Comment on [Preston Alden] 49x49 Rubik's Cube

Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure it is, it would just take a while. Beyond 6x6 or so, they don’t get more difficult, just more tedious.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How does it not get more difficult? Do the algorithms stay the same regardless of rows?

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do the algorithms stay the same regardless of rows?

      Yes, exactly. The same algorithms used to solve a 6x6 can be used to solve an 7x7, or a 10x10, or a 49x49. You just need to repeat them for each layer.

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Makes sense. I’ve only ever worked with an original cube

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    • HarriPotero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even-dimensioned cubes (4x4x4, 6x6x6, …) are harder because they introduce some parity errors. Odd-dimensioned keep their fever center piece in the right spot.

      Otherwise the size just makes it more tedious. I keep up with a 4x4x4. I had a gigaminx dodecahedron that I solved a few times, but it just made my hands tired from the weight and kept popping out pieces because of their tinyness.

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        fever center piece

        Typo?

        gigaminx dodecahedron

        just made my hands tired from the weight and kept popping out pieces

        What brand of gigaminx did you have? My old MF8 gigaminx is a bit stiff, but it’s never popped on me. I’ve heard good things about the more modern YuXin and DianSheng ones.

        As an aside, are you subscribed to !cubers@lemmy.world? Would be great if we could get more people on there.

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  • Grippler@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why bother then?

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For record-breaking puzzles like this, the challenge is more in designing and building a functional puzzle, rather than solving it.

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The difficulty would come more in manipulating the individual layers, than the actual mental process of solving it.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like this would be super fragile and internal structures bend a lot with twisting.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Solving it is easy.

  It’s the scrambling thats the problem.

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