Severine wrote:The problem with a Rubik's cube is that once you know how to solve them, they don't take very long. So you'd have to solve it, mess it up again, and so on. Maybe that'd work for you, but it'd start to feel pointless to me, at least compared to a puzzle where you're working toward one logical goal.
One can always use another method to solve it. In December 2011, I was listening to an audiobook. In order not to zone out, I grabbed my cube and decided to solve it in another way. Corners first. Orientation, then position (alg 1). Then, move edge pieces in a triangular pattern (alg 2, but I did it in either direction depending on which was the ”shortest way”). Just two algorithms.
(And the audiobook was great.)