Hey, I made a gallery of my unicycling pictures from scratch the other day, and thought you guys might want to see it. I think it takes newer browsers for it to work, (netscape 6 or IE 4 and above) so if you have an older computer, it might not work. For the rest of you, click:
I’m not nearly as good… it usually takes me about 5 minutes, with the fastest being 3 minutes, but I pride myself in the fact that I figured out how to solve it completely on my own. I drew up diagrams of what happens when you turn it through certain patterns, and it took me two days to solve it the first time. I’ll have to try it on the uni now
Alright, Greg. I did a little more work, and now my gallery should work on IE 4, NS 4 and above, as WELL as opera… Can you tell me what happened when you tried to view the page? I don’t know too much about opera, but I’d like for more people to be able to see the pictures…
man, it takes me 20 minutes or more to solve a rubik’s cube! impressive! i dont think i could solve it that fast if i peeled off all the stickers and put them in correct order! how long have you been cubing?
I have been cubing for slightly more than a year seriously. I had knee surgery back in July of last year, leaving me immobile so to speak for a few weeks. Needing something to do, I picked up the cube with a resolve to solve it in under a minute. So, I spent hours and hours each day, learning hundreds and hundreds of algorithms, until slowly my times started dropping below a minute, to around 40 seconds, then to 35, then after MUCH more work, to 30 consistently. This was all within the first 5-6 months. With continued dedication, I worked my way down to 25 in the coming few months, perfecting my method so there would be as few gaps as possible, meaning that I could achieve sub-30 second times every single time I solved, without fail. From that point up to here, it’s been nothing but continual practice to finetune litle things, improving my averages by a tenth of a second here or there, until I just recently achieved my best average of solving 10 consecutive cubes, which was 20.9 seconds. I don’t know why it has compelled me so much and held my interest, but it’s been fun enough to practice for more than 2 hours a day at some point. I guess everyone here knows that feeling, since you all can unicycle! I think that anyone with a rudimentary method can learn to solve in 30-40 seconds given enough practice. But if you wish to reach world-record speed, it takes as much dedication as any other mastered skill. And there’s tons of help on the web for anyone interested.
I can see it with IE. With Opera and with Netscape 4.79, I get a broken link symbol where the large, high-res photo should appear after selecting from the list and clicking “view”. The thumbnails appear with Opera but not with Netscape 4.79.