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Oh yeah, my brother always used to solve it. I just took the stickers off and replaced them on a different side.
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That's funny. I've since heard a lot of people used to rearrange the stickers, but it never occurred to me to do that back then. I used to take the thing apart and put it back together the right way.

We used to have a book that showed how to solve the Rubik's cube, but I never got all the way through it. I think my Dad did, though.

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That sim forgets to take into account one thing. When you are holding both sides of the cube, it is impossible to move the centre blocks
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No, it's not - it's just a flick of both wrists (one at a time) and hey presto! the middle blocks move: I was a thirty-second solver, my best time (because of a lucky starting position) was 24 secs, but I could never get it below that... Still, I was one of the quickest at school.

I found my old cube a few months ago during a cleanout, and tried to solve it speedily: after about a minute (still unsolved), one of the corners pinged off, with its plastic pin snapped :-(

Phil

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That's funny. I've since heard a lot of people used to rearrange the stickers, but it never occurred to me to do that back then. I used to take the thing apart and put it back together the right way.

We used to have a book that showed how to solve the Rubik's cube, but I never got all the way through it. I think my Dad did, though.
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I never heard much about moving the stickers, either - but it did happen to me.  This jerk in my middle school (well, he was OK, but he could be a shifty SOB sometimes) took my tiny keychain Rubik and said he would solve it in class.  He held it under the table for a while.  When he gave it back "solved", oh, didn't I notice the stickers all seemed a bit used looking?  I told him he cheated - and made my cube nasty to boot.  Adhesives exposed and stickers not quite sticking anymore.

I used to sometimes pop the cubes apart, too.

I had a book too, but never did get thru it.

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That's funny. I've since heard a lot of people used to rearrange the stickers, but it never occurred to me to do that back then. I used to take the thing apart and put it back together the right way.
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I did the exact same thing. lol

Cat

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Oh yeah, my brother always used to solve it. I just took the stickers off and replaced them on a different side.
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Me too! LOL!

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Oh yeah, my brother always used to solve it. I just took the stickers off and replaced them on a different side.

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Now that everyone seems to be confessing...me too.   I also took the whole thing apart and reassembled it.  

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I admit to doing the same thing! I don't think I ever solved the bloody thing, but my cousin was always good at solving it!!! :)

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The Pyraminx is much easier...never needed a manual to solve it....and I solved the Missing Link by accident when I worked on it...
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Oh Man! I forgot about those things. I'm assuming you're talking about the Rubik's Cube-like puzzle that was shaped like a pyramid. I can't remember if I ever solved it, but for some reason I liked it better than the cube.

Do they still sell these, do you know?