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Rubiks cube
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.In the 80s, when everyone had a cube I completed it but only after studying the solution for three nights solid. (Sad I know!)
After practising for a long time, eventually I could do the cube every time in less than a minute. I bought a cube in 2000 to show off to my daughters after they saw one on telly and found that I couldn't remember how to finish it and had to hit the net!
Try these two sites, http://www.puzzlesolver.com/sequential/rubik/index
.shtml
and http://www.unc.edu/~monroem/rubik.html
. Some solutions are faster than others and I've only done it in under a minute once since I tried again.
If you do try, some words of advice... First, read the instructions carefully and follow them exactly, and make sure you keep the "active" cube face towards you throughout a move (sequence of turns).
Second, don't give in... It is possible and the sense of achievement when you finally do it will be something to savour...! Think of this, the world record holder has memorised thousands of possible permutations just so he can choose the quickest moves to finish the cube from certain stages.
Let me know when you complete it and good luck!!!