Man Solves Rubik's Cube After 26 Years of Trying, Weeps in Victory

Gizmodo ^ | 1/12/09 | Sean Fallon

[FreedomForce]

Solves the mystery of why his albums haven’t been as good as the ones he made in the late ‘70. Spending too much time on the cube. ;-P

[Lazamataz]

I took the Artist's Approach.

I painted the sides new colors.

[Brett66]

Yeah, I got the book too. It was a lot of fun to show my friends at school how I could solve it in about 30 seconds.

[InvisibleChurch]

I let my garbage can figure it out.

[Vermont Lt]

I bought the book, practiced for a few nights, and then went about six months without having to buy a drink. The problem is that in Vermont there aren’t that many bars.

[wolfcreek]

Stupid, waste of time, POS toy.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Now for his second project - returning the Republicans to the majority in Washington.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Reminds me of the time it took me 18 months to put a puzzle together. I was so proud of myself because it says on the box “3 to 5 years”.”

I looked at an orange juice carton for four hours because it said concentrate.

[lacrew]

I had a solution book. I would solve them for people at school for a quarter (free for the cute girls).

[SoothingDave]

Take the stickers off a solved cube and put them on in random order. then it will never be solvable.

[IYAS9YAS]

I remember after two or three minutes, I found the creative solution, take it apart and put it back together solved.

I did that. Of course, those creeps on the show "Incredible People" managed to solve them faster than I could take it apart and put it back together.

[library user]

When I was 7, I let a friend of mine mess up a Rubik's cube big time and then asked him to give it back to me to solve. Took me a few hours, and I used this book, but it still wasn't easy:

[woofie]

burn it

[library user]

Stupid, waste of time, POS toy.

Translation: it frustrated the hell out of you and you're bitter towards people who were able to solve it.

[ml/nj]

I always considered it to be a good intelligence test. The guys prying it apart with screwdrivers are the intelligent ones.

Comments like this one strike me the same as those who suggest that SAT results are no indication of intelligence.

ML/NJ

[gridlock]

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that. I am just saying there are a lot easier ways to get those colors lined up than actually solving the puzzle.

[Old Professer]

Cute; when my sister was in the hospital about 35 years ago for a brain operation I used to visit every day for about 10 days; I noticed a jigsaw puzzle on a large table in a state of play early on and made a point to check it each day while in the waiting room along with other patient’s family members.

Some would play, insert a piece and then leave as their visiting times ended.

This went on until the last day of my sister’s stay and, as we were leaving the hospital I stopped back in for one last look at the nearly completed puzzle.

There it lay, a picture at last with but one flaw — in the top right margin someone had taped a note: “Missing one piece.”

How fitting, I thought as my mother, my sister and I headed home and another attempt at this puzzle called life.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

You asked for it. Said artist from the birth of New Wave;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2SkcC3TXc

[bamahead]

I have one on my desk and I was just playing with it minutes prior to reading this thread.

Does this mean I am doomed for the next 26 years?

[Oldpuppymax]

Took me less than 30 seconds. Ma...what does colorblind mean?