Why bother then?
Comment on [Preston Alden] 49x49 Rubik's Cube
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoSure it is, it would just take a while. Beyond 6x6 or so, they don’t get more difficult, just more tedious.
Grippler@feddit.dk 1 month ago
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For record-breaking puzzles like this, the challenge is more in designing and building a functional puzzle, rather than solving it.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How does it not get more difficult? Do the algorithms stay the same regardless of rows?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Makes sense. I’ve only ever worked with an original cube
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
New patterns emerge in a 4x4 compared to a 3x3, and some more new ones show up at 5x5, but after that it’s all the same thing just more layers.
HarriPotero@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Typo?
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.
HarriPotero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t recall. It’s been well over ten years. I think I solved it two or three times. It was just tedious. Whatever cheap brand they had on dealextreme at the time.