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  • now, many of us have spent hours trying to solve one of these.

  • You a bit of a wisdom?

  • I'm not a wizard at all.

  • I used to be able to do it once upon a time.

  • No, I'm good.

  • Education is gonna take me a very long time.

  • I hate them.

  • And I took the stickers off and just put them on in the right place because I got so frustrated.

  • You didn't, did you?

  • Did you?

  • When I was when I was a bit younger, I think they just annoy me anyway.

  • Then some people could manage to do it in just seconds that we've been working on it for that sort of minute or so.

  • Yeah.

  • Look, I've nearly like I'm getting to the top, which you need to do the top layer do very well with your oranges there.

  • Yeah, but you have to have these ones right as well.

  • Do you see what I mean?

  • Like that.

  • So there is a system.

  • Well, I had a system, but as you can see it, I can't remember it.

  • And it used to take me a long time.

  • You've been eyeing up throughout the program that we're gonna be learned.

  • I mean, you know what else to do better to do?

  • Really, There are some people who are incredibly good at it.

  • Each year, the best compete at the Rubik's Cube World Cup, which the variety of challenges different ways of doing on there.

  • Chris Mills got to take home the gold from his event.

  • Let's have a look at how he did it all.

  • My nerves just went away and I solved like, incredibly, and I managed Thio get to zero in a best of free on.

  • I was just blown away of my performance.

  • I was extremely happy allow.

  • My friends were congratulating me.

  • I could hear my parents cheering downstairs.

  • It was Go those guard.

  • Yes.

  • If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.

  • Okay.

  • You see that?

  • If you put your mind trip, you can accomplish anything.

  • Not quite in that time.

  • Well, Chris joins us now from Copenhagen and we're joined by Calum Good.

  • You as well The vice chair of the World Cube Association.

  • Also, Callum is in Copenhagen.

  • Chris, this come to you First of all, congratulations way Saw your celebration there about managing Thio work out the room.

  • It's Cuban in record time, so give us an idea of how much work goes into that.

  • I mean, I've been doing this for about 6.5 years now, and I've probably averaged about 50 solves today, so I've probably put in a good five hours into practicing this.

  • So it's a lot of work, but I love it.

  • So it's fine.

  • Wow, you clearly do.

  • And what is your for you is the goal just to be as quick as you can.

  • And what's the goal?

  • Yeah, the girls just toe beat my previous self.

  • Really.

  • I mean, obviously, it's nice to be best in the country or best in the world at some events, but I mean, I just like to better myself and and see how far I can take my speed.

  • How did you get into in the first place?

  • Someone introduced it to someone.

  • Get your Rubik's Cube for a birthday or Christmas.

  • Well, one of my brother's friends, he came around one day back in 2014, and he we have one lying around, which he solved, and it was one of those boring days.

  • I had nothing to do so I thought, Hey, I'll try and be like my brother's friend And then how to do as well on Callum.

  • I mean, I you know, I was an early adopter, and back in the day when they were first invented, can you believe they're still going on after all these years that they're still really popular?

  • Yeah, well, the World Cube Association has basically been seeing exponential growth in competitive number since 2004.

  • Obviously, this year has been hard hit for holding competitions where we all have to be in close proximity to each other.

  • Um, so Red Bull did a good job of moving this online, but hopefully this pandemic with people locked inside could get people to learn.

  • You say learn.

  • Are there particular because I learned a particular way?

  • Is there just one way or there lots of different ways to solve it?

  • No, there's lots of different methods, but as with anything nowadays, if you want to learn, just go to YouTube type in how to solve a Rubik's Cube.

  • There are many good tutorials to find, okay, and I'm sure you're hoping like many other people, that we return to normal eventually So what is the what is the World Cube Association get together?

  • The World Cup?

  • What's that normally like?

  • How many people get together for that?

  • When, when you are able to be in the same room, right?

  • So the World Cube Association held their world championship last year in Melbourne, Australia, on we were just shot of 1000 competitors, which was quite good considering the distances most people had to travel to get there.

  • Onda Chris, you're I need to know about specifics about your event.

  • So you one witch event is where does that sort of sit in the Rubik's Cube pyramid, if you like.

  • Okay, so I want the re scramble event, which you basically get two cubes, one of which is already scrambled on, one of which is really solved.

  • And you have to make the soft one look exactly the same Mr Scrambled one.

  • So it is kind of like doing it backwards, so it zey unique.

  • It's a unique thing to the Red Bull events that have just started a few years back.

  • They don't hold them at the WC a events that Callum helps organize, but yes, so it is quite a unique event that read Will came up with, but I really enjoy.

  • Okay.

  • Can you have you prepared it?

  • Have you prepared a cube for us, You two?

  • Yeah, I have a scrambled one here.

  • Okay, let's have a look at the scramble.

  • So take us through.

  • Talk us through what we give you a 3 to 1.

  • Ready?

  • 321 go.

  • But for those fingers.

  • Oh, wow.

  • Right.

  • Chris, I love that.

  • Chris, talk me through your method that I want to know.

  • Your method.

  • That was about eight seconds.

  • By the way.

  • The method.

  • You can't talk about 20 different move.

  • What you thinking about what you're doing?

  • That is it just Is it just a learn process or what?

  • Yeah, like for me now like that.

  • That was just muscle memory.

  • Like I could I could basically do that in my sleep, but yeah, in the time you in the time you've managed to do that, shall I show?

  • You probably can't see him, but I'm sort of Yeah, God or inside everyone.

  • No, I don't have a nor inside.

  • I've got I've got that on.

  • Then.

  • I'm getting around to this bit, but it's really strange, actually.

  • What?

  • I'm really I'm genuinely I'm going to go back and learn how to do this again, because it's really interesting.

  • Kind of bringing back the memories of the moves and think, Oh, yeah, that needs to go there because, you know, you change one, and then the other one changes, but there are ways to do it, which I can vaguely remember.

  • Chris, what you spend your money on, by the way, you get a share of £25,000.

  • So what do you spending on?

  • Well, I've just booked a flight to New Zealand last night, so a lot of it will be going towards my chip there.

  • Really?

  • And then a new cube, maybe.

  • Yeah.

  • Possibly.

  • Yeah.

  • Go on, son.

  • Well done, Chris.

  • Lovely to talk to Carolyn.

  • Well done as well.

  • Yeah.

  • You know, we have been sold over the years.

  • Rubik's Cubes 350 million have been sold around the world.

  • First invented in 1974 it was called the Magic Cube.

  • Start with by Ah, Hungarian called er no Rubiks.

  • I remember it Well.

  • Hillary e going to carry on with that.

  • Damned I've got excited about it.

  • Will you let me know later whether you managed to do it e by tomorrow's program?

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