rubics cube

the whole rubics cube thing always interested me. i remember getting the regular cube once from gemmon's, a hardware store that my dad and mom would always drag me to. in middle school there was a bit of a resurgence in its popularity among my friends, i remember nathan kuperus was really fascinated by them. we would spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the sides. he was pretty good and could get multiple sides at once. i always remained a novice and could only ever get one side at a time. a few years later i remember coming across another version of the cube, but this time it was cut at different angles and had lopsided bits to try and figure out! i am even worse at this one. every once in a while i will still pull these out and give them a go, making absolutely no improvement, then frustratedly throwing them back into the storage bin i found them in.