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The Challenge of Creating a Perfectly Scrambled Rubik's Cube

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notagoodidea

10mo ago· 10 min readen

Summary

The article explores the challenge of scrambling a Rubik's Cube in a way that no two squares of the same color are adjacent, despite attempts to achieve a random-looking scramble. It references a solution by Florian F and discusses the difficulty of avoiding color adjacency while maintaining randomness.

Key quotes

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Every time I separated two squares with the same color, two other squares of the same color would touch somewhere else.
The most impressive answer was by Florian F.
I set out to try to find a better scramble.
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The ChallengeI was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. Here’s one way to do it: But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble. No matter how m

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