Around 8 years ago I bought myself a Rubik’s cube. I thought: ha! My job involves maths and my degree involved logic. I will be able to solve this in no time!
It appears that I was wrong.
Eventually I started to watch YouTube videos on how to solve a Rubick’s cube. And I managed it. Once. But could not replicate it. It was luck more than judgment.
I had memorised the first few steps but after that it became all of a muddle. When the lockdown began I had been decorating my study to make it a bit brighter because of all the time I would be spending in here over the next few months and I found my Rubik’s cube. I thought: ha! I will be able to solve it now. It can’t be that difficult.
Obviously, it is still as difficult as it was previously. However the cube has sat on my desk and whenever I needed a couple of minutes break from work, I would watch a video on how to complete the cube and have a little play about.
Eventually, I got to the stage where I was able to… break the cube. Here is the sad looking broken cube.
I thought: ha! No bother, I got a Richard Herring branded cube from a RHLSTP (RHLSTP!) Kickstarter a while ago. I’ll just use that one instead. The problem being it looked like this:
Which quite frankly is a lot more confusing. All the logos and not the solid blocks of colour blew my fragile little mind. So instead I got Ian Amazon to send me this one:
which my daughter loves because of the bright colours. And I learned to solve it. And then messed it up and solved it again, and again. And now I’m pleased because I know how to solve a Rubik’s cube. Here is a video of me doing so, sped up because it is quite boring to watch otherwise.