lol

hahaha

BTW combo breaker

lol, that was a funny story I remember reading about that one

lol.  thats how i always solved it.

I learned and re-learned 3x3x3 Rubik's cube solving several times, except I would forget how whenever I hadn't played with one for too long and would have to relearn it. I think the main problem was due to my pretty much using sheer rote memorization of the needed move sequences. This time I'm trying a different approach of actually getting a better understanding of what makes the move sequences work the way they do (though this is hard because apparently I'm not very good at visualization—I just can't seem to focus on enough details at the same time, let alone while pieces are moving) and learn them more by what patterns/pieces should be caused by the moves. This seems to be working a lot better since it involves more intuition than memorizing.

So far I've only learned the layer-by-layer method. Apparently there are other methods which I'm planning on checking out at some point. I've also only worked with 2x2x2 and 3x3x3 cubes (my 2x2x2 is actually a ball rather than a cube but is functionally the same). I'd like to play with higher level cubes some day. I've seen those computer simulations of 4-D and even 5-D cubes. I can't imagine myself trying to solve one of those, though—I find it hard enough already mentally visualizing 3-D objects.

I remember once back around 1999–2000 when I brought a cube to high school to play with during free time. This was shortly after I finally figured out the instructions for solving and memorized the move sequences. Someone bet me $1 or $5 or something that I wouldn't be able to solve it. I started working on it for a while (at the time I was able to solve it eventually—I just wasn't too terribly efficient at it), but then I started thinking that I might get in trouble for not doing my work, so I put it down for a bit to do schoolwork. But then the teacher was like “Why are you stopping? There's money involved here!”, so I thought “Wha? Well, okay!” and got back to working on the Rubik's cube. When I solved it, the guy gave the money and said something like “I won't be betting against you anymore.”

There's also a lot of cool patterns you can make.

sorry but when I read this part, I immediately thought about a Rick Astley pattern on a 11x11x11 cube

Wow, "cubes" with more than three dimensions sound awesome!  How do they work?

I can't solve them...

There's also a lot of cool patterns you can make.  Its fairly easy to make the cube checkered with only 3 turns and you can make it have dots in only 4 turns from the solved position.  You can also have multiple cubes in the same cube and bands of color in a spiral.

I can make those patterns from a solved one, though.