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a cute axolotl solving a rubix cube in which they fail, and instead use a bucket of paint to change all the colors to red and celebrate their victory.

You Can Solve a Rubix Cube

It’s late at night, and I feel like talking about something brief

Rubix cubes are way easier than you think. Sure, they look scary, they look confusing, and damn near might make you conflicted at times and give up, but that apart of the process ya know?

Also, sorry if the language isn’t flowing as concise as I typically do. It’s late at night, and no way in hell am I in-depth proof reading any of this lmao.

I was stuck on this stupid toy for a couple of days, and was trying to figure out every single one of those “when to use” algorithms. At first I got really far, I can solve those first two layers with my eyes closed; but that last one… That last one had something fierce behind it. I was trying to understand what exactly a PLL was, what all the lines say, and I straight up got nowhere at sometime. However, after looking at one video, I finally was able to repeatedly solve the cube, and now I can solve it under 2 minutes. Sure, it’s not a record breaking time, but it’s something I’m proud of personally.

Let’s take a step back and think about it though. To solve a Rubix cube, I went through this sequence:

  • Try solving on my own, and failed miserably
  • Learned how to solve the first layer, forgot, learned it again
  • Learned how to solve the second layer, quicker than the first one
  • Learned how to solve the yellow layer, tried remembering the specific algorithm sequences, hated that stuff immediately and gave up (this took days)
  • Just yesterday, on 7/30/2026, I found a method that helped me solve the cube repeatedly using 2 different easy algorithms. As of typing this blog post, I already solved it 5 times in a row
  • I bought this cube a week ago by the way

Sometimes though, not even relating to the Rubix cube, we won’t even take that first step, or get lost along the way. I get how it’s different for everyone in these cases, and are a lot more factors involved like finances, time, resources, disabilities, etc., but let’s assume an individual is good in all of those categories . It’s an interesting phenomenon of how we desire in learning a new language/coding, athletics, cooking/baking, web design, but we never follow through with it.

In all honesty, that should be all of our New Year’s resolutions in 2027, 2028, and the years beyond. Start with somethin small to make it a bit easier on our selves. If we see something that we want to do, something that we can see ourselves doing, and something that we can start, we should attempt and at least try to follow through with it until it’s completed. That, or going as far as possible until we’re satisfied with what we’ve accomplished.

Most importantly, in the worst-case scenario where we’ve genuinely hit a near impossible hurdle, or can’t reasonably sustain the activity for whatever reason, we shouldn’t be disheartened by the fact that we had to pause it or give up. Instead, we should be proud of ourselves that we at least gave it a shot and either try to revisit it in the future, or smile at the progress we’ve made.

Matter of fact, that’s going to be a mid-year resolution, and creating a bucket list for it. Maybe that’ll be my next post…

Sincerely,

Cravings and Comfort

P.S.: Here’s the video I used when solving the last layer of the cube. Helped out a ton





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