Rubik's Cube

It is

... um, this take that you've always had about this team off the shelf and reconfiguring it, like it's a, a Rubik's Cube.

Yeah.

Like, you've, you are, you are putting your chips in not only on the Jamir Gibbs experience-

That song will still stop me where I'm standing, and I, I'll just, I cry every time.

So I found this on the internet, and unfortunately now you have to know it too.

I believe this may become a permanent section of the Forbes paper because while governments were governing and economists were, you know, economists were doing their thing and counting numbers and doing economy, you know, whatever, a Canadian man solved 211 Rubik's Cubes while riding a pogo stick.

211.

I can't find my phone while I'm talking on it.

Somewhere a mother is currently telling her 34-year-old son, "See, that boy found something to do with his time." Although I'm not entirely sure that we can call solving Rubik's Cubes on a pogo stick productive, but it is interesting and fascinating, and I'm here for it.

Feels like more like the sort of talent you discover after being banned from three Applebee's.

You know, like I just...

Mateo, what's something you taught yourself?

I mean, I taught myself how to solve a Rubik's Cube.

What's your time? How fast can you solve it?

My fastest time is [laughs] 39 seconds.

Skip that.

We'll mix that.

Go get your Rubik's Cube.

I'm going.

And for this, we're in a fairly niche area of competitive action.

On the 5th of June, 1982, a teenaged refugee from Vietnam became the first Rubik's Cube world champion.

And he's been speaking to Helen Ledwig.

After 40, what, 44 years? That's crazy.

Can't believe you found me.

LAUGHTER The first official Rubik's Cube World Championship is being held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, and representing the United States, a 16-year-old refugee from Vietnam, Minh Thai.

I don't see the person next to me.

I don't see anything.

I mean, it's self-serving and that's just not my morals.

You know, even knowing stuff like inside stuff like, you know, Like teaching my kid and my nephews and nieces how to play guitar or solve Rubik's Cube quickly.

By the way, I am a rubbish teacher for the beginning stuff.

You know, I've got no patience, unfortunately.

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After 40, what, 44 years? That's crazy.

Can't believe you found me.

The first official Rubik's Cube World Championship is being held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, and representing the United States, a 16-year-old refugee from Vietnam, Minh Thai.

I don't see the person next to me.

I don't see anything.

His friend is trying to solve it, and Min wants to know...

A Nova Scotia man achieved his long-time goal of making it into the Book of Records by solving 211 Rubik's Cubes while bouncing on a pogo stick.

So tell me which you got started on, the pogo stick jumping or the Rubik's Cube solving?

So first was the Rubik's Cubes.

Since I was maybe 11 or 12, I've been doing them.

And I was very into it for like six years.

Yeah, it ended up kind of being a natural at it, and then, yeah.

Which do you find harder, the cubing or the pogo sticking? For me, the

pogo sticking, but I think in general, the Rubik's Cubes is definitely harder.

So is this a fact of or a fact true?

Cube.

Like box cube.

Yeah, like a Rubik's Cube.

Like a Rubik's Cube.

Hopefully that's false.

I've never heard anything like it.

Yeah.

But his job was he helps people solve Rubik's Cubes.

Apparently, yeah.

I got a friend who's really into Rubik's