Admit it - you can't solve the damn thing either

[Lavender Brown]

:dunce:

[ET Awful]

1. Actually, I can . . . or I could 15 years ago :)

I haven't picked one up in over 10 years, but I did figure it out then :)

[Lavender Brown]

4. Smartypants!

:)

[Lavender Brown]

5. dupe

I'm so stupid I can't even post right

[Lisa0825]

2. Closest I ever got was

having the whole thing solved except two freakin' squares reversed!!! I was infuriated!!!

[Burma Jones]

3. Sure I Can, with little colored stickers

Ya gotta think out of the Cube...............

[EstimatedProphet]

6. I learned how to solve it with a screwdriver

1) rotate one side so that lt looks like it does in the picture
2) on the rotated side, pick one of the middle squares (ex. the green one in the pic), and pry it out with the screwdriver
3) now that the puzzle is missing a piece, all the other pieces will be loose. Take them out.
4) repack the puzzle with the colors the right way.
Takes about 5 minutes to do.

[short bus president]

7. Solve? No.

Futz with obsessively 'til it somehow managed to look right? Yup.

[Lavender Brown]

10. Futz?

[short bus president]

12. You live in Brooklyn.

You KNOW what futzing is. Oy! With the questions making me wanna schvitz!

:P

[Lavender Brown]

13. but i live in an Italian neighborhood

You know, I still haven't managed to go to Coney Island yet. Don't kill me.

[short bus president]

15. It's nice and calm there in the wintertime.

Take a lovely boardwalk stroll, have a Nathan's weiner. And call me if you want company, eh? It's only a 9 hour drive or so, and I haven't been since 1999. Sigh.

[Lavender Brown]

17. I'll schlep myself over there one of these days

[short bus president]

18. Now yer talkin'

bubbie!

;-)

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Back when I taught high school

one of my students could solve it in under 2 minutes. It was amazing.

[vixengrl]

11. I knew a girl back in high school

and she would just pick one up and fiddle with it and get the thing solved, while holding a conversation and hardly looking at it. It was cool to watch, but she would blow it off: "It's a thing I do."

[redqueen]

9. I could!

But I tried again recently and wasn't able to do it. :(

[derby378]

14. Still got my Rubik's Cube

It's the older Ideal model from 1980 with better quality axes. I've even got the solution book somewhere, but if you put a scrambled cube in my hand, I couldn't get further than two faces without the book.

You can take the cube apart, though - it's fun seeing how elegant and simple the construction is. Just make sure you put it together with all cubes solved.

Thanks, Erno Rubik, for helping make 3D spatial relationships fun.

[ironflange]

16. I'm looking at mine right now

I just came across it, the original Ideal model, so I dug out the solution book and fixed it. Time was, 1984 or so, I had memorized that book and could impress the hell out of people. I could usually do it in 3 minutes, and did it in under 2 once.

[Cuban_Liberal]

19. I can, actually.

:D