One Last…. Vacation

Yep… My one last vacation ends today.

Not one of the most interesting vacations though. It started off well with a trip to trichy for a friend’s marriage, thereby meeting all college friends again, followed by a few back-to-back movies with different set of friends from college, school, calling the college for marksheets and losing patience and visiting the college to enquire the same, getting frustrated with the way they reply, managing to get the 7th semester marksheet somehow, tasting the canteen flavour for one last time, missing all friends, shopping for Hyderabad, a trip to Tirupathi, visiting a few relatives’ house, amidst all the packing, printing, taking photocopies, taking photos, searching sulekha.com for houses, contacting brokers, and in the urge of not missing out anything, I’m here typing a blog post. Leaving to Hyderabad tomorrow and joining the company on Monday. Goodbye Chennai!! Will visit you soon and frequently.

Solving the Rubik’s Cube

Once, during a visit to my friend’s room at hostel, I came across this Rubik’s Cube that attracted my attention and I borrowed it from him. As usual, it was irregular. On the way from the room to the hostel entrance, mama(Ravi Sankar) finished solving it in 5 minutes. When I asked him how he did, he told that there are a set of formulas. Ok, I kept going that I will learn them later.

 

I went home and dumped the Rubik’s Cube in the mess of my computer table under notebooks, headsets, cds, pendrives and left it.It was until a month when my six year old cousin entered my house and took this out all of a sudden and was playing with it. I had decided by then that I should learn solving it before the next day. So, I tried myself hard rotating it in each possible direction I could. Tried to solve one face alone but in vain. Finally googled it ‘How to solve a Rubik’s Cube?’ and found a few tutorials.

Step 1: Solving one face and thereby one layer

Ok, they were actually simple formulas that were there. First align the plus cross of one side, that is pretty easy and then bring the cube needed at each corner and apply the formula (Ri Bi R B). One layer is done.

Step 2:

Following the tutorial and using the formulas to solve the second layer (Ti Li T L T F Ti Fi)  for all colours.

Step 3:

Then using (F R T Ri Ti Fi)  to solve the top cross.

Step 4:

(R T Ri T R T T Ri T) to solve the top sides.

Step 5:

(T R Ti Li T Ri Ti L) once or twice to alogn the corners.

Step 6:

Finally a set of (Ri Bi R B) from all the corners.

Congrats!! The cube is solved.

The End

This was what I understood from the tutorial and I have written it in simple formulas.

I followed the above tutorial exactly and what i got was……

 

 

 

 

P.S: However, learned to solve it after a couple of tries :P