There are many good methods. They aren’t hard to learn as long as you can memorize a few 7-10 move algorithms.

For people recommending using screwdrivers and sticker peeling, they’re actually much easier than that to disassemble and reassemble. Turn one face 45 deg. Pop an edge up. The whole thing will fall apart. Tougher to assemble but not too bad. Only problem is you have a 2/3 change to accidentally assemble an unsolvable corner rotation and a 50% chance to assemble an unsolvable edge flip. Both are easily fixed if you can spot it by flipping any edge and rotating any corners once or twice as needed, but then if you’re able to spot it, you already know that.

yes.

peel and stick the colored stickers where they belong.

I was able to solve the first two layers of the cube when I was around 5 (I found it in the toy chest at my grandmother’s and spent the entire trip working on it)

A long time later, in highschool, I bought one and tried to solve the whole thing myself. After a couple days I gave in and looked up how to do the last bit.

Once you learn the steps it’s hard to forget them and it’s surprisingly easy to generalize them for other sizes/shapes of cubes.

In true billionaire style, I paid someone else to do it and then took credit since it was my money that made it possible.

I saw a video of a 3-year-old kid doing it, and I figured I’m at least as smart as a baby.

No, it confounds me how they even move how they do.

I dismantled it and rebuilt it.

Yes. I looked up algorithms for the last layer. After a few solves it stuck in muscle memory.

The first solves took a good while, but I was getting consistently under a minute after a week.

I haven’t speedcubed in quite a few years, but I spin the 4x4x4 a few times a week to keep those parity problems in muscle memory.

looked up the algorithm

Remove the stickers and replace them in the solved pattern. 😤

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ron6MN45LY

I watched the person scramble it and they handed it to me. After that I just reversed their actions. It wasn’t badly scrambled fortunately.

Used to be one of the kids who knew how back in grade school. I read a book and memorized patterns.

i have, and lots of other twisty puzzles to boot. my PB on the 3x3 was around 30 seconds i think, back when i practiced more. there’s lots of relatively simple algorithms you can learn to solve it.

Yes. With a screwdriver.

Without cheating improvising? Nope.