>>>Ok, there is a new definition for loser:
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http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Man_takes_26_years_to_solve_Rubik%92s_Cube&in_article_id=471180&in_page_id=2>>
>>LOL. Thanks for the morning smile.
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>>You have to wonder, though, how long it would take many other people to solve it if they absolutely had to and didn't have access to a guide showing you how to do it. It's not an easy puzzle, especially if you don't happen to be good at visualizing spatial relationships.
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>Back in high school in class of 34, we had almost 20 cubes being solved at the time
>At the time when it become popular, it almost completely eradicated preferans (card game)
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>While professors were writing some boring stuff on board... {g}
Do you know if they all worked it out on their own, though?
Full disclosure: I was unable to solve it on my own. I bought a book and memorized the steps. It was driving me nuts. One thing I still remember is that it said the biggest mental hurdle is that solving the third layer involves temporarily going backwards. You have to undo cubes that were previously in place.