re: Can you solve a Rubiks Cube?

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No where in your post do you even come close to saying this.

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I said not everyone is able to causally glance at all sides, consider all moves, visualize how those moves will change the board, then make moves based on those visualizations, optimize the order of the moves for maximum efficiency, and then memorize that sequence so that you are no longer actively thinking about it so you can focus on moving your fingers as fast as possible, and do it all in under 10 seconds.

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Both require memorization of large amounts of data, and the ability to recall AND apply it with seconds of evaluation.

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Que? Its one thing not seeing where I was coming from to start with considering it is a one line statement, its quite another to pretend I never said anything at all after the fact. Its the EXACT same statement, just fleshed out illustrating everything he did.

Of course.....

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Also, no where in your post nor what you quoted stated a time frame.

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That would require following a train of thought rather than knee jerk replying to singular posts. I didn't comment in a thread about someone merely solving a Rubik's cube.

I commented to someone dismissing being able to solve one in under ten seconds (study time + 5.4 seconds action) as stated in the OP as merely requiring practice that anyone can do.

I didn't even imply it was a genius level ability, just that if you can do it, you are obviously above average, and possibly well above average. Its not merely a function of practice, but ability.

Don't blame your assumptions on me just because you were trying to knight. Even then, I don't know why you would think the OP would have no context in the posts that followed though.

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I used to do it high school and regularly got 45 seconds or so.

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You are also well to the right of the bell curve of intellectual ability, and was only able to get within a ~ 5x time of his completion.

Do you really think you can get that football player with a middling to poor Wonderlic score to a sub 20 time?

Its just a function of practice after all.

Alright.

Throw out the brain surgeon shite.


My points remain.

Don't know why you think an exaggerated aside was the basis of my argument.

EDIT: There, the one line you are obsessed about is gone.

I stand by the belief however that claiming that the industry average fast food worker can replicate the feat in the OP with sufficient practice to be even more asinine however.

In high school in the 80's, I could do it in 30 seconds or so. Just took practice and repetition.

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No where in your post do you even come close to saying this.

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It is implied given the context of the thread. Those things are what is necessary to do what is happening in the video in the OP. So when the poster said that "with enough practice, anyone could train their brain for that" it is implied pretty clearly that she is saying that is all it takes to do what is being done in the video in the OP. Or at least it can be taken that way pretty easily.

If I were born when they first came out with the rubiks cube, I would have probably been one of the first people to solve it in less than a half minute on my first try.

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Is this conversation about figuring out a Rubix cube, or being taught how to solve it? Because those are two very different things.

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If anyone is actually interested I will post the algorithms.

Cool! What method do you use and what's your best time? Can you solve other cubes too?