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

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In this video I share a way to visualize how many positions there are on a Rubik's Cube. I came up with this idea. Let me know what you think! This may be the first episode in a series.

Here's the math:
Paper Thickness 0.01 cm
Total Stack Size 4.30E+017 cm
Total Stack Size 4.30E+015 m
Total Stack Size 4300000000000 km
1 AU 149598000 km
Distance to Pluto 5,906,376,272 km
Distance to Pluto 39.500 AU
Length of Stack in AU 28743.7 AU
Number of Stacks... 727.69

I used the Distance from Pluto to the Sun, because over the course of a couple years, that would be the average distance from the earth to Pluto as well.

It's 728 stacks where the last stack isn't a full stack spanning the distance between earth and Pluto.

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[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.

[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.

[CSmodder]

@stefa1n123321 dayan zhanchi

[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.

[funkyjj900]

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

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

[stefa1n123321]

with 3x3 cube is the best?

[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

[1ggaavviinn]

cool vid

[MrGreen1210]

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

[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.

[VagrantWatcher213]

@Debbie321lopez That doesn't count.

[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