Why is the Rubik's Cube so Hard?!?!!

[Shangomango100]

Reminds me of minute physics

[Skyoneer2007]

this is to interesting I want do this next

[Skyoneer2007]

43 quintillion ?!?! no way it takes 50 years for a billion seconds to pass that's how big a billion is. now you're saying a quintillion LOL

[Manuu132]

your draw is impresionant O.o

[cocoblaze10]

Make Another video like this!

[mihedas]

Do another video about a 11x11x11!

[RellyTheCheater]

You won't move only 1 piece, you will do a complete set of moves called algorithms. Not even a douche will make 1 turn and give up.

[stefa1n123321]

with 3x3 cube is the best?

[CSmodder]

@stefa1n123321 dayan zhanchi

[tropixsongs]

Not hard to solve at all, lol. I mean honestly, can't all of us here solve it in under a minute? World record is less than seven seconds... Really isn't hard.... :P

[funkyjj900]

@tropixsongs i can only solve it in 1:30...

well my cube is from walmart and feels like someone put superglue in it

[1ggaavviinn]

cool vid

[MrGreen1210]

I used to wonder why a rubiks cube was hard to solve, then I took an arrow to the knee

[BLUEJAYRaY26]

Hey Kenneth i was wondering if you have any tips to speed solve my rubiks cube 3x3 i will also getting a dyan zhanchi whould you reccomend that cube

[120TOMTOM]

You, my friend have earned a like & subscriber :)

[spujika]

So you're saying. Everytime I scramble my cube. Chances are no one else has solved it from that position?

[WhiteBoy10000Thst]

@spujika

It is posible but thats 99% which i think could never happen

[TheReturned1279]

BULLSHIT!

[TheBetterGamer]

Why is the [solution] paper about 1/3 the way in the stack according to the arrow?

lol

[Debbie321lopez]

Actually, there are 4^6 correct answers to the puzzle, becouse the centers can be facing 4 different directions  ( just look at the white part of a rubiks cube, if you buy it, it points to the red and blue, but when solved it can also point to red and green, green and orange, and blue and orange.) and that goes the same for every 6 sides.

[VagrantWatcher213]

@Debbie321lopez That doesn't count.

[yannbane]

And then you just learn an algorithm and the magic is gone.

[chuy27arts]

oo goood mi dios

[metfankrizz]

anyone know how many permutations a 2x2 has?

[aaroncl]

Does this include impossible permutations, like twisting a corner only?

[quetzalenic]

<3



[FutureShock9]

How'd you get the stack to pass through the atmosphere without catching fire?

[lastochka101]

your math is wrong, a rubik's cube is isometric you calculations are not isometric. your calculations are the same as taking ever individual piece and trying to combine them. That's the same as moving the stickers and not the hole cube.

[redkb]

@lastochka101 They are correct. Visit the Rubik's Cube article on Wikipedia. There is great info there on how to find the number of permutations of a Rubik's Cube.

[minininja807]

@redkb wikipedia can be changed by anyone

[AscendantCaleb]

@minininja807 I dare you to try to change the rubik's cube article on Wikipedia and see what happens. :P According to studies, Wikipedia is at least as accurate as a standard encyclopedia set.

[VagrantWatcher213]

@minininja807 Yeah, but not the millions of sites you can search about the same topic and still get the same answer. Or, you know, actually calculating it yourself.

[lastochka101]

@redkb Nice source man just amazing Wikipedia next time you should use wiki answers or even better yahoo answers... Ya now it cant be false. For sure its right.

[XcodXx200]

i can find that paper in 1:30 seconds i know im slow?:(

[pikachuerico]

Then the wind blew....

[hOOk3rChamizo]

I mean each center

[hOOk3rChamizo]

One question, there is not only one position of a solved cube, the center have 4 positions and the 4 positios are right (assuming centers are colors), am i right?

[Evan8D]

great video <3

[sickers95]

well harder than i thought

[Benwinjamin]

rubik's cube, WHY YOU SO HARD?

[tyson01mx]

FUCK. period

[Nerflover787]

@redkb Great job explaining this man now i understand this term!

[kjs999912]

Wow

[osmoduh]

Thanks for this video, Kenneth! I hope you don't get furstrated with people complaining about your math and stuff :D

[WyattSmits]

@RockyRacoon96- Probably about 43 quintillion pieces...

[yvavilashvili]

you are drawing very well :D

[Skillet5123]

DUDE THAT IS SO CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



[RockyRacoon96]

imagine how much paper he would have to use

[moayman1]

how come we didnt know aabout a crazy man who stacked papers across our sollar system in the news :O

i suppose you are a  liar

[BufataTR]

Goood... Now find 17x17x17

[FCCZJ1903]

So in your story you live in Germany? :D

[BeakyRed]

i have that piece of paper right next to me, on top of the printer

[jonnietest]

It would suck if some body knocked the stack of paper over :P

[ZeroDeqreez]

I FOUND IT!

[MLSxEazoon]

*read* there is more than one correct position, try drawing an arrow on the center piece of each face, and when you mess it up and solve it agian, the arrows change directions.

[redkb]

@MLSxEazoon Very true. In fact there are 2,048 solved positions. However those positions are not counted in the 4.3x10^19. If you count each center's orientation separately then there would be 8.9×10^22 positions.

[waff3l5]

@MLSxEazoon @redkb

actually, the arrow will face the same direction each time. the only determining factor in this arrow case is that each center piece can be oriented in 4 different ways. this making (without the arrow case) 4 center piece directions. so 4^6 (because there is 6 sides) which equals to four thousand and ninety six (4096) different variations to each center caps orientation in the solved position. you should write back if you find flaw in this statement! =D

[MLSxEazoon]

@waff3l5 i dont fully understand your reply, but i have a rubiks cube with arrows on it and they do change diections every time unless i solve it trying to make the arrows the same direction.

[superoby99]

nice drawings kenny

[RealationGames]

How I didn't hear about this from the news or something?

I bet Japansese are planning to outdo this tower project anyway.

[RustyCarnahan]

So then if there is 43 Quintillion permutations to a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, how many permutations are there in a 4x4x4 cube? A 5x5x5 cube and so on?

[jaghatarkebab]

A quintillion is 10^30 so... 43 quintillions is 43 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000. And that is, without the retarded american prefixes.

[TheCreeperCrusher]

5 people found it easy.

[TenorCG]

You're pretty good at drawing

[IRONMETALPOTATO]

I FOUND THE PAPER

[legosm1997]

the stack of paper is the size of my dick

[AnOddRadish]

Are you counting impossible positions in either of your videos?

[judgerudge123]

@pedolacis ...double fail.....he says clearly,in the description that the paper is 0.01mm thick...get ya facts right mate....

[sibritstone]

Have you taken into account the compressive strength of the paper (e.g. how much is squashes with the weight of Pluto on top of it?)

[Crazyfatguy123]

Could you do this for a megaminx?

[R4nd0m0s1ty]

When I was watching this, it reminded me of ViHart or Josh Sundquist. Tags proved me right.

[cthhtccth1]

his first shown rubik's cube drawing couldn't be real he had two blue/yellow sides

[JackassKids20]

Thumbs up if u saw the McDonalds Logo at the start of the vid!!!

[KukiKruch]

But your mind is smart enough to eliminate MANY MANY papers by thinking...

[wickedbandz]

i dont think it is correct that there is only 1 correct solve. because they count orientation when they do that math. and there is cube orientation and center square orientation as well. so arent there actually a lot of correct solutions? 6 sides can face you in 4 orientations each and any all or none can have their center twisted in 4 orientations. so its literally thousands of ways. am i wrong about this?

[PeonsOnStrike]

@wickedbandz The centre pieces are drilled into the cube, so there is literally only one correct solution since they can never be moved.

Although it occurs to me as I am writing this that you are obviously not a cuber and are thinking that 'solution' means 'way to solve from a scrambled state' which it does not, it means finished position.

[wickedbandz]

@PeonsOnStrike i cube. probably more than you. if by "drilled in" you mean anchored, then you are correct. however, even when anchored, they rotate. ever notice how the sticker on the white side of whatever brand you use doesn't always face the same direction when solved? if you drew arrows on all the centers, you would find them pointing in different directions after every solve.

[PeonsOnStrike]

@wickedbandz You are correct about the nature of the 'anchored' pieces rotating, however as the generic rubik's cube doesn't have any picture requiring the middle pieces to be oriented correctly, which I am capable of solving for, it is stupid to consider those different states as 'different solves'.

The issue of who cubes more is completely irrelevant, if you do happen to cube more than me then you're obviously an idiot if you think what you just said is a valid arguement.

[pedolacis]

FAIL! the paper thickness 1 mm is too thick. Normal paper is about the 1/4 of the milimeter. You are saying that it is 1/10 of the centimeter. So you are wrong. And the paper stack would be 4 times smaller, so as the distance.

[BezNikaEs]

lol... ure nice painter man :D

[1gandras]

can you giveaway 2x2:DDDDD (joke)

[krazedgunner]

scaleofuniverse website is interesting like this

[bouchandre]

now do it with a 7 by 7 by 7,!!

[MycroDomin]

damn it.. ran out of paper

[tigerboy1227]

well, there is more than 1 solved position on the rubiks cube, if you were to take 4 different colored markers and color in the corners of all the center pieces, and you were to solve it 10 times, the colors would not be in the same place as before most likely.

[1000meganerd]

i need a piece of paper can I take one?

[MegaAnonymousJoker]

False ! The rubik's cube is hard to solve if you don't know how to do it... :D

[DingDongDitchExperts]

it isnt hard to solve if you have a method

[beaulolp]

A piece of paper is like 1/4 mm and 43 quintillion papers stacked wouldn't go there and back that many times. Prove how it would!

[redkb]

@beaulolp In my calculations I used paper that was1/10mm thick. (even thinner than 1/4) Check the description for the math.

[minecubing]

WRONG!!! have you tried to solve a pictre cube and the centers were turned wrong? there are 6 centers and they can be in 4 different positions each. 6^4=1296. 1296*43,252,003,274,489,856,00­0 (positions on rubik's cube in video) = 5,605,459,624,373,885,337,600 positions. still the percentage of solving it randomly is the same because there are 1296 solved positions. please thumbs up!!!!!

[thabaum22]

@minecubing thats kinda what i was going to say nice.

[MrElitePerfect]

You know what? Just go become a college professor.

[789party]

computer at 0:09

[jeroenleiden]

If I have a simple jigsaw puzzle with 20x30 pieces I can choose 1 of 600 pieces upper left, 1 of 599 right to it etc... total combinations of 600! or about 10^1408

Each piece can be rotated in 4 positions so we multiply it with 4^600 or about 10^361

A total of 10^1408 * 10^361 = 10^1769

So a jigsaw puzzle of 20x30 pieces is way harder than a normal rubik cube and even still much harder than a v-cube7 ?

[redkb]

@jeroenleiden That is all true, however I'd argue that the jigsaw puzzle is harder. With practice a Rubik's Cube can be solved in under 30 seconds. I doubt a 600 piece puzzle can be put together that fast. That's besides the point. Watch my second video on the 7x7. In that video I conclude that it isn't just the number of combinations that determine the difficulty of a puzzle.

[jeroenleiden]

@redkb Sorry, I missed that part :-)

It would be interesting to messure the difficulty accurately. I own almost every rubik cube size there is at the moment, and I know a 7x7x7 isn't harder than a 5x5x5, just a little more work. In fact, in my opinion, the 6x6x6 and 4x4x4 are a little harder than the 7x7x7 and 5x5x5.

Btw, if your only way of solving a cube or a jigsaw puzzle is by random, then the jigsaw is harder :P

[metfan583]

Now do it with a 7x7

[metfan583]

I watched this video 3 times in a row

[SubWalkthrough]

i found the paper loads of times the rubiks cube is easy lol

[thepebbl]

the planetary orbits are like "you mad bro?"

[megahotshot97]

There are also some imposible combinations a cube can have thus creating a parity. This can be made by taking the cube appart and put it together scrambled. Chances are, the cube is impossible to solve, but now there are 43 quintillion more patterns

[360cuber]

is this all true?

[sc3nt360]

@360cuber yup

[serkank77]

only one or 6 different solutions?

[PuzzleNinJa23]

@serkank77 (4^6)/2 = 2048 solved different solved states. Although only one of these is included in the 43 Quintillion positions. Unless of course it is a super cube, then there really would be only one solved position

[DavidNancyTom]

why does pluto have to be a planet to be landed on and host a couple hundred stacks of paper?

[SquishyFinn]

I live this Video so much

[bylokonnor]

So when you do it for a V-Cube 7, it will take you to Proxima Centauri and back I guess. Better be well stacked with food, oxygen and fuel, and maybe a comic book to read while you're resting.

[bylokonnor]

So when you do it for a V-Cube 7, it will take to Proxima Centauri and back I guess.

[Sotamursu90]

What the fuck, I don't believe you went to Pluto. That's too far. No rocket flies that far. This story is so fake.

[fandelesluthiers]

@Sotamursu90 Of course it's not real, we all know that, but the point in this video is to show how many positions a Rubik's cube can be twisted in, how large 43 quintillion actually is, it doesn't mean the story has to be real.

[MsJackie123456789]

@Sotamursu90 its made up so people understand how much is 43 quintillion?

[gamemak0r]

If you want a straight answer to the question... Because its plastic!

[Delayeed9]

20.11.2011. Still finding that paper...

[CroGameZone]

How to make that pattern on the end... please answer redkb :)

[redkb]

@CroGameZone I have a video called Interactive Pattern Tutorial. I show how to do it there.

[CroGameZone]

@redkb Thanks :)))



[thabaum22]

@redkb hey redkb what puzzle should i buy next i only have on a regular 3x3 rubix cube

[randominfo316]

That is so deep

[crazyboy4793]

im gonna try it. see you guys later...

[agamer999]

i am living in the UAE (the same country of burj khalifa )

[BeeSolomona]

Why didn't you just put 2 positions on each piece of paper?

[cubesolverS]

43'000'000'000'000'000'000 dam!!

[speedcubes17]

1:26 BURJ KHALIFA!

[goofylego5214]

no matter how many videos i watch, I CANT SOLVE IT if i do, i have to download something and that messes up my computer! i guess ill never solve it.... IM SUPER ANGRY AND I QUIT!!!

[lnalysis]

is this seriously how long it would be



[MissKittyHacks]

UHHHH...

What?.....

[MENTALCHEEZE]

Lol pause at 0.07

[BeeSolomona]

@redkb are all these positions solvable or are they just the 43 quintillion different color combinations?

[ruben952556]

and i'm sure that there are a lot of people that are proud to find the paper with the correct way ;D

[chelseafcman2]

wrong, there are 2,048 solved posistions :D

[dfy1012]

@chelseafcman2 Wrong, there is 1 =P

[chelseafcman2]

@dfy1012 nope the centers can be rotated diffrently

[dfy1012]

@chelseafcman2 That's called a super cube, not a Rubik's!

[5simen]

11x11x11 cube........

[13hacker37]

this is so awzume plz make more of thoose

[Tonyrock0227]

man you;re good at drawing

[seantheawesome009]

wouldn't the stack to pluto not be possible with the Earth and Pluto turning around itself and around the sun simoultaneously? lol

[KaorunTV]

@redkb Did you know that the V cube 7 can be in 19 500 551 183 731 307 835 329 126 754 019 748 794 904 992 692 043 434 567 152 132 912 323 232 706 135 469 180 065 278 712 755 853 360 682 328 551 719 137 311 299 993 600 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 different positions? How high would that be? \_o_/

[redkb]

@KaorunTV More.... A lot more.

[seantheawesome009]

@redkb how many positions can OskarPuzzle's (thats his youtube username) Over The Top 17X17X17 cube turn into?

[KittehKatCod]

@redkb I have a wall-e rubiks cube I have solved and I will soon buy a new cube. What should I buy? I want something big and impressive but not to hard

[brianrawks123]

i dont understand the concept of this..

[seantheawesome009]

@brianrawks123 redKB was trying to say that the rubiks cube is so hard to solve , and its so hard to solve because of how many positions it can be turned or contorted into , and it can be contorted into 43,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000,000 positions , and he was expressing that certain number by drawing a certain position of the 3x3x3 cube on a peice of paper , 1 position , 1 paper.

[seantheawesome009]

@brianrawks123 this is a continuation of my last comment : So he stacked ALL 43,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000,000 papers , and paper is very thin , yet redKB had to travel to pluto and back 314 times to finish the paper. That is the concept. :)

[seantheawesome009]

@brianrawks123 this is a continuation of my last comment : btw there is only one paper in 43,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000,000 papers that has a picture of a solved cube. :)

[betomakeselectronics]

i found it it was only teh 545616515616515646516515!!! yeyy

now.... how can i solv it XD

[Thebeastthatiswithin]

i tried this outside... i got to 6 before the wind pushed it over ;(

[SkorpionJoker]

do this for a 7x7

[SuperLockjames]

43,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000,000

[Russer24561]

Oooopppss....I accidentally kicked down a stack a paper...

[phobatrivaphobia]

I spotted the solved paper next to saturn

[sausje999]

@phobatrivaphobia It was at the place where my hous is, only 3 meters hy in my room...

[PureAFM]

thats a million times the number of people in the worlds times to thats alot (qutillion)

[denbroncos4ever]

And I've found that solved paper along with other cubers more than 250 times...

[arsss233latvietis]

the paper is too thick in your math

[FlyTour69]

How in the world do you know all this? And how do you know it would be 43 quintillion?

[joeleke64]

@FlyTour69 math

[FlyTour69]

I remember when my friend tried to solve a rubik's cube behind his back hoping to get lucky.

Also he said I cheated when he found out I learned on YouTube.

[mccrum11]

that would suck if a gust of wind came a blew away part of the stack and it all just collapsed

[maxandcato]

could you imagine if this was done with a v cube 7

[AndyDienes]

if you peeled off the stickers there would be more ways to put them on than to twist the cube, but it would be easier to solve

[Maxillian1000]

chuck norris could do that with one piece of paper XD

[seantheawesome009]

You Sir...are so mean to the trees :)) lol.

[seantheawesome009]

Wow who would have thought that such a small cube could be contorted into so many positions!!! To think that the Rubik's Cube is that hard woah!!! Yet I and some people know how to solve it. :D

[weberanium]

When he painted the unsolved rubiks cube i saw Two yellow blue

[PaulAngeloRamones]

It takes feliks zemdegs 5.66 seconds to do that :P

[eriktenerife]

43000000000000000000 thats a lot