I’m thinking of buying one.
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Ive never solved one and my goal is to never look up how it is done cuz that will take the magic out of it 
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I could solve one in five minutes in my teens. Now it takes me fifteen.
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My dad taught me how to solve it when I was a kid
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I could never solve it but was only able to get 2 sides to match.
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You got instructed as to how to, right. Because if you weren’t, I’d call you a liar.
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Its not that hard but you have to care such as thinking being able to solve one actually means something good about you
Ive seen the solution and i dont buy into it
I took out a library book that had strategies for solving them and I learned them.
I’m not actually interested in your opinion of me, being honest.
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The solution to the cube is getting an easy pattern on one side and then turning it in an exact combination you have to remember.
Its a parlour trick for desperate people.
It’s a puzzle and it can be solved once you learn the process. A lot of life is like that, actually.
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Ive solved it with the instructions infront of me, but I surmised if surmised is the right word, that I would have to be desperate to try to remember how.
The solution is easier to get today then 20 years ago, mind you.
When it first came out I learned how to solve it by reading a tutorial in the paper. It’s not that hard, but I don’t remember how to solve it anymore.
What I meant was, my first experience with the cube was long before there were ways to find out how. It was super challenging and I think if I do get one, I will not allow myself to look for help. Rubic was a Hungarian professor who invented it to challenge his students’ minds, so looking up the solution defeats his purpose.
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I dont even want to try to imagine what thinking one would need to figure out the logic of the cube
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I guess I cheated by looking up the answer in the local paper, but it was fun to solve it in front of people who couldn’t figure it out.
There were books on the market for it within 3 months of the craze starting.
I played with one…got a side or two. Then I threw it in a dumpster.
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Most can do a side pretty easily.
I actually worked out by myself how to do the next layer which was pretty cool. Not sure how it worked but figured it out how to flip the pieces in.
It’s funny. I’m not sure I could do it now but I managed to do it like 10 years ago at a xmas party. I was pretty proud that I figured that out myself for sure but needed to use a book to finish the bottom layer.
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I was not aware of this. Somebody spoiled all the fun. How come, years later I had heard that the number of people who had solved it was in the single digits?
Solving it is nonintuituve. It is not side by side. It is almost jumbled mess until the last turn.