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#1 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted September 16 2024 - 4:04 PM

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I have been into solving rubiks cubes for over a year now and I can solve the 3x3 pretty fast (<25 secs, though I do have a gan speed cube) and I have been wondering if anybody on this forum is also into cubing. I can also solve the pyraminx in ~10 secs and the 2x2 ~10 secs and the megamix ~30 secs.


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“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.


#2 Offline Stubyvast - Posted September 16 2024 - 4:10 PM

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Personally no, not really, although I do enjoy a good 3x3 speed cube from time to time (I used to know how to solve one, haha) but my friend (who goes by Coffeblock) is VERY into cubing. He's done 2x2, 3x3 (record is something around 40 s), 5x5, 7x7, and whatever the pyramid one is. You can probably find him online, he has a website, but not about cubing haha.


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Currently raising: 

Myrmica Rubra (1 queen +  ~5 workers)

Lasius Niger (single queen + ~90+ workers)

Lasius Neoniger (two single queen + brood)

Formica spp. (Queen [likely parasitic, needs brood])

Also keeping a friend's tetramorium immigrans for the foreseeable future. Thanks CoffeBlock!


#3 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted Today, 8:12 AM

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I'm not talking about hardcore cubers but people who are just into solving a rubik's cube fast.


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Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.


#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted Today, 12:41 PM

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I’ve never solved one in my life. This is one of the things in the world that makes literally no sense to me.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#5 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted Today, 1:18 PM

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I’ve never solved one in my life. This is one of the things in the world that makes literally no sense to me.

Same lol.


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I keep:

(angry) Pogonomyrmex Rugosus,
(stubborn) Myrmecocystus Deplisis
Tetramorium Immigrans
Monomorium Minimum

And many Carnivorous plants such as:

Dionea (fly trap)

Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant)

Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant

Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) 


#6 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted Today, 2:29 PM

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Most people think that you have to solve it side by side, but you actually have to solve it layer by layer, at least in the LOL method (layer by layer). But in the CFOP method (cross, f2l (first two layers), oll (orientation of the last layer), pll (permutation of the last layer)), which is more advanced, you need to solve the cross of the white side and then solve the first two layers at the same time, then you have to solve the top face of the top side (in this case the yellow side) and then you finish the top layer. I hope this makes sense!


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Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.





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