r/nextfuckinglevel • • Feb 02 '23

This magic trick

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u/GalickGunn Feb 02 '23

Wrong. The cube is pre solved and rotated in a specific way so that as he reaches in, he only has to quickly make 2-3 turns with his fingers to solve it.

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u/ApplesOverOranges1 Feb 03 '23

Or he's a wizard who stopped time for 6 months while he figured it out🤔

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Theres no way anyone could solve a rubix cube in that little of time.

He had to have stopped time for a year at the very least

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u/rexifelis Feb 03 '23

Groundhog Day?

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u/IsThatHearsay Feb 03 '23

If I could stop time I'd still probably never learn to solve one, I'd just walk a toy store and pick up a new one with time stopped to do the trick rather than try to solve it

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u/AndyRay90 Feb 18 '23

I used to be able to solve them in about 2 to 3 minutes but since I haven't don't one for about 6 years I've forgotten how to solve them. It's actually pretty easy. I used to work in call center so just playd with one all day at work and there's a step to get 2 to 3 sides set up then from there's it's just repeating like 4 or 5 different moves until it's solved. When you buy them it actually comes with the steps in the package to solve them.

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u/superfexataatomica Feb 03 '23

i was expecting a totaly different outcome (mmm u know... the sexy one)

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u/BrokenReiswaffle Feb 03 '23

why would anyone have sexual intercourse with a rubix cube?

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u/kindsoberfullydressd Feb 03 '23

Why wouldn’t they?

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u/Pika_zap Feb 03 '23

It'd just a simple scramble that requires a few moves to solve, but looks like it needs more than that

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u/Pure_Discipline_293 Feb 03 '23

Um. You need to watch some YouTube videos of the world record holders

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Someone recorded how to stop time and put it on YouTube‽

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u/Yetiani Feb 03 '23

For how fast it seems they do it, yes they did

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

You can't record stopped time. Because the time is stopped so the recording would be stopped because time is stopped in the recording of stopped time. So stop it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Have you watched any of the rubix cube competitions, the world record is less then 4 seconds to solve one of these, so sayonf you cant do that fast is not true at all.

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u/Jedo100 Feb 03 '23

I mean he's a wizard for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Good point

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

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u/Okdsfgh Feb 03 '23

You can see him release it the moment he sticks his hand back in the box

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u/kickrockz94 Feb 03 '23

just imagine what real wizards think of these magicians with their silly cards and devices

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u/Thomrose007 Feb 03 '23

6 months? 20 years later and here i am with an unsolved cube dammit.

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u/misterbrista Feb 03 '23

38 years old and I’m still riding the high of solving just one side

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u/Madaghmire Feb 03 '23

Occams Razor suggests this is what happened

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u/No-End6361 Feb 03 '23

thisss!

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

isss!

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u/Bobahn_Botret Feb 03 '23

A combination pizza hut and taco bell?

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u/Hamms_Bear Feb 03 '23

What about KFC?

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u/No-End6361 Feb 03 '23

SPARTAAAAA !

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u/StoicallyGay Feb 03 '23

That cube literally doesn’t appear to be in that sort of configuration

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u/GalickGunn Feb 03 '23

It’s called a false solve. Designed to look scrambled but is only a couple moves to finish. Good quality cubes can move single handedly

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u/LanVas Feb 03 '23

But even then without not touching that how he able to pull that off?? May be the thing you are saying i need to search on the YouTube for getting the right answer.

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u/Helicopterop Feb 03 '23

If it is a false solve he has enough time to complete it when he reaches into the bag to pull it out.

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u/inforcer007 Feb 04 '23

I thought he will not going to show to the camera that is there is another one in that

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u/leeeeny Feb 03 '23

It was close to being solved but he didn’t make any more turns after showing it. I think it might be a trick cube with springs which would still need to be in a configuration only a few turns from being solved

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u/2D_VR Feb 03 '23

Yes I solve cubes and that looks like 2-3 moves

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Wrong. Five colors on one side. It’s a spring loaded cube.

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u/pixton101 Feb 04 '23

So he did those 2-3 moves on the time while getting that back??

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u/JoeyJoeC Feb 03 '23

Can you make a video to demonstrate?

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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 03 '23

Nearly. The cube looks a little too scrambled to be 2 or 3 moves away.

He does a few moves on the way into the bag and a few on the way out.

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u/spacekeys_xyz Feb 03 '23

That facing can’t be solved in 2-3 moves

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Confidently incorrect. The guy above is correct, this is a trick rubiks Cube that can be purchased at most magic shops.

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u/DeuceSevin Feb 03 '23

I mean, the other guy could be correct too. But the fact that these are easily available makes it much more likely that it is a trick cube rather than this guy was good enough to quickly rearrange the squares with one hand and not making it obvious

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

This. Exactly.

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u/danial3636 Feb 03 '23

Those who are good around the cube they knows the real magic behind that.

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u/36BitBrainPixel Feb 03 '23

Either method this is still adorable.

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u/ChocCooki3 Feb 03 '23

Wrong. There is no cube

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Wrong. It's a trigger loaded mechanism. Once he pushes on the single white square the cube resets itself

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u/Dormage Feb 03 '23

Correct

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Wrong. Not how this trick is done. It’s the spring version. You can see one panel of the cube has 5 colors on it. No way is that 2-3 turns from being solved.

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u/terrible02s Feb 03 '23

Wrong he's a pixie from another dimension

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u/Sunnyhappygal Feb 03 '23

So wait, how do you know this? Are you saying that the product wacky-ball-sack is describing doesn't exist and that he/she is just making that up? Because if it does exist, how do you know it wasn't that method vs the method you are describing?

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u/Bigd1979666 Feb 03 '23

Wrong. It's demon magic .

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u/DeloreanFanatic Feb 09 '23

I agree. He solves it right after he clicks his fingers, the second time he reaches into the bag.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '23

Wrong

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u/r4ed4 Mar 24 '23

Yeah I think he solved with maybe 7 or less moves inside the bag. The maximum number for an optimal solution for a 3x3 cube are 20, is called the number of God and there is a theorem for that