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The impatient should skip past the first minute of unboxing. Seems boring? Then wait until Fast Eddie kicks it with the old school cube!
Thing looks ridiculously tricky to solve, not available outside Japan yet.
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Thing looks ridiculously tricky to solve, not available outside Japan yet.
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woah, what was that thing he did on the regular cube?
It is called speed cubing. It is amazing to watch and a sign that the person has either competed in cubing or is a hobbiest of the most extreme kind
You can google "speed cubing" and get all sorts of pointers and algorithims...but pulling them off is another level in mental/physical coordination.
The unsolved mirror cube looks way more interesting than the unsolved (or solved, for that matter) Rubik's cube, though.
(the box says something like that anyway, to lazy to work out the permutations atm)
Edit: In other nerdy news about rubiks cubes; any state of a cube can be solved in less than 24 moves. This was worked out by a computer simulation of ever posibility and every solution map. Any cube configuration can be solved in 23 moves or better. They are trying to improve that, but this is the best number to date. now the 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes are a whole different ball game and would require some serious computing power.
Chess is still unsolved, but they can show that a perfect game of checkers always ends up in a draw
They likely hood that chess will ever be solved is unlikely.