From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mon Apr 19 12:14:43 1999 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 MAA07359 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:14:43 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Message-Id: <3718413B.251EE6E0@okanagan.net> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 00:07:29 -0800 From: karen loewen Reply-To: loewens@okanagan.net To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Rubiks Cube, Megaminx and Square-1 Is there a world record for the the 4x4x4 and the 5x5x5 rubiks cubes? If so what is it? I was wondering what in your opinion is the hardest rubiks like cube available right now. On a web page several people from rated the greatest to least in difficulty: 1)square-1 2)megaminx 3)5x5x5 4)4x4x4 5)? 6)? Anyway it went something like that. Would you consider Square-1 one of the hardest cubes to do? If so would this be considered good of me to learn all by myself? My best time is 83 sec. As if now I am not sure what my average is. Do you know of a world record for Square-1 or any good websites? Do you know what an average would be for the best time? I was wondering how this compares to others times and accomplishments. At http://byrden.com/puzzles/ I almost figured out the megaminx. I got everything except the last row. Is the Megaminx one of the hardest Rubiks like puzzles available? After I get bored of my 5x5x5 that I ordered thinking about buying the megaminx. Do you know of a world record on the megaminx? What would be a average time (perhaps 3-4 minutes?) Currently I am more interested in the Rubiks cube. Lately I have been trying to improve my time. I have a personal record of 50 seconds, and an average time of about 80 seconds. However, I learned how to do the cube all by myself. I didn't get help from others, websites, books... I was wondering If you learned by yourself or if you got help? Then what is your time? I don't believe that I will ever get much faster. Learning by yourself is a really hard task. I was wondering if there is any one out there who agrees that getting help from resources is cheating? In my opinion they make the people who haved learned by themselves look bad. This is just my opinion, you don't have to agree. If you are not sure of answers that's fine. Then do you know of any good websites I can go to? Thank you very much.