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Ha! And now queue the Zelda "get item" sound.
Here's the latest version from Breath Of The Wild, but the specific sound that always comes to my mind is from the original NES version or perhaps the SNES Link to the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hxRBTPAQ-s
When I was a kid (late '80s/early '90s), I was so determined to learn this technique that I stood in my back garden for about 45 minutes blowing fruitlessly into my fingers, and almost passed out π€£ I'm in my 40s now and still wish I could do it, especially now that I have a dog and the wee fucker won't listen to reason.
Congratulations, you're living the dream now!
Ha! Nearly the same story. I'm rooting for you! It can happen!
I still suck, though. My partner is lovingly tolerating me as I practice now and again. They love that it brings me childlike joy... while simultaneously wishing to murder me.
Wait wait wait...
I've never been able to whistle, even with the finger approach. I think it's because my lower two front teeth are inconveniently crooked, but I could be wrong..
Do you have a link or three to share for finger whistling, or any whistling for that matter?
Anyways, back to your question, I finally halfway learned the Rubik's Cube, but only after I added dice dot holes to it. Honestly it creates an interesting crossover of puzzle/die patterns.
I'm no expert, but I can whistle pretty well. Now I can finger whistle. And in both cases, I'm not sure teeth have a significant role. I think you can do it!
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I finally got it after watching this woman. Note the shape of her mouth and how she pushes the tip of her tongue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdPRkS9oB2c
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The principles in this video are good, but I don't like this style. Too many fingers in the mouth. I prefer the style of the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVDBmISkb0
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This is the first one I watch and now that I watch it, I think it's a pretty good video. He stresses folding the tip of your tongue backwards which has been really helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZTNJCKWqXs
I was just on YouTube last week looking this up. Thank you for sharing what worked for you! I'll try and report back.
I'm one video, I think the guy said it took him 30m of practice a day for weeks π¬
That's a lot of practice, haha. Naturally, everyone's experience will differ.
Took me less than an hour to get a couple methods working. But... I'm still really inconsistent. I can't always get it to work right. Need to practice enough for the right muscle memory to kick in. Sometimes I get nothing. Sometimes I only need a little bit of air and other times I need to blow hard. Sometimes it sounds like a normal whistle. Other times it's ear piercing.
It'll definitely take time to do it consistently one way or another.
Because I need to come back to this later.
Me too
The only time I've ever been able to whistle unaided is when my front two adult teeth were coming in and had a perfectly sized gap between them, but that didn't last long. Since that closed up, the only whistle I've been able to perform is the grass whistle. (Apparently this is also an action in Pokemon. To be clear, I'm not referring to that.)
Oooh. I always loved doing this as a kid and then showing my kids.
I've never done it between the thumbs. I simply hold a piece of grass in between my lips and do it. You can do it with any sufficiently thin item like plastic wrap or such.
I hear ya there, same here, I learned how to do the grass whistle thing back when I was like 7 years old. That's kinda neat really, and can be pretty loud if done right and with a good large blade of grass. π
So why dice dot holes over colors? Do they help you feel your way around it?
Good questions!
The dice dot holes were basically for random fun, I wasn't able to properly solve a Rubik's Cube as a kid.
But as I grew older, eventually it crossed my mind that the cube totally lends itself to being a die (singular of dice).
And yes, I can partly feel my way even blindfolded or behind my back to solve it, but due to repetitive/alternating patterns of the center dots, it's impossible to solve any old random pattern completely blindfolded, it has to be arranged in advance.
A surprising lot of those sort of puzzles are self-reversible though, as in the same mixup also becomes the very same puzzle solution.
The only unique dots you can feel come from the #6 side, which is the only side that has two dots in the middle of the side edges. I chose yellow as the #6 side. But due to the various ways the dots can mirror, it can't outright be solved blindly from a random shuffle.
Here's one of my study graphs on it, plus links to photos of my original die/cube contraptions.
Oh! I'm glad you shared that because I was imagining something different. I was imagining each individual square having one to six dots on them. A completed the cube would then have the same set of dots on each face.
What you have there is pretty neat!
A surprising lot of those sort of puzzles are self-reversible though, as in the same mixup also becomes the very same puzzle solution.
I would have guessed 100% are this way, am I missing something about how Rubikβs cubes work?
No no, what you're thinking of is if you do all the same steps in exact reverse backwards order, that's always the solution, and yes that is 100% true.
What I'm saying is within this rather large subset of crossover cube/die puzzles, then performing all the same steps forwards is both the mixup and also the solution. That is not true for all Rubik's puzzles though.
A lot of that has to do with 2x turns, most of the easier cube/die puzzles use nothing but 2x turns. But within the full Rubik's puzzle possibilities, there are an almost infinite number of 1x turns, which when solving means you basically have to do a -1x turn for every 1x turn that mixed it up.
I've also found some extra crossover cube/die puzzles that do incorporate 1x turns, those add a little extra challenge to the solutions, but many of those even have the same solution, if and only if you flip the cube to start from the exact opposite three centers as where the mixup started.
Sigh, sorry if this sounds confusing, but that's kinda just how the cube is, confusing, while still being such a simple mechanism.
I didn't need this but I'll keep it in saved πΆβπ«οΈ
I'm picturing you urgently needing to get someone's attention and pulling out this post to learn very, very quickly.
Haha. One never knows when they might need a really good whistle!