JoeBob

What does everyone think is gonna happen?

I’m curious to hear people’s sides.

I’ve heard many people sides on it but not why they are voting for said person.

Who do you think will take his place?

50 years ago yesterday, a professor in Hungary made a 3d cube to teach his students geometry. It took him a month to solve it. Since then, the Rubik’s cube has been the most sold puzzle of all time, with over 500 million units sold worldwide.

To commemorate this, they made a Rubik’s cube that’s gold or something.

I’m going to expand on the last thread I made. Last thread I talked about ZB, which has 1000+ algorithms. But recently I learned about a more advanced method, called 1LLL, or 1 look last layer. This involves solving the last layer in one algorithm.

It has 4k+ algorithms, and only one person has fully done it. Sure, his recognition sucks ass., and half of his solve is trying to figure out which case it is, but that happens with memorizing that much. He averages around 13 seconds, but if his recognition got better im sure he could easily be sub 9,8,7,etc.

And that’s all of the main stuff, now I’ll go into detail about what 1LLL is.

So in the method CFOP, there are four steps

Cross

First two layers

Then the last two steps solve the last layers

ZBLL is a method in which the first two layers is solved, and if the top side has a t, or a cross, then you do one algorithm to solve the rest of the cube. 1LLL ignores that. And so wether or not you have a t, you can do a case to solve the whole thing.

Is it worth learning? Hell no. Is it cool if you do? Yea

multiple games I’ve played and I still don’t know how to scum hunt. So any suggestions?

Let me give some backstory before I talk about the main thing

In speedcubing, the first method you learn is the beginners method. Once you learn that and you wanna get faster, you would learn one of three main methods:

CFOP, roux, and ZZ.

CFOP and ZZ both are solving the cubes differently, but they both have a similar method to solve the last step. It is way more complicated and should only be learnt if you wanna know more ways to solve the cube faster.

It’s called ZBLL.

Let’s take a look at CFOP. 4 steps. Solve the cross, finish the first two layers, make the top face the same color, and solve the rest of the cube.

The last two steps have around 80 algorithms. Some as short as a couple moves and some as high as 20+. It took me 1 month to learn it all.

ZBLL combines the last two steps, into one.

It is 493 algorithms, all of them very long. And yet some cubes have learnt it all. Not just learning the notation, but also recognition(using a certain alg for that case.)

I have no idea how they do this without forgetting at least some.

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and yet even fewer cubers have learnt a better method.

ZB

Which combines the method I just talked about, with another method called ZBLS. 

ZB has 840 algorithms, almost double the previous.

It amazes me how some people have that good of memory plus muscle memory.

And while there are some people that have memorized tens of thousands of digits of pi, I find this more impressive because you have to do recognition plus remembering the algorithm.

Banned at user request. Sad day everyone.

Give me a problem, dilemma, or question, and I will answer it in what I believe is the most logical answer.

Inspired by Benjamin’s trolley problems thread.

I saw Mall always ask a bunch of questions, so I thought to do one as well.

I was checking to see who joined the site first cuz I was bored, as I was going though I saw he was banned. What happend? It said national security reasons.

What is your favorite video game and why? 

Also if you are going to say to study, I will respectfully ignore it. I hate studying and I always will. I never get anything new from studying. And in this case we only know what the subjects are, not the material, so studying is useless in this scenario anyways.

And no, this isn’t the SAT or ACT. It’s some stupid middle school exam. I don’t entirely know what it does but I think it determines how much you learned and who you will be with the next year.

If you live along the totality zone, or near it, you can see an eclipse in just under 2 hours as of making this post. Here is a map saying where it is. Scroll down a bit to see the map.

This is a fish doorbell. There is a watergate in Europe somewhere that leads upstream a river. The fish mate upstream, but to do that they must pass the gate. And since the gate is manual, they must know when the fish are there. So there is the fish doorbell.

If you see a fish you just press the button below it. The gate opens for around 30 minutes twice a day once enough fish have gathered. It’s fun to watch the fish swim around.

I’ll go first. 

I am too lazy to think of anything original, so I go with the basic JoeBob as my username for everything, even when that’s not my real name. I’m suprised this wasn’t taken when I made it however.

I’m wondering what everyone will say.

Favorite Song: 

Mr. Bright-side

Two years ago I started speedsolving Rubik’s cubes. I did this for a year then my passion faded so I tried chess. Did that for a bit but was terrible at it so quit. Since then I haven’t had a new hobby, though video games has been with me this whole time. I can’t decide which to start again. So I ask you, which should I start again, chess or Rubik’s cube? Don’t have to be knowledgeable in either subject I’m just asking everyone what I should do.

I need something to do other than the same thing over and over again everyday.

Stats for nerds:

Rubik’s cubes-no comp, pr is 14 seconds, CFOP

Chess- 500 elo

I have a feeling that I know what a couple people will say but I’m curious what everyone else will say.