max is in 3.1 second range on 3x3, about a minute 35 seconds on a 7 x 7.
I'd argue that multiblind solving is far more impressive. Multiblind is where you study a large number of cubes and then blindfold yourself and solve as many as you can. I believe the current world record holder solved 62/65 of his cubes. It's ridiculously impressive
@@Pomni740 Nope. Max averages in the 3s and why are you not saying which cube? These guys compete in all sizes, Im talkin 3x3 - easily researched his 3.19 avergaes
Speedcuber here, the rubiks cube community is one of the best to get into if you want to learn how to do it and solve even under 60 seconds! There are tons of people that will go out of their way to help you personally. There are hundreds, if not thousands of videos on RUclips to help you get started. A cheap $5-10 cube is all you need!
I keep a Rubik's cube at my desk because they're fun to solve every so often. I learned how to solve one through RUclips a good 12 years ago or so now. I'm not a speed cuber, but I can solve mine in about a minute or so. There have been a couple times people have spotted it sitting on my desk and asked if I could solve it, so I'd hand them my cube (I think a MoYu I bought off Amazon), have them scramble it, and solve it in front of them. People are very impressed because it seems like an absolute feat, but it's really just memorizing algorithms and knowing when to use them.
I’ve been cubing for over 4 years now and don‘t see myself stopping anytime soon. It’s an amazing hobby with an incredibly supportive, helpful and inclusive community that keeps growing and growing.
I was a kid in the 80s and my grandpa had a Rubik's cube. I remember playing with it and trying to solve it. He told me one of the strategies was to try and get the colors correct on each side in the shape of a T first and the and then solving it from there was supposed to be easy. Getting the T wasn't easy though, lol. As a teenager I bought one from Good Will, but never played with it much and I never learned to solve them, but I do think of them as a very iconic toy from the 80s.
Rubik Cube isn’t just a fad, but more of a trend of the 1980s that was overhyped as a toy, but more like a puzzle solving game for geeks! It’s still kind of popular for geeks in puzzle competitions!
it also is popular in schools. However there it's often the same few cubes being used every year by just a new set of children. the thing is a school might only need to buy like five of them once. after that for the next 20 years that thing is effectively used by a few hundreds of children. and even if they want one at home you might buy one. and after the kid is done with it might just give it to the next younger kid. in a way the good quality of the product is it's biggest reason they sell bad.
As a speedcuber, I completely agree! I think it wouldn't be crazy to say that cubing is still pretty popular. Currently, there are now a good amount of cubing channels with 1m subs. I think the community is still growing well.
when I was in the sixth grade I had a classmate who was into speedcubing. we had a free period one day where our teacher actually let him teach the class how to solve a Rubik's cube and it was so fun with all of us figuring our step by step and by the time we'd finish one he could've easily solved it 20 times over. he has so many, too, little 2x2s up to 5x5s and 6x6s and I can confirm that a good knock off cube is SMOOTH compared to an actual Rubik's!
RUclips taught me how to do it in 5 steps and only like a ten minute video which was great. Learned in one week and now it's like riding a bike plus people think you're smart for doing it but really you just show you have the determination to put your mind to something and achieve it. If anyone really tries they'll figure it out. We all know it's not impossible but it is definitely intimidating.
A couple years ago, I decided to finally learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube. I couldn't find my old generic cube from the 80s, so I bought a new one. I watched a video and couldn't believe how easy it was. My son wanted to learn too, so he asked me to buy him a speed cube. We bought a couple speed cubes along with a 2x2, a 4x4, and a pyramid. They are all fun to work. After working the speed cubes, I realized how clunky the Rubik's brand cubes are. The speed cubes are fun to work and I work them all just about every night. When you are out somewhere and someone's kid has a cube, they all think you are a genius when you work it for them. I'm going to get a 5x5 and a 6z6 next.
hi, i can solve a rubik's cube! i'm a speedcuber of six years and attended over 50 official WCA compititions. speedcubing is a HUGE part of who i am. often speedcubing (or even the rubik's cube, really) gets painted in a bad light or belittled, but i appreciate the way you went about your video. great stuff man
How could anybody paint those guys in a bad light? They’ve always been super helpful and welcoming from my experience just talking to people online even though I’ve never gone to an actual event.
First time on the channel and Rubik’s cubes are my favorite! I won my state championship when I was a teen at 22 seconds, I still solve one once a day! 🎉
A few years ago I dug my old cube out and used some videos to learn to solve it. I timed myself and can do it in…9 minutes. Yeah, much slower than others for sure, but it was still exciting for me.
I remember the visual of it still being popular into 1988. My friends displayed them next to their light up phones and swatches. It became a decorative item for your bedroom.
I fell down the cube rabbit hole and still get excited over weird variations of 5x5s and such, speed cubing isn’t something I have patience for but it is so clicks and just the right amount of puzzle for pick up and solve. 💞
I learned the beginner's method on youtube. I can't remember whose guide I used at this point. I was never really interested in trying to solve the cube myself, I just enjoy them as fidget toys. Something to do with my hands while watching or listening to something.
There’s never been a BETTER time to take up cubing! I’m 50 and just happened to pick up the hobby just before COVID. Now I have like 15+ different cubes. SpinMaster has been putting out the best cubes the Rubik’s brand has ever made, IMHO.
Does anyone remember the weird sentient alien rubix cube cartoon Before my time but I saw a clip of it somewhere once and have no context to its existence other than people liked rubix cubes and 80's cartoon were all toy commercials
I have one sitting on my desk right now. I bought it a couple years ago. I still haven't solved it, but I do enjoy having it on my desk as an art object.
I’ve been able to solve the Rubik’s cube since I was 15. It took me years prior to muster the patience and sit down and learn to solve it. I’ve been hooked on solving since then. Happy cubing!
Ive watched your channel for years. The Rubiks cube puts me back in high school in 2012 when a friend of mine had one and I got really curious. I borrowed it for spring break and learned how to solve it with the RUclips videos. I then got so into puzzles, I went from solvinga 1x1 all the way to a 13 x 13. thank you for making this video.
I too was an 80’s kid, had multiple cubes. Yes did as most and pulled the stickers then learned how to disassemble it and put it back together. Solved. I think that’s why I’m a mechanical engineer now.
I learned to solve them probably 5 years ago, at the age of 40. I do remember them from the 80s, but never had an interest until a student challenged me to beat him at it. I learned how and never looked back. Now, I can do it in under 30s, as well as 2x2s, 4x4s, pyramids, mastermorphix, diamond shaped, and even my new favorite one with 12 faces.
i was also at teh age of 40 when i first learned to solve a 3x3, 2 years ago however i can now beat a 3x3 within 3 minutes almost every time, which is fine by me , my best is 1m28s with noob algorithms having a bit of the luck of the draw lol i also solved a 4x4 and a 5x5 after, but man the 4x4 is some bullshit with that OLL edge parity,i find 4x4s to be of the fucking devil :") the 5x5 is so much easier because of that extra row/column to store shit in just rotating in and out 180 degrees to line up your edges you sometimes at worst have to do the reflushing and setting them up on another axis in the right order, or have to flip 1 of the axes to correct all the corners (i just fix the corners around it instead relying on my 3x3 fundamentals lol) but at least you odn't hae to clean up those evil 2 edges with that long ass voodoo algorithm that i can't make intuitive for the life of me :')
I learned to do it in Iraq during my first tour in 2004 from a friend who knew how to do it. Fastest I ever did it was in around 50 seconds but I had to use a formula. I knew formulas for specific moves and eventually learned shortcuts for specific situations, but I never learned it in depth like actual speed cubers did. I just knew formulas for general solving and then formulas for specific situations.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
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7:10 Even in the resurgence of popularity of the Rubik's Cube, the speedcubers of today are using knockoff cubes, like the ones from Gan and Moyu. The knockoff cubes today are regarded as being better than the the official ones, though those have somewhat improved.
This is hilarious, I just put down my cube after relearning it in just the past few days. Been a few years but I LOVE it. It's similar to Tetris flow state and incredibly enjoyable to learn more.
Have you done Pop Funkos yet? Not sure if it’s a rise and fall but they boomed so fast and not sure where they stand today but interesting nonetheless!
Would be interested to see them too. However I think they are less of a fad and instead a product with a small, but EXTREMELY loyal and dedicated customer base. Funko isn't kept alive by the people getting 1 funko pop of a character they like, it's the collectors who are addicted and buy every single new one.
I'm old enough to remember Rubik's cubes being in your bag or under your desk at school. It was HARD, knowledge was passed from one person to another. Cheers CM.
Just because he "fell off" does not mean Company Man doesn't make great content. It's not about the popularity of something. It's about how good it is. Coming back to the video's topic, Rubik's cubes. It was once thought to be a short-lived fad but then people came back to it because of the simple fun it offers.
One "fad" I lived through and loved as a 10-year-old kid back in the 80's. And dang, even to this day I still have them cubes but have *never* gotten all sides the same color. It will never be. Back then, I had the cube, sphere, snake and pyramid. Plus, the keychain cube. Goodtimes to be a kid in the 80's.
I remembered seeing my oldest brother solving it in the 80s and tried for the next 25 years to solve it by picking it up spend an hour or two trying to solve a face or two, give up and put it away for a few years, repeat. Finally I figured out how to solve the cube when I figure the cube could be broken down and have 3 layers and each is a puzzle. So each morning for 3 days I would go to a Starbucks about 2 hours before work, get a coffee, and focus solving each layer. By the 3rd day I was able to solve it within 3 minutes and then got it down to 30 seconds. I figure out how to quickly learn and solve things by doing this before and after work and that was how I learn how to solve the cube, new programming languages, etc. Don't need to be at SB. Can do this at home or even the library.
As a math and computer enthusiast, a several month obsession back in high school (around 2006) where I got in trouble many times in class led to me finally figuring out an algorithm to solve the cube without ever reading external instructions. I was never able to improve my algorithm to be faster than around a minute, but I was able to do it.
I think it’s crazy how much spin master spent on the Rubix cube and they’re also known for being the company that made the paw patrol franchise and they own Melissa and Doug as of this year i hope he brings back the bigger than you know series and talks more about spin master because of how interesting their story is
im a cuber and im so glad!! there was a rise of cubes in my school in about 2021, thats what made me a cuber! its kind of my perfect hobby, its so cool being part of the community!! I went to a competition a few weeks ago and it was so fun, i got to meet so many other cubers, and it was a very fun experience! I have improved my times a lot since i started about 1 year and a half ago, my 3x3 average of 100 is currently 23.78 seconds, and my 2x2 average of 100 is currently 4.29!
One day I sat down with a cube and the instructions that come with it that show you the algorithms used for solving by layer, "The beginner method" and memorized a few move sequences, and that day, I had it. Now if I see a cube anywhere I can solve it and it's a fun parlor trick.
I think it’d be interesting to do a video on the cup stacking fad in the late 2000s/early 2010s. They were being taught in tons of public school gym classes back in the day
I think not enough respect in terms of it's popularity is being given to something as simple as the name of it. "Rubik's", despite being his last name, was the perfect storm in a bottle in the sense that it fitted the word "Cube" and the style of the item perfectly. "Rubik" is something that makes you think of "Cubic", as if it's something tessellated (which also fitted the pixelated nature of 80's gaming at the time). It wasn't something you could plan (a last name usually isn't), so it had to come together almost out of fate. With that name, it was more memorable, and hence more likely that someone hearing about it would remember to ask for it/look for it specifically later. A memorable name helps word of mouth and is essentially what gives something it's personality, marketability and notoriety as a fad/quasi-meme. I will say though for a long time I kept imagining it written as "Rubix" in my head.
One thing i love doing is picking up my freinds scrambled cube when im at their house when they are not looking and solving it and seeing the look on there face when its solved
I bought a Rubics cube way back but could not solve it. I bought a book and was able to solve it but did not bother to memorize the solution. This always bothered me that I could not solve a cube on my own. Flash forward about 40 years and I finally got a cube and using online tutorials not only solved it but memorized it. Now I have all high-quality speed cubes from 2X2 to 10X10 and solve them all the time, no help needed. I do it to keep my mind sharp.
Everyone kid in my neighborhood had one or two or even three. We used to peel off the stickers and place them back as finished and then brag to our friends we solved it. It was everywhere along with Atari and pac-man.
Back in 2010 when I was living in a behavioral treatment facility, a friend that I met in there had one and printed out instructions from a computer room we had there during school hours. He followed the instructions and figured out the correct combinations and techniques to the rubix cube. I was impressed, so I did the same. Now days I haven't touched one probably since that time but it was fun and addicting. Great video as always.
@@Pomni740 yeah I could believe it, kids are actually smart with there developing brains. Some of the most insane things are done by kids or something someone would be really impressed by is done by kids. It's fascinating.
I was in elementary school back in the early 1980's; this video made me feel incredibly nostalgic...and old at the same time! 🤣 Ah, simpler times, when a Rubik's Cube was $1 at the toy store! Everyone had one of these, and there were other puzzles that came out around the mid-'80s. I remember Missing Link (it was rectangular and you had to match up the shapes and colors to form a chain) and a pyramid-shaped puzzle.
As a kid in the '80s, I learned how to take it apart and put it back together in solved form. And then in the early days of RUclips, I followed the RUclips channel of a guy named Rob who gave a really good tutorial on how to solve it.
About ten years ago, I was at a convention that double-booked the hall with a Rubik's Cube contest. I remember being at a ramen shop when a bunch of them came in, they were practicing the whole time and it was just amazing. So it's definitely still popular!
Found a RUclips vid on how to solve it after getting my hands on my aunt’s old Rubik’s cube. That snowballed into probably 3 years of a Rubik’s cube speedcubing obsession until I sustained an unrelated injury to my hand that pretty much makes it impossible to be good at it anymore
I was a mathematician, and I loved the Rubiks cube. My dad had them (and still have the original one he bought when I was really young). He even had the Tetrahedron but that one is way to easy to solve. The cube is just Abstract Algebra. A friend at my university was studying the solutions for the Rubiks cube based on state of randomness of the mixed up cube. Was cool. The funny thing is that I always forgot how to solve them and have to rework the math to figure it out again. But I still come back to it every few years. And I had NO CLUE that it was created by a mathematician, but knowing this, doesnt surprise me at all lol.
I was there when the Rubik's Cube the thing. Everyone had one. They hand the key change ones, the snake, and a flat one. I don't remember the name of it. I do remember it going missing, only to find out my mother started playing with it and got hooked. It was in her purse. Then, one day, the Rubik's Cube disappeared. I would see it time to time. It was a fad of the times. Glad to hear it is still around.
Hacky Sacks were another memorable fad from that same time! Videos like these bring back memories of my high school days! Perhaps you could do a video on those…or MTV…or wine coolers…or Ocean Pacific shirts (before they became just another WalMart brand)…or some other 80s trends. Thanks for this video.
I’m on the spectrum and sought comfort in fidget toys a few years back during my worst shutdown period I’ve ever experienced. I got really into cubing (the act of solving puzzles in manners such as 3x3 cubes or other alike colorful shape-puzzles is called cubing) and it especially helped me towards the end of my college career not to fall into complete disarray, it was the only thing I could think or talk about for a good chunk of time. The engagement of sensory reprieve (feeling, sound, visuals, and the ability to use my hands) and a sense of accomplishment every time I solved it brought me such great joy. But I never really used cubes in my childhood. I’m sure my parents owned a cube or two, and got childhood me one, but I don’t recall ever taking interest, only as an adult did I get into cubes. Rubiks specifically is heavily shunned in the cubing community from what I’ve seen, as the material is pretty poor quality and rubik-specific cubes cannot turn well, so they are never used in competitive settings. I never heard non-Rubik’s cubes referred to as knock-offs before this video, but I suppose that isn’t an incorrect descriptor considering the origin of cuboid puzzles.
One aspect not mentioned in this video was how the Rubik's cube also created an entire culture of mechanical puzzles besides the cube. There was the Missing Link, Rubik's Snake, the (4-sided) Rubik's Pyramid, the 4x4 Rubik's cube, and my personal favorite Alexander's Star just to name a few. I even had a plastic apple that was clear and was in fact a 3D jigsaw puzzle. Also there was the whole increase in popularity of puzzles with ropes and links or two metal pieces and you had to figure out the moves to separate them without bending or breaking the parts, and there was always a trick to it (like the two horseshoes connected by chains and a metal ring seemingly impossible to remove from it but it was possible ). The 80's was definitely a decade full of mechanical puzzles of many kinds.
As an avid solver, I casually solved it about 2 dozen times just while watching this! I learned when I was in 5th grade 6.5 years ago from legoboyz3, or Z3Cubing as he is today. Great video, lots of cool info and history!
I never got interested in the Rubik's cube, but my dad, now 90, did. Working the cube frequently each day in the assisted living facility probably bought him several years of sanity after he was diagnosed with dementia.
Thanks a ton for making this. I used to love solving them. 1 thing I did notice, when you were pronouncing the amount of permutations the cube had, you said quintrillion with an r. Not a big thing, but I thought I’d point it out. Love the vid though!!
The Cube: An all analog, handheld 3D video game (like Tetris) you can speed run for increased social benefit, anxiety relief, and a boost in self confidence. It’s never too late to learn. I learned in my 30’s, and it’s my favourite thing to do now. It was getting a magnetic speed cube that changed everything for me: it was actually enjoyable to turn! Like 6 fidget spinners put together into a game. It’s like a moving meditation, and eventually you stop thinking about solving and just… solve.
I randomly wanted to learn how to solve it in 2015, used RUclips, and now I can solve it in about 90 seconds. The speed cubers put in so much time - I’m not willing to invest any more, but still people are amazed that I can even solve it to begin with.
Mike, yes, I remember when the fad was in full swing. I was in high school at the time. So many students had their cubes in their lockers or backpacks. And I also remember buying a knock-off keychain at a local flea market. You couldn’t go into any store without seeing Rubik’s Cube or a knock-off there on the shelves. It was as big as you described.
I absolutely remember when the craze began. Most of us carried them around to class when I was in high school. My algebra teacher took one from another student so he could play with it, half that class was spent talking about it. Mine was a “real” one and it was really stiff. The more you worked it the better it turned. The knockoffs were looser. I remember the book you showed, and I had that keychain too!
I remember I bought one 16 years ago. It was a 99-cents knock-off because that was pretty much what my 13-year-old me could afford. I undid it thinking that I could solve it on my own but I never did. A friend from school came to my house a month later I bought the cube and found it on a coffee table at the living room so he decided to give it a go. He was able to solve it probably in less than five minutes. It has remained in its solved conditions since 2008, untouched by anyone else.
Thanks to RUclips I was able to learn 2x2 all the way up to 7x7, along with megaminx and some other wacky ones. This platform made speedcubing accessible to everyone❤️
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My dad bought me that same book, “The Simple Solution to the Rubik’s Cube” when I was a kid in the 1980s. I memorized it in a couple of days and was solving the cube with an average time of 60 seconds. I was charging 25 cents to kids at school to solve their cubes. I was making a couple of dollars per day until a teacher shut down my enterprise. 😅
I can still solve it today, over 40 years later.
So did you slash the teacher's tires when no one was looking? No way to prove who did it, and the suspicious timing sends the message.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
@@Pomni740 I know I was faster as a kid than I am now. It seems like my hands just moved faster back then. Today my average is around 90 seconds and back then it was 60 seconds.
@@rick_thunder The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is a 10 year old named Yiheng Wang his fastest average is 4.48 seconds.
Not to make you feel old bro, but I bought that same book from an antiques shop 4 years ago. lol
As a speedcuber who solves the cube currently, I’m excited to see this!
I got into rubix cube watch speed cubers. I bought a cheap on then decided to buy a gan11 M Pro. I don't try to be a speed cuber but I use it a lot as a fidget toy something to do when I am bored or sometimes I just practice it. I was also hooked to trying to get better with it for a few weeks I am no speed cuber, I can solve it in under a minute tho.
You are smarter than me
What is currently your fastest time for a standard size cube?
"Speedcuber"
These words are getting goofy.
@@TrashQueenAndKing your user is included
I was an 80's kid and had a Rubik's cube but was never able to solve it. Fast forward to 2020 and COVID lockdown. While other people were baking bread and hoarding toilet paper, I made it my mission to learn how to solve the cube. I watched a couple of RUclips videos and finally learned. The addiction began ... I now own numerous Rubik's brand cubes that I let me students play with (I'm a teacher) and I have my own collection speedcubes that I purchased from China. I ❤ cubing. Even when I'm not solving one, I like to hold one in my hand and scramble it. It works kind of like a fidget spinner and reduces anxiety. Thank you for this video!!
What finally clicked? I've been struggling to solve my standard one and have lost faith in that pattern everyone says you can use to solve it.
@@alanfikepattern? There are literally 7 steps to solve the cube for beginners and 4 steps for pro cubers (although we need to learn almost 100 algorithms to do it). For the beginners method, it is so simple, you onky need to do like 2 or 3 algorithms. Just watch the tutorial from a channel called J Perm and I am sure that you will be able to solve it.
@@alanfike I personally memorized 7 algorithms...one algorithm per day. I mostly followed the pamphlet of algorithms that came with the product. After solving it continuously for a week...I had all 7 algorithms memorized! Good luck! This was during the 1990's. If you can train your brain to remember seven phone numbers...than you can solve a rubik's cube. Good luck!
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I had a cube in the 80s and could never solve it. About 3 years ago I watched J Perm’s video on how to solve it in 10 minutes, and now I scramble and solve my cube during conference calls. I’m not a speedcuber-it takes me about 3-5 minutes to solve it. For someone who was around in the 80s it’s really cool to be able to pick up a scrambled cube and solve it.
I had the original in the 80s. 3 years ago I bought a new official 3x3 cube and 2x2 cube, and an off-brand 3x3 cube (which is my favorite).
We have a similar story!!
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People haaaate when you bring one of those to a meeting, but I wasn't meaning to be rude, it really helped me focus. Nowadays I still do it, but it's off frame so no one knows.
Rubik's brand is TERRIBLE quality, and ower-priced. In the hobbyist and competition scenes, literally nobody uses Rubik's brand, coz they're so slow, poor quality, and bad value.
Chinese brands like Moyu and Qiyi make cubes 1/3rd the price of Rubiks, faster, better quality, with better features and MUCH nicer to use.
(Rubik's were innovators in their day. And to be fair, they don't make cubes for hobbyists; They make toys for kids, where being indestructible matters more than speed or features. And thats a way bigger market, so it's a sensible choice for them... But they're still awful, slow, jam-prone, puzzles...)
@@baconsarny-geddon8298 But Rubik's the original and its the best. Its supposed to be fun, not some mind numbing exercise to remember codes and sequences. You arent solving anything you are just following a code. Those Chinese ones from this video look crappy and cheap. I would rather have a real one then some knock off and I would rather solve it on my own rather than by some code. You just bought a book that gives you a code to solve it knowing when to turn what row when and memorizing that is following instructions, not solving anything. Just dumbing down the whole process. A false sense of accomplishment. This turned me off to them in the 80s originally. They were fun and a real challenge. But then some dope who bought a book could do it by a remembered sequence of moves and had to start out in a specific place. It ruined the feeling of accomplishment. I think that's what killed the original craze. Every store had books on how to solve the Rubik's Cube and how to solve the knockoffs and different shaped cubes or orbs. Its nice to see kids doing something other than video games but I dont see it lasting long after awhile trying to do it faster becomes boring. For most people solving it is the accomplishment. It might take forever but its your mind figuring it out. But after reading a book or watching a video to learn how to do it you figure it out then what. After you solved it once, then what? Now you know how to solve it great but figuring it out on your own was the mission, not putting the cube together. You didn't accomplish anything but follow a pattern.
I remember the Rubik's Cube fad in the 80s... everybody seemed to have one and the keychains were everywhere.
In the 1990s I owned a small toy/game store and still sold 1-3 Rubik's Cubes per week.
The actual Rubik's brand cubes are the worst you can buy that's why nobody buys them anymore
I preferred the Rubik Snake.😊
@@pilotgrrl1 That Rubik Snake was a menace to many an action figure at my house.
@@KaitouKaiju it's more that you don't need to buy them often you can get them for free from a older family member that still have them.
@@sirBrouwerit doesn't work for speedcubers. The difference in performance between the original rubik's brand cubes and the newest cube from brands like Moyu, Gan, Qiyi, and YJ is night and day. The cubes from the chinese brands kept developing the cubes and now one brand called GAN just opened their own retail store in China.
One of the most informative, wholesome, clean and positive channels on the internet. Dude just makes good videos.
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I want to meet another company man fan in real life. I bring this channel up in conversation often but I haven't found anyone yet.
I hope to cross paths one day
Me too!
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Same
Same here.
IMO speedcubing is stronger than ever before! More cubers than ever, more official competitions and events than ever… never been a better time to pick up a Rubik’s Cube!
Love you bro!
Free palestine.
What kind of solve times would you consider someone a speed cyber?
We have multiple million + subscriber cubing channels now… definitely stronger than ever!
@@ryanjohnson4565 Honestly, there's no cutoff time for someone to be considered a speedcuber, it's just about trying to push your own boundaries and solve it as fast as you can. If you can solve the cube in 10 minutes and wanna try to solve it in 9, you're a speedcuber in my opinion
I was really good at taking off the stickers and putting them back on, so back in middle school kids would give me their Rubik's cube and $5 to take it home and rearrange the stickers so they could pretend they completed it. Those same kids are actually in charge of things today and I don't know how I feel about that. 🤔
It seems like the stickers were easy to take off on the knock-offs, from what I remember my cousin showing me. The real ones -- not so much to have them appear to be un-altered.
@@patfrat666 I used a heat gun, a dull X-acto knife (too sharp and it could gouge the plastic), and rubbing alcohol if I really needed it. Never use new adhesive. The heat gun was the key.
The people between you two groups were the ones who took the 5er and just solved the cube in less than a minute.
@@RT-qd8yl That's deep, my friend.
@@RT-qd8yl that's what I would have done... Heat weakens the adhesive, and you get under the paper sticker with a dull small blade and SLOWLY lift for no damage sticker removal.
The kid that can solve three rubiks cubes while juggling them is the greatest feat of humanity I have ever seen. Look it up if you haven’t already
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@@Pomni740 Max Park is 22 yrs World Record Holder on 3x3 as of 2024. Many 6 year olds do 4 second solves but to be champ you must average the winning times to be official out of 5 solves throw away fastest and slowest times andavg the other 3, bikkity bam. Max is in 3.1 second range on 3x3, about a minute 35 seconds on a 7 x 7.
I'd argue that multiblind solving is far more impressive. Multiblind is where you study a large number of cubes and then blindfold yourself and solve as many as you can. I believe the current world record holder solved 62/65 of his cubes. It's ridiculously impressive
@@cuda426hemi max parks fastest average is 4.86 Yiheng Wang has 16 averages faster than 4.86.
@@Pomni740 Nope. Max averages in the 3s and why are you not saying which cube? These guys compete in all sizes, Im talkin 3x3 - easily researched his 3.19 avergaes
Speedcuber here, the rubiks cube community is one of the best to get into if you want to learn how to do it and solve even under 60 seconds! There are tons of people that will go out of their way to help you personally. There are hundreds, if not thousands of videos on RUclips to help you get started. A cheap $5-10 cube is all you need!
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Get vaseline and make the cube smooth AF with the turns
…. And a computer with internet. 😂
Speed cubing community is amazing! I had the opportunity to go to a competition in my area a number of years back and everyone there was so friendly.
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I keep a Rubik's cube at my desk because they're fun to solve every so often. I learned how to solve one through RUclips a good 12 years ago or so now. I'm not a speed cuber, but I can solve mine in about a minute or so.
There have been a couple times people have spotted it sitting on my desk and asked if I could solve it, so I'd hand them my cube (I think a MoYu I bought off Amazon), have them scramble it, and solve it in front of them. People are very impressed because it seems like an absolute feat, but it's really just memorizing algorithms and knowing when to use them.
Agreed. It's so funny how amazed people are when they watch you solve one when you really have just memorized algorithms. 😂
It' my only parlor trick. Everyone I've showed the trick to have never seen a Rubik's Cube solved in person before. I'm so proud of my weird skillset!
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I’ve been cubing for over 4 years now and don‘t see myself stopping anytime soon. It’s an amazing hobby with an incredibly supportive, helpful and inclusive community that keeps growing and growing.
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Me too. Started around 4 years ago as well.
I was a kid in the 80s and my grandpa had a Rubik's cube. I remember playing with it and trying to solve it. He told me one of the strategies was to try and get the colors correct on each side in the shape of a T first and the and then solving it from there was supposed to be easy. Getting the T wasn't easy though, lol. As a teenager I bought one from Good Will, but never played with it much and I never learned to solve them, but I do think of them as a very iconic toy from the 80s.
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About time the fad series returns
Agreed!
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@@companyman114The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
@@Pomni740 Ok?
Been watching your videos since 2018, glad you made a video about the thing that’s kept me busy all those years :)
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Rubik Cube isn’t just a fad, but more of a trend of the 1980s that was overhyped as a toy, but more like a puzzle solving game for geeks! It’s still kind of popular for geeks in puzzle competitions!
it also is popular in schools. However there it's often the same few cubes being used every year by just a new set of children.
the thing is a school might only need to buy like five of them once. after that for the next 20 years that thing is effectively used by a few hundreds of children.
and even if they want one at home you might buy one. and after the kid is done with it might just give it to the next younger kid.
in a way the good quality of the product is it's biggest reason they sell bad.
As a speedcuber, I completely agree! I think it wouldn't be crazy to say that cubing is still pretty popular. Currently, there are now a good amount of cubing channels with 1m subs. I think the community is still growing well.
@@sirBrouwer they were also in my middle school algebra class, because of the different combinations in the cube!
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@@Pomni740 because the kid practiced a lot with solving Rubik cubes!
when I was in the sixth grade I had a classmate who was into speedcubing. we had a free period one day where our teacher actually let him teach the class how to solve a Rubik's cube and it was so fun with all of us figuring our step by step and by the time we'd finish one he could've easily solved it 20 times over. he has so many, too, little 2x2s up to 5x5s and 6x6s and I can confirm that a good knock off cube is SMOOTH compared to an actual Rubik's!
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As a Hungarian I am so proud of Rubik Ernő
Funny how i run into a famous Hungarian at the time I’m trying to learn the language
@@mbdg6810❤❤Good luck and wish you stamina. Never give up, please!
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RUclips taught me how to do it in 5 steps and only like a ten minute video which was great. Learned in one week and now it's like riding a bike plus people think you're smart for doing it but really you just show you have the determination to put your mind to something and achieve it. If anyone really tries they'll figure it out. We all know it's not impossible but it is definitely intimidating.
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I’ve been waiting for this video for so long!!!
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A couple years ago, I decided to finally learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube. I couldn't find my old generic cube from the 80s, so I bought a new one. I watched a video and couldn't believe how easy it was. My son wanted to learn too, so he asked me to buy him a speed cube. We bought a couple speed cubes along with a 2x2, a 4x4, and a pyramid. They are all fun to work. After working the speed cubes, I realized how clunky the Rubik's brand cubes are. The speed cubes are fun to work and I work them all just about every night. When you are out somewhere and someone's kid has a cube, they all think you are a genius when you work it for them. I'm going to get a 5x5 and a 6z6 next.
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hi, i can solve a rubik's cube! i'm a speedcuber of six years and attended over 50 official WCA compititions. speedcubing is a HUGE part of who i am. often speedcubing (or even the rubik's cube, really) gets painted in a bad light or belittled, but i appreciate the way you went about your video. great stuff man
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How could anybody paint those guys in a bad light? They’ve always been super helpful and welcoming from my experience just talking to people online even though I’ve never gone to an actual event.
First time on the channel and Rubik’s cubes are my favorite! I won my state championship when I was a teen at 22 seconds, I still solve one once a day! 🎉
Suggestion for another video: Moxie Soda 😂
A few years ago I dug my old cube out and used some videos to learn to solve it. I timed myself and can do it in…9 minutes. Yeah, much slower than others for sure, but it was still exciting for me.
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I remember the visual of it still being popular into 1988. My friends displayed them next to their light up phones and swatches. It became a decorative item for your bedroom.
03:30 - I still have a copy of that book!!
After I solved the cube my mom bought that book so she could solve it. I still have it.
Me too!
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Omg it's STL ❤
I fell down the cube rabbit hole and still get excited over weird variations of 5x5s and such, speed cubing isn’t something I have patience for but it is so clicks and just the right amount of puzzle for pick up and solve. 💞
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Oh hey, a wild Lexi appeared! Does your legally blindness affect how fast you can solve one or are the colors distinct enough to not matter?
I learned the beginner's method on youtube. I can't remember whose guide I used at this point.
I was never really interested in trying to solve the cube myself, I just enjoy them as fidget toys. Something to do with my hands while watching or listening to something.
I do the same thing. They help calm anxiety.
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There’s never been a BETTER time to take up cubing! I’m 50 and just happened to pick up the hobby just before COVID. Now I have like 15+ different cubes.
SpinMaster has been putting out the best cubes the Rubik’s brand has ever made, IMHO.
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I can get more ya of them for a fee
Does anyone remember the weird sentient alien rubix cube cartoon
Before my time but I saw a clip of it somewhere once and have no context to its existence other than people liked rubix cubes and 80's cartoon were all toy commercials
The first object show character, lol.
Man, I watched that cartoon. The family was Puerto Rican, the theme song was by Menudo. So effin 80s!
@EnriqueMcQuade It's you again. Hi.
I have one sitting on my desk right now. I bought it a couple years ago. I still haven't solved it, but I do enjoy having it on my desk as an art object.
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I remember being so frustrated in the 90s by the thing I just removed the stickers and solved it that way
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This channel is so underrated. You always do such a great job with your research
I got frustrated and took mine apart to solve it.
I always took mine apart and put it back together.
Oh yeah. I did take one apart, but I couldn't figure out how to put it back together. 🙄
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I’ve been able to solve the Rubik’s cube since I was 15. It took me years prior to muster the patience and sit down and learn to solve it. I’ve been hooked on solving since then. Happy cubing!
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I managed to solve the 2x2 on my own, watched a video for the OG one. Quite shallow on my part i know but it feels nice to tick that off my list.
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Ive watched your channel for years. The Rubiks cube puts me back in high school in 2012 when a friend of mine had one and I got really curious. I borrowed it for spring break and learned how to solve it with the RUclips videos. I then got so into puzzles, I went from solvinga 1x1 all the way to a 13 x 13. thank you for making this video.
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I have a Rubik’s cube and know how to solve it, but I’m not a speed cuber. Still like to fidget with it.
Same!!
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I too was an 80’s kid, had multiple cubes. Yes did as most and pulled the stickers then learned how to disassemble it and put it back together. Solved. I think that’s why I’m a mechanical engineer now.
I was too stupid to solve these
almost everyone is, most people find a tutorial online
actually easy only 7 steps
I was too. Still am, but used to be too
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I learned to solve them probably 5 years ago, at the age of 40. I do remember them from the 80s, but never had an interest until a student challenged me to beat him at it. I learned how and never looked back. Now, I can do it in under 30s, as well as 2x2s, 4x4s, pyramids, mastermorphix, diamond shaped, and even my new favorite one with 12 faces.
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i was also at teh age of 40 when i first learned to solve a 3x3, 2 years ago however
i can now beat a 3x3 within 3 minutes almost every time, which is fine by me , my best is 1m28s with noob algorithms having a bit of the luck of the draw lol
i also solved a 4x4 and a 5x5 after, but man the 4x4 is some bullshit with that OLL edge parity,i find 4x4s to be of the fucking devil :")
the 5x5 is so much easier because of that extra row/column to store shit in just rotating in and out 180 degrees to line up your edges
you sometimes at worst have to do the reflushing and setting them up on another axis in the right order, or have to flip 1 of the axes to correct all the corners (i just fix the corners around it instead relying on my 3x3 fundamentals lol) but at least you odn't hae to clean up those evil 2 edges with that long ass voodoo algorithm that i can't make intuitive for the life of me :')
I learned to do it in Iraq during my first tour in 2004 from a friend who knew how to do it. Fastest I ever did it was in around 50 seconds but I had to use a formula. I knew formulas for specific moves and eventually learned shortcuts for specific situations, but I never learned it in depth like actual speed cubers did. I just knew formulas for general solving and then formulas for specific situations.
A fellow crab of taste I see.
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7:10 Even in the resurgence of popularity of the Rubik's Cube, the speedcubers of today are using knockoff cubes, like the ones from Gan and Moyu. The knockoff cubes today are regarded as being better than the the official ones, though those have somewhat improved.
The cube will never die
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Great video!
Create a video about Dyson please
Thank you for saying please. Finally some decency around here.
As someone with a small cube collection, it was indeed a fad but its still wonderful to go back to. My 13x13 cube is still quite fun to play with!
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Waiting for all the other speedcubers to comment lol
This is hilarious, I just put down my cube after relearning it in just the past few days. Been a few years but I LOVE it. It's similar to Tetris flow state and incredibly enjoyable to learn more.
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Have you done Pop Funkos yet? Not sure if it’s a rise and fall but they boomed so fast and not sure where they stand today but interesting nonetheless!
Would be interested to see them too. However I think they are less of a fad and instead a product with a small, but EXTREMELY loyal and dedicated customer base. Funko isn't kept alive by the people getting 1 funko pop of a character they like, it's the collectors who are addicted and buy every single new one.
Defienitly not a rise and fall but it's still popular.
@@ethanhaynes7406 Lego's are kind of the same way, I think?
I'm old enough to remember Rubik's cubes being in your bag or under your desk at school.
It was HARD, knowledge was passed from one person to another. Cheers CM.
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two views in 26 seconds, bro fell off
Be original
Delete yours 😢
Just because he "fell off" does not mean Company Man doesn't make great content. It's not about the popularity of something. It's about how good it is. Coming back to the video's topic, Rubik's cubes. It was once thought to be a short-lived fad but then people came back to it because of the simple fun it offers.
The decline of company man, what happened?
@@limefarmer lol
One "fad" I lived through and loved as a 10-year-old kid back in the 80's. And dang, even to this day I still have them cubes but have *never* gotten all sides the same color. It will never be. Back then, I had the cube, sphere, snake and pyramid. Plus, the keychain cube. Goodtimes to be a kid in the 80's.
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2:00 Larry D Nicholas made the furst ever rubiks cube which is that 2x2 many years before the og one
I remembered seeing my oldest brother solving it in the 80s and tried for the next 25 years to solve it by picking it up spend an hour or two trying to solve a face or two, give up and put it away for a few years, repeat.
Finally I figured out how to solve the cube when I figure the cube could be broken down and have 3 layers and each is a puzzle. So each morning for 3 days I would go to a Starbucks about 2 hours before work, get a coffee, and focus solving each layer. By the 3rd day I was able to solve it within 3 minutes and then got it down to 30 seconds.
I figure out how to quickly learn and solve things by doing this before and after work and that was how I learn how to solve the cube, new programming languages, etc. Don't need to be at SB. Can do this at home or even the library.
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As a speed solver, I loved this video and the perspective you showed us, and I learned from youtube and partially from my friends
Just learned how to solve a rubiks cube a few months ago, this video is on point!!!
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As a math and computer enthusiast, a several month obsession back in high school (around 2006) where I got in trouble many times in class led to me finally figuring out an algorithm to solve the cube without ever reading external instructions. I was never able to improve my algorithm to be faster than around a minute, but I was able to do it.
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I think it’s crazy how much spin master spent on the Rubix cube and they’re also known for being the company that made the paw patrol franchise and they own Melissa and Doug as of this year i hope he brings back the bigger than you know series and talks more about spin master because of how interesting their story is
im a cuber and im so glad!! there was a rise of cubes in my school in about 2021, thats what made me a cuber! its kind of my perfect hobby, its so cool being part of the community!! I went to a competition a few weeks ago and it was so fun, i got to meet so many other cubers, and it was a very fun experience! I have improved my times a lot since i started about 1 year and a half ago, my 3x3 average of 100 is currently 23.78 seconds, and my 2x2 average of 100 is currently 4.29!
One day I sat down with a cube and the instructions that come with it that show you the algorithms used for solving by layer, "The beginner method" and memorized a few move sequences, and that day, I had it. Now if I see a cube anywhere I can solve it and it's a fun parlor trick.
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I think it’d be interesting to do a video on the cup stacking fad in the late 2000s/early 2010s. They were being taught in tons of public school gym classes back in the day
I think not enough respect in terms of it's popularity is being given to something as simple as the name of it. "Rubik's", despite being his last name, was the perfect storm in a bottle in the sense that it fitted the word "Cube" and the style of the item perfectly. "Rubik" is something that makes you think of "Cubic", as if it's something tessellated (which also fitted the pixelated nature of 80's gaming at the time). It wasn't something you could plan (a last name usually isn't), so it had to come together almost out of fate. With that name, it was more memorable, and hence more likely that someone hearing about it would remember to ask for it/look for it specifically later. A memorable name helps word of mouth and is essentially what gives something it's personality, marketability and notoriety as a fad/quasi-meme. I will say though for a long time I kept imagining it written as "Rubix" in my head.
One thing i love doing is picking up my freinds scrambled cube when im at their house when they are not looking and solving it and seeing the look on there face when its solved
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@@Pomni740 yeah ik and its impressive
I bought a Rubics cube way back but could not solve it. I bought a book and was able to solve it but did not bother to memorize the solution. This always bothered me that I could not solve a cube on my own.
Flash forward about 40 years and I finally got a cube and using online tutorials not only solved it but memorized it. Now I have all high-quality speed cubes from 2X2 to 10X10 and solve them all the time, no help needed. I do it to keep my mind sharp.
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Everyone kid in my neighborhood had one or two or even three. We used to peel off the stickers and place them back as finished and then brag to our friends we solved it. It was everywhere along with Atari and pac-man.
Back in 2010 when I was living in a behavioral treatment facility, a friend that I met in there had one and printed out instructions from a computer room we had there during school hours. He followed the instructions and figured out the correct combinations and techniques to the rubix cube. I was impressed, so I did the same. Now days I haven't touched one probably since that time but it was fun and addicting.
Great video as always.
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@@Pomni740 yeah I could believe it, kids are actually smart with there developing brains. Some of the most insane things are done by kids or something someone would be really impressed by is done by kids. It's fascinating.
I was in elementary school back in the early 1980's; this video made me feel incredibly nostalgic...and old at the same time! 🤣 Ah, simpler times, when a Rubik's Cube was $1 at the toy store!
Everyone had one of these, and there were other puzzles that came out around the mid-'80s. I remember Missing Link (it was rectangular and you had to match up the shapes and colors to form a chain) and a pyramid-shaped puzzle.
As a kid in the '80s, I learned how to take it apart and put it back together in solved form.
And then in the early days of RUclips, I followed the RUclips channel of a guy named Rob who gave a really good tutorial on how to solve it.
I was 15 at the peak of the popularity, and I owned that exact book at 3:32. So I was able to solve the cube back then.
About ten years ago, I was at a convention that double-booked the hall with a Rubik's Cube contest. I remember being at a ramen shop when a bunch of them came in, they were practicing the whole time and it was just amazing. So it's definitely still popular!
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Found a RUclips vid on how to solve it after getting my hands on my aunt’s old Rubik’s cube. That snowballed into probably 3 years of a Rubik’s cube speedcubing obsession until I sustained an unrelated injury to my hand that pretty much makes it impossible to be good at it anymore
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I was a mathematician, and I loved the Rubiks cube. My dad had them (and still have the original one he bought when I was really young). He even had the Tetrahedron but that one is way to easy to solve.
The cube is just Abstract Algebra. A friend at my university was studying the solutions for the Rubiks cube based on state of randomness of the mixed up cube. Was cool.
The funny thing is that I always forgot how to solve them and have to rework the math to figure it out again. But I still come back to it every few years. And I had NO CLUE that it was created by a mathematician, but knowing this, doesnt surprise me at all lol.
It was promoted at the Knoxville World's Fair in 1982. There is still a giant Cube in the old Knoxville Convention Center.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
I was there when the Rubik's Cube the thing. Everyone had one. They hand the key change ones, the snake, and a flat one. I don't remember the name of it. I do remember it going missing, only to find out my mother started playing with it and got hooked. It was in her purse. Then, one day, the Rubik's Cube disappeared. I would see it time to time. It was a fad of the times. Glad to hear it is still around.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
Hacky Sacks were another memorable fad from that same time! Videos like these bring back memories of my high school days! Perhaps you could do a video on those…or MTV…or wine coolers…or Ocean Pacific shirts (before they became just another WalMart brand)…or some other 80s trends. Thanks for this video.
POGs from the early 90s as well.
Great video from my favorite RUclips channel! But...I've never been smart enough to solve Rubik's Cube, so this brings back frustrating memories 😆
I has nothing to do with intelligence, just memorization. Trust me. 😉
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
I’m on the spectrum and sought comfort in fidget toys a few years back during my worst shutdown period I’ve ever experienced. I got really into cubing (the act of solving puzzles in manners such as 3x3 cubes or other alike colorful shape-puzzles is called cubing) and it especially helped me towards the end of my college career not to fall into complete disarray, it was the only thing I could think or talk about for a good chunk of time. The engagement of sensory reprieve (feeling, sound, visuals, and the ability to use my hands) and a sense of accomplishment every time I solved it brought me such great joy. But I never really used cubes in my childhood. I’m sure my parents owned a cube or two, and got childhood me one, but I don’t recall ever taking interest, only as an adult did I get into cubes. Rubiks specifically is heavily shunned in the cubing community from what I’ve seen, as the material is pretty poor quality and rubik-specific cubes cannot turn well, so they are never used in competitive settings. I never heard non-Rubik’s cubes referred to as knock-offs before this video, but I suppose that isn’t an incorrect descriptor considering the origin of cuboid puzzles.
One aspect not mentioned in this video was how the Rubik's cube also created an entire culture of mechanical puzzles besides the cube. There was the Missing Link, Rubik's Snake, the (4-sided) Rubik's Pyramid, the 4x4 Rubik's cube, and my personal favorite Alexander's Star just to name a few. I even had a plastic apple that was clear and was in fact a 3D jigsaw puzzle. Also there was the whole increase in popularity of puzzles with ropes and links or two metal pieces and you had to figure out the moves to separate them without bending or breaking the parts, and there was always a trick to it (like the two horseshoes connected by chains and a metal ring seemingly impossible to remove from it but it was possible ). The 80's was definitely a decade full of mechanical puzzles of many kinds.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
Solving the Rubik’s Cube was my stress relief activity when I was studying for the Bar exam in 1981.
Great video! You should do the Simon fad next!
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
I love this series of videos, please make more of these! Some ideas are neopets and tamagochi! For something more like this, the bop-it!
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
As an avid solver, I casually solved it about 2 dozen times just while watching this! I learned when I was in 5th grade 6.5 years ago from legoboyz3, or Z3Cubing as he is today. Great video, lots of cool info and history!
I never got interested in the Rubik's cube, but my dad, now 90, did. Working the cube frequently each day in the assisted living facility probably bought him several years of sanity after he was diagnosed with dementia.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
My fastest time for the 3x3 is 1:36. I once solved the 2x2 in 6 seconds. Ive been trying to solve the 4x4 for over a year now though.
Thanks a ton for making this. I used to love solving them. 1 thing I did notice, when you were pronouncing the amount of permutations the cube had, you said quintrillion with an r. Not a big thing, but I thought I’d point it out. Love the vid though!!
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
I remember seeing this book 3:25 on the shelf as a child. And trying to master the cube on summer.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
So glad to see this series return!
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
I had one back in 1981-ish and the best that I could so was to solve one side!
You solve it by layers, not sides. 😉
The Cube: An all analog, handheld 3D video game (like Tetris) you can speed run for increased social benefit, anxiety relief, and a boost in self confidence.
It’s never too late to learn. I learned in my 30’s, and it’s my favourite thing to do now. It was getting a magnetic speed cube that changed everything for me: it was actually enjoyable to turn! Like 6 fidget spinners put together into a game.
It’s like a moving meditation, and eventually you stop thinking about solving and just… solve.
I randomly wanted to learn how to solve it in 2015, used RUclips, and now I can solve it in about 90 seconds.
The speed cubers put in so much time - I’m not willing to invest any more, but still people are amazed that I can even solve it to begin with.
I always enjoy the creativity of your thumbnails
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
Mike, yes, I remember when the fad was in full swing. I was in high school at the time. So many students had their cubes in their lockers or backpacks. And I also remember buying a knock-off keychain at a local flea market. You couldn’t go into any store without seeing Rubik’s Cube or a knock-off there on the shelves. It was as big as you described.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
damn as a relatively new viewer I did not know you had a fad series. Super interesting!
I absolutely remember when the craze began. Most of us carried them around to class when I was in high school. My algebra teacher took one from another student so he could play with it, half that class was spent talking about it. Mine was a “real” one and it was really stiff. The more you worked it the better it turned. The knockoffs were looser. I remember the book you showed, and I had that keychain too!
I remember I bought one 16 years ago. It was a 99-cents knock-off because that was pretty much what my 13-year-old me could afford. I undid it thinking that I could solve it on my own but I never did.
A friend from school came to my house a month later I bought the cube and found it on a coffee table at the living room so he decided to give it a go. He was able to solve it probably in less than five minutes.
It has remained in its solved conditions since 2008, untouched by anyone else.
The fastest rubik's cube solver in the world is 10 years old.
Thanks to RUclips I was able to learn 2x2 all the way up to 7x7, along with megaminx and some other wacky ones. This platform made speedcubing accessible to everyone❤️
I solved it the old fashioned way. 1 side same color, then peel off stickers and put them back on
As a youcuber i think its incredible how its stuck around