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.... I'm a bit out of practice
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Sometimes is rather open ended, if it would involve taking said cube to bits and re-assembly it solved, then does that count? 
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Nothing a big hammer can't fix.
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You can break lose the different blocks using a screwdriver or a knife and reassemble them in the right order...
Apart from that, my REAL answer is: No, and I don't care either... 
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...is more interesting to me than solving it. Meaning, the mechanism that holds it all together but lets you spin all the surfaces. I'm clueless! Well, this video[^] helped educate me, haha.
And did you know:
"Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974[1][2] by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. " (wikipedia[^])
I didn't!
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I have 2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, 6x6x6, 7x7x7 and can solve them all. For me, by far the most challenged is the 2x2x2.
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Super fantastic!!! 
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The Cube arrived when I was a university student. We used to meet every Friday night at my place for a (home made, from scratch) huge pizza, a case of beer and neverending discussions about politics, religion, mathematics, litterature, life, the universe and everything.
Then, in only a couple of weeks everything changed abruptly: Everybody arrived with a cube in their hand and immediately started twisting it after sitting down. Before the first beer was consumed, I had seven or eight guests, staring down at their continously working hands, speaking very litte, maybe a little grunt now and then. Every five minutes or so they would make a brief comment: Look at this trick! or Try to solve this one! exchanging their cube with their neighbour. Then entire evening was spent showing each other moves, or challenging each other with difficult configuration, sometimes with stopwatch in hand.
It lasted for maybe a year until we slowly drifted back into having normal conversations at social gatherings, but then the our student days were drawing close, so we never really got back into the typical student style discussion about the meaning of life.
Since then we have had more than two decennies of social conversations. The last five to ten years we are again drifting into something very similar: You can sit with seven or eight friends around a table. They all look down at their hands - not twisting, but tapping. Tap tap tap. Every few minutes they will show their neighbour around the table something on their screens. If you makes a statement that has any meaningful information, such as 'I made the tonight's pizza intraditional Neapolitan style', they will all immediately dive into their smartphones to find the definiton of Neapolitan style to verify that you are not fooling them. Maybe you then will have a 'conversation' among your guests, quoting different recepies found at different web sites, arguing whether Wikipedia is right or wrong, until it again reverts to solitary tapping.
It shouldn't be difficult to bridge the two: An app displaying a cube, where you can do the twisting by tapping or dragging. (Someone must have made a Rubik app by now!) That would allow you to 1) tap your smartphone all night, 2) refer to set theory, to give your tapping a slight scientific appearace, 3) prevent any sort of upsetting discussions or arguments.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Someone must have made a Rubik app by now!
Google is your friend.  Rubik's Cube - Play, Solve, Learn, Time[^]
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Oh yes it does! 
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What about taking all the stickers off and putting them back on? Also, if you really want to mess with someone, scramble the cube then swap some of the stickers.
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I would call that "a hack"
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Nah. "Hacking" is where you take a knife or an axe to the damn thing.
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I prefer to use the right tool for every work. That is finest craftmanship 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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I agree. That's why I prefer to feed Rubik's Cubes to a wood chipper...
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What else is a hack for you other than a solution you did not think of?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I relearned to solve the Rubik 5 years ago and practice now frequently. On a good day a lucky solve can be even under 30 seconds. That's way too slow for competition where every solve is under the 10 seconds.
For beginners method you only need to memorize 4.5 algorithms which is easy by just practicing a lot. The Friedrich method is an advanced method consisting of:
* cross
* F2L. Placing the corner and edge peaces in one go
* 1 step OLL. You need 57 algorithms for this
* 1 step PLL. You need 21 algorithms for this
I learned only 2 steps OLL which you need about 7 algorithms and a bunch of PLL algorithms.
modified 13-Feb-19 2:41am.
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I prefer to watch those videos of machines that solve it really, REALLY fast. They are pretty cool I think. Mostly because that's the kind of work I have done for a long time.
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/trollface
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To do it correctly, you need six cans of paint.
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Actually, I Found if you remove all of the stickers, it becomes a BLACK CUBE.
I can solve it INSTANTLY...
EVERY TIME!
Without EVER having to take it apart!
Pats self on back, tripping down the stairs...
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I learned all needed moves decades ago and used them very little.
This skill isnt important for me
Press F1 for help or google it.
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I could say approximately the same about at least two thirds of what I learned at the University.
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