Is there anyone who likes to play chess and also likes to play Rubik's Cube?

im good at cubing. my best for 3x3 was 13.26 few days ago. my avg is 17.49

That's hilarious: "Would this hold up in court?" XD Since when did someone consider an argument about the rubix cube on a chess.com forum be so important? Yes, I've solved every Rubix Cube except for the massive ones (20+) and I figured them all out by myself excluding the pyramid one.

isnt the overlap quite large?

I can solve cubes, My fastest time is 31,21 seconds

I can solve a 3x3 in 30 seconds

My PB is 23. Terrible,I know, but I focus more on mega minx than 3x3 and on chess more than megaminx

@chekagain

Also here?

Rember me from the username thing?

i can also solve cubes!

my record in 3x3 is 30,21 seconds

@astropro6512

You said that your record is 30

I focus more on 6x6

and i focus more on chess

Yes, I understand what you're saying.

Congratulations on solving the cube yourself. As I already mentioned, I tried the same, as a child, though failed to do so.

Since then, I've learned from the methods of those who've done it. Nowadays, I can complete it intuitively. I don't follow the same steps that are often taught, but seeing how others have completed the cube helped me better understand how the cube works.

Nowadays, I often use my own invented method: placing the piece that I want in the top-right corner or edge, then manipulating the cube to position that piece where I want it to go ... It's not the most efficient approach, (and it often needs to be altered, depending on the state of the cube) but it makes sense to me to complete it this way, so it's what I like to use.

Though, I wouldn't have been able to come up with this method had I not, first, seen how others do it. Their approach helped me better understand how the pieces can be moved and oriented.

This isn't a bad thing, though. It's how education generally works - we receive knowledge from others, then we apply that knowledge to further our own pursuits.

Yeah sure, but this isn't a court hearing and for some reason you seem to think you're judge, jury, and executioner. It's a simple question about the correlation between chess players and solving the Rubix cube, it's nothing to put extreme thought into.

In response to your second post, are you accusing me of lying? My first 3x3 cube was given to me by my uncle who figured out every cube on his own first, and only then learned the "proper methods." He implored me to do the same, and so I did, I sat down with the Rubix cube at age 8, tried and tried and tried, put it down for a few days, and then came back to it. Eventually, I recognized the patterns for each phase of solving it, and several weeks later it was finished. Is that enough "proof in court" for you? Why do you care anyway?
We all know you think you know everything, you've done it the perfect way, and everyone else is wrong, but are you seriously saying those who use the proper methods like the world champs of the 3x3 (one of which I've met) that have sub 3-second times are morons because they "didn't solve it properly"? My overall PR on the 3x3 is 26.87 seconds, really quite horrible, but yes I did struggle to solve the cubes on my own before I learned the algorithms.

My PB is like 24 seconds

My average was about 28 seconds, but now it's dropped to like 40 because I forgot a lot of algorithms...

3x3 cube solved at 13 by looonnng sessions of trial/error/pattern recognition. Had no instructions but a lot of time on my hands between homework and sci-fi novels.

It's what we did instead of interneting.

Haven't done it in decades.

(Opens tab, browses Amazon...)

Why are you being so rude to me, both in the ending of this post and your post before? No need to bring everyone down, and you're not even right anyway.

I used those terms that I learned after the fact to explain what I noticed as I tried to solve it. It's easy to solve the white side, but then there was a struggle with the second layer, and finally the last. Those are phases, no? And I realized it had to be solved in this order only after trying to solve the center first, then the top and bottom. I also realized you have to "undo" some of your work to move forward, and the cube doesn't solve all at once. At the time, I had no clue that the "phases" I discovered after trial and error were a common thing in cubing, and I didn't realize that the reason my uncle could solve his cubes so fast was because he had later learned the algorithms to it.

Please don't bring everyone down, I really was just trying to respond to the forum and now I'm being tried because for some reason you're the top guy on this? And maybe you're right that there was a "slip" in my language, does this clear it up now? It happened over 30 years ago, a court wouldn't expect me to remember such a miniscule part of my life perfectly that occurred that long ago, no?

Yeah I'm not responding after this, you're being awful to me because you wish to be right in a battle where you're fighting history. I did solve the rubix cube on my own, and you may choose not to believe that, but I'm not wasting my time to be verbally assaulted over something so inconsequential.

me solve 2x2 only one time

@long_quach's flex right now is crazy. I don't think anybody cares that you solved a rubik's cube by yourself besides yourself right now. As said above, no need to bring anybody down right now.

@long_quach Yes, let's keep it friendly and have a calm discussion without getting too excited or aggressive, okay?

@long_quach stop trying to assert dominance

Nobody cares about your flex. literally nobody