So funny - we have one kicking around the house now - I think someone got it for us when Addy was born as a joke - like "See if your baby can do THIS! HA!" Funny.
Anyway, one of my college buddies was here over the weekend, and he grabbed it and was frustrated he couldn't do it any more. Turns out he used to be able to do it from any position in under two minutes, and even did demonstrations and stuff. Yeah, he was THAT kid. He said it was about muscle memory for him, and now he'd forgotten. He said you did it by rows, not sides, and he couldn't remember the moves for the third row. So my cube is sitting there with two complete rows, and the third one missing its solution.
I could never do more than two sides. My buddy was kinda bummed when I told him that I'd played with it, then refused to learn it - because well, it's just a fucking trick. You learn the moves then you can do it. It's not brilliance, it's teaching yourself the secret and then pretending you're extra smart or something. The kid that figures it out on his own - that kid is brilliant and is probably building rocket ships right now or something. The rest of the nerds that read the book? They followed a recipe to bake a cake, and didn't get any delicious cake at the end, just a stupid cheater solved lump of plastic. tOdd's route of pulling it apart is exactly the same, and a bit more outside the box if you ask me! I did that too with the same result of fucking the thing up irreparably.
Anyway, my friend wasn't a big fan of that logic. The thing was a big part of my 7th grade year, and very useful identifier for knowing who to bully.
