{"id":317,"date":"2008-06-03T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-06-13T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T15:42:21","slug":"surprisingly-i-can-still-do-the-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly, I can still do the cube"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was about 12 or 13, like all the other children with glasses I learned how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. I’d long since forgotten how to do so. However, I was given a new Rubik’s Cube for my birthday recently.<\/p>\n

I decided that, if I was going to learn once again to solve the thing, I would need exactly the same book that I had originally. So I tracked it down:<\/p>\n

\"You<\/p>\n

Published in 1981, the then 12-year-old Patrick Bossert wrote one of the first books on how to solve the cube. Over the course of a few weeks or months, I learned his procedure.<\/p>\n

Over the course of 20 years, I forgot it again.<\/p>\n

However, upon reacquiring a copy of the book at the weekend, I reminded myself of most of the main moves in just a few hours<\/em>. The algorithms were obviously just locked away in my memory, because I found myself “chanting” to myself the moves as I carried them out: “Up, round-at-the-back, Down, Along-right” etc.<\/p>\n

I used to be able to finish the cube in around 2 minutes to 2 minutes 30 seconds, I think; yesterday I managed 3 minutes 40 seconds, which is not bad. And I’m sure I can do better…<\/p>\n

Update 12.06.2008<\/strong>: Managed 2 minutes 24 yesterday \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was about 12 or 13, like all the other children with glasses I learned how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. I’d long since forgotten how to do so. However, I was given a new Rubik’s Cube for my birthday recently. I decided that, if I was going to learn once again to solve… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}