Originally posted by lukewarm pawn I can't think of any agreeable gain from learning to solve the rubik's cube in under 2 minutes.
What do you get from it?
The satisfaction of conquering the cube then the realisation that you just spent ten hours learning how to twiddle a toy for two minutes.
Ironic that you post such an opinion on a chess website...
With chess you can continuously improve many facets of your game over a lifetime and play against others to prove your skill.
I can't imagine two people sitting in a room and twiddling a multicoloured cube at each other.
Originally posted by lukewarm pawn With chess you can continuously improve many facets of your game over a lifetime and play against others to prove your skill.
I can't imagine two people sitting in a room and twiddling a multicoloured cube at each other.
At least i hope that doesnt happen.
...and at the end of the day, when the pieces are put away, what have you accomplished other than a momentary pleasant (hopefully) diversion? Some people think Rubik's cubes are fun. Some people think chess is fun. Some of those people overlap, and may even happen to submit posts to this thread. Is twidling away with colored cubes any less productive than criticizing others for doing it?
It was not a criticism of the rubik's cubers.
I myself have idly attempted a rubiks cube on a slow day, although one of its edge squares inexplicably had the same colour on two of its faces so it would have been impossible to complete even had i the skill to do so.
I concede you have a point, chess and rubiks are both a pleasant diversion. The most worthy pastime is the one that gives the most satisfaction to the one who has time to pass.
Posting on this topic is only a diversion, though tisn't as pleasant as i'd like.
I was merely conveying (albeit in an oblique way,) as i thought it was at least vaguely pertinent, that chess seems more satisfying to me personally in the long run.
Originally posted by lukewarm pawn It was not a criticism of the rubik's cubers.
I myself have idly attempted a rubiks cube on a slow day, although one of its edge squares inexplicably had the same colour on two of its faces so it would have been impossible to complete even had i the skill to do so.
I concede you have a point, chess and rubiks are both a pleasant diversion. The most w ...[text shortened]... ore satisfying to me personally in the long run.
Even though i'm not terribly good at it.
No harm done, I was just having a little fun. 🙂
Originally posted by lukewarm pawn I can't think of any agreeable gain from learning to solve the rubik's cube in under 2 minutes.
What do you get from it?
The satisfaction of conquering the cube then the realisation that you just spent ten hours learning how to twiddle a toy for two minutes.
you can get a lot of satasfation i get satisfation in knowing i can do somthing that not a lot of common folk can do. and then i also get the satisfation of their face when i solve it in front of them. overall for me there is benifit and satasfation in learning how to solve the rubiks cube
How about a Chinese Cube? It`s just like the Rubik´s Cube except that it´s made in china out of cheap plastic, I bought one here in Bolivia (for 5 Bolivianos = 35 UK Pence) and have a current record of 1:50. It`s actually harder than the real cube because things don`t always line up together and things keep on sticking inside the thing.
I found a site, http://www.speedcubing.com/, thought I`d use it to try and solve it faster. I thought rook endgames were hard before trying to read the algorithms!
I`m going to give it a go, it looks like the kind of stuff that will take an age to learn all the different algorithms for the different situations. Maybe if I get stuck I`ll post a question or two here....
16 Mar '06 15:14
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