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A flat-blade screwdriver worked wonders for prying out the individual cubes and putting them back in their correct places.

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I just used a dull knife.

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Trust me, its easy to solve once you know the procedure for doing so. Easy easy.

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It's even quicker if you know how to take them apart and put them back together!!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Faster than 20 seconds? (No, that's not me, but it's not the (current) world record either, and it's with just one hand.)

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The Nov 17th 2007 winning results from the WCA (World Cube Assoc.) at Berkeley. The times is an average of 5 attempts. Pretty darn fast. And they are not world records

Rubik's Cube Andy Tsao 12.38 sec
4x4x4 Cube Frank Morris 1:02.82
5x5x5 Cube Frank Morris 1:42.54
3x3x3 blindfolded Leyan Lo 1:40.72 Single
3x3x3 one-handed Dan Dzoan 22.97 sec
3x3x3 fewest moves Ryan Zheng 38 sec
4x4x4 blindfolded Lucas Garron DNF

These are WR for Rubik's Cube:

Single 9.55 Ron van Bruchem Netherlands 2007
Average 11.76 Yu Jeong-Min Korea KCRC 2007


Rubik's Cube: With feet
Single 39.88 Anssi Vanhala Finland Finnish Open 2007

There are lots of other categories and other shapes.

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How on Earth does one solve a color-based puzzle blindfolded?

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By memorizing the initial configuration and using a lot more moves than are normally necessary. The farther along you get in solving a Rubik's Cube the more you have to worry about not disrupting what you've already done. There are a bunch of somewhat long sequences of moves that end up changing the positions and orientations of a very small number of cubes (even as low as 2 or 3) while putting everything else back to where it was before you started the sequence. Normally you would use these only near the end of the solution, but blindfolded solvers use them from the beginning so it's easier to keep their memorized model of the cube up to date.

Note: I can solve a Rubik's Cube, but not blindfolded, probably not with one hand, and definitely not in 20 seconds. I haven't timed myself, but I think I'm somewhere in the "less than 5 minutes" range.

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I broke mine!

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