From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Wed Dec 9 17:00:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id RAA26848 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 17:00:47 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Subject: Creative ways of solving the cube Date: 9 Dec 1998 15:48:18 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-Id: <74m642$lb5@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: Nichael Lynn Cramer writes: >This is not a formal solution, but --say when I want to kill some time-- I >often find it entertaining to solve the 5X cube in "ascending spirals". Although I don't play with my 5x5x5 much, I do play with the 3x3x3 a lot and have entertained myself by solving it in many different ways. The canonical methods: 1. First level, second level, third level 2. Centers, corners, edges After much more understanding, however, I now try different techniques for entertainment. In order of approximate difficulty: 0. Solve to a particular state (pons asinorum, super-flip) 1. Corners, edges, centers 2. Edges, corners, centers (rather disorienting) 3. First level, third level, center slice 4. One face at a time, with no regard to correct cubie placement as long as the color is correct (this is fun) 5. Solve to a particular subgroup (half-turn group, anti-slice group) then stay in that subgroup -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'd like to have the same quest again, sir."