I still have mine. I was solving Rubik's cubes in chemistry class under my desk with this power. I'd pass it off to someone, they'd mix it and 3-4 mins later I'd hand it to someone else solved again.

Good times.

That cube sat right next to my pet rock on the night stand

333,130 km/h

You're welcome.

I’m pretty sure that’s the book I have (still have it).

From the book I learned how to solve the top two rows of the cube, and can still do them 40 years later.

I never memorized how to do the bottom row though, and can only do that with the book in front of me.

Pipi

It's surprising how much stuff pops up on here straight after a new episode

Rubik's cube was like the fidget spinner craze except that it lasted for years.

Ok.

I had this book. Stores sometimes had crates full of Rubik's cubes, I'd grab one, solve it, pick up another and keep doing that for a few minutes. IIRC I was able to solve a cube in 30 seconds or so.

What’s your elo?

Why didn't they just google it?

Boomers were idiots with technology, even back then!!

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I think part of the allure was that most people didn't know how to solve it.

I too listened to No Such Thing as a Fish today 😂

My grandfather has every season on DVD and has memorized every word of every single show and it was the only show he watched when I grew up in his house

Edit: he is also a hoarder

Says the person visiting a site with millions of clicks per hour

I used to solve it for people for 25 cents. Made a killing that year in junior high

https://youtu.be/0ppXVtCoA_E

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It fucking comes with instructions... 🤦🏻‍♂️

Solving the Rubik's cube was one of the first things I ever googled (correct: altavistaed, it was 1999).

I was playing at a Blackjack table in Caesar's at 3am, when Red Foxx showed up completely shitfaced. He blew about 3 grand on two hands, then went to the refreshments table and literally folded up the tablecloth and went off to his room with about two dozen donuts and a couple of serving plates.

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Something like 20 million bibles are sold each year. But I guess they consider the various editions different books.

edit: why is this being downvoted? I'm not trying to sell you a bible. I don't even believe in any of that stuff. I just want us all to recognize the truth. Which is that the bible is the best-seller. People say it's the best-selling book of all time, but it's actually the best-selling book of the year, every year. Including 1981.

I had that book - the patterns/sequences to solve the first two layers were pretty easy to memorize, but you got to the third layer and the number of potential moves just exploded. I never did get to where I could solve the last layer without referring to the book.

Surprisingly, any initial cube configuration can be solved in 26 or fewer quarter-turns, although that wasn't proven until 2014, thirty-four years after the Rubik's Cube was released.