So I thought I saw a thread on this before, but I did a search and came up with nothing.
Anyways, how many cubers (cubists?) are around here. I wonder if theres any cororlation between unicycling and cubing.
Right now im between 2 and 3 minutes, My goal is to get below a minute before the end of the semester, dont know if its ganna happen or not though. Im working on memorizing algorithms now, still have a ways to go.
I can solve a Rubik’s Cube, though I’ve never thought of myself (or anyone) as a “cubist” (except when refering to the art movement). My record is just under 5 minutes, though I haven’t owned a cube in years. I’m not sure if I would draw a personal correlation between my ablity to solve Rubik’s cube and my ablity to unicycle, except that I obviously have too much free time. I was actually recently thinking about getting a new one, maybe I’ll go today.
Re: Rubiks cubes?
Nick,
You probably searched “rubiks”. The search engine does not treat that the same as “rubik’s”. Search without the “s” and you get:
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=12447&sortby=&sortorder=
Also, I hope you tried various misspellings of Rubik. 
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
By the way, I have never been able to solve one myself.
Yeah, I got the same results from my search but none of the topics are really what im interested in, thanks for pointing out the ’ thing though.
Rubik’s cubes are tons of fun (probably like .00016 tons of fun actually), and its even more portable than a unicycle. I urge you all to pick one up and you wont be able to put it down untill its solved.
When I was in Junior High (a few years ago), I once solved it in 45 seconds and could consistently solve it in under one minute. I think I could still do it, but it’d take a couple of minutes at least.
I’m into MUbik’s cube. That’s throwing it in the mud after 10 minutes of infuriation 
Solve it? That’s news to me.
All this time I thought it was a random color pattern generator!
I ran across http://www.speedcubing.com/ quite by accident during a “unicycle” search.
There was also a thread in rec.sport.unicycling, here:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=rubik&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_uauthors=john%20foss&lr=&hl=nl>
Klaas Bil
Do a forum search on “rubi*” and you’ll get more hits. The star “*” is a wildcard and will match all words that start with “rubi” so you’ll get hits on “rubik”, “rubicks”, “rubicon”, and anything else that starts with “rubi”.
Here is my cube.
<http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jchilds/>
Solving that one while on a unicycle would be a challenge because my computer is not that portable.
Something like 15 years ago I solved my real Rubik’s cube while on my unicycle. I never got fast enough to be able to consistently solve it in under 90 seconds. Back then the fast algorithms were more of a secret and were not easy to find so I was not solving it very effieciently. Now the fast algorithms are easy to find on the web but I’ve lost interest in learning them.
I can do it, just not very fast anymore. . .
Once people stopped being impressed by me I had to learn to unicycle intstead.
just kidding
i think it was RSU member “cybeross” that is the uni rubik master.i think he said he was able to solve in 13 seconds while idleing.
he hasnt posted in awile.i think i even found him a Rubiks avitar?
yep its cybeross heres his Pro. check out his 1st interest.
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=1045
hasnt posted since last year,sombody wake him up!
I was doing it consistently in around 80-100 sec when I suddenly became interested in unicycling last year. I was probably using the fast algoritms John is talking about. I actually only need to memorize about six complex moves, and all are for solving the last layer. My tiny brain keeps me from memorizing any other shortcuts. I still make improvements in the first two layers, but my interest in doing it fast has gone away. I’m probably up over two minutes today.
One interesting thing about cubing is that those who don’t know how to do it think there is some ‘trick’, so they want to mess it up a little themselves just in case.
Cube
I used to have a rubiks cube but, hell it was hard to solve. For the longest time, I remember that the challenge was not only getting it into matching colors but first you had to make it a square. It was always like a cube with a big dent in it. I got it into a square when I was about nine and gave up. This was either screwed up cube, Or was it a normal one?
The best I have ever gotten was one side with only two colours on it. OH YEAH 
Logan
Re: Cube
square one
I just searched Rubiks Cube on the search thing, and I got htis. I think this thread is dead, but I’m going to bring it back to life.
Trust me, Cybeross could NOT solve it in thirteen seconds. The world record is about 23. I can solve one in 30 seconds normally, and I’m going to learn to solve one while idling. I think I could give Cybeross a run for the title of ‘rubiks master’. I can solve it two handed, one handed, with my feet, underwater, while looking at it in a mirror(this is HARD), and while experiencing 2.5 to 3 G’s of gravity. My friend solved one on a Pogo Stick.
I once solved a rubiks cube in 28 seconds using only my butt checks while idling no-footed during one of my frequent 30 minute orgasms all while doing a public demonstrations of my Level 11 skills.
So there. 
No, Harper, there are no pics
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
How little faith you have in me! It’s true that I can’t (yet) solve it in 13 seconds, but I have recently gotten new records on the cube.
As you can see, I have the unofficial world record of solving while idling on a unicycle with 19.86 seconds. I also AVERAGE now 19.75 seconds to solve ANY scrambled cube without being on a unicycle. Yes, this IS well below the official world record of 23 seconds. I can easily break that record on any cube, as can at least 10 other speedcubists. However, the official record can’t be broken until the competition this year in Canada, at which point, I hope to set the new world record if all goes well! I am still uni-ing of course, and even just recently solved the cube in 27 seconds while 1 foot idling, just for the fun of it. All my records can be found on speedcubing.com! Anyway, I’m still alive, and I still uni all the time, just been hard with the snow and the 5 million things I have to do! Only 50 days til summer, then I’m free!
Oh, btw James, you are certainly very good. I didn’t expect that anyone took the cube seriously at all. What is your speedsolving method out of curiosity? My record, is solving 3 cubes underwater, which was near impossible on my lungs. My record for one handed solving was just under a minute. Solving with the feet is my least fun, because it is very time consuming for me! As for the title of rubik’s “master,” if it would make you feel better, by all means take it! I just solve and unicycle for my enjoyment, not for competition! Well, at least, not until Toronto this year anyway ;).
But can you solve it upside down while people pluck your nose hairs and beat you with shoes (Thanks for that link Sofa. It was hilarious). Can you solve it while skydiving under the condition that you may not pull your chute until it is solved. you know under pressure. Like can you solve it if there is a little kitty waiting to be smashed by a giant piston that can only be stopped by your solving prowess. Could you solve it if you were bound and gagged? Could you solve it blindfolded? How about walking a dog? What if the dog was rabbid? Could you solve it with someone elses hands? What if It was hidden in a park and you had to first find then solve it. What if it was on a ledge just out of your reach. How would you do it then? What if there was an array of seven cubes and moving one caused movements in the others? What if you went to the store and it was for sale and in it’s blister pack and cost $5 and you only had $4.88? What would you do? The clock is ticking after all. Do you filch it from the store. Or just tear into it there and consequences be damned. What if the rabbid dog swallows it? could you kick him repeatedly in such a way so as to produce solvage? Of course it would take a day to judge. Does the clock stop when the dog produces the solved cube, or when you stop kicking? Could you yield solvency from a cube with stickers of all the same color? What if the stickers each had a unique color such that the cube was unsolveable? How long would you try? What if the cube was made of poison, or really really hot? What if you went to a museum and found an unsolved cube under guard and bullet proof glass. Would you explain your situation, or return late at night and bust it out of there? Just curious.
-gauss