I do not understand how he (or others like him) do this. To be able to look at the cube and see a pattern and ten solve it so quickly is amazing. The only way I am doing what he is doing is if I peal the stickers off and move them. I remember having one when I was a kid and I was impressed that I was able to solve one side and that took me a while.

http://www.youtube.com/shorts/xK66yu9UL4U

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I keep thinking one day I'm gonna learn how to do it, but I don't.

This might be next level: juggling three Rubiks cubes and solving them while you do it. I'm a juggler, I'm not super hot but I've got a few tricks that get people's attention. But just juggling three things and not dropping them this long can be a trick. And these wouldn't be as easy to juggle as beanbags.

https://youtu.be/q6AsllXpKBU?si=UZFf89BqM81e_oYy

You might want to turn the volume down, you'll see.

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I tend to be in the belief camp that skills like what that kid has cannot be taught/learned. I tend to believe it has more to do with how your brain is wired and how you see things. Just a WAG on my part.

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It's a difficult thing to understand I think. My mother sent me a clipping about a study done in Germany years ago, they did brain scans of a bunch of volunteers, half of them were given juggling equipment and instructions on how to do it and their assignment was to try to learn how to juggle, 30 minutes at least every day. Whether they got good at it or not, wasn't so much the issue it was the regular effort to do so. The other half, with the placebo group did nothing of course.

After several months, they did the brain scan again, the part of the brain that processes visual information in the group that tried to juggle had grown in size. This was a sort of breakthrough revelation because it was believed up till that point that brains did not continue to grow in adulthood.

It made perfect sense to me. I learned know how to juggle when I was about 22. There was a John Denver special on TV and he did singing and dancing and goofing around. At the end he said "OK you guys are probably thinking he can sing sort of, he can kind of dance, he can maybe play the guitar but the real question on your mind is can (catches ball thrown from off stage) he (catches another ball) juggle! (catches third ball and starts to juggle)

I'm not even sure why I watched the show, I'm not that big of a fan of his, but after I saw that, I thought "if John Denver can juggle, I can juggle." I found a book at the library about juggling and practiced for weeks with tennis balls, finally I started to get it down.

I still do it off and on. But I noticed after I got halfway good that if I dropped something it was amazing how often I could catch it before it hit the ground. Something had improved in my brain to eyesight connection, not sure what.

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Its muscle memory. There is a formulaic way to solve a Rubicks cube. Practicing the quick moves with a a visual scan -- obviously takes a lot of practice but speed solvers have been around for a while.

sorry for the buzzkill

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No buzzkill. Still an interesting cultivation of skill.

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I get the muscle memory part for certain physical actions in regards to manipulating the cube. What moves to make and in what order is what I am baffles by. I would think that such abilities take a certain way of looking at things that not every person possesses.

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The concept of savants, the reality of them is interesting. Who knows?

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Speaking of Savants and juggling, this guy Jason Garfield is pretty amazing. He can be a bit oddly obnoxious, which is part of why I say savant, but he's one of the best in the world:

https://youtu.be/vDBmXnGaxMI?si=H6JSyo0zkGlD0wqr

The story behind the title "Chris Bliss Diss" can be found on the web.

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The rubiks cube is a solved game/puzzle. There are several algos you can memorize to solve it. It's kind of interesting https://solvethecube.com/algorithms

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You know those puzzles, usually about 4" x 4" square, somewhere in that vicinity that have a bunch of tiny square pieces maybe a half inch on edge and there's one missing and you slide them around until you were able to get the puzzle put together?

I had seen those for years but never spent much time with them. In the late 90s I used to go to a Whole Foods store after work to get a shot of wheat grass. It was hip and groovy for health back then, I think it probably does some good, but it was overrated.

Anyway, they had one of those sitting on the counter for several weeks. It was always there. So I worked on it and finally figured out the algorithm so to speak for solving it you would use a bundle of six squares, including the opening, and you could manipulate them to get it where you wanted. Would just go through the whole board that way. I have a feeling that learning how to solve a Rubiks cube would do some tiny amount of benefit to your mind.

I just did a search, all sorts of instructions quickly available.

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They do say that working on puzzles/games is good for the brain and fighting cognitive decline. I waste several hours a week reading chess books and playing so the 'good for your brain' angle helps justify it. No conclusive proof of course but at least it's not harmful!

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Me too. But I can verify it does nothing for my intelligence.

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Very impressive skills set.

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