Rubik: Willingness to scramble
How willing will someone be to scramble a cube, assuming they will have to solve it? The willingness is roughly inversely proportional to the personal effort one considers it will take to solve it.
In the video I show four cubes:
- a Ghost Hand regular 3x3x3 that turns very well, a gift from a few years ago
- a partially-solved regular 5x5x5, that turns ok, that I solved maybe 500 times in 2001/2, but now I've forgotten how to solve in part
- a solved 3x3x3 Tartan, that is fairly stiff
- a scrambled 3x3x3 Shepherd, that turns easily
It's easy to solve the regular 3x3x3, so I happily scramble it. I don't speed-cube, but it's only five minutes to solve a regular 3x3x3 using the beginner's Singmaster 2 method. The 5x5x5 I'm somewhat hesitant to scramble and don't change at all. The Shepherd I scramble a bit more.
There's a bit of resistance to scrambling the Tartan as I figure it will take a few hours to solve, but in the end I scramble it. Back in 2001/2 solving the regular 5x5x5 would take me about 15 minutes, and the Tartan and Shepherd about 20 minutes each.
Several hours later
Yeah, it took several hours to solve the Tartan Cube, following my own instructions. I solved the regular 3x3x3 a half dozen times first, but should have done it maybe 20 times to get the muscle memory back into better shape, as it is impossible to see what is happening with the Tartan when in the middle of a 6- or 12-move algorithm. Also a less stiff cube would make it faster but I don't fancy my chances of disassembling it (easy), lubricating it (easy), and reassembling it (hard).
New Tartan?
I researched a bit online and didn't see anyone selling new Tartan cubes. However, I think I've found a way anyone will be able to get nice new Tartan cubes that turn easily. Stay tuned!
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This is cool sir 😊
Thank you very much.
Cool, I have never seen those other types of cubes before. I used to be interested in learning all the algorithms in solving a normal rubiks cube and once I got it, I lost interest in solving them anymore hahaha. I would be unwilling to scramble a cube again if I got lucky and solved it. I don't have a lot of confidence in these things unless I learn the algorithms.
Thanks for the comment. I used to carry 3 essential algorithms around in my wallet, just in case. I haven't cubed much lately, and never away from home, so stopped carrying them around. But I'm rekindling my interest, so just might need to.
Nice video friend....
Thanks for the comment.
smart old guy !
Thank you. But I can't do 15 one-arm push-ups!
hehe nice i can do more :D
Never seen these cubes. A profound video fitting for most situations in life. All the best for 2019 💯🐒
Thank you. I hadn't considered the generalized case, something like one's willingness to get involved/entangled in something being inversely proportional to how hard it is to get uninvolved/untangled later? Is that what you mean?
Yer something along those lines. Maybe were all too unwilling to challenge ourselves when really that what develop us. To often we stick to what we know and how we know 💯🐒
Yup. You are so right. Thanks for answering.
Stuck me straight away when you mentioned it 💯🐒
I can't even solve the original Rubics cube in its entirety. Well done.
Well, I could only solve the regular one after looking it up. Thanks for the comment, western man in SKorea.
Yeah, I love to practice speedcube :)
Thanks for the comment. What's your best time? Do you have any videos of your cubing?
26 seconds is my best time on the 3x3. And I have other cubes but only fur fun (like the mirror, crazy, etc). The only one I haven´t solve yet is the ghost cube that I bought six months ago :D
26 seconds ... I suppose it depends what you judge it against. Compared to a world record of 5 seconds or whatever, or compared to my 5 minutes, or compared to most people's never? I hadn't heard of a ghost cube so looked it up -- frightening! Those shepherd/tartan cube solutions are my only claim to fame in the cubing world -- I could only solve the regular 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 after looking up the solutions.
I added a lot more description at https://steemit.com/dtube/@yawnguy2/iq2tz6cn