Wednesday, December 12, 2007

rubik's!

heh 2 days ago i started playing with rubik's cube! i had actually wanted to learn it during A levels, but i scared if i go memorize the algorithms and stuff i'll forget what i study. so i postponed it till...last sunday!

Then on sunday on impulse i went to PS at like 945pm.. but the shops were all closing, and Comics Connection was closed already -_- (i heard they sell the cube)
The next day i went again, and found out they didnt have. zz. so had to go all the way to toysRus @ vivo.

Heh i thought i'd have to ask the staff where to find the cube, since Toysrus is like kinda big.. but you must be kinda blind to not find it. Right when you step in you see this big shelf with giant rubiks cube models on the top. Then there's an ENTIRE shelf just filled with cubes. Then if you're really damn stupid there's even a TV screen there showing videos of people doing the cube.

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tahdah, purchased my own cube @ $11.95.
yes quite ex. but .. oh well.

so i've been practising to solve as fast as possible (using the layer by layer technique. those world records that you see, 9 seconds blabla, they use speed-cubing technique, very different from layerbylayer. alot alot chimmer)
and last night, i got my fastest ever time of 1:53!

was a super lucky attempt, when after i did the 3rd last step everything was in place already so i essentially skipped 2 steps .the video quality sucks cos it's at night and it was with my lousy HP camera. yes i know i turned kinda slow, still new ma. now i can turn quite smoothly le.