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

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.

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

I love when Simon goes speechless with those expressions.

Legends watch after 5 years

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

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

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

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

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.*

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.

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

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

The Cube guy is AMAZING!

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

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

SHOW 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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

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

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.

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

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

This guy was one of my favorites this season.

The ministry of magic is coming for this man.

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

Super talente 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻💪 👍

There is no doubt that this man is genius

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

10 of the top legends of the magic cube🔥

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

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

What a talent he has😱

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 😂

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

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.

He has the mind of a genius.

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

his communication skill also great 😃

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

How the judges doing such great magic tricks 😳

Great show 👏 my loyal apprentice 👹🐏🗡🩸

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

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

Красавчик, привет из России 😊👍🤝

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

Its a new level magic 🥰

I know exactly how he does it, He does it in a way that you will never know how he does it.

I love illusions and this guy is great.

What a amezing talent just wow🙏🙏