Around 13 days after I bought a Professor’s cube, I have finally solved it.
But don’t expect to see a video of me solving it anytime soon because I don’t think I can do it again. I kinda relied heavily on pure dumb luck in the home stretch.
And about the time? Gee I don’t know. Let’s see, I started solving it around 11:30PM last night. Then I hit a wall around 1:00AM so I decided to go to sleep. I woke up around 6:30AM, dicked around with the cube for about half an hour, then I was like HOLY CRAP HOW DID I DID THAT?!
In many ways, solving the 5×5 cube is a lot easier than solving the 3×3. It’s a lot more intuitive, and since you have more room, you can experiment more with your moves. The final stages however, require that you know how to solve a 3X3.
The best part of this whole experience was that I didn’t use any internet tutorials to solve it. (Actually, I searched and searched for a tutorial on how to solve it, but I couldn’t understand any of them. Because I can’t read.)
So allow me to brag a little. Because I’m insecure like that and I need affirmation:
Nerd.
WHAT A NICE RIGHT HAND!!
(Congrachoomalashuns)
Crap.
It’s a left hand.
Wow! Pretty colors, man! What’re they called again?
Do your hands smell like pekpek too?
@baddie: Terd!
@helga: Can you guess what my right hand was doing?
@steel: Colors!
@Ade: Secret. TEE HEE!
congrats! Just last night, I similarly got my 4×4x4 finally figured out in a 4hr stretch with a little bit of dumb luck, and got it a second time in a half hour after tonight.
now it’s on to the 5×5x5… Easier than the 3×3x3 ???? Surely you jest!
The 5×5x5 adds ambiguity in the pieces around the center; I figured it was enough to rule out fishing my way into turning it into a 3×3 (which is basically what I am doing with the 4×4).
Texting?
Oh! I know! Holding the camera! I’msosmartz0mgsh!
i couldnt even get passed the rubix, a friend taught me the technique but i forgot.
i’ve already mastered the steps on a 3×3 rubix, but it still takes me a minute or two to solve it,. i;ll try my luck on the professors cube (5×5 rubix) this time
any tips? 
the goal is to turn it into a 3×3. my strategy is centers, edges, then solve like normal 3×3. actually even cubes like 4×4 are harder than 5×5 in the sense that you won’t know that it’s correct until you try to solve the 3×3. on a 5×5, if you have centers and edges, it is a valid 3×3 cube.
- top and bottom centers. make “strips” (3 adjacent non edge pieces same color) to do this.
- then side centers (all in strips again). the tricky part is you will probably get two faces scrambling with each other’s colors.
- make middle edge strips one by one and move them away into the top and bottom faces, dont worry about making edge strips match with faces yet. just make enough of these edge strips to fill the top and bottom with completed edges - leaving all scrambled edges away from the top and bottom faces.
- the last 4 middle edges. it’s difficult to describe without getting into math notation. but it involves breaking up the center slightly by twisting the bottom third of the middle centers one to the right, getting the last pieces of the edges in place then twisting back (one to the left).
- at this point, your 5×5 is equivalent to a scrambled 3×3. you can solve 3×3 normally now as long as you dont twist any of the inner faces from this point forward.
believe it or not, 4×4 (all large even cubes actually) is harder in a way because you can make it look like it’s equivalent to a 3×3 but it won’t solve correctly and you have to start over from the middle until you get it right (or go memorize some ‘parity changing’ moves).
i see,. thanks for the tip sir rob
i’ll definitely buy that cube i saw yesterday which cost around only 13 bucks
i do hope that its the original one since i dont have the time to look at it closely,
my 3×3x3 is a copy of the rubix so it has a manner of just to disintegrate while in your hand LOLz
Source. What rob said. That’s exactly the procedure I used in solving it. Youtube has a lot of helpful videos on solving the edges. The centers are very easy to solve on your own.
And yeah, I agree that th 4×4x4 could be the hardest. Which is why I haven’t tried it yet. I’m still working on my 2×2x2.
i see,. thanks sir
oh my, the professors cube i saw is just the size of my 3×3x3, its so compressed, well, it is patented but it doesnt have the ‘rubix’ logo in it (on the middle white tile) i tried it and the face rotates smoothly, im still looking for the one that looks like the one on the pic here,
Trust me, when it comes to 4×4x4 and 5×5x5, getting a Rubik’s branded cube might not be the way to go. It’s heavy, it’s harder to turn, and some of the faces has this knack for just popping out.
Get the Eastsheen brand (which is probably what you saw). It’s smaller, it’s lighter, and twisting it is a lot smoother.
I bought one myself after my Rubik’s branded cube (the one in the pic) popped out one of its faces after just a few months.
i see,. that might really be the one that i saw, it has a disassembly manual so that you could reset the cube every time you give up LOLz =D
i do hope that the stickers wont peel off easily
thats my only concern on unbraned rubix, the tile color tend to faid and in time,. all you have is a pure white cube 
Yup. The Eastsheen cube stickers are a lot more durable than the Rubik’s. Which makes it a lot more desirable for most cubers.
ok i just got my new eastsheen a5 for 650php (40php / 1 US $) and begin the pain staking process of ‘pre-feeling’ my new cube, i could easily make 3 3×3x3 faces and thats when my nightmare begin lol i still cant figure out how to build the remaining faces without destroying the 1st 3
i guess i have to spend more time with these LOL
Soliving the center faces are easy. You can probably figure it out by yourself. But solving the edges can be quite tricky. Youtube has a wealth of tutorials on those. You should check em out.
I want to make my own youtube video but I’m still slow. It usually takes me 10 mins to solve the 5×5x5. Most cubers can do it in less than 5 mins.
yeah,. i noticed that too,. im able to figure out the 3×3x3 center face,. but i screwed up trying to correct the center edges LOL
ok,.i hit a wall this time,. i already complete the faces and all of the center edge, my only problem is that i cant swap the last 2 centers of the center edge without messing up the other centers, im looking for some tutorial to get some ideas but most moves are so fast that it just ‘magically’ fix everything LOL
ok, some how i manage to figure it out hehe , my 1st set was complete in 2 days, and the 2nd set was accomplished 30 minutes after shuffling,
thanks for the big help