Saturday, July 11, 2020

Rubik's Cube Fun

So... we spent our quarantine days learning the Rubik's cube.

Check it out.  Oh and before you ask, yes there is a small table on top of our dinning table.  The small table has a puzzle being built on it and they only way to keep it safe is to put it up on top of the table.


To be fair Tucker almost always beats Penelope and everyone else.  The order we usually finish in goes, Tucker by a good margin, then Penelope and Leon,  than a pause and me and Bob.  Scarlett doesn't like to be timed or race.  She actually spends the least amount of time learning or practicing the Rubik's cube.  She doesn't like anything that has any sort of competition or things that are hard to learn.  Everyone was really happy to learn it except for Scarlett.  She didn't really want to but we strongly encouraged her to learn it.  It really was a fun family activity.

The other kids are pretty into it.  I would wake up early in the morning hearing the quiet yer furious twisting coming from both the girls and the boys rooms.

Tucker learned it first.  He got the cube for a birthday or Christmas present a couple of years ago but never mastered it.  Then more recently his friend got one and they both learned it.  That inspired the rest of the kids to want to learn.  I bought a 6 pack off of amazon for like 15 dollars and we had plenty to go around.  Because most of the kids learned before Bob and I it was fun for them to teach us how to do it.  I'm really amazed at how fast they can do it.  I've spent a lot of time trying to be faster but they are still a good amount faster than me.  Maybe one day I'll be able to beat them.

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