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Rubik's cube is a multicolored, three-dimensional puzzle that has challenged folks for decades. Some, though, have faced that challenge much better than others. The Daily Mail has a very brief story noting that Korean speedcuber SeungBeom Cho ("Steve") has broken his own world record. Solved in under 4.6 seconds! A video of the solution is imbedded in the article or you can see it directly on YouTube.
Having utterly mastered the ubiquitous 3x3x3 puzzle, maybe next he'd next like to take a shot at this 17x17x17 Puzzle? Or how about a 1000x1000x1000 puzzle? Of course, after such a heavy mental work out, it is important to also keep oneself in good physical shape, so it only makes sense to try one's hand at this impressive 3x3x3 puzzle.
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Teenager Solves Rubik's Cube in 4.591 Seconds
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:25AM (1 child)
Try solving the nrubik [github.com] ncurses terminal version of Rubik's cube. Btw there's no need to install it globally or locally after "copycloning" it to your machine; instead just go to your git cloned folder and execute it with "python nrubik" after the "chmod +x nrubik" bit. I think it's supposed to work in both Python 2 and 3.
It's GNU GPL so one could change it to make it as enormous as one wants (or smaller in my case, like a 2x2 per side cube just to grasp and get comfortable with the representation and limitations), and at some point one would need to hide the menu and then later on also add some kind of "scrolling" for large cubes.
It's very cool and impressive but I haven't solved it at all so far, then again I haven't been trying hard either because just looking at it and doing some simple moves gives me a headache :D
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @02:22PM
the cube gets solved with sets of moves, if you don't tame the side effects of rotations, you get nowhere. I guess pro cubers have a higher number of simpler functions memorized, while noobs have a smaller number of more complex but more general functions.
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~jjchen/docs/Group%20Theory%20and%20the%20Rubik's%20Cube.pdf [harvard.edu]