cryonix
09-03-2008, 06:30 AM
I think everyone remembers their first time solving a cube.
I'm known in my family as the "smart one". So I get a lot of puzzles and books as gifts. I got a Rubik's Revenge cube (4x4x4 cube) on Christmas a few years ago, my mom thought that I could just solve it on the spot. That was my first time with a cube, and it was a "REVENGE". it felt hopeless. I told everyone "as soon as I solve a standard one, then well talk"
Next Christmas I got a standard cube, I didn't solve it on the spot, but I did the next day. It was pretty sweet and a proud moment. But there stood the Revenge on the shelf much larger than the standard cube (that thing was intimidating). I got close several times, but came across the problem with the centers. They can move around which means you have to make sure they are properly oriented for the edges and corners.
A friend of mine picked up the Revenge after I had gotten really close and mixed it all up. I told him I probably would never be able to solve it anyway. so he tried to solve it. In his mind that meant to "do enough random moves it's bound to happen" he threw it to me severely mixed up from its previous state. Which was a little depressing. I played with it while we were talking and watching TV, I wasn't really focusing on solving it and didn't even expect to get close. After about 40 minutes I yell out "oh my god!" he looks over, 2 more turns and it was solved. It was epic to solve it, but in front of someone made it even better. I left it on a shelf solved for a few months as a trophy. then my friend mixed it up again... haven't done it since.
So do you remember your first Cube?
I'm known in my family as the "smart one". So I get a lot of puzzles and books as gifts. I got a Rubik's Revenge cube (4x4x4 cube) on Christmas a few years ago, my mom thought that I could just solve it on the spot. That was my first time with a cube, and it was a "REVENGE". it felt hopeless. I told everyone "as soon as I solve a standard one, then well talk"
Next Christmas I got a standard cube, I didn't solve it on the spot, but I did the next day. It was pretty sweet and a proud moment. But there stood the Revenge on the shelf much larger than the standard cube (that thing was intimidating). I got close several times, but came across the problem with the centers. They can move around which means you have to make sure they are properly oriented for the edges and corners.
A friend of mine picked up the Revenge after I had gotten really close and mixed it all up. I told him I probably would never be able to solve it anyway. so he tried to solve it. In his mind that meant to "do enough random moves it's bound to happen" he threw it to me severely mixed up from its previous state. Which was a little depressing. I played with it while we were talking and watching TV, I wasn't really focusing on solving it and didn't even expect to get close. After about 40 minutes I yell out "oh my god!" he looks over, 2 more turns and it was solved. It was epic to solve it, but in front of someone made it even better. I left it on a shelf solved for a few months as a trophy. then my friend mixed it up again... haven't done it since.
So do you remember your first Cube?