The Fastest Solution
The fastest solution
Alan Ramirez
1st year project
10150 Alameda Ave. Table of contents
Abstract 3
Introduction 4
Materials and Methods 6
Results 7
Discussion 10
Conclusion 11
Works Cited………….…………………………………………………………………..………12
Abstract
It is important to know which way is the fastest way to do a task in order to do it more efficiently in this case, the way to solve a Rubik’s cube. Which is the fastest way to solve the Rubik’s cube? Is it the Beginner’s method, which is known and used by many beginners, but usually not a method of speed solving? Or is it the Fridrich method, which is known and used by speed solvers but not many beginners? The beginner’s method is easy to learn, but I hypothesized that the Fridrich method would be the fastest at solving the puzzle cube. To be able to test this question, one must have a Rubik’s cube and a puzzle timer. First one has to learn how to solve the puzzle cube in the two methods we talked about, then after one knows them by memory time each method 100 times, average the times and compare which is the fastest way to solve it. After testing I concluded that the fastest method to solve the puzzle cube was using the Fridrich method, it was about 30 seconds faster on average than the Beginners. I believe that the fastest way to do things is very important and this experiment will help to find out one of the hardest puzzles and best-selling toy out there.
Introduction
The Rubik’s cube or the magic cube was invented in spring of 1974 by Erno Rubik. Rubik’s initial intention to designing the cube was not to produce the highest selling toy in history. He was only interested on the design problem; he asked, "How could the blocks move independently without falling apart?” His cube was made of 26 cubbies, 9 cubbies make a layer and any
Alan Ramirez
1st year project
10150 Alameda Ave. Table of contents
Abstract 3
Introduction 4
Materials and Methods 6
Results 7
Discussion 10
Conclusion 11
Works Cited………….…………………………………………………………………..………12
Abstract
It is important to know which way is the fastest way to do a task in order to do it more efficiently in this case, the way to solve a Rubik’s cube. Which is the fastest way to solve the Rubik’s cube? Is it the Beginner’s method, which is known and used by many beginners, but usually not a method of speed solving? Or is it the Fridrich method, which is known and used by speed solvers but not many beginners? The beginner’s method is easy to learn, but I hypothesized that the Fridrich method would be the fastest at solving the puzzle cube. To be able to test this question, one must have a Rubik’s cube and a puzzle timer. First one has to learn how to solve the puzzle cube in the two methods we talked about, then after one knows them by memory time each method 100 times, average the times and compare which is the fastest way to solve it. After testing I concluded that the fastest method to solve the puzzle cube was using the Fridrich method, it was about 30 seconds faster on average than the Beginners. I believe that the fastest way to do things is very important and this experiment will help to find out one of the hardest puzzles and best-selling toy out there.
Introduction
The Rubik’s cube or the magic cube was invented in spring of 1974 by Erno Rubik. Rubik’s initial intention to designing the cube was not to produce the highest selling toy in history. He was only interested on the design problem; he asked, "How could the blocks move independently without falling apart?” His cube was made of 26 cubbies, 9 cubbies make a layer and any
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