Shelley solves Rubik's cubes

A few years ago I would have been way more excited by the fact that my best competition average was caught on video.

Also a few solves from Ravi s...

My blindfold is awesome.

Video courtesy of Kenneth Lu: http://www.youtube.com/user...

The ride from 77th floor to the ground in the glass elevator in the Baiyoke Sky Hotel, tallest building in Thailand. Jfly fails to understand a jok...

breaking in my new video camera during a weekend bouldering trip to Bishop, CA.

I wasn't doing so well at the one-handed round that I hadn't planned on competing in in the first place. For the last solve of the average, I decid...

First solve of the day, no practice or warmup. I've still got it.

Video courtesy of Lucas Garron

Climbing at Pinnacles National Monument. The first move of this route is an exercise in courage, especially for people who are not so tall!

At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, there is a room lit entirely with yellow sodium vapor lamps, which make everything look monochrome. In parti...

Memorizing and solving a cube blindfolded while standing on one foot on a balance pad.

Cubers being silly after competition. Try to solve a cube while balancing on an exercise ball (feet can't touch the ground).

Adam and I try OH sol...

Mystery puzzle!

Stump your friends! Got this originally from Dan Knights, the puzzle master. Try to figure out this brainteaser. Can you get it in three moves?

Fu...

Aina Hashimoto (age 3) solves a Rubik's Magic at the Bayview Hills Open 2010 in San Diego. It is the cutest thing ever. She is currently the younge...

How I do the Ja perm

L U' R' U L' U2 R U' R' U2 R

http://www.speedsolving.com...

October 2009, Berlin and Amsterdam edition. It looks like I'm going really slowly on some of those clips; that's because it was cold in Berlin and ...

Collaboration with Mark Eichenlaub

www.youtube.com/user/meichenl

One of my solves in round 1 of 3x3 speedsolve at Berkeley Fall 2009. Video courtesy of Lucas Garron's dad.

Among the many puzzles and toys on display at Dutch Cube Day 2009 was this cool little balancing toy made with two bent forks

There was a popcorn machine in the youth hostel we stayed at in Berlin. It advertised fresh popcorn in 60 seconds, so I raced it one handed. I won.

My part of a cube collab video by tbcubes. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watc... [UPDATE: video has been removed]

Dan Dzoan solves a Rubik's cube while snowboarding. Jeremy Fleischman gets credit as the cameraman, because it can't be that easy to ski backwards ...

The saltine cracker challenge has got nothing on the Passover matzah challenge. Rules: Eat a whole piece of matzah, then whistle to win. No water u...

Trying to decide between two Z-perms.

(1) U R' U' R U' R U R U' R' U R U R2 U' R' U

Pros: Easier execution, more consistent

Cons: Longer

(2) R B'...

How to solve the Spin Out with hax. A design flaw in the puzzle lets you complete it in fewer moves than intended (video of full solve at http://ww...

New toy! How to solve the ThinkFun (formerly Binary Arts) Spin Out.

Another solve in which I spend more time on the LL than the F2L

8 second F2L, 7 second LL? What's wrong with me?

I think this is my fastest competition solve on video. No cameras were around when I set my 16.91...

I miss out on second place and a personal best by finishing my solve one move off, resulting in a 2 second penalty. (Ending state of my cube can be...

Memorization stage not filmed because you don't want to watch me stare at a cube for 4 minutes. Hell, I barely expect any of you to watch the entir...

Four different ways to do my least favorite PLL

(1) (most commonly listed) R' U R U' R2 y' R' U' R U y x R U R' U' R2 B'

(2) (variation of 1) R' ...

The F in F-perm is for fail. Except this was my fastest solve in this round. -_-

One of my third round solves at the San Diego Open. I jam on the G-perm and make a silly face at the end.

Video courtesy of Takao Hashimoto.

Video courtesy of Takao Hashimoto.

Michael Gottlieb goes slow motion at the end of a bad solve. I also do a solve. It is a palindrome.

Video courtesy of Takao Hashimoto

I don't remember why I was laughing so hard at the end of this solve. But I suck at 4x4. Yes, my 4x4 times are slower than my 3x3BLD times.

Video ...

My second BLD solve at the San Diego Open on May 24, 2008. This time I actually get it.

Video courtesy of Takao Hashimoto.

I DNF a solve at the San Diego Open 2008. Audience tricks me by applauding. My judge had started writing my time down when I realized it wasn't sol...

Dan Dzoan assembles a cube in a jar in just over 4 minutes. I fumble around with my own cube jar assembly off camera, because I am a noob at cube-i...

Ninjas are awesome!

I lost a bet and had to wear a shirt ninja mask for all my solves at Berkeley Spring 2008. Thanks to Lucas Garron for the video.

Another ninja solve caught on video! I am so slow at 4x4. Double parity FTL.

I lost a bet and had to wear a ninja mask for all my solves at Berkel...

My second successful BLD solve at the Berkeley Spring 2008 competition. My super awesome 1:23 unfortunately is not on video. Apparently I'm too goo...

1:36.65 blindfold solve. Practice makes perfect! Or at least better...

Check out my awesome (unintentional) anime hair!

Speedsolve

CALCubeTimer (CCT) is a timer program that can be used with a Stackmat timer connected to the computer.

CCT is available for download at http://cu...

Adam demonstrates a Rubik's Magic "solve." Not much to it.

My second blindfold solve at the US Open. Caught on video by Chris Pelley.

My first of three blindfold solves at the US Open in Chicago (June 16-17, 2007). Looking back at it, this solve could have been so much faster. Che...

At the Rubik's Cube US Open 2007 in Chicago, Adam and Jeremy attempt to teamsolve a custom built giant 2x2 and fail miserably.

Teamsolving is har...

A short video clip I found on the computer, featuring our beloved family pet who died in late 2005.

Another blindfold solve video