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Affluent Savvy
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For his part, Ethan Pride, chair of the World Cube Association, says that to solve a Rubik's Cube, you don't have to be smart at all. “It's really easy to learn, and I've taught a lot of people how to do it,” he says.
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Read More »For his part, Ethan Pride, chair of the World Cube Association, says that to solve a Rubik’s Cube, you don’t have to be smart at all. “It’s really easy to learn, and I’ve taught a lot of people how to do it,” he says. “Some I’d consider to be smarter, and others are far from the genius you’d picture when you think of a Rubik’s Cube solver in a movie.” That said, he insists that it must be learned, either through trial-and-error or from others — you can’t just stumble upon a solution. “Anyone who’s told me that they turned it randomly for two days and solved it isn’t telling the truth,” he says. “You can’t accidentally solve a Rubik’s Cube.” But while practically anyone can learn to solve it, Ian Scheffler, author of Cracking the Cube, is quick to distinguish the difference between solving the puzzle entirely on your own and learning to solve it from others on YouTube and the like. “To figure out your own solution with no one telling you how, you have to be really smart, and that takes some serious brains,” he says. “But anyone can learn it with the help of YouTube.” Pretty much all cubers learn from each other, though, so does that taint the pool enough so that high-level cube-solving in no way reflects intelligence? Pride doesn’t think so. “To solve it, it’s not that hard. To solve it in under a minute, that’s also not that hard. But when you get to the world-class speedcubers, they have a different view on how the pieces are moving,” he says. “Most people, myself included, can see where a piece is, but can’t see where it will end up after a certain set of moves. But for the people who can complete the cube in a few seconds, they’ll know the moves they’re going to do, and they’ll know where to expect that piece to end up.” Pride says that that kind of strategy, spatial awareness and dexterity does take quite a bit of intelligence and problem-solving, and that he sees this reflected at the highest levels of speedcubing.
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Learn More »Fridrich agrees: “The record time for solving a cube is about 3.5 seconds and the average time at these competitions is about five seconds. For people who are solving the cube at that level, many of them go on to promising careers in technology, mathematics, engineering or artificial intelligence.” So, at the very least, there seems to be a correlation between high-level speedcubing and one’s level of intelligence, particularly in STEM fields. Most of all, though, Fridrich insists that dedication is the key. “You don’t have to be super-smart,” she reiterates. “I think you just have to be dedicated. You either find the cube interesting, or you don’t. If you don’t find it interesting, you won’t be motivated to do it. It’s like a possession, you have to get possessed by the cube and have a need to solve it. And if you become possessed by it, you can solve it.” Personally speaking, I have yet to become possessed by that little cube, and until I do, it’ll likely remain at the bottom of my daughter’s toybox, completely scrambled until I become motivated enough to solve it. That, or I’ll just sell it in a yard sale — that will teach that snide little cube to insult my intelligence!
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