OK, can you solve one of these things?
These Rubik's cubes they're so frustrating
mark, but there is an entire world of
competitive speed cubing out there,
and you can actually be a part of it.
We recently spoke with champion
Speedcuber Phillip, where he's
preparing for the finals of the
Red Bull Rubik's Cube World Cup,
but took time to show us how it's done.
Phillip, we are so excited to have you here.
You're coming to us all the way from Germany,
but with Rubik's Cubes it's so crazy.
'cause it's something that you
think many of us think of as a toy.
But for you, this is a challenge.
This is a competition.
How did you get into cubing,
yes. So basically for me the
cube was also just like like
puzzle in the beginning, right?
But eventually 12 years ago I saw
documentary on TV about fast German speakers.
I was like I want to.
I want to do that as well.
I want to be just as fast as them.
And then I blocked my parents all
the time about it and eventually
they gave in and they gave me Cuban,
my twin brother actually got one as
well and we were immediately like super
competitive and we wanted to beat each other.
Yeah, like immediately.
And yeah,
we just somehow got into the community.
There was a forum where we registered then
eventually we learned about competitions.
We kept pushing each other.
And yeah,
that's why we are where we are now.
So
Christine, I don't think you understand.
We have the Michael Jordan of
the Rubik's Cube in our presence.
He's like, you know, a multiple time
champion. What's your fastest
time Phillip? Officially,
faster single time is 4.81 seconds
at home. I've already done
3.20. Yeah, 'cause you're gonna be
ready for the for the big final and
it's in this size Rubik's Cube, right?
Three by three exactly. OK, OK.
Can you give Mark and I some
tips like how do you? How do you
do it so fast? What's the secret?
OK, alright, let me change the camera angle.
OK so first of all one thing a lot of people
need to realize the cube is fairly difficult.
Like you, you have to be patient
when learning it like it's.
You just have to stick to it,
but everyone can do it OK after that.
After that stunned, there's like one thing,
a lot of people don't realize immediately
about the geometry of the cube.
So if you look at the shape of the cube,
it's three by three and in
the middle there's a piece.
But this piece is always fixed,
so no matter what you do, you always
turn the faces around this middle piece.
So since this is blue,
this face in the end also has to be blue,
so a lot of people would
come up to me and say, oh,
I almost solved the white face.
However, all of these white pieces
actually have to go next to the White
Center instead of the blue one,
so that's like one one concept.
You need to realize in the beginning,
like so the middle piece always
dictates the color that has to go there,
and once that that's done,
one thing a lot of people can
actually do on their own.
Eventually,
it's actually to solve the cross first.
So basically the first step in solving
the cube that's having across like this.
So you select the middle piece
and then you align edges.
On the sides,
in a way that they also align
with center on the side.
So like this is aligned with
white and green and you do that
four times for all the edges.
Yeah,
and once that's done you have
across and that is actually the
first step in solving the cube.
This doesn't actually help you to solve
the full cube if you want to learn more,
there's like great resources online.
For example, you could check
out the Rubiks YouTube channel.
Without great resources,
less like a tutorial series,
and if you follow that through,
I can assure you everyone can do it.
OK,
we need you, you do it for us,
do it for us real quick 'cause we
are not doing this right. See this.
I'm actually going to time myself as well.
OK, correct timing device. Alright, so
alright, he just mixed it.
Ask it. Yeah 321 go.
Ah, alright, so this is 8.36 seconds OK?
It's like about. 2 seconds.
Lower than what I usually do on average,
but when I'm preparing for a competition,
I'm more warmed up and have like
a lot of practice. Source before.
So yeah, in competition
usually my times are about two
absolutely yeah, well, you know.
Kristen, she was, she made you nervous.
That's it, yeah.
Real quick fill before we let you
go 'cause we're running out of time.
But this this World Cup that's coming up.
How can people see you?
How can people get involved?
What's going on with that?
Yeah, so basically the Ripple
Rubik's Cube World Cup is World Cup
event that's organized for both Red
Bull and Rubik's that was actually
acquired by Spin Master recently.
And yeah, basically they're
still qualifiers going on.
So up to the end of October,
I think everyone can participate.
You don't have to be world class
and participate, you just have to
get your Rubik's connected cube.
You have to download the app.
In your phone and then you can
easily just join the qualifiers
and if you're good enough,
you can actually join the World Cup
and the final isn't announced yet.
But if you want to follow everything,
you can go to redbull.com/events
and there's just a list of all
of the rubiks events going on
right now and you can follow the
best cubes in the world competing
against each other.
Wow, I don't think you have to
worry about Mark and I provide
anti competition but we we
wish you the best eventually.
Eventually challenge for
it. I learned something today, thanks man.
I almost got across all I could do.
They were the worst I have. We have no idea
faces. Yeah, no idea,
but it's always fun to try. Of course.
For more information you can go to
redbull.com/rubik's to learn more
about the world of speed cubing
and you can see how it's done and
follow along by firing Rubik's
Cube on YouTube. OK, alright,
good luck fill up.