One of our on-air personalities, DJ Nyke, has the useless talent of being able to complete one side of a Rubik's Cube insanely fast. Do you have a useless talent or skill that is kind of cool?
I've always been fascinated by the Rubik's Cube. Anyone can twist the tiles around and try to get the colors to match, but without a few tricks or turning algorithms it may be hard to get it back where all walls have a solid color.
I found a website that will solve your Rubik's Cube for you.
The world record for the fastest-solved Rubik’s Cube is 5.66 seconds, set last year by Feliks Zemdegs. When you see a speedcuber like Zemdegs do his thing, you realize that he is approaching the puzzle in an entirely different way than you would.
That goes double for watching Marcell Endrey, who just set the world record for finishing a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded, which is now 28.8 seconds. Watch En
For kids of the ’80s, few accomplishments were more meaningful than solving a Rubik’s Cube without having to resort to removing the stickers. But for Cube master David Calvo, it’s no longer enough to simply line up the colors on each side — he’s actually mastered the art of solving a Rubik’s while juggling two more at the same time.
Forever 21 might think that girls are allergic to algebra, but this young lady proves that she’s a math fiend by reciting the first 100 digits of pi. While solving a Rubik’s Cube. With 15 books balanced on the top of her head.