We know our cube is magic but this takes things to a whole new level! ✨

​@ADEL MAHLOUTHI ikkkkekekek

It’s a magic gimmick which doesn’t involve much sleight of hand

Rubik's is always a magic

Very good slight of hand.

bruh

This guy deserved the finals at the least man, his acts increased in complexity in each stage, his presentation was nice, he was polite as well, indulged the judges in all the acts, they were all genuinely suprised. I don't know why he didn't get the chance thou.

I don't remember who won that season. But I am gonna guess it was a singer...

@JSSRocket every form of magic is fake at some level or the other… so why bash this guy alone ?!

@Semper Fi Music Band 😭😭😭

Not really; they were pretty much the same 2 tricks done several different ways. And they were your pretty common, run of the mill Rubik's cubes magic tricks. What was remarkable about him, however, was how good he was at sleight of hand.

As a competitive cuber I can see how he does some of his tricks, but still a ton of them are just insane

The real definition of talent, hats off to this man , master at his work

Sol Kemi well ik what you’re saying

..shows a generic low res picture of a mans face. yaay!

I love when Simon goes speechless with those expressions.

I love how he Subtlety gives the finger all the time

Legends watch after 5 years

Yessir

Truee

Yes we do. Nice 1 👍

I am extra legend

Most of these tricks are pretty easy to figure out honestly. But understanding how the tricks are done almost makes it’s more magical because how difficult it is and how good he is at it

Yeah, sure 😂

@J H actually I think you have it wrong. there are only 27 spots he can hide the corners in. i think he's forcing just between some cards, he doesnt show every card but just some of them for her to pick. and they are probably already torn, you dont ever get to see the whole card. it's just confusing because the way he torns the card is incredibly realistic but it's not real

@ale laera that’s the easiest one to figure out. There are 52 cards in a deck and 54 (6x9) separate surfaces of the cube now the hard part is learning which pre-torn corner is under which individual surface. If she chose three of clubs or eight of spades or two of hearts he would just have to look at his cube and know which one corresponded with one of the 52 cards chosen. Since he tore the 52 corners off and probably practiced by tearing 1000 corners it was easy to duplicate the tear on her chosen card so it would match the torn piece in the cube. Very cool but very simple.

@Jelle Geerts I figured out eventually. thank you though

@ale laera the card was already ripped, he has a couple ripped cards as you can see from behind at 4:10 you see the white lines stop. So he has 10 ripped cards or something. He only has to remember which cube was which card.

Watching after 5 years still feel like it happened yesterday, the guy is a genius

Me

The Cube guy is AMAZING!

You are amazing.

as a cuber i know how he does all of the tricks, even the throw it up shuffled, catch it solved one

When he keep the cube in paper beg he assemble the cube in high speed

Até aqui jjkkkkkk

Easy and fun! Involvement, presentation, laugh, amazement. This is why we love magic!

If you pay close attention to his hands... you will still realize I have no idea how he does it.

If you have an idea of how he does it, you are his master.

Damnit I was expecting the punchline. Good one!-G

Well he touched the cubes after he used an anti-rubies cube thing.

Awesome

🤣🤣🤣🤣 what are you saying

Caraleo ele lembra onde estão todos os pedaços de todas as cartas...que memória

He is incredible, no one in this universe can do that what he did! Your act has taken back and i love the way you did it. Thanks mate for making my day a beautiful one :) Good luck for all your future magics! Regards, Kumar

i love how he enjoys the applause and smiles everytime in between

I watched it again, i absolutely loved this guy. not just for his talent but also to see the dumbness of judges as well. He is an absolute expert with Rubik's cube. I know he mixes them to the point where one move will solve the Rubik's cube. That's how he does the trick of solving inside the paper bag as well as throwing the cube in air. But he is an expert in this area though and it's a talent. Always love talent related to intelligence.

The ministry of magic is coming for this man.

Yep

Fax

Facts

Actually downloaded it, watched it in superslowmo. The trick is he is superfast with rotating them and they are oiled or something. Like when he throws it to judge, it rotates mid air.

I love how after each trick Simon just looks like he’s trying to process what just happened

I've tried his cube tricks many times and finally came to realize that it's a magic

how

Remember, it’s not magic, but brilliantly clever slight of hand, this is so good

Everybody knows it’s not real magic dude 🤣

Yup great slight of hand. I screenshot the cube that Howie mixed up and it was not the same cube that he showed matching.

@boomerboi56 ye, ik lol

@PiNeApPle literally you just have to be good at one handed and the rest is super easy

SHOW 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Человек очень быстро собирает кубик даже одной рукой и имеет хорошую зрительную память

Has this dude done this for penn and teller yet? I’d love to see if they know what he’s doing. Phenomenal

He did appear on Penn and Teller Fool Us and was like “we got nothing. You fooled us”

He switched up the cubes at the very end. It is quick slight of hand. I screenshot the cube that Howie mixed up and it was not the same cube that he showed matching.

This guy was one of my favorites this season.

And u realise that at 7.13 he actually puts his hand behind his back for quite sometime and solved it with one hand behind his back as he did a specific mix which could be solved in less than ten turns.

This is exactly how he did a lot of his tricks: All real cubers will understand Please note I'm not hating on Steven, he is an amazing performer and he did an impressive job. All I'm doing is explaining how he did them *Act 1:* First trick: He memorized a short algorithm to scramble the cube and which he could easily reverse with one hand. And yes one-handed cubing isn't as difficult as most people imagine it to be, he had enough time to reverse it as he was placing it in the bag. Second trick: The second trick is very easy actually. He uses the first trick to "convince" the judges there are no other cubes. But then reveals a second one surprising everyone, nobody thought about there being a third cube did they? If you look at the colour patterns on Simon's cube (before it was put in the bag), you'll notice that they're different to the cubes after. Steven had three cubes. The first one was Simon's actual cube, the second one was Simon's fake cube and the third one was the solved one. He obviously memorised the algorithm used to scramble Simon's fake cube and when he put Simon's actual cube in the bag, he swapped it with the fake one. The third cube was obviously the one Steven used and he applied the scramble to it so it was the same as Simon's fake cube. You'll even notice that he is firmly holding the bag when it's upside down. We can check this by comparing the yellow face at 1:19 with the yellow face at 2:27 *Act 2:* First trick: For the first trick was really impressive but if you pause the video at 3:01 you can see that he already had the yellow middle row solved in the front face, with the yellow top row on the right, the bottom white row (which is opposite to yellow on a solved cube) on the left face and matching opposite corners and edges as well. This can be easily solved in three moves. Take a solved Rubik's Cube and hold it with yellow in front and green on top, if you then perform a S U' D' (or z F' B U' D'), you'll get the cube in the same state he has it at 3:01 Second trick: He uses a special algorithm to solve the cube on one side while leaving the other side scrambled. This will allow you to flip the cube and make it seem like you solved it. 3:21 you'll notice that the only colours mixed are yellow, orange and blue. 3:22 the only solved colours he shows are white, red and green Coincidence? I think not. Right after he finishes the trick and scrambles the cube, you'll notice that in the first move, the cube is already scrambled on one layer. The algorithm for this set up is: U' D L2 U B2 D2 B2 D2 L F' U D' R U' F2 L F' B' Third Trick: The last trick is actually very smart. The first part of the trick where he makes Heidi choose a card you'll notice that he only gives her the option of about 15 cards since he squeezes the front and backside of the deck. At 4:11 if you look at the back of the deck you'll notice that all the cards in the centre (which are the ones Heidi was forced to choose) all have a ripped angle. Basically, Steven prepared 15 cards that he placed strategically and ripped all of them in the corner. He then places half the card in the deck to cover the ripped corner and using slight of hands he makes you think he ripped the card and made it disappear. Now for the last part, a Rubik's Cube has 12 edge pieces and 8 corner pieces, making a total of 20 pieces. This means that all Steven had to do was place a ripped corner piece in every piece of the cube and memorize where each of them was. The card that was chosen would then determine the cube piece he would open. *Act 3* The Brad Pitt trick I was really confused. I had several things I noticed and looked at. Firstly, I assume he purposely made them pick Brad Pitt, there's no way he could prepare a Rubik's cube picture for every single person. This probably involved some slight of hands, but I have no idea how it was done. If you look at the Rubik's cubes, the first thing that you can see is a lot of green colours around the top layer of the board (or whatever you want to call that big thing with hundreds of cubes) before he reveals who it is. When he revealed Brad Pitt, the top layer was completely covered in green making me think why there weren't colours replacing the green pieces that are on the backside (the other side of the board, not where Brad Pitt is). This may be because there is a second layer of cubes which was prepared in advance. This is just a theory. Another thing to point out is how insignificant the four cubes that were randomly placed are. Steven makes them randomly mix the cubes and randomly place them to make it feel like they had an impact on the mosaic. But in reality, it didn't really matter. If you follow the cubes' position as he rotates the board and then reveals the picture, you'll see that those four cubes are actually mixed, but because they're on the outer side of the face of Brad Pitt, you don't actually notice them and they don't actually matter. He just focuses so much on those four cubes that it makes you think that they were the main factors of the results. So my theory is, is that he purposely made them pick Brad Pitt, then everything was prepared in advance. The four cubes were just to make the act more interesting and to involve the judges. *Act 4* For the first part of the act, I think his cubes were set up so that he could easily solve any colour while making it seem like the rest of the cube is scrambled. If you look closely at the colours when he reveals the red and blue faces, you'll notice that there are a lot of colours paired up together, almost like they were all ready to be placed together. To non-cubers, this may seem like a complete coincidence, but cubers will know that these sort of patterns where there are several pairs of colours matched are often seen at the beginning of scrambling a cube. These are patter are very familiar to the ones someone may see after doing a few moves to a solved cube. The red colour was obviously told to him but the blue one I don't know, maybe he peaked and so it or something else happened. For the final part of the act, I really had no idea how he did it. The first part with Howdie is sort of easy to understand, it's very similar to his first act. He simply follows Howdie's moves and does the same to his own cube. He holds it behind his back to make it seem that he is randomly scrambling, but everyone knows, or at least every cuber knows, that you don't need to look at the cube to know what you're doing. So all Steven had to do was follow Howdie. For the second part of the last trick of the act, I got stuck, I had no idea what he did. I have a theory but it seems unlikely that it's true. If you pay attention to Howdie's moves, he did a full 360° rotation, meaning he went back to the same position, and he did a couple of other moves. So my theory is that before comparing Howdie's cube to his own cube, he somehow quickly reversed Howdie's moves to go back to what the cube looked like, which matched with Simon's big cube. If you have any ideas on what he did, let me know in the comments *Again, I'm not hating on Steven, I'm just breaking down his tricks based on my understanding.*

So my point is magicians shouldn't be angry that their tricks got debunked cause they are making money out of it and you are basically showing people the truth

@Lorenzo no it is fine to show people that actual magic is only specific to God the all powerful and the servants He chooses. It is a specificity of our creator

My head hurts after reading your amazing explanations! Still don’t understand how they are solved😂

@Kevin De Bruyne Needs To Talk well after one year 😅

@Lorenzo 3.4k

There is no doubt that this man is genius

I like the thing that he himself was excited & happy while he was doing the magic.🌼💕

I believe him when he said he is the only person in the world that can perform the mind bending tricks.

This guy is so amazing. I love his own facial expression of amazement

The only reason he did not get a golden buzzer is so the judges can see more cube magic.

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Most of his tricks I kinda know how he did but the fact that he can do them is what astounds me.

Next level 🔥🔥 Legend Magician

Simon's initial expression compared to his expression of amazement is priceless

Because I've watched this so many times I don't even try to figure out how how he does this. I just love watching it.

Rule number 1: Hogwarts students are not supposed to use magic in front of muggles.

Here’s a winner

But it's not a good trick. Any cuber knows how easy and lame it is lol.

Règle numéro 2 : toutes magie est baser sur une arnaque.

3:20 At least one trick I already know how it's done. The 3 backsides (which you can't see) have already the correct color. Still fascinating.

Ya ik right

lol no there are 4 colors visible. read about speed cubing. it doesn't even help when 3 sides are solved

I saw a video about it

lol everyone knew that

This guy is amazing I saw this so many times in the past 5 years

For every cuber it is very easy to figure out how he does

If you watch at 12.27 min you'll see that the combination we can see on the cube is nowhere on the big cube (we can see every combination of the big cube after 13min) which means he changed the cube of Howie. But it's still so smart and made with perfection

He should have broken the official world record for fastest solved Rubik's cube.

i read it, what i meant was on a regular cube. even if you reassemble it differently, that would not help him solve the cube fast. the way he is doing it is with a short scramble (6 moves) that looks scrambled but is quite fast. anyways bye i dont know why i bothered commenting a year ago

@Artur Hale huh what are we talking about i forgot i even commented on this video

@Mystotic not possible? take a cube apart and reassemble as your liking.

True

What a talent he has😱

10 of the top legends of the magic cube🔥

12:34 this is where he changes the cubes. Just check one of the cube faces after Howie mixed it. It doesn’t appear on the final cube. So he had 2 identical cubes hidden and at 12:34 he did the switch. 12:27 look at the green face, it doesn’t match the green face at 13:05.

1:01 very good. he just got one hell of a compliment already.

I think he memorizes the cube then solves it with just the right amount of force

He has the mind of a genius.

It's funny how the rubik's cube is a different pattern going into the box as it is coming out :) And how the cube Howie handed over is a different scramble from the one he pulled out and compared to Simon's 😂

Well I can tell you the one Simon mixed up had 4 yellow squares all together on one side and the ones he just brought out of the bag did not. So he put simons in the bag and pulled out a pre mixed and a solid one then had it memorized to how many turns and flips ect to match the pre mixed he handed Simon. Smooth move exlax

So 10 year olds singing gets a golden buzzer but this dark magic does not?

Thats probably beacuse he didnt have a rough childhood. And probably have money, that Rolex on his wrist looks quite new xD

How the judges doing such great magic tricks 😳

His sleight of hand skills are unreal.

well that is so amazing but I just love the Simon's reaction to all of it.

Its a new level magic 🥰

It's amazing even after looking closely this vid for 6 times I have no idea how he did it

the only one i was able to figure out, if u look at 3;19 to 3;20, notice how the sides he shows have a distinct pattern and then when he flips it, its instantly solved. That side he mixed up was a cover for the other side that was solved. The camera just wasn't angled to show the other side when he was mixing it up.

I love illusions and this guy is great.

It’s was called the “Magic Cube” by Erno Rubik, the creator of the Rubik’s Cube.

It's illegal to do magic out of Hogwarts.

He is not underage he can do magic and then obliviate them

It's not magic, it's easy

@Olivia Snape had to

Just incredible magician!

his communication skill also great 😃

You know you are good when the judges actually wonder how you did it.

no but when this man laughs or chuckles along i find him really charming

how was he not the winner, that's a better act than anyone else, it's original, creative, and super impressive

Taxi looks like simon had figured some of them but just isn't spoiling it.

Yea but it does get tiresome and a few of his tricks are solvable

its really easy to say how he is doing it. but he is fast and rly fun to watch. i respect that.

Oh my GOD!! 😮😮 Just unbelievable! 😍

This is the best that I saw on this day, thank you from the bottom of my heart!

I like his style, although I know how he done few stuff I am not capable to do it… what a style and skill very impressive

I just seen a whole 14 minute video of Simon being lost and confused.... It was brilliant!!

Ahahahah bro true asf

Is that real? Pure magic!

Simon's reaction worth it all 🔥😂

I couldn't believe my eyes, Its very incredible.

7:01 if you look closely all we see is 3 sides, the other 3 are hidden and unsolved. Great illusion for the eyes

well, this guy break the rubik's cube world record

the guy is just cosmically cool 🤩 new, cool tricks 😱 amazing 💥👍

The best of the new breed of magicians!

There were 3 cubes in the bag for the second trick 1) Simon's mixed up cube 2) his own mixed up cube 3) the solved cube

That was my guess also

I used to be a cuber and recognized quite a few of these tricks, kinda fun to watch

Ok p

Nn bun byg

Bruh me to like that one when he said the cube would solve in a milimitre he actually scrambled in a way that only the 3 sides would be solved and he showed the rubiks cube to the judges in a way so they coul only see the solved ones

These judges are soo tiny talent wise in front of this talented young man... Awesome

I'm Japanese. This comment is from Japan How amazing magic. How many times did he practice this magic? I applaud him perfectly.

Sayonara

What a amezing talent just wow🙏🙏