Stickers: Part One

Posted by rossrubiknickname on November 29th, 2007 at 03:52am

Stickers. Stickers are like 3/4 of the cube. Not really. But they are very, very, very important. Without them, how would you solve the cube. This is part one of a three part series of the colorful stickers. Let’s start off with one great rule.

DO NOT PEEL OF THE STICKERS.

Do not get into peer pressure and peel off your stickers. The 3×3x3 Rubik’s Cubes is not too be messed with that way. And think about a 4×4x4 Rubik’s Cube. And without getting a brain explosion, think of the 5×5x5. That’s a lot of stickers. Let’s stick with the Rubik’s Cube for now.

There are 54 stickers on a cube. 6 Colors. 9 Stickers per side or color. Do not peel off the stickers. Here’s why, the normal 3×3x3 Rubik’s Cube that you get in the store has its stickers laminated on. I will get to that later, but by peeling them off, they will not go on very well again. Screwing around with the stickers is terrible. It can screw up your cube forever.

Here’s a quick personal experience. At camp, a girl thought she’d be cute by peeling off my stickers in an attempt to solve my cube. Luckily I caught here on the second sticker. She got a whole sticker off and half a sticker. I WAS PISSED! I was unable to get replacement stickers and it almost screwed up my cube.

Another sticker incident. More recent. I was doing a video for the cube and I left my cube at my friends house. I came by a few days later to pick it up. It was sitting on a counter. I took one look, and I knew everything was wrong. Someone had switched a few stickers and a few were being peeled off. They said the heat could’ve been for the peeling. And, no one  came forward for the switched stickers. I was mad.

I spent a few hours fixing it. And how I fixed it will be part 2, replacement stickers. Just wait.

But anyways, peeling off Rubik’s Cubes stickers is really bad. They will not go back on. If you switch ‘em around. You won’t be able to solve the cube. IT’S BAD! So, don’t do it.

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