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Which is harder: Playing a chess master or solving a rubik's cube


  • 8 months ago · Quote · #101

    neo-metacrash

    Solving the rubiks cube. Can't do it for life.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #102

    kamileon

    MaartenSmit wrote:

    Depends on your definition of 'mastering' the Rubik's cube... It took me about a year from when I started to drop to 20 seconds, and another year later I averaged around 13. Now, 2 years after that, I'm around 10-11 seconds and I stopped improving.

    Going by percentages, I would guess masters total to about 0.1% of all (serious) chess players. 0.1% of the limited 20000-people community, well... You would have to average under 9 seconds to have 'mastered' the Rubik's cube. 

    In any case, I can assure you that it's easier and less time-consuming to get fast at speedcubing than to become able to beat a FM in chess.

    Yes, I meant mastering meaning being able to solve it from any random position. As far as I'm concerned if you can solve with no help, from any random position then you've mastered the rubiks cube. Speed , to me, has nothing to do with mastering anything. If you can solve a problem, have you not mastered it and conquered it?

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #103

    neo-metacrash

    It's just me. I'm not the guy you'd see solving a Rubik's cube all day. Never really tried and won't try to learn.

    To show how bad I am, I can't even solve one side. 

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #104

    AndyClifton

    I can throw one pretty far.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #105

    koala8

    Me too

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #106

    neo-metacrash

    Are you guys interested in football? You two seem to be pretty good at throwing random stuff.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #107

    AndyClifton

    Better doing that than going all Rubik on everybody.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #108

    AndyClifton

    My cat seemed to like it though:

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #109

    neo-metacrash

    my dog didn't seem to get the hang of it.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #110

    AndyClifton

    Still, your dog appears to be having the most fun I've ever seen anybody have with that thing.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #111

    koala8

    Lol you guys funny photos any of koalas?

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #112

    AndyClifton

    The closest I could come:

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #113

    AndyClifton

    The thing does seem to be rather popular in the animal kingdom though:

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #114

    koala8

    Lol Andy I'm still amused

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #115

    Timothy_P

    My (twin) brother solved a rubix cube except for two corners from scratch without help multiple times. I guarantee that it is much harder to beat a chess master.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #116

    JoseO

    Watch how fast the cube gets solved

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBqaOs6omrI

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #117

    nameno1had

    Considering I've never managed either legitimately, I do find it note worthy that, it is much easier to take apart a Rubik's Cube, than a chess master, in order to get them in the desried position...

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #118

    blake78613

    I solved the Rubik's cube on a 3 day holliday weekend.  Armed with a yellow pad, I drew diagrams.  I was able to to 2 levels when I started.  My basis for solving the cube went like this.  I would move a piece from the bottom level to the top level noting the moves I made.  I then made another series of moves that put the piece from the top level back on the bottom level but scrambled the pieces in the top 2 levels (the routine had all of the pieces in the top 2 level but scrambled)   I then rotated the bottom level and reversed the series of moves I had made.  This put the top two levels back in position.  I then noted how this affected the bottom level.  I then figured out a solution to the cube using repeatedly using the routine  and reverse routine.  It wasn't very efficient solution but it worked.  My wife was very unhappy that I had spent the Holiday working on the cube.  I solved the cube without referring to any out side sources.   I could never come close to mastering chess in a lifetime even with consulting books and other sources.  There is no question that solving the Rubic's cube is much easier than mastering chess.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #119

    SmyslovFan

    *Playing* a master is far easier than *solving* any puzzle.

     

    Now, beating a chess master who's sober. That's exponentially more difficult than solving a rubik's cube.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #120

    ClavierCavalier

    So you're saying one should spike their water?


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