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Right? I can solve one in a minute to minute and a half. By normal people standards, impressive, by cyber standards I'm laughably slow.
I'm cool with that
To be fair, this is how most skills are in the internet era. It makes it way too easy to feel like you're not good enough just because it's so easy to find content from highly talented people.
OP here. In this case, I also just don't give enough of a rat's ass to learn to do it a better way, even though I probably could. I can solve a Rubik's cube reliably in a few minutes, as far as I can tell that's peak ROI for this form of toy proficiency.
I've learned how to solve in 3 minutes or less since the Reddit blackout protests. I have a friend who said his personal best was a minute and 10 so that's my target, and my personal best is a minute and a half as of last night.
It's not 3.1 seconds like the WR but since nearly everyone I have come across in the last couple months can't solve a cube at all, I'm quite impressive to them.
I sit and solve my cube on my break at work, it's literally to stop me spending all my time on my phone. It's a newish job so now everyone thinks I'm quite intelligent, which is nice.