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Nah. "Hacking" is where you take a knife or an axe to the damn thing.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I prefer to use the right tool for every work. That is finest craftmanship 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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I agree. That's why I prefer to feed Rubik's Cubes to a wood chipper...
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What else is a hack for you other than a solution you did not think of? 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I relearned to solve the Rubik 5 years ago and practice now frequently. On a good day a lucky solve can be even under 30 seconds. That's way too slow for competition where every solve is under the 10 seconds.
For beginners method you only need to memorize 4.5 algorithms which is easy by just practicing a lot. The Friedrich method is an advanced method consisting of:
* cross
* F2L. Placing the corner and edge peaces in one go
* 1 step OLL. You need 57 algorithms for this
* 1 step PLL. You need 21 algorithms for this
I learned only 2 steps OLL which you need about 7 algorithms and a bunch of PLL algorithms.
modified 13-Feb-19 2:41am.
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I prefer to watch those videos of machines that solve it really, REALLY fast. They are pretty cool I think. Mostly because that's the kind of work I have done for a long time.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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/trollface
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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To do it correctly, you need six cans of paint.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Actually, I Found if you remove all of the stickers, it becomes a BLACK CUBE.
I can solve it INSTANTLY...
EVERY TIME!
Without EVER having to take it apart!
Pats self on back, tripping down the stairs...
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I learned all needed moves decades ago and used them very little.
This skill isnt important for me 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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I could say approximately the same about at least two thirds of what I learned at the University.
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I never learned (memorized) the solutions.
I found a PDF online that explains it step by step.
I can do the first 1-3 (one full side plus its attached corners) from memory.
But I follow the recipes...
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Remove all the colour labels before you start scrambling, and put them back afterwards.
Works like a charm.
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beat me to it. 
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I high school (early 80s) I bought and pretty much memorized a book and was able to do it in just under three minutes.
But now I take them apart and reassemble.
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I can solve with in 5 minutes. 
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It's often cited as the world's best selling toy. By 2009, 350 million cubes had been sold, nobody knows how many pirate versions had been sold but the number must have vastly outweighed the number of legitimate ones.
Which begs the question of how much plastic has been consumed by one not-so-simple puzzle and how much of an ecological impact Professor Rubik's brain-wave has caused. Somewhere there must be one of those "amazing facts" regarding what would happen if all Rubik's cubes were stacked into a single cube and how many times the size of Wales it would be.
So far there are only 5 of 105 poll respond here who have never heard of the thing - considering that it peaked in the early 1980's, that's quite something.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I think everybody I talk to have learnt it from a book algorithm. I figured out my own (rather inefficient  ) algorithm in my teens. Never looked at the book algorithms. How many like me?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I'm like you, I figured out my own not-too-brilliant approach (basically getting the corners in place by deduction and brute-forcing the rest of the cube). It will never win prizes for speed but it does always get there in the end.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yes I basically had "sequences" that worked in pairs:
Flip one corner on a face
Flip another corner on the same face (in reverse order, to restore the rest)
The same for swapping corners, and the same for the "mids"
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Almost. I'd get 4 corners (and centres) then try to get 8 corners with a basic right-handed sune (RUR'URU2R'), which twists but does not swap corners. If I couldn't get all 8, I'd cheat by scrambling and trying again. The edge bits were simple in comparison. Over 5 mins by myself, getting it under 1 minute (my record is 24s) needed internet help, as did swapping corners. I keep one on the sofa for use during adverts 
Pete Lomax
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I figured it out when it first came out. It did take me several weeks, but eventually I managed it. The problem was always remembering how to solve the last layer. I have one sitting on my end table and solve it every now and then, to keep it fresh.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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I carefully observed what happened when I made combinations of turns. The "proof" that I didn't use the book is that I solve first Top, then Bottom, then fill in the middle pieces. The book teaches you to solve it top to bottom.
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And I lose interest and patience very quickly.
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