How do Speed Cubers solve the Rubik’s Cube under 5 seconds?

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Considering a Rubik’s Cube is scrambled randomly everytime and there can not be one single approach to all the configurations, how do speed cubers solve it in such a little time?

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They don’t “solve it” in 5 seconds. In speed cubing competitions you are able to look at the cube and come up with a plan before the timer starts. So they will have already figured out how to solve the cube. The timer is just how fast they can physically manipulate it. Also the cubes for speed cubing are very different then a normal rubik’s cube. They are able to be moved around a lot faster.

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