If this is real, wow!

[thatguywhojuggles]

If it's not real. How did they do it??

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tSqUcrFJ498&feature=related

[erlando]

If it's not real. How did they do it??


Watching the video it seems to be real. And why wouldn't it be? What would be the motivation for faking it?

I believe that it is real. It even looks like she has it done at 2:11 in the video.

Impressive little girl. Hopefully she will be given opportunity to take advantage of her obvious smartness.

[ynot]

I think the little girl is being made to look younger than she actually is. She’s definitely too old to require a highchair. So why do they use one? ;)

[Wolverine]

Is it the same girl that's #1 on this list (http://www.speedcubing.com/records/recs_stats_young3.html) (more (http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2007XIEE01))? Seems like it.

[remirol]

Watching the video it seems to be real. And why wouldn't it be? What would be the motivation for faking it?

I believe that it is real. It even looks like she has it done at 2:11 in the video.

Impressive little girl. Hopefully she will be given opportunity to take advantage of her obvious smartness.

There's no reason to assume it's not real; while a small child solving Rubik's Cube is far from commonplace, it's also well within the capacity of same.

Why? Solving a Rubik's Cube only requires a certain minimum of both pattern memorization and 3- or 4-move sequences in response to the existence of any given pattern; children have an amazing capacity for learning (nothing already in their heads to get in the way). If someone spent the time and effort to teach her how, this would certainly be possible for a bright child.

[LTC8K6]

It is the speed of her hands that amazes me. She rotates them blindingly fast at times.
She's going to have carpal tunnel before she's 5...

[Linda777NJ]

Chinese tend to be little, she's probably 16!

[LTC8K6]

Wrong thread...

[remirol]

It is the speed of her hands that amazes me. She rotates them blindingly fast at times.
She's going to have carpal tunnel before she's 5...

If you pry all the outer blocks off the cube (easy with a flathead screwdriver, just start with a center-side piece) and grease the inside surfaces of each with J. Random Lubricant (Vaseline when I was a kid, but that was back in the '80s, there's probably something better now)... the cube will become astonishingly easy to turn, compared to new cubes which are sort of sticky and require a great deal of force.

...When you put the cube back together, be sure to put it back in the 'solved' state, or you run a good risk of creating a cube that can no longer be solved. This is fun to do to your friends, but absolutely no fun at all to do to yourself. :D

[ynot]

Not that this clip is doing this, but it just occurred to me that an impressive looking clip of solving the cube could be easily made just by simply giving a kid a completed cube and tape them messing it up, then play it backwards.

[tsg]

If you pry all the outer blocks off the cube (easy with a flathead screwdriver, just start with a center-side piece) and grease the inside surfaces of each with J. Random Lubricant (Vaseline when I was a kid, but that was back in the '80s, there's probably something better now)... the cube will become astonishingly easy to turn, compared to new cubes which are sort of sticky and require a great deal of force.

We used to file the edges of the pieces so they wouldn't get hung up as easily, too. Yes, we had a lot of time on our hands. Why do you ask?

...When you put the cube back together, be sure to put it back in the 'solved' state, or you run a good risk of creating a cube that can no longer be solved. This is fun to do to your friends, but absolutely no fun at all to do to yourself. :D

The standard trick was to pop a top middle piece from a solved cube, rotate it, put it back, mix up the cube and hand it to someone to solve.

[fishbait]

[quote=thatguywhojuggles;3350255]If it's not real. How did they do it??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8L3sntmLRE It's running backward. This kind of fake solve has been on the net for a long time. The kid's hand movements do not look natural.

[tsg]

[quote=thatguywhojuggles;3350255]If it's not real. How did they do it??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8L3sntmLRE It's running backward. This kind of fake solve has been on the net for a long time. The kid's hand movements do not look natural.

The real key is that the sound has to be forwards and doesn't match up with what he's doing.

[thatguywhojuggles]

[quote=thatguywhojuggles;3350255]If it's not real. How did they do it??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8L3sntmLRE It's running backward. This kind of fake solve has been on the net for a long time. The kid's hand movements do not look natural.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=TaVsaWjzsds

[sthomson]

There's a clip of Michel Gondry (the film director) solving a rubic's cube with his feet - he was pretty smart about it, actually - he even had someone walk through the screen in a rather convincing manner.

(in other words, the kid is messing up the cube, not solving it)

Edited to add: on watching the clip, maybe she's doing it backwards.

[thatguywhojuggles]

Well, I'm convinced it's real. And so impressive. I've never been able to solve one of those cubes.

[Olowkow]

In a word:

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/2087847915e882bd80.gif (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=10289)

(Luck)


Definitely cool kid! :)

[baron]

Poor thing. I bet her parents made her learn the rules for months on end (and they are rules - it's a test of memory, not skill). I did like this comment though -

"If she can solve a rubiks cube in 114 secs imagine how fast she could sew an adidas shirt"

[Richard Masters]

Poor thing. I bet her parents made her learn the rules for months on end (and they are rules - it's a test of memory, not skill). I did like this comment though -

"If she can solve a rubiks cube in 114 secs imagine how fast she could sew an adidas shirt"

I don't think she needs your pity.