Hi everyone!
My name is Klaus and I am a cuber from Bavaria, Germany. I am 18 years old =
(born on 19.04.1991) and going to finish school this year. After that I'm g=
oing to study maths in Munich. Some of my hobbies are juggling, playing key=
board, of course solving Rubik' Cube, and many others.
Yesterday I finally managed to solve the 3^4 for the first time and I have =
to say that this is a really good feeling.
The first time I downloaded the programme and made a few twists and turns I=
was just baffled by its complexity. At that time I haven't thought that I =
would ever be able to solve it and stopped trying. That was about a year ag=
o.
In the meantime I started writing a paper about the 4-dimensional cube (the=
normal one, not the Rubik's) for school and therefore started to deal with=
higher dimensions. I then reopened the programme once again and tried to f=
ind a way to solve it. But I wasn't able and even Roice's solution wasn't v=
ery helpful to me. Well, perhaps it would have been, if I used macros, but =
I don't like leaving all the work to the computer.
After all, I finally came up with my own method how to solve the cube corne=
rs-first. It was a bit hard to always keep track of what's going on, but 77=
5 (Melinda counted 774) turns later the programme told me that i'm finished=
.
I think that I'm going to have a second attempt soon and that I perhaps wil=
l be able to stay below 500 twists, because I now have detected some little=
twist-consuming traps, that I didn't consider while developing my solving-=
method.
However, beating Roice's 298 twists will still be a very hard job for every=
one and I don't now, if I'm able to accomplish this.
Have a nice twist, Klaus