earlier this month i solved the 17 by 17 underwater in four hours becoming the
first person to do that
i got a lot of comments saying i would ruin the cube but i took it apart right
after i solved it and it was a bad idea doing it on top of
concrete i also want to announce my three
giveaway winner from the last video where i lost 32 000
the winner was ultimate gamer and seed zero
and then for the live stream the task was to go to my instagram
post on your story and tag me in it about your favorite cubing
stuff and the winner goes to scrambledcuber1
and they all want a gift card the task for this video is to find how many
spongebob time cards there are good luck i cleaned out the important pieces which
include the screws and the spring so it won't rust and took apart the edge
and corner pieces so they can be completely dry before i
assemble this bad boy
guys this took just under eight hours so it took a lot of time
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the day after my live stream was set up and i was ready to assemble this 17x17
rubik's cube i took everything apart which includes
all the spacers the screws so the first thing i did was put
everything back onto the core pieces i had my edge pieces all
organized and then i also brought in the center
pieces which were completely dry
first thing i did was to separate them so i started doing the yellow color
because i want to start from the yellow side and build all the way to the white
side
i was having difficulty putting the pieces together
on the yellow side so i got stuck at this point
you can see it on the live stream eventually i decided to sort all the
colors out and call it a day for the yellow color i got to figure out
some pattern of different pieces of how they were
placed but i got stuck
the next day i decided to sort the blue and figure out if i can learn more about
these pieces and see how they can connect with each
other because there should be some pattern
to do that day two
when i found that there are these pieces which are aligned to the center pieces
they're also these diagonal pieces so there's four of each
that goes diagonally and then the center piece is somehow connected so they're
six piece five four three two and all the way down to one
which can be put together so now i figured out all the patterns i
decided to go back to the yellow color and sort them out
just like i did for the blue
after that i was completed with the blue and yellow color
and decided to move on to the red orange and green colors
sort them all out and i'll leave white to the end until i get to the last layer
is
now i was ready to start putting pieces on the puzzle
finally after around five and a half hours of
organizing and figuring out what the patterns are for each color
i started putting the big edge piece with
the yellow side and i just worked from there
and started to put the center pieces the edges onto the yellow side
for this step i had to be really careful because if
one bad move goes wrong then all the pieces could fall out
and i would have to restart and of course i needed some tape
to hold pieces together
after a couple minutes it did went by pretty fast i was able to get the whole
yellow side all the yellow colors were on the cube
and now it was time to build each layer what i did i built a quarter
of the colors the bottom quarter so i started with orange the bottom
quarter of that and then moved on to the other
side of the bottom quarter and then just worked my way so
i can get half of the cube done and this part did go by pretty fast as well
because i knew how the pieces were connected and the
pattern so now i have half of the cube complete i'm
halfway done all the blue orange red green and yellow
colors are now on the 17 by 17 rubik's cube
now it's time to do the final side the white color
i started sorting out the white following the same pattern as i did the
other five colors and i knew what i was looking for and this went by
pretty fast i probably sorted this in less than 30 minutes
12 o'clock midnight
at the end i was getting pretty stuck on how to put the
last couple of white pieces onto the cube and it was pretty late at night
so i waited the next day so i can complete the puzzle and give my brain a
little time to relax eventually
and we are about seven and a half hours in i eventually figured out that i
needed to take some of the white blue edge pieces out so it would be
easier to put the white center pieces in after all the center pieces are in for
the white then i'm able to put those edges back
and it will be a lot easier putting back
and literally when i was putting back the white and blue edge
pieces you could literally see that it almost popped the pieces were
about to fall off and i was so scared and
uh it was stuck i couldn't move it but i had to figure out how to squeeze this in
and the orange the orange side was actually pretty
messy too so it was falling off you can't see it from this side
but eventually i got it it clicked and then i was so glad that i finished
this
i now i had to take all the tape off and
tighten the screws on all the sides to make it less
flexible
the final test is to do a checker board on this
so that will mean that all the pieces are in the right spot i have turned
every layer at least once so that way i'll know that
there are no internal lock ups every piece
is fine on the inside and it looks okay on the outside
so the red and orange are done almost and then i have to turn it the
other way around so now you see the red orange
checkerboard and then the final white yellow blue green checker board is
there i have done it and there's one more piece i have to put
back the center caps that are still missing and then i'll be
all done
after a little less than eight hours i have completed this
thank you so much for watching make sure you like and subscribe
this was a great journey and a great learning lesson
and really fascinated to see all the patterns of the puzzle
thank you again for watching and i'll catch you guys later