How are people able to solve a Rubix Cube in only a few seconds?
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The are not “Solving” the Rubik’s cube. In the 80’s, when the cube first came out, people genuinely tried to solve it. Then, some people figured out certain moves that you could do to move certain pieces around without disturbing what you’d already completed. Eventually a technique was created and is really an algorithm (instruction set) that people just memorized. So when you see a certain pattern, or need a certain move, you just use the moves that you pre-memorized.
I found a good website that teaches the methods. I learned it in 20 minutes, then taught it to my daughter and she had it figured out in the same amount of time;
Here’s the website;
[https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube-beginners-method/](https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube-beginners-method/)
So ELI5: people are not figuring out how to solve the cube, someone else already did that decades ago, people are just following the steps that other people figured out and it’s actually very easy. You just have to memorize a few moves and know when to use them.
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