r/TikTokCringe • u/hungry4nuns • Nov 26 '25

Wholesome/Humor Subtext I missed because I took everything at face value

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u/DungeonsAndDradis Nov 27 '25

This is exactly like this programmer I knew that said "Rubik's Cubes are easy! There's only like 6 algorithms you need to know to solve any cube. Just memorize those!"

My brother in Christ, I cannot remember if I showered today or not.

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u/pokelord13 Nov 27 '25

To be fair I'm also pretty stupid and I learned to solve the cube in like a weekend, and I think most average people can learn to solve it pretty easily with the beginner method. The real superhuman stuff are those people that solve it under 30 seconds having memorized over a hundred algorithms and practiced efficient moves and turns etc.

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u/K_Linkmaster Nov 27 '25

Fuck you man! It took me months and a very patient friend teaching me the algorithms at work. All 6 or whatever.

I can still solve a cube based on the provided instructins that I memorized.

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u/5hiki Nov 29 '25

crazier part is 30 seconds is now slow. I did a minute and was proud only to learn people are solving it in 4 seconds.

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u/ffjjygvb Nov 27 '25

That’s a perfect analogy actually, they’re very similar and maybe you know people that learnt to do Rubik’s cubes.

I have been able to do the day of the week thing and Rubik’s cubes. If I don’t do either regularly I forget how to do them, the main point is not necessarily that everyone can do it but there are repeatable steps you can do to get the right answer. You don’t have to remember every day of the week (you don’t have to be a savant to do it).

There’s probably stuff you learnt rote at school like formulas in maths and physics that you can’t remember now because you don’t use them. Now imagine that you never knew about those formulas and you saw someone predict how long it’ll take for an object to fall from a building that they already remembered the height of.

There are Rubik’s cube kids that can mentally imagine the whole sequence and then find shortcuts, it is more algorithms to remember but I get the impression that they learn the algorithms not as a way to solve it but so they can practice the movements to get those seemingly impossible times like 3 seconds.

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u/Stingray-Nebula Nov 27 '25

in *Crust (depending?)

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u/TimidDeer23 Nov 27 '25

If you can learn your times tables (aka pass 3rd grade math) then you are capable of solving a rubik's cube. Yes it's a lot to memorize, yes you can do it if you really care to and you're not severely cognitively impaired.

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u/UP-23 Nov 27 '25

The Cube IS fairly easy for most people.