Why did I order 3000 Rubik's cubes?

I've seen a lot of videos where people actually make works of art using Rubik's

cubes

creating these gorgeous portraits and in a very unconventional way where each little piece of the

cubes

acts as its own individual pixel. Now I've been looking for something to put in this. wall in my studio for years now and this seems to be in my way so the question is how hard is it to do this and how long will it take first things first, how many cubes do I need, the more cubes the higher resolution the image will be and I want a image that covers this entire wall that measures 3m by 3m, so I did the math and the number was big somewhere in the region of

3000

Rubik's cubes, that's a lot of Rubik's cubes, so how can I get

3000

?

Of these I tried Amazon first, buying them from the UK would cost around £15,000 but hey the free shipping cubes direct from China are dubiously cheap but shipping still means it will cost at least 10 grand and they only have 472 of these in stock on eBay and AliExpress gave me similar results ah ah this was going to be expensive but then I remembered something. I'm an influencer, yes I have influence over things, so I sent out some emails asking for 10 thousand dollars worth of free Rubik's cubes the first email I sent. It was for daily puzzles and the owner, Billy, actually responded that it was like 3000 cubes, what's the shipping address?

Oh, and do you want regular size cubes or smaller ones? So Billy has given me a choice because apparently there is a product made for this. It just came out, it's called Mosaic Cube and it's from G, so in this box there are 100 10 x 10 cubes and look, they go in these little frames, you can put them together, so all I need is 30 of these, however , will not cover. my entire wall, but it will be much smaller or Billy has said that he can send me 3,000 full size individual Rubik's cubes that will give me full wall coverage.

What should I go to? Is it just me or are there not that many? You thought it would be a lot less than I thought, clearly I owe a huge thank you to Daily Puzzles for sending me all these Rubik's Cubes. There was no money that changed hands here, but they are the sponsors of this video. They just paid me in Rubik's cubes. This time, Daily Puzzles is your one-stop shop for all things speed cubes and twisty puzzles. They have over 1000 puzzles with extremely affordable prices and international shipping to anywhere in the world starting at just $5 us.

Do you think you could solve it as mentioned. I think one of the coolest products they have are the Mosaic cubes. If I wasn't such a masochist, I would have only bought 30 of these. They are magnetic, so you can stick as many or few on the wall as you want and they stay put. a suitable frame, they are the most economical way to make the Rubik's mosaic. If you are inspired by this video, another amazing product they have in stock are smart cubes that connect to an app that can time your solutions, help you learn and you can play with others online, but really there are thousands of different puzzles in all shapes twists imaginable in daily puzzles, so go show Daily Puzzles some love for doing everything they can to help this channel, visit their store and use code Mike at checkout to get 15% off your all the

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thanks again to the daily puzzles for all Rubik's cubes.

Acquiring 300kg of Rubik's cubes was surprisingly easy. The project got off to a good start; However, that was when I encountered the first obstacle since I chose the normal cubes that are designed. To be sold individually, each cube arrived enclosed in its own individual box, so all 3000 needed to be unpacked. This was an agonizing process and although I was very quick to unpack, this still took an incredible amount of time. I even cheated here and help was recruited and some novel techniques were developed. When all was said and done, it took me almost 9 hours just to unpack the cubes.

It's pretty ridiculous before I can start doing it. I need a frame to keep all the cubes in place and this is not a problem. Product available on the market, my plan was to build one using my superb carpentry skills. It turns out that wood is very expensive and very heavy. I have no, and I mean zero, carpentry skills. I had never done anything like this before the frame was an embarrassment. to all the carpenters in the world, but it would work, the only problem is that it also weighed 300kg, we're going to lift it like this, so you don't want to be on site because that's going to hit the wall I don't think this is that bad, oh God, it's breaking, it's breaking, where is it breaking?

I made this, I made this monstrosity, okay, okay, push it back, give it a good try, let's get into this, be good, one that looks cool. Okay, we're ready to go, so how does this all work? As amazing as it would be to just look at a photo and then paint it with Rubik's cubes. That's not how I'm going to do it. Instead, there is an appropriately named website. Best site ever and it generates a Rubik's mosaic image for you and then splits it into small convenient chunks, then you just look at each chunk and solve the cubes so they easily match.

I can't put this off any longer, it's time to start arranging the cubes into a picture, so I made a 6X 10 grid, so I need to make 50 of these blocks correctly, that's the first cube, this is day one , our zero, actually no, it is not. It took me 9 hours to unpack the cubes and 8 hours to build the frame, so we're actually 17 hours in, that should look like this, about 3 hours of work a little less, that's 180 less, 2,820 to go to a nonc. This may seem impressively difficult, but remember that for each cube only one face needs to be solved, this is a lot. easier and faster than solving a complete cube, the difficult part is making the correct layout for each cube quickly and doing it for hours and hours without making mistakes, so last night I dreamed all night about Rubik's cubes, my life is consumed For this. project cubes there cubes there cubes there another box of cubes there cubes there initially it was taking me just under an hour to make a block of 60 cubes which is almost 60 seconds per cube now I can solve a full cube in less than 35 seconds but of Somehow I'm actually slower just doing patterns on a face, however after hours and hours at this I got faster and was finally doing blocks of 60 in about 25 minutes.

These are so heavy and so difficult to transport. I have been very busy. I have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 segments ready to place in the frames. I built all of these at home and secured them with duct tape so I can move them and hopefully I can just place them like that that one is in the wrong place no no no no no no as much as it would be appropriate for the story of this video to say I hated this and it was miserable that wouldn't be honest i would happily sit for 3 hours straight listening to music simply dividing each cube into its correct pattern provided a small portion of satisfaction it was an almost meditative process and placing each block in the frame and watching a picture emerge of hundreds of kilograms of plastic. prompted me to do another block before bed, in fact the only bet I really hated was carrying the cubes up the damn stairs to the studio, which actually looks how I want it to look now, it looks good, so this part here I have done it correctly, but it looks weird.

This should just be a straight line. I just don't think this pixel should be blue, so yeah, that's better. Day 9000 and we're actually 2000 cubes down, so 2/3 of the way to 1000 cubes. I've been doing this a little bit every day because my hand hurts, I get bored, it's hard, but today because actually It now looks like an image instead of just a random series of meaningless pixels that I want. to power up and make 1,000 cubes today and finish this project. I have about five or six, maybe seven hours of cubes in a row today, 1,000 cubes in a day, let's do it, I just made it so there are not 3,000 unique cubes, there are many, many, many. repetition here that's very common that's very common and I can do all of those very very quickly because I've done them so many times and you said the question, okay, that's me, today I made 300 cubes, another 700 more, that's right, some of the blocks are easier than others three are missing 100 cubes we're almost there I'm in the final stretch we're almost there but I'm making so many mistakes I'm so confused and I don't really understand what I'm doing I just want to go home, but I'm so close to finishing the last cube.

Here it is, this is what needs to be climbed, so we go up the ladder and climb one last cube. Here we go. Okay, let's do a head count here, so 9 hours to unpack. cubes 8 hours to build a frame and a colossal 22 hours to organize the cubes, totaling 39 hours for the entire project. Difficulty-wise, Far and Away's framework gave me the most problems, but Cubes itself is pretty easy, if fairly monotonous. Always thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video please consider subscribing. I do this kind of thing from time to time. See you next peace.