The 6x6 Rubik's Cube Should NOT Be Possible
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Good channel but a little excessive on the curses
@@Frost-rx4ch well its normal for a coder that has gone insane
@@Frost-rx4ch I agree
you mean CB
I wish Code Bullet would not shove so many details under the rug in every video. I also wish he'd actually make something which the title describes.
I remember trying to reassemble a 4x4 with my friend. It was the longest evening of my life.
I just spilled tea on my mgc 4x4. With cleaning lubing and reassambling, it took around 3 hours.(My first time reassambling a 4x4)
I have yet to reassemble my 4x4 and I really don't want to
@@soosawesome1151 It helps to not do it alone
the same thing happened to me can't wait to try a 6x6
I once disassembled my 6x6 thinking a can reassemble it but it was hard it took me like 5 hours with my sister
I love how the mechanism of a 2x2 is way more complicated than a 3x3 the people who say "no, they are the same". Dude, shut up and listen: if the layers are both hidden and some edges are locked, for me that's more complex than a regular 3x3. I'm talking about manufacture, not ease of solving.
1x1 is more complicated
@@Tale3339 it's a completely locked nxn when n goes to infinity
2x2 is the same mechanism as 3x3 its just with small edge pieces and centers and with big empty corners to have edges and centers in
@@SavciSV that makes it more complicated
@@maximofernandez196 right but if u understood this point it will make assembling it is easier
I always wondered why the outer layers of large cubes were bigger and why the inside of my 4x4 was so weird! Thank you for the info!
The title: "The 6x6 Rubik's Cube Should NOT be Possible" The 6x6 sitting on my desk: *Guess i'll die* ._.
lol no
@@noone8740 mean
@@zeng833 +_+
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Why did you let your 6x6 watch this video?
Jperm: A 4x4 is a 5x5 Me: *visible confusion*
Literally
Smol dogo
a 2x2 is a 3x3, except with all the centers and edges hiding
A 8x8 is a 9x9
A 20x20 is a 21x21cube
I initially got into cubing around the time the V-cube 6 came out, but I lost interest in the hobby for around ten years after that. It's crazy coming back to it now and seeing how the technology has progressed.
Him: The 7x7 cube hasn’t been invented yet Also him: pulls out a 7x7 cube
that sentence was set in the past
The full line is "And remember, if you are inventing [the 6x6 cube] for the first time, a 7x7 has not been invented yet."
CONTEXT MATTERS
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@@enochliu8316 exactly
As an aside, the point at 4:10 also explains why all the world record cubes for a while now have been odd-layered. Because making an even-layered cube necessitates that you have a working design for an odd-layered cube one degree higher. Why make a 16x16 when it requires that you know how to make a 17x17?
There are also people competing to create the largest even layer cubes. While a bigger number is alluring hiding those center layer in higher order cubes get's increasingly difficult. So it's a feat worth of accolade in it's own right.
So does that mean i need to learn 5x5 before i can do 4x4..
Do it just to flex. If someone snatches the record from you by picking the low-hanging odd fruit just above you then everyone will know they compromised and don't deserve the record.
@@x520x1314x no. If you learn a 5x5 you still have parity issues on the 4x4. However, if you learn the 4x4 you can probably solve the 5x5
@@silevol you only need to learn one additional algorithm to solve 5x5 after 4x4. The other way around requires 2 additional algorithms for parity that is avoidable on 5x5.
I feel dumb, why have I never questioned the difference in size of the cubes in a 6x6?
It happens to all of us. For example, it's possible very few people reading this have ever thought about why we say an employee wears a "uniform".
@@OrangeC7 why
@@winnersduplicate554 Because it makes the workers look uniform
well I never did it because it looked cool to me lol
I thought it was like that cause its easier to move after reducing cause algorithms often reduce 4+ cubes to a 3x3 Im saying it without practice with that big cubes ofc
Phineas and Ferb could make a 9999999999x9999999999 Rubik’s Cube without breaking a sweat
If each cube piece was 1cm long, the whole cube would have a side length of 100,000 km or a third of the way to the moon.
Man I remember when those V-Cubes came out. That felt like such an achievement. Cube design has come so far.
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I can relate
hmm
Totally relatable
Same for me
that is the same case for a lot of people, agreed
i actually always thought the sizing was to make turning easier and to help with outer layer turning for 3x3 stage, thanks for this interesting lesson!
When you mentioned the imposibility of having a proportional 6x6 and 7x7 I remembered one of The Cubing Historian videos. It showed a proportional 7x7 made before the v-cube one, but it had a very different mechanism
Yeah, the pieces flexes to allow more room. Its insane. I do wish there is one, so it can be collect as a novelty
I had a MoYu 7x7
4:10-4:26 literally i never thought that way , absolutely blew my mind
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I've literally never thought about that before but god damn. The fact that they were able to come up with a possible way to not only build a 6x6 but also make it actually functional is mind-blowing once I hear your explanations
1:14 OH GOD WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SHOW THIS IT GIVES ME A HORRIBLE FEELING EVERYTIME I WATCH IT-
No, it's rly satisfying
@@vinnykitty1983 you have a strong soul
@@vinnykitty1983 agreed
@@SMBudge only that one?
@@vinnykitty1983 to quote Siri, “I’m not sure I understand”
I’ve always wondered why bigger cubes had weird pixel sizes. I thought it was so they’d be downward compatible to other cubes, like a 6x6 to be used as a 3x3 without damaging your eyes squinting. Or a 4x4 to a 2x2, a 4x4 also could be synced to 3x3 logic.
What? This makes no sense lmao
it's really visible on the 21x21, which has giant corners and large edges and tiny inside pieces.
@@david203and if the 21x21 cube wasn't pillowed, it would have even bigger corners and edges.
@@CodesOfLine But then rotation would not be possible.
@@romanlinnik7441basically, If you turn a 4x4 2 layers at a time, you can turn it in an equivalent way to a 2x2 Same with the 6x6
That was a highly interesting and informative 8 minute setup to the punchline. This actually got me in the mood for some 6x6 now though...
J Perm: The 6x6 should NOT be possible Every 6x6: *My time has come*
I forgot about this stuff for so long. I used to speed cube a bit in high school. I still have my old cubes and I sometimes solve them for fun. It's cool to see where cube design has gone.
*reads the title* Me: This is gonna be GOOOD
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0:19 Banana is my favorite cube, my best time is 13.74. Had a good peel but the chewing was off rhythm and i was pretty full. Solid time all around, would recommend trying the speedrun it's harder than it sounds
I tried the bannana one but i ended up gagging on it since its was a humans
I'm glad that you explained how the mechanics work, and how it was previously impossible, because I struggle to even understand the crazy mechanics behind stuff like the 1x2x3 and other odd shaped cubes.
The 1x2x3 has a similar . mechanism as the 2x2 and 3x3, because the corners and edges are held by the centers, unlike the Squares, the corners on the 1x2x3, 3x3x1, and 2x2x3 are just edges, but the leg and foot are on the Edges instead of the Middle
That's a super interesting breakdown of the different sized cubes and their parts, thanks!
great video! I thoroughly enjoyed learning about cube mechanisms.
3:15 J perm: okay students in today's le ture we will be learning about cube anatomy and how odd numbered cube mechanisms differ from even numbered cube mechanisms
Your solving a square-1 video has had over 2 million views! You have to upload a tutorial on how to solve a square-1! I love your technique!
Great video! Though i found it interesting that my 4x4 cube that i own is not hidden 5x5 like the one you showed. the internal mechanism of mine was just a big plastic sphere with grooves to slide the pieces in. I just figured thats how all the even numbered cubes worked turns out i was wrong!
At 7:45, You'll notice a little brushing noise from the right side if you're wearing headphones lol
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Shut up no one asked
@@user-rh3qo9vx7u do I care?
@@user-rh3qo9vx7u i did
Neat! The internal design of these larger cubes is way more complicated than I would have expected.
J Perm, Thank you so much for explaining this. I remember when Rubik's incorporated cane out and said that the 6x6x6 was practically impossible, and the 7x7x7 was theoretically impossible, so quit asking us. These cubes won't be coming out any time soon. And we waited a quarter of a century! There was another wait between the V-Cube 7x7x7 and the Shengshou 8x8x8, but not as long. This is hard for current cubers to understand when it feels like there is a new larger cube every year. My only complaint about this excellent video is you didn't mention V-Cube's original solution, pillowing. It was Shengshou that made the outside layers larger. And I believe it was Shengshou that had the spherical core. Anyway, thanks for this excellent video!
The V cube he showed had no pillowing?
Shengshou More Like Shing Shong
I had an early 4x4 and it was not like yours inside at all. Inside there was a ball with 3 tee shaped tracks in which the edges ran and the corners ran on the edges. there was some clever shenanigans with blocks in the the tracks that made the ball maintain the proper orientation and not get twisted about one axis relative to the cubes as you demonstrated with the 6x6. It was vey difficult to disassemble and reassemble.
This video and video of disassembling a 4x4 led me to a q if it is possible to create a 6x6 with a sphere core as the one in a rubik's 4x4, but more commonly used in a 2x2. And I already started working on it but first I want to replicate the 2x2 then the 4x4 and then finally try to aply the same sphere core to a 6x6. Now I don't think it's possible but I would love to know and if I get around to do so I'll have an answer. Another crazy idea is to make the corner and edge pieces lock to the surrounding center pieces when it turns. Or make a bigger 6x6 with thin but strong leg. Or magnets with high chance of popping out.
I'm staying away from even numbered cubes because they're a pain to magnetise. At the same time it's annoying to see that a 12x12 is much cheaper than a 13x13, which according to your video makes no logical sense :)
What an awesome vid. Really entertaining and well made :)
Love it! Keep adding more content!
Could you do a video on improving when you don’t know what algorithms to do next? I know basic pairing with 2 look oll and pll for 3x3, with an average of 30-40 seconds, but I don’t know where to go from here in the way of learning new algorithms.
Came here to learn why is 6x6 shouldn’t be possible. left in awe over my new cube design knowledge.
This video takes me back. Well done with this one!
Such an amazing video! Thank you 😊
Yay, an upload from our master j perm. The one and only.
It’s difficult to fathom how come jperm keeps bringing these incredibly interesting contents about cubing. Seriously...
Great stuff - thanks for the history lesson!
That's absolutely not what I expected when I saw the title for some reason, but then again stumbled accross an amanzingly high quality video, thanks J Perm
The mechanism is crazy in bigger cubes! Imagine what it would be like if you would be MAKING the cube!
I have a V-Cube 7, 5, 4 and 2 - the V-Cube 5 is my usually go to cube if I just feel like solving a cube. The even number cubes have a parity that can kick in requiring a very complex move which I've never been able to keep memorized for any length of time, while odd number cubes don't have it. I can solve the 7 just fine, but the 5 takes less time and as mentioned above doesn't contain the possibility of the parity problem.
My 3x3 and 2x2 are so hard for me to take apart, I can’t take them apart, but I had no trouble taking apart Delilah’s spinner, except for the corner pieces. Delilah was able to do it as well, and it wasn’t put together like the other cubes because it’s like a 1x3 or something so it was able to be user as a fidget spinner which is why I call it this. I also got a slider from McDonald’s which you can turn like a normal cube but it has a missing white piece (it’s meant to have a missing white piece) so it can slide too. It has 6 sides, 3 pieces on each side except white, with a missing piece. White looks like this when solved: ⬛️ ⬜️ ⬜️.
Good tutorial ! thx J perm
I love how engineering these puzzles is harder than solving them, guess that tends to be how it goes
Of course engineering a cube is harder than solving it? How is that surprising at all?
@@bigbosspanda1976 Engineering the 15 puzzle is easier than solving it I'd say. There are plenty of examples I think. But you're right that usually "creating" is still harder than "consuming the creation" (The original post maybe didn't even imply it was surprising, just that it's a lovely observation, an epiphany.)
@@u1zha interesting. I’d still say trying to engineer it on your own is harder than solving on your own but I’m pretty sure no one makes a 15x15x15 on their own so you could be correct.
The way he smacked that 10x10 on the table🤣🤣🤣
I remember when I was a little girl and I got the V-cube 6 as a Jól present. This video really sent me on a nostalgia trip. I still have my V-cube 6 and 7 in my closet somewhere and I should definitely take them out and fool around with them again
Awesome video! Very informative.
Ay, Code Bullet vid is here :D Thanks J Perm
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6x6: not possible Every 6x6: fades in to dust
Man, this video is amazing. I never understood, because I never thought about, why people made big cubes with big corners pieces. Just thought "probably a weird design choice". Now I get it.
"It is impossible for 6x6+ cubes to have equal pieces" V-cube 6:
"A 7x7 has not even been invented yet" *whips out a 7x7*
Thanks for this video, now I know why my six-by - yes, an older V-Cube - gets stuck so much, and how to fix it. That's going to vastly reduce the headache factor of this thing.
Thanks, I always wondered why 6+ cubes had longer edges!
You should a video on how many solved positions there are on a 4x4(the center pieces can be in different places)
Well, if you only consider one center, then there should be 24 (4!) different ways to arrange it, since any center piece can go anywhere. If you take into account all of the centers, then, there are 24 possibilites for each of them, meaning there are 24^6 (191,102,976) different solved states. The interesting thing about this is that the same logic applies to even bigger cubes, since they're all sort of laid out in "classes" like this: (here's an 8x8 for example) | A | B | C | D | F | A | | F | G | H | J | G | B | | D | J | K | K | H | C | | C | H | K | K | J | D | | B | G | J | H | G | F | | A | F | D | C | B | A | Any two pieces in the same "Class" can be swapped without unsolving the cube, and notice! There are always 4 of each class. Since the number of pieces on a cube of size 2n is equal to (2n - 2)^2, that means that the number of classes is equal to ((2n - 2)^2)/4. (You can do a bit of simplification to get the formula k = (n - 1)^2, where k is the number of piece classes) Therefore, for any cube of size 2n, there are 24^(6 * (n-1)^2) different solved states, which is interesting because it means the number of solved states is always equal to a power of 24.
@Kshitiz Pokhrel Craaap you're right, I realized that a while ago. Not really sure how the math for that one would work out.
When u don’t do big cubes, but watch it cause it’s J Perm
Jperm. After 7 times losing . I succeeded in reducing 4x4 to 2x2 .At 8th try at last I got parity and then I did the parity alg and it swapped some centers around as shown in your video . After that when I solved the centers and it was reduced to a 2x2 . I got inspired by your video.
I like this history/information video better then your normal other videos :). No malice intended
1:09 Evan, my man I forgot all about him.
I thought I remembered the original V6 and V7 being pillowed in order to solve the corner problem, am I misremembering? Either way I think it would be worth noting that pillowing is one option instead of making the outermost layers thicker.
This was great thanks
Hi, I am a great fan of yours and I was wondering if you could tell me how I can find local competitions for cubing in IL.
Oh, when I saw this video I assumed you meant solving it. Still turned out to be entertaining though!
If you can scramble it you can solve it
Jperm: a 7x7 hasn’t been invented also him: is holding a 7x7
The full line is "And remember, if you are inventing [the 6x6 cube] for the first time, a 7x7 has not been invented yet." It exists now, but not when you made the 6x6 cube.
6x6 is my favourite, I need to get the YJ one. My one is from back when all 6x6s were kinda terrible, is a shengshou.
Does anyone else remember getting excited when V Cubes came out in 2008 and we were all excited because it could outperform the eastsheen 5x5? And does anyone else remember gluing pins to the centers of their 6x6 so it wouldn't lock up? And you also had to pay to get them shipped from Greece...
1:14 oh man that made me laugh pretty hard unexpectedly
Yes, now i can watch it as it just uploaded! loads of work ahead of you procrastination occurring
I have subscribed to you I learn everything from you thanks
Love that inside red of that 4 by 4
Everyone else: Woohoo I have a rubik's cube :) Me: Some guy stole it :(
Tperm lol
Hey! That’s not a t perm
I remember seeing the v cube 6 and thinking “Now this is the future of cubing”
jperm please do a skewb tutorial im having so much trouble finding a tutorial that is as easy to understand as your tutorials. Love your content!
dude idk if he can solve a skewb he said he does not have one in his main cubes for 2019
Really fun video!!!
i love how the 22x22 pop is the most replayed
People trying to make a 6x6: damn this is impossible Vcube: allow me to introduce myself
AMAZING VIDEO
I was waiting for your video
I was always very baffled of how a Rubik cubes worked since you needed to turn every piece in every way, it was only recently that I found out.
The fact that 4x4 was maybe before the 5x5 even when the 4x4;has the same mechanism as the 5x5
@@Hy_Sofficial maybe the first 4x4 didn't have the 5x5 mechanism
0:19 Him: rubiks cubes come in many shapes and sizes also Him: shows a banana cube on screen Me: ...
The monke's rubik's cube. The Monke's 3x3
I remember when the v-cubes came out and that jump cut to crappy crunchy turning on the v6 actually gave me a ptsd flashback lol. Sooo many explosions on those things haha. I don't even want to think about how much time I spent putting my v6 and v7.
This guy is really help full
5:40 I have the same problem in my 2x2.
how did you even managed to do that?
@@justblue425 yeah a 2x2 works differently from the other cubes
Me too
Tell me about it! No matter how hard I try and how many hours I put in, it's practically impossible to build a fully proportional 5x5x3 Rubik's cube! Even using illegal techniques such as an an edge piece folding at 90 degree angle. But even if I accomplish that, if both of the center edge pieces on the 5x5 face are aligned adjacently vertically on a 5x3 face, it cuts the folding edge piece off completely!!
My first 4x4 cube had a spherical core with grooves along the axes that the pieces slid along.
J perm can u do a video on how to solve a 5 by 5 in layer by layer method. It would help a lot.
am i the only one who heard a "bunk" at 6:36?
“So it’s impossibl-BUNK-e” yeah i can hear that
I heard it
I have to mention that although the 6x6x6 has to have larger corners and edges, the V-cube 6 hides that fact very well. It seems like V-cube made their corners larger by the smallest margin possible to make the cube seem like it's proportional. The difference is even less noticeable on the pillowed version. It's interesting that they would make this choice based on aesthetics.
Had to dig out my cube and check because I never noticed the size difference before, it is a very small difference.
I was wondering about that. He mentioned how impractical it is for a proportionate 6x6 but we have the v cube 6. That was so confusing till I found your comment
Amazing!!
1:13 that hit hard Thank you, learned a very fun engineering fact today!