"La facultad"
write-alike by Faiza

"La facultad" write-alike by Faiza

I’ve always been able to recognize patterns with ease. By choosing one string and carefully following it to the very core of the problem, I can unravel the twists and turns of a jumbled puzzle in my head at high speeds. My mind is a three dimensional chart for the patterns that I find patterns in most everything around me.

  When I was eleven years old I took one week and got taught how to solve a rubik's cube. It fascinated me to be able to comprehend the “trick” to solving it every time. The algorithms. As if unlocking a section of my mind with this new discovery, my interest only grew. I started to build muscle memory to the point of barely needing to look while solving it.

 Solving the rubik’s cube became a type of anxiety relief for me as there was repetition in continuously solving it.  I started timing myself. Wanting to be faster, I would solve it over and over until my fingers started to ache and I realized I had spent hours in the process of solving, scramble, repeat. My times didn’t seem to make much of a dent and it discouraged me. I went from taking three minutes, to two, to one and a half and flatlined for a while. Until eventually I decided to look more into the algorithms themselves.

 I quickly taught myself the “speedcubers method” . The day I solved it in under a minute I couldn’t believe it. I kept working and eventually got my best time to twenty one seconds. All the years of practice had finally paid off in the end and now if someone were to hand me a scrambled rubik's cube and tell me to solve it, I can confidently do so and make their eyes widen in shock.