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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:25AM
Solving things this fast does not involve much of any thinking - it's pattern trained muscle memory. Put another way he'd know it's unsolvable very near instantly.
It's like bullet or hyper bullet chess. People are amazed at people playing entire chess games with 30 seconds a piece, but the reality is that neither player spends any time really thinking. It's just muscle memory driven by intuition and large collections of patterns. A weaker player might play an entire game without noticing that their king and queen were swapped. A strong player would notice instantly - not because they look for it, but because the resultant position doesn't fit into their muscle memory of how the game 'ought' be played. Interestingly enough in chess it's even the same with the color of the squares. Playing with the bottom left square being light (instead of dark as standard) is completely awkward and just feels very wrong - even though it doesn't technically change the game in any way whatsoever.