I don't feel too smart...

[Zeke]

Sam, that is the funniest thing yet. That's professional material! Or did you lift it from someone?

[sammyg2]

It's taken from an old Blonde girl joke.
It fit perfectly in this thread tho.......

[juanbenae]

ive got a PHD, as i am a post hole digger.

[Wickd89]

6 year old solving in less than 40 seconds. I am just glad when my 3 .5 year olds don't eat their crayons............

25 years if this early skill is an indicator. Who am I kidding, of course it is. I better start butting money away for my kids community college AA degrees. ;-)

[Moses]

Originally posted by sammyg2
Big deal. I once put together a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle in 14 days. The box said 4 to 8 years.

Maybe the funniest thing I ever read here!

[sammyg2]

My father-in-law taught my 8 year old son to play checkers last summer. Now you might think checkers isn't a thinking game, but the little so and so took to it like a fish takes to water. No one has beaten him in the last couple of hundred games.
I can't beat him, my father-in-law can't beat him, my brothers and father (who's the most intelligent person i've ever met) can't beat him.

He sets traps, baits his opponent, actually uses some complex strategy. He really pisses me off when he beats me and then rubs my nose in it.
It's got to the point where no one will play him any more so his latest thing is playing against the computer in expert level and he beats it most of the time.
If anyone out there in So cal is a master checkers player, let me know. I'd love to have someone come over and teach him some humility.

I'm trying to get him into playing chess but it's going to be hard to get him away from the checkers board. He not quite ready to go from the top dog to starting over.

[Moneyguy1]

Some people excel at spatial relationships. I suck at these kinds of problems. My forte' is problems that involve unknowns that have to be derived from the information available.

[jriera]

Not dual MIT but dual Master's at Stanford ... use to get the 3x3 Rubik's cube in under 30 seconds from any position and the 4x4 in under a minute... have not tried in probably 20 years or so. At the time read a bunch of books and none used the same 'method' as I did, I 'learned' the way from a friend of mine (with an IQ larger than most people zip code!!) is all about spatial observation and 3D manipulation ... photographic memory does not hurt either.

Thise videos are just amazingly sick ... now I need to find the d$mm cubes .... thanks Wayne!!!

[on-ramp]

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts

Edison I think once said that invention is 2% inspiration and 98% perspiration!

-Wayne [/B]

yep, that adds up to 100%..

i feel so smart now.

[speeder]

So can one of you Einsteins tell me how to post a video from You Tube here? TIA.

[stevepaa]

3 degrees and I do manipulative puzzles very well. But the cube eluded me, I used the remove sticker method.

[Aurel]

Originally posted by speeder
So can one of you Einsteins tell me how to post a video from You Tube here? TIA.

Like that:

http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/

Example for Wayne: a robot that solves the RC:



Aurel

[Aurel]

To post a youtube video, you really just need to copy the embed code that is to the right of the video window and paste it here.

Aurel

[bell]

awesome robot vid

[930addict]

Here's a cool robot for you:

[Aurel]

Originally posted by 930addict
Here's a cool robot for you:

Looks like the perfect wife to me: no PMS, and an off switch. Cool !

Aurel

[Dantilla]

Originally posted by milt
I solved RC with a hammer. No preseverance, patience or intelligence.

Wow. What a quick way to solve your problem. I think you are exceptional at thinking "outside the box" and come up with solutions that most people never see. A true problem solving genius.

The only hope now for my ego is to beat that 14-day record for a 500 piece puzzle. I never finished my undergrad engineering degree, so I know I don't have four years of perseverance. I wonder if I've got a couple weeks in me?