So I Tried Solving a Virtual Rubik's Cube...

You guys ever have those days where you just cannot turn well at all , like no matter how hard you dry or just because Canada is really cold and your fingers are permanently frozen .

No , just me .

Well , 3.6% of you understand what I mean ?

So today instead of using a plastic toy , I will be using technology .

If you go to CS timer and go to options and then timer and then entering in times with virtual , then you end up .

OK .

Seven by seven .

Let's make a new session there .

You get a virtual cube .

Uh I don't like this .

Let's rename it somehow in my entire lifetime of cubing .

I have not tried this thing .

So let's actually give it a shot and I'll have a keyboard cam here .

Oh my God .

If I had to guess F must do a U prime turn .

Yes , perfect .

So this is just like on a normal cube , the finger tricks you use are gonna be here but I need to still figure it out all the timer going .

Whatever I need to figure out the turns .

E must then be L prime .

Yeah .

OK .

So this turns the left side and this turns the right side .

So we got U turns .

L turns , R turns and this ring finger must be D turns .

That's nice .

How do I do ?

F turns ?

Oh , what the heck .

H Yes , this is an F turn and G is an F prime turn .

Let's get white on the bottom .

And let's , uh , this is so messed up .

So I have a blue right here and I'll do no , this is U prime and then I'll put it in with F two and D prime .

Yes .

All right .

We have a pair right here at the front , right ?

And we're gonna take it out with Ru prime R prime .

Wow .

Uh We need to insert it .

This is a tough one like nope like this .

Nice .

All right .

I wanna do red green here .

So let's see if I can do this one really fast .

Uh finger tricks , finger tricks .

Wow , orange green .

Um This is , this is breaking my brain but I'm getting a lot of similar F two L cases .

See if I can do a sledge here .

Um That's like this , this , this , this OK .

Nice .

How do you do this ?

This uh youtube you perm ?

Oh How do you do M moves ?

Wait .

Mm It's gotta be a ring finger move ZXC .

I think I tried C let's try X ah Yeah , that's an M move .

All right .

How do you do M prime ?

I'm just testing all the keys .

Now , did I say M prime ?

I mean , I mean , like M downwards .

Is there the , oh , the , the numbers ?

What ?

Oh , that's messed up .

Wow .

Six must be doing M because that's like this , this is like a terrible finger trick .

I usually do it like this , but I guess let's just bring a finger again .

All right .

Beginner Strat M two , uh , five minutes 21 seconds 0.63 75 moves 0.23 turns per second .

OK .

I thought I'd be a bit better at this because I am pretty fast at typing .

If we find out what my typing speed is , we can actually use that to calculate my maximum speed on the virtual cube .

We got a one minute test .

Let's go splat I wasn't expecting sound effects .

It's surprisingly hard to find a normal typing test .

All right , 636 characters per minute .

If I can hit 636 characters per minute , that is 10.6 turns per second .

Wait , I can do even faster than that on a cube even when my hands are cold .

All right .

Let's give this virtual cube another shot .

I want my 0.23 turns per second to be at least about one turn per second .

And that way I can solve in about under a minute .

That's gonna be my goal today .

Get this five minutes down to one minute ready .

Set , go turn the blue uh and blue down D two , orange , D .

Ok .

Ok .

Ok .

I need to find pieces now .

Come on , turn faster .

I'm trying so hard to think about what the turns are .

Ok .

Uh It's so hard to talk .

Um , move efficient turns .

Ok .

Oh , no , no , no , no , I messed up .

Um up .

No , three times .

Oh , no .

How do you do a wide move ?

Not that wide move ?

OK .

It's over .

Oh I'm OK .

I'm losing all of my concentration .

Uh It's nice to know multiple algorithms because my muscle memory is not gonna work all the time .

All right .

Uh Let's do the shortest version of this algorithm .

Wow .

Algorithms .

Oh I'm so much closer to my goal than I thought it would be .

That was almost one turn per second .

I just did too many turns .

Also , I'm really not used to like , look right here , this white .

I was trying to figure out what other color is on it and you can actually just see it in here , which is like kind of distracting because I'm super not used to seeing colors everywhere .

I don't know something about this .

Uh Being a feature of the virtual cube makes me feel like it's cheating because I never really have to rotate .

I can kind of always see every single color that is on the cube , but I couldn't find a feature to turn this off .

So we'll just keep this , get this cross solution .

This is always the hardest part because I can't remember how to rotate this .

This , that was wrong .

Oh , well .

And then , wow , that was the longest cross ever .

I'm so rotating to find pieces , which is really bad .

Be moves .

B oh my God .

That worked .

Uh No , no , like this .

That's the orange green .

And uh uh I can never do the right move .

All right .

I'm trusting my fingers a little bit more .

Oh It's J perm .

No , no , no .

1 , 11 0.99 TPS .

I'm almost at my goal .

I should probably set a better goal than this .

You know what ?

I'm kind of curious how fast I can do with J Prim because I didn't do it that well there .

Oh Wait , wait .

No , no , no , no , no , I'm not sacrificing this solve .

This is such an easy cross .

OK .

We have to take advantage of this if I can get the cross done quick .

That is so good for the rest of the solve .

So HLL GSHLLG and this is so weird .

OK .

No , that was wrong .

Anyway , I wanted to try just doing a bunch of J perms cause I think I can do them pretty fast if I practice them a bit .

So it was like uh rur prime F prime , rur prime U prime R prime Fr two .

Oh I can keep my finger on R uh K for R two because R two can go either way .

But anyway , um like that .

Ok , so let me try that again .

Uh That's too hard .

This is a pretty good cross .

So it's like this , this BD two L two and let's uh no , keep hitting the wrong key .

Ok .

Red blue in the back .

That's good .

No .

Uh F two , this is great .

This is great .

Uh You can't do wide moves .

How do , how do you do wide moves ?

Yes , three times because I don't know how to do it the other way .

00 Rotate down is no OK .

Oh Yes .

No , but it doesn't matter what we got lucky .

That was 49 moves .

I had to figure out wide moves .

I had to figure out key rotations on the spot .

That was , that was pretty clutch if you ask me .

Sub 50 is my first sub one minute , but I didn't meet my goal because I'm trash .

So let's try that again .

Yes , guys .

My muscle memory is insane .

Now , I am so good at Virtual Cube .

What the heck right now , I'm kind of just fishing for an easy cross which I do have .

Oh My OK .

No , no , I started .

Oh OK .

I'll have to quit this one .

I'll admit this is way more fun than I expected it to be .

Even though I don't get like the nice feeling of actually turning a cube .

Uh I , I can't even turn the cube properly anymore because I'm so used to the keyboard .

It doesn't have this nice feeling of the cube , but it does have that really nice feeling of .

I'm learning something new and I love that .

Is this the cross I've been looking for ?

Please don't mess this up this time .

First G perm .

Yeah .

Can't do a G perm .

OK .

And uh this is a G perm .

So let's give it our best shot .

I just wanna not mess this one up because I've messed up every single G .

Um Yeah .

OK .

I did the jeer .

I'm proud of myself .

Please give me easy cross .

That's all I ask for you .

Two .

OK .

Ready set go .

That's not you too , that's you too .

Uh uh Rotate up .

Yes .

Oh my God .

I didn't think I'd actually be able to do it .

I got a sub 30 solve .

Did you guys see how smooth that was ?

That was incredible .

I was doing all the finger tricks that felt so great .

But it sucks .

I suck .

I need to beat that .

I really want to see if I can get a sub 20 .

I don't , I don't think it's gonna happen but I didn't think sub 30 would happen .

So I'm gonna try and get a sub 20 .

You know what ?

I quit .

This one's too hard .

Let's try again .

I'll take ad NF I don't care .

I'm going for a PD single which means I don't need to deal with the bad solves .

Take that logical path .

To improvement .

I am taking shortcuts .

Nice .

I got finally over two turns per second .

Ok .

I finally found a really , really easy cross .

This is three moves or four key strokes .

SSDG .

But I'm really tired though .

So I have not been able to get good solves , but let's give this one a shot .

Oh , no .

Um Oh my God .

25 seconds .

I don't think I can get sub 20 anymore .

I've tried for so long and I am just making more and more mistakes .

I'm actually surprised I managed to finish that solve .

Hey , guys , this is Dylan from the future .

I was going to end the video here but then I realized I never even got close to the goal of 20 seconds .

And that made me angry watching it back .

So I decided to try again and here's what happened .

That was so close .

What ?

00 my God .

This one has such an easy X cross better .

Not mess this up .

Oh my God .

I can't do a Jeep .

Oh I'm so mad right now .

OK .

Uh Four move cross on green has to be green .

Oh , I can preserve a pair of two .

OK .

Yes .

What feel skip .

Wow .

12 seconds guys .

That's my first sub 20 seconds .

So Oh my God , I am shaking .

I'm shaking like 12 jeez .

I am the greatest virtual cube silver of all time .

This is by far the most I have ever absolutely destroyed .

The goal .

I am so glad I kept going and didn't give up .

I guess this is why the video is going to be a million days late being color neutral , I guess , pays off sometimes in getting extremely lucky salts .

I can't believe it .

I got 40 moves .

I shouldn't swear right now .

But holy shit .