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15 Quintillion Possibilities

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The most frustrating thing a person could experience is attempting to do something seemingly impossible. As a ten year old kid, the Rubik’s Cube had been an unsolved mystery of my life.

I could always solve one face, but could never get the cube to be in its coveted, final form. I finally got over my pride of trying to figure out the cube without help and found a tutorial on how to solve the cube. Instead of solving it side by side as I had originally thought, my teacher, Dan Brown, taught me to solve the cube layer by layer.

The process of solving the puzzle was long and arduous, but my drive for success never waned. Stacks upon stacks of different algorithms and notations filled up my natural hard drive, pushing my ten year old brain to its breaking point. However, after a week of attentive watching and painful memorization, I looked down at my hands and saw the desired outcome: my cube had been solved.

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