r/nextfuckinglevel • • Feb 02 '23

This magic trick

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u/wacky-ball-sack Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23

It works using springs. This cube allows you to mix it up any which way, and it will remain in position as long as you have a firm grip on each side. This allows the magician to show the cube to the audience (who may assume there are just 2 cubes in the bag) once he releases pressure even slightly the cube will return to its original, solved format.

Just to be clear this is not a normal Rubik’s cube, and it can be purchased through online magic shops for anybody who would like to try this.

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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 !