r/blackmagicfuckery • u/Electronic_Menu_6734 • Feb 03 '23
Curiosity has me on this one.
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u/MajorMathematician20 Feb 03 '23
Simple solve he did one handed when pulling it out, seen this trick before, impressive stuff
disclaimer: by “simple solve” I do not mean to imply this is in any way easy or that I could pull this off, simply that it has very few steps that he can perform one handed, in a bag and in a second
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u/Electronic_Menu_6734 Feb 03 '23
Right that would be epic I've seen some fast solves in person by a friend but nothing that quick but people are talented at things they love.
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u/nestorsanchez3d Feb 03 '23
Hes just doing a few predetermine and practiced moves. Is not a full solve per se. I’m not good at all (around 16” average for a full solve) and can do 6-8 moves in a second in some cases. This is the same.
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u/dshmitty Feb 04 '23
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u/nestorsanchez3d Feb 04 '23
Lol I compare myself to kids 30 years younger that are 2-3 times faster in a fifth of the time it took me to reach that speed. Not good at all by that metric.
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u/dshmitty Feb 05 '23
Haha yeah I figured, it just sounds like a humble brag to someone like me who has never solved one 😂😂 sorry if I offended u tho that wasn’t my intention it was more of a joke
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u/Haberdashers-mead Feb 03 '23
Iv seen some fast solves in 4-5 moves too but never one handed that’s impressive!
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u/Another_moose Feb 03 '23
This is it - the cube's actually just 4 moves away from being solved. He just solves it as he pulls the cube out.
Source: I was shown the trick ~ 10 years ago by a guy who claimed to have invented it.
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u/8Humans Feb 03 '23
Looks like 5-10 moves and he is done but I can't determine the exact number because I'm missing one more side to tell.
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u/MajorMathematician20 Feb 03 '23
Looks like he finishes the last one out of the bag at the end, it turns in his hand
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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 03 '23
It is not a Rubik's brand. The corner where 4 stickers meet has a large gap to help with corner cutting.
Also, there are Rubik's brand cubes with decent corner cutting. They are made by other companies and rebranded. I have a Gan which has rebranded by Rubik's.
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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Sorry, I must have mistaken chips off the stickers for gaps from the paused shot I looked at.
There is plenty of space in the bag to do the trick in the standard way that Steven Brundage made famous.
Tom Crosbie claims to have created most of the tricks in Steven's repertoire. I've been to 2 cubing competitions with Tom and he's shown us how the tricks are done.
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u/big_disaster9 Feb 03 '23
iv seen this trick. he solved cube within the bag. the cube is few moves away from being solved.
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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 03 '23
The cube is too scrambled to just be a few moves away from solved. I think he does a few on the way in and on the way out.
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u/sharktie Feb 03 '23
it’s two moves away from being completed tho
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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 03 '23
No it's not. I've been going to cubing competitions for over a decade.
I can tell you it's at least 5 moves away. Probably 6 or more.
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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 03 '23
The scramble is setup to be several moves from solved. He does a few moves on the way into the bag and a few on the way out.
Top comment on this and the other thread today are wrong.
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u/JGrill17 Feb 03 '23
Wouldn't the snaps be audible? Or do you have a link to the actual trick?
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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 03 '23
The distance and the sound of the train will be covering what little noise the cube makes. There are some very quiet cubes. In close up magic with no background noise he'd cover the noise by talking over it.
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u/DJ_Rand Feb 04 '23
I mean... when he's showing us the cube.. the light reflects off of the sides which is noticeable in the dark color, so that leads me to believe it's not paper, as the black lines are not reflective there (if they thought to use laminated paper....), looks to me like each small color cube has its own reflective surface.
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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 04 '23
All I know is the trick was made famous by Steven Brundage and apparently created by Tom Crosbie. That's how they do it.
He could be using a different method but it's easy to setup and perform.
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u/lemmefixdat4u Feb 03 '23
It could also be a self-solving robotic Rubik's Cube. Like this one on YouTube. If the solution is simple, it can solve it in a few seconds.
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u/Slightly_underated Feb 03 '23
Mam, I would love to be able to do that as a party trick. Its so cool!
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u/fardough Feb 03 '23
For one super small payment of $4.99 ($700 S&H) you too can learn this trick. Amaze your friends or even become the great Amazo.
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u/SpelunkyJunky Feb 03 '23
Get a good cube. Learn how to do 3 moves quickly one handed. Do those 3 moves on the way into the bag and on the way out. Scramble the cube accordingly. Bam.
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u/Z_a_l_g_o Feb 03 '23
I'm gonna say..... Cube has displays for the colours and colour swap is activated by the click sound
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u/Electronic_Menu_6734 Feb 03 '23
Hmm you are probably right about that. I'm going to look into building something like that.
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u/Z_a_l_g_o Feb 03 '23
Yeah the other thing it could be is one of those wind up and release cubes. You mix them up and hold until you are ready for it to solve. But I didn't hear the bag make a sound or see him obviously release it.
Or
He knows how to spin the cube quickly. Has done a couple of simple moves to make it look mixed then quickly unmixed with one hand as he's taking it out of the bag.
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u/I-melted Feb 03 '23
If you look carefully you can see a vestigial conjoined twin arm with eyes on it, creep out of his jacket, reach into the bag and solve the puzzle. It took me a few goes to see it. And this big bag of mushrooms.
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u/Strange-Earth2712 Feb 03 '23
I like how he was so casual about it like it's just something to do lol
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u/No-Explanation-9234 Feb 03 '23
That bag looks a little shallow from the inside. Wish someone could hand him a new bag and do this.
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u/rusty_blood Feb 03 '23
Looks like a Moscow subway, and by the interior I can say that car is extremely rare.
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u/Flossthief Feb 03 '23
I hate answering these things because I consider myself a magician
He has a gimmicked rubix cube most likely but I only watched once and at full speed
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u/Djinn2522 Feb 03 '23
As someone pointed out, it's possible to make a cube look scrambled when it's just 3-4 moves away from solved. Note that he's not dropping it into the bag - he's placing it in carefully so he knows exactly how it's oriented when he reaches into the bag. If he simply dropped the cube into the bag, he wouldn't have been able to perform the trick. With a little practice, one can perform the 3-4 moves deftly with one hand. In fact, one can buy "speed cubes" which can be turned with less resistance and noise than brand-name Rubik's Cubes.
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u/zebrahdh Feb 03 '23
If you know how to solve it, it takes 5 seconds with one hand. If you mixed it up in a specific way, you can do it in 3 seconds with one hand while blind folded.
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u/JoeBro1004 Feb 03 '23
This seems like something you'd see someone like the joker doing but with a gun in a movie
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u/Odd_Imagination_6617 Feb 03 '23
Lmao at first I thought this was a junkie tripping balls over that. Ended the video making me feel like a junkie trippin’ over that
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u/vox21122112 Feb 03 '23
There are a couple ways it could be done. The way I find more fun (for me) is doing a 4 move pattern that “messes” the cube up then repeating it backwards with one hand…it sounds super hard but it’s a lot easier than it sounds, I used to do this everywhere I got the chance to, except I never used a plastic bag, I would use my jacket to cover it pretending I was looking for something in my pocket, the reactions were made it really fun
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u/HumorExpensive Feb 04 '23
Most likely he’s using a self solving automatic cube. He scrambles it in a way that the solution is achieved by moving the top two layers while he grasps the bottom layer. https://youtu.be/xCoH2AORcEQ
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u/Hazumu2u Feb 04 '23
If anyone is interested here’s a link to some of the craziest tricks I’ve ever seen
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u/SinkShot5286 Feb 04 '23
Either that or the cube itself has a button on it that flips all the cubes
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u/plant_bass Feb 04 '23
These guys can solve cubes single handed in a few seconds. Notice you never see the bottom side of the cube - it’s because he solved all the other faces while putting it in the bag, shows you the sole unsolved face in the bottom of the bag, then shows you only the solved faces when he removes. The world record is something like 6 seconds for a single handed solve.
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u/Illustrious-Dance668 Feb 03 '23
Showing the mixedup side and turning it facing down to Show the solved sides. Lame
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u/Sydeburnn Feb 03 '23
Inside the bag is a fake hollow cube with 1 open end and the other 5 appear to be solved. The original cube slides into the fake one. He can still show the one unsolved side pointing towards the opening of the bag. When he removes it, he holds it with the exposed side of the original cube down and only shows the sides (and could show the top, too, but not the bottom).