Five Standard Deviations: rubik's cube

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

James Nourse's Rubik's Cube Solution

I have a 2 year old nephew that likes to mess up my Rubik's cube. I have no desire to learn optimized solutions; I just need to remember the solution I learned waaaay back in 1981--the one by James G. Nourse. This blog post has a simplified version:

http://macroware.blog-city.com/rubiks_cube_solution.htm#

It is hard to find his solution online and I don't want to keep Googling it everytime!

What is this?

A friend of mine once told me I was "five standard deviations from the mean [1]." That might have been a put-down to some, but it filled me with glee. I get a perverse sense of validation from being unique.

But being unique also poses some problems. It means that most products are not made with your priorities in mind. It means more work on your part to find the goods and services that are right for you.

That's where this blog comes in. I am hoping that there are a few people out there can identify with my weirdness and benefit from my findings.

[1] Roughly speaking, this means being more different from average/normal than 99.99994267% of all people.