# 40 years cube free **URL:** \ **Category:** Skill Toys\ **Created:** [March 9, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494 "2020-03-09T17:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kevinm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kevinm/32/697_2.png) [@kevinm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kevinm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/1 "2020-03-09T17:47:43Z")
Well, I kinda remember when Rubik’s cubes came out. Not a real swell time in my life, and I was able to ignore them and all their iterations for 40 years … until last week. OK, so I guess I’m a cuber now. But I still haven’t sat through Gone With the Wind or The Sound of Music, so I haven’t completely gone lame stream. This is the only way I have learned to solve the puzzle. It’s kinda fun. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/7/3/2/732019b50c2d0a01f96cf8a6e3651ded43dbdf18.jpeg "How to Solve a Rubik's Cube | WIRED") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-R0KrXvWbc) ---
**Author:** ![PCaliyoyos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pcaliyoyos/32/108396_2.png) [@PCaliyoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PCaliyoyos)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/2 "2020-03-09T17:51:23Z")
it’s never too late to learn! i love cubes, they are so much fun. ---
**Author:** ![beherenow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/beherenow/32/125309_2.png) [@beherenow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beherenow)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/3 "2020-03-09T17:57:55Z")
Get one of the well reviewed speed cubes. They turn so smooth and nice even if you’re not a speedster. Mine were $8 I think. ---
**Author:** ![PCaliyoyos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pcaliyoyos/32/108396_2.png) [@PCaliyoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PCaliyoyos)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/4 "2020-03-09T17:59:14Z")
you a cuber bro? ---
**Author:** ![WretchedRapture](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wretchedrapture/32/1124_2.png) [@WretchedRapture](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/WretchedRapture)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/5 "2020-03-09T18:00:31Z")
Not only do I have too many yoyos, I also have too many cubes. 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![PCaliyoyos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pcaliyoyos/32/108396_2.png) [@PCaliyoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PCaliyoyos)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/6 "2020-03-09T18:00:55Z")
how many cubes do you have? ---
**Author:** ![VIBE\_zt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@VIBE\_zt](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/VIBE_zt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/7 "2020-03-09T18:16:34Z")
Glad to see more cubers here! Keep practicing and you’ll be fast in no time. ---
**Author:** ![WretchedRapture](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wretchedrapture/32/1124_2.png) [@WretchedRapture](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/WretchedRapture)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/8 "2020-03-09T20:11:58Z")
Meeehhh, haven’t dug through the collection in a while. For 3x3s, I would venture to guess abouuuutttt… 7 or 8? That’t not including my other sizes or twisty puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![twitch77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/twitch77/32/60219_2.png) [@twitch77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/twitch77)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/9 "2020-03-09T20:38:53Z")
In late October of last year I saw that amazon was selling Rubik’s Cubes for $3.44 with free prime shipping…I always wished I could solve the cube and so on a whim purchased it. Youtube made it very easy. Following a tutorial I was able to solve my first cube within a day or 2! A few days later I had it memorized so I no longer needed to follow along with the tutorial. I now solve the cube at least 3 times a day. It’s kinda become a fidget spinner of sorts for me. I like doing it when I’m bored or watching tv or something. I still only know a very basic way of solving it (it’s pretty similar to the method in the video above, but slightly different with the last/top layer). I’m not very fast…It amazes me that there’s people who can solve these things in under 30 seconds. I average around 1min40secs right now…and my fastest so far is 1min14secs. Fantastic way to spend $3.50! lol I’m really not interested enough to invest the effort to learn faster methods/techniques or to buy a speedcube yet…but it is pretty fun! ---
**Author:** ![PCaliyoyos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pcaliyoyos/32/108396_2.png) [@PCaliyoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PCaliyoyos)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/10 "2020-03-09T20:51:01Z")
i have like 15 cubes lol. ---
**Author:** ![AngryGumball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/angrygumball/32/683872_2.png) [@AngryGumball](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AngryGumball)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/11 "2020-03-09T22:03:11Z")
![20200222_143223](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/f/b/c/fbc0a69b53b08eab79bff4d6419d8642e76d7c96.jpeg) ![20200222_182725](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/3/d/f/3dfe27a1d4036974ed6acd7c83179906a43baf24.jpeg) ![20191219_201739](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/4/e/5/4e534ddd7eca238955cca8d41928d5f6ee9951d0.jpeg) A couple variations on the classic 3x3… I have not scrambled the white “ghost cube” yet though… A bit afraid to 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PCaliyoyos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pcaliyoyos/32/108396_2.png) [@PCaliyoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PCaliyoyos)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/12 "2020-03-09T22:04:43Z")
Ghost cube and a Mirror cube! very very cool puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![beherenow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/beherenow/32/125309_2.png) [@beherenow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beherenow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/13 "2020-03-10T00:59:08Z")
I stepped through them several times. ---
**Author:** ![PCaliyoyos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pcaliyoyos/32/108396_2.png) [@PCaliyoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PCaliyoyos)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/14 "2020-03-10T00:59:55Z")
um… yes? ---
**Author:** ![beherenow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/beherenow/32/125309_2.png) [@beherenow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beherenow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/15 "2020-03-10T01:04:03Z")
I am not an artist. I am a craftsman. :wink: ---
**Author:** ![RABid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/rabid/32/71864_2.png) [@RABid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RABid)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/16 "2020-03-10T01:08:07Z")
During the height of the cube craze I was as fast as the people they were showing on TV at the time. I think playing drums and piano helped. I had very quick, very coordinated hands. Then went about 35 years without solving one. A couple years ago I bought a new cube, tried it, and said “I’m getting too old for this.” ---
**Author:** ![beherenow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/beherenow/32/125309_2.png) [@beherenow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beherenow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/17 "2020-03-10T01:10:30Z")
I learned the paradiddle once. Once. ---
**Author:** ![AKYOYOMIKE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/akyoyomike/32/286732_2.png) [@AKYOYOMIKE](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AKYOYOMIKE)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/18 "2020-03-10T07:16:37Z")
I solved the 3x3 for the first time in my life last year. I haven’t memorized the formula. I hate memorization. Also completed the 2x2 4x4 and 5x5. Cubes are fun for sure. I pt then down cause they where cutting into my throwing time. ---
**Author:** ![twitch77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/twitch77/32/60219_2.png) [@twitch77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/twitch77)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/19 "2020-03-10T12:28:47Z")
> [@beherenow](#): > > paradiddle Fun word is fun! lol ---
**Author:** ![RABid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/rabid/32/71864_2.png) [@RABid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RABid)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/20 "2020-03-10T12:33:50Z")
I bought a book and memorized. Maybe YYE should stock some high quality cubes and put our a few videos on how to solve. [Next page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494.md?page=2)