okay we got some donations for our video how to solve the Rubik's Cube so easy a
three-year-old can do it. The first company to send something was magnetic
cubes.com, they sent this pretty cool magnetic dice cube then gans sent this
infinity magnetic speed cube and then open that up Em see what's in there
then from the cubicle we got a box of speed cubes I'll explain why we need so
many in just a minute first let's take a look at this go ahead and turn that a
little bit and then slide one layer off so we can look inside now that's pretty
cool magnets embedded it's kind of hard to
see on the video large one in the center to keep the center locked in and then
smaller ones that's a really really cool thing we thought about doing that a long
time ago but it was so much work we ended up not and magnetics cube calm
sent sent that so that was pretty cool let's open this up and have a look at
what's happening in there this is supposed to be like top-of-the-line
speed cube we're not speed cubers we haven't cubed in 10 years but we you do
not to do it Emily did it when she was three she still barely remembers how but
let's see what this is all about it's a stickerless magnetic cube so it's got
magnets in it I guess they're so fast now it just kind of helps have the
magnets lock it in place a little bit this moving technology and has come a
long way in ten years see what you think you first let me look
at the magnets that's pretty cool see how it's rounded they're rounded so
that I so that you could still turn it like try turning the edge right there
when it's not lined up as a comparison here's a here's a
Rubik's brand cube the iconic Rubik's and then here is Emily's original DIY
speed cube back when she was three more than ten years ago okay yeah try yes if
you think I'm code to your new or old cube office lighters yeah it's a little
bit smaller it's a little bit smaller so try it try it on all three try it little
fish on all three in sushi so do them all in order again do that one again
that one's definitely faster that's yeah so that's that's kind of cool so we'll
have to play with this um we may actually have to like learn how to solve
it fast now now that we got a souped up cube okay so why do we have so many of
these the reason is in our instructional we're going to show the layer by layer
method it's a combination of beginner and intermediate methods so I want the
cubes to represent the different steps like this is the first layer this is the
second layer and then so on so I've got several steps I want to show it just
better represents it so we're gonna pull the stickers off most of these so
cubicle was kind enough to send us eight of those and go ahead and let's open one
of these and see what you think that's a budget speed cube this is a high hand
that's like $60 so I'm glad they they sent that because I don't know that that
I could spend 60 on it but uh being that we're not really so that
one's pretty cool too that's rounded
that one's pretty fast also to piss nice yeah that's but yeah I think we should
practice and go ahead and get fast well that's all pretty cool so what I got to
start doing is peeling stickers off of these and get ready to shoot our video
we'll take some photos too that way on our web post we'll be better able to
describe the steps so what is this one this is m3 rst so for a budget cube
that's that's pretty awesome cuz that's like a $9 you if you really fast which
we're not you know it may be worth it to go ahead and step up this is magnetic
this one isn't but they do make these in magnetics so maybe we'll try to get them
to send us a magnet one of these as well and after this series we'll do a how to
solve the Rubik's Cube 2x2 so easy a three-year-old can do it maybe we'll
get some magnetic two cubes but all right well this let's take a look at
this gamecube some more it comes with a pouch some spring so we don't know
enough about all that apparently you can change the spring tension there was a
lot of options to order this and we were clueless we had to do a little research
apparently you can order with different spring tension different strength
magnets you can actually change out the magnets we just got medium on everything
because we didn't really know maybe if we we practice a little bit and get fast
we'll figure it out yeah so I guess it's got some instructions we'll check those
out
pretty cool we could just go ahead and learn how to read that like oh wow that
is much algorithms huh so so the method we're gonna use is not going to
concentrate on memorizing too many algorithms it's really gonna be well
yeah we use layer by layer but there's a lot of there's only about a trillion
different ways
ours is more intuitive just kind of looking at the piece and moving it to
the position you want I saw start feeling small don't wait
what did you say that looks like a grab bag it's a Rubik's Cube bag what's grip
bag great I like gymnastics grips yeah cool you
should you should put your gymnastics grips in that and see if oh it is and
see if anybody is like hey wait a minute I know what that is maybe you start a
trend of gymnast doing Rubik's cubes yeah okay so yeah you make a good point
I mean this is more of a novelty you're not really gonna speed cube that but
it'll really help you okay so we had these eight cubes donated to us by the
cubicle and what I'm gonna do is peel some stickers off to show the different
steps for example like this old one we made eight or nine years ago
that's a layer one bottom layer that's layer two we're gonna show all the steps
white cross layer one layer two yellow cross so we're gonna unbox these and
start working on that peeling the stickers off
yeah so do these kind of instructions also okay so here's all the cubes that
were donated for this how-to video this magnetic dice cube gaen magnetic speed
cube and then eight of these mf3 RS to speed cubes they're a lot faster than I
am that was pretty quick so this one here will make the white cross cube so
basically peel every sticker off I'll except for the Centers leave all this
you know what I should have told you to leave the yellow Center we'll put it
back on sorry I shouldn't have told you take that off peel everything except for
the Centers and then the white cross and that counts for these so the corners
will go and everything else and then I will put that back
okay Emily we got the stickers off so we've gotta centers only white cross
first layer second layer yellow cross yellows on top last layer corners and a
full solid cube so I just need to get a few photos of these for the web post and
we can start shooting our video okay just to show that the center's don't
actually move go ahead and do some solves with that out so as you can see
everything else can rotate to move and orient differently but the sensors do
not so when we listen until you turn that it sounds a little bit dry like
this gay and cube came pre-lubricated but this sounds a little dry so let's
throw I've got some heavy weight silicone oil that we use for some iron
filing magnetic displays let's put a little bit of that in and see what it
does
it'll have to at least help right
let's see what that does yeah that that oil is pretty thick yeah that helps
we'll just work that in a little bit
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