How To Solve A Rubik’s Cube Instantly (As a Magic Trick)

As you can see, it’s solved instantly.

Amazing sleight of hand

If you look at it over and over, you can see that he actually makes 4 moves.

Did you catch it?

Watch carefully. It’s extremely quick…

Really impressive, actually.
He can move directly to the cube in front of you, and you wouldn’t notice anything.

How do you do it?

First of all, let’s watch Steven Brundage perform the trick.

And then, we’ll dive into the details.

Here’s the full performance:

Now… the reason this trick is so awesome is that Steven does not use a gimmick Rubik’s Cubes, which is the traditional way it’s usually performed.

The Classic Rubik’s Cube trick revealed

Here’s the tutorial on how the basic trick works.

As you can see, it’s a gimmick cubes.

That’s the classic way that the trick is done.

BUT… Steven does not use a gimmick for his routine

According to his interviews, he could perform that trick with any Rubik’s Cub.

I think we can take his word for it considering he would not risk lying about it, being called out, and not being able to do a single trick.

Also, Penn and Teller are sitting right in front of him. If he were using a gimmick-cub, his other tricks would not have worked.

So now we know how the basic trick works

But it doesn’t prove how Steven performed his version, and other things, such as taking it out of the bag, solved without touching it.

Or what about the last trick, where both cub are symmetrical with one another on all sides?

Steven states that there was no switching going on.

That means there weren’t extra trick cubes behind the table that he was switching around.

He states: “With all the being said… Yes, I am extremely good with Rubik’s-Cubes.”

But nobody’s that good… come on!

This is a real mind-boggler

This trick is killing me.

The classic Rubik’s-Cubes technique makes a lot of sense. And can be added onto to perform a variety of more spectacular effects.

But what Steven does is just…. there are no words. I can’t even fathom a guess.

In his interview, he says that if he were to use trick cubes, every one of his tricks would look identical as they did when he wasn’t.

But even as he points out these subtle hints, it’s impossible to tell how he performed this trick without a gimmick cube.

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Update

Thanks to PerryThePly, a reader of Rebel Magic, for sending in this update!

He’s found something that gets us closer to understanding how this trick is done.