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Cubefreak is dedicated to the manipulation of Rubik's Cube-like puzzles, including speedcubing (solving the Rubik's Cube in least time possible) and blindfold cubing. If you've never heard of speedcubing, watch a few videos. Enjoy your stay! Warning: Speedcubing is highly addictive. Browse with caution. |
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Quick Links
Leyan's Beginner Solution
For those who have never solved a Rubik's Cube. An easy-to-learn and reasonably fast layer-by-layer method.
Speedcubing (Fridrich Method)
Solve a Rubik's Cube in 13.5 seconds.
Blindfold Cubing (3OP or M2)
Much easier: solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded.
News
- 05/31
- D-rek is cool (I owe him a text ad).
- 03/30
- Made a 404 page. Go ahead, try.
- 03/30
- New personal typing record: 124 wpm. I'm now using Dvorak with Backspace and Caps Lock exchanged.
- 03/29
- New section added to the F2L page: Looking Ahead and Simple Multislotting. This is the sort of insight you can usually only gain by closely following a good speedcuber's F2L.
- 03/28
- Printable page for four-look last layer. Also redid OLL/PLL printable pages with CSS.
- 03/17
- YouTube playlist of the Princeton Juggling Club's 2009 show, The Juggler of Oz. I have a pretty good run of 6 balls (and a 7-ball flash) starting at 4:35 of "04 Yellow Brick Road."
- 02/07
- I won the Newark Winter competition 2009 with an average of 12.98 in the final round. This was a very good round for me, especially since I have been out of practice (as reflected in my second round average of 14.12). Full Results.
Thanks to Bob Burton, and to Daniel Saha for giving me a cube!
Also, I should really now be considered "in retirement" for now, only coming out once in a while for competitions but not practicing. There's a lot of other stuff to do! - 02/02
- F2L page, now with color-customizable applets.
- 01/30
- Princeton Juggling Club presents The Juggler of Oz at Frist Film/Performance Theater, 19-21 February 2009. Watch the trailer!
- 01/26
- You can now save your preferred applet color scheme in a cookie! It should now be working also for applets with gray stickers.
- 01/10
- Reorganized the OLL page.
- 01/02
- Happy New Year! Fixed more links. Organized the BLD main page.
- 12/29
- Cubefreak's back up! I'm still cleaning up, so things are a bit messy. Sorry for the inconvenience, and Happy Holidays!
- 12/27
- Redid CSS and menu. Changed links.
- 12/11
- Reorganized OLL by similar algorithms.
- 12/01
- Updated a bunch of links. I'll do this throughout the site in the coming weeks.
- 11/09
- 1,000,000 (ONE MILLION) hits! Thanks, everyone!
- 11/08
- I was interviewed by Speedsolving.com.
- 11/06
- Thanks to Boon Pek, I now have a printable F2L PDF in standard color scheme (cross color white). I'll put a link on the F2L page as well.
- 11/04
- Final results for the Negative Time Solving Contest. There were 44 participants representing 6 countries (plus Smerbia). Of these, 2 participated in Europe and the rest were from North America. This is the largest turn out ever for this annual event, now in its fifth year!
Here are the top 3 finishers in 3x3 speedsolve:
Jason Baum with -59 minutes, 49.43 seconds; Jun Hyuk Kim with -59 minutes, 48.20 seconds; and Stefan Huber with -59 minutes, 46.91 seconds.
Shelley Chang had the most negative solve for 3x3 blindfolded, with -57 minutes, 57.66 seconds.
Thanks to everyone who participated! - 11/03
- Temporary results for the Negative Time Solving Contest!
- 10/21
- Announcing the Negative Time Solving Contest 2008.
- 10/15
- New design for CUBEFREAK, the Documentary. Looks awesome!
- 09/13
- Some juggling from this summer: 1 and 2 (thanks to Rachel Fong for the pictures).
