Penn & Teller: Fool Us // Steven Brundage
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Rubik's Cube Magician Steven Brundage Fools Penn & Teller on Fool Us Season 2 Episode 1 with awesome Rubik's Cube Magic!
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Couldn't have happen to a nicer guy. Congratulations!
Chris Ramsay Thank you Chris!!!! : )
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Yep
I was wondering if you have seen this guy. Amazing.
I do love how they hand you a giant FU trophy at the end. It's their subtle way of getting revenge :p
Billy Jeffs not quite that subtle :p
As a fellow FOOLER I just want to say congratulations dude. Nailed it
The amount of practice and confidence that man had to achieve before smoothly doing that in front of a crowd let alone penn & teller too must be pretty staggering.
Incredible performance and you are very talented for sure. If you're wondering how he does it though, he's just an incredibly fast speed cuber. He can solve them one handed, blindfolded, etc. If you actually see right before he puts the cube behind his back, it's simply about 3/4/5 moves or so away from being solved. It's a very common mixup (I have speed solved cubes for many years now). If you do LRB (left right bottom) in that order, the cube at first glance looks like it's really really mixed up. But all you have to do is a few moves to solve it, just the reverse, B'R'L' (bottom reversed, right reversed, left reversed). Now he is extremely talented because doing any amount of moves with just one hand is extremely difficult.
When it was in the bag, same thing, it's just a few algorithms away from being solved. When he first placed it in the bag, he did a couple moves (he puts it in the bag slowly), shows it to Pen & Teller, because even just being one algorithm away from being solved, the thing will still look really mixed up. Finally, as he pulls it out of the bag (again, slowly), he uses his one hand yet again to do the remaining algorithm, thus solving the cube. You can see as he pulls it out of the bag, one of the sides is crooked, because he was turning the sides when he was pulling them out of the bag.
The millisecond move is just 3 sides solved. He showed you the three sides unsolved (notice how there is a very serious pattern going on. It's not just a completely random mix up.) In order to have 3 sides solved and not the other three, you're going to have a very obvious pattern going on because well, you only have 3 sides to intertwine the colors with. He simply shows the cube unsolved with the pattern, and when he drops it, just flips the cube 180 degrees to show you the side that was actually solved. Notice how he tries very very very hard not to show any other side of the cube? All you can see is the three sides. But yeah, he figured out an algorithm from fully solved to make it have 3 sides solved and 3 unsolved. Again, anytime you see a pattern so obviously intertwined like that showing so few colors, it's suspicious. You can see his left hand shaking when he catches it, because that's a really hard trick to pull off. Hiding 3 sides of a cube after flipping it in mid air.. He could have very easily given that trick away had he messed up even in the slightest.
And lastly, the final move, if you pay close attention, he had Pen's Rubik's cube the entire time, so his own "mixed up" cube was sitting on the table. So for him to match that final cube, he knows what algorithms he did to get to where that one was. He could have just been doing the same one over and over again (again, it's really easy to make it look like the cube is extremely mixed up, when in reality, it's just one algorithm away from being fully solved.) So he just did the last few algorithms while the crowd was cheering after his 2nd last trick (you see him doing it as he sticks his tongue out and such), just mirroring what he did when he first started the trick off. And that was it.
The point is, this guy can solve Rubik's cubs very fast, he can solve them with one hand, and he can solve them blind folded (there are videos of him doing it, and many others can do it as well). You have to have a photographic memory and have practiced a LOT to do that kind of stuff though. I have been speed cubing on and off for the past 6 years (maybe 5/6 months really taking it seriously) and my best time is about 40 seconds to solve it. Again, nowhere near any of those levels, but the guy is just insanely good at solving Rubik's cubes. He just manged to turn his talent into a magic routine. It's incredibly impressive either way, it's incredible that some people are as good as that guy at solving them. Seems weird to me though because it'd obviously be impossible for Pen & Teller to know "how" he did all of this unless they too practiced speed solving Rubik's cubes for much of their life. Just seems a bit odd to me because *what* exactly would count as them saying "I know how you did this" and have it count, unless they could recite a bunch of algorithms that he did when he did them, or would giving something like my explanation above count as "not being fooled"? Definitely a thin line.
This is fucking awesome. Great comment.
+Steven Brundage Woah! The man himself responded! Hahaha you totally just made my day, thank you for that. Congrats on all of your success man!
I watched again to see and could see especially when it comes out the bag he's moving it around. Good slight of hand though.
+Steven Brundage now if they were speed solvers too.....you would have been screwed... lol
you took two magical worlds and put them together! impeccable. I have done a little of both.
This is a mad skill to posses. again. Awesome!!!
Well, I'm impressed at that
Amazing as this trickery is, I feel like it'd be WAY more fun to watch if the clip hadn't been cut to ribbons and clumsily spliced together before uploadin' it...
Captain Seasick Wholeheartedly disagree. All they cut out is the annoying crowd shots and pointless filler material. Have you ever seen how long a cut down episode of Deal or No Deal actually is? Like two and a half minutes. Praise this uploader for sparing our precious time!!! THANKS OP
Jordan Bartholme Jordan then watch some crappy Twilight or something. With all this cutting up you miss the feeling, the beïng there, now its like: meaby they just cut the camera and restarted it 5 minutes later, who know's. dont really care anything could've happen in between shots.
Jordan Bartholme You're an absolute fucking idiot. I'm not even going to try and point out how extremely DUMB your so-called "reasoning" is.
Captain Seasick Completely agree. Look at the cut from 24 to 25 seconds. The Rubik's cube goes from scrambled to solved, instantly.
David Ezzio That's because he's cleverly mixed it up so three sides were solved and three were scrambled. This guy is a freaking spatial-awareness genius. It's actually a decently common ability if you really practice, but it seems rare because most people don't bother.
Possibly the best performance in the whole two seasons, absolutely incredible, still utterly baffled!!
Thank you! That means a lot.
+Steven Brundage you sure like using t perms when "mixing" :P
***** +Steven Brundage No problem, thank you for blowing my mind! :) I love working out how the tricks are done and I've gotten very good at it, but like I said, this one just blew my mind. Anyone who can fool the kings of magic deserves every bit of praise. So, so good. Never stop! :)
Haha it's not that great. When he put his hand in the bag he was solving it whilst pulling it out of the bag, and then he was still solving it.
+tructran692 Bet you can't do it doe
The perfect combination of manual and mental dexterity. Really nice routine Steven, was a pleasure to watch.
Master at one hand...
and I assume one group of 3 sides is solved, and the other group of 3 sides isn't?
***** unfortunately, that's not how cubes work. You would notice solved bars along the edges of the "unsolved sides," therefore rendering his illusion much less impressive.
Jacob Daeth he meant a rigged cube that many street magicians use with 3 messed up sides and 3 solved.
Yes it probably was used at 1.56 but most if not all other tricks show +3 sides solved so it won't have been used then, no doubt very dextrous and solving/mixing where needed
I know how cubes work lol. Martin is right. Take any cube and use this scramble:
U' D L2 U B2 D2 B2 D2 L F' U D' R U' F2 L F' B'
***** Per his reddit AMA... that's now how he did : www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3d5wlc/hi_im_steven_brundage_the_magician_who_fooled/ct25w8c
***** Well, he didn't use a rigged cube, but he DID solve 3 sides leaving the others scrambled. I noticed the first time I saw the video that he had only 3 colors at 1:56, but I had no idea what it meant at first.
For the life of me, I've been trying to figure out how to mesh these two things together. Being a speed solver (mainly megaminx), I was wanting to integrate it into my routine. You beat me to it, and beautifully so.
Why so many cuts in the video?
Finally watched the whole episode! Congratulations!
0:45 - He says the cube is 20 moves from solved, but is really only 4 moves from solved.
1:19 - He rotates the cube twice before throwing it up in the air. Visible at 1:21
1:48 - Same deal as last one.
1:57 - Only the three visible sides are solved.
2:04 - The random pattern is already completed and matches Steven's cube before Teller picks the other cube up.
***** It's kinda easy when you can rewind and pause to guess how it's done... and it's not really polite to start and shouting out how someone (who probably spend years of perfecting this) is doing this. He fooled Penn and Teller in that moment with slight of hand and performance and thats what it's about ;)
+The7up Yeah, I'm pretty sure Penn and Teller were simply out of their element. I don't reckon ever seeing a magician utilize rubiks cubes as their main act per se.
***** I've refrained from responding to your comment but I just cant help myself. The general term of "shout out" is to yell, scream or *Announce something.* In this case the term "shouting out" is used to put a mark on the fact that he's telling people something in a manner of announcing it to the whole world (to reveal something if you please). Yes it's Sleight, forgive me for learning how to speak a third language and making 1 little mistake, I will try to control myself next time. "And I don't think he's accusing him of anything" Neither do I? I still cannot see what you're referencing here but I wasn't accusing anyone either haha, just pointing out the fact that in the magic community and with respect in general it's not polite to start revealing something when you can simply watch it 100 times to figure it out. Now if he were to say this when he was at the live performance after only seeing it once, I would be totally fine with it, because that would only tell his skill or how bad the skill of the performer was, sadly this was not the case and thus its considered rude. Magic has an unspoken rule of trademark and censorship.
+Torbax The problem is people are chasing likes and subs. They will do anything for viewership. But I agree with everything your saying. I just wish the guy spills the beans. Posted his own video of fooling penn and teller.
That was absolutely AMAZING. I seen your AMA on reddit just now and had to research it. You sir, are just, phenomenal.
I so wanted him to solve the cube on teller's hand!
That would have been epic!
@@StevenBrundage u cant, bc u have to tap or push one of the squares. I might be wrong, but i saw u tap the cube in slow motion. Otherwise u would let it drop out of the bag and not touch it. Not skill, a trick cube. I still like to watch it.
I saw this at the weekend on the Penn & Teller show and was blown away by the slight of hand in this. Nice one.
Congratulations on your rising star and your wonderful effects!
Nice job! Very clever way of fooling them, if one of them was a cuber, they probably would've figured them out, it was because you used a type of magic that they don't know about nor are they experienced with.
your magic is really refreshing to watch - congratulations!
I feel like this is easier for a speedcuber to replicate and figure out than an actual magician. (I'm a speedcuber)
Still great nonetheless
PB? Also, I started cubing around the time you posted this comment. My PB's 14.11 btw.
Mine is 3.77 (on my channel) I know this is an iOS comment but yeah haha
But did you?
@@RUBIKSCOOBS that would make it a near world record solve was this unofficial or in competition?
@@peterosmond5742 unofficial. Never gone to a comp
We saw this number live at the Magic festival in Quebec and it's really impressive. Your technique is great and very clean! No wonder you fooled them!!!! Awesome!
You can see when Penn & Teller were pleasantly confounded by the trick while Stephen performed it. Very good job on this trick, in a world of HD and the ability to slow down the video I couldn't pin point how the trick was performed. Excellent stuff, keep up the brilliant work and it must have been difficult to not get nervous having Penn and Teller so close observing.
Great job, Steven!! I loved it!
A rubix cube based magic act.
This is the nerdiest goddamn thing ever. (I say that in a positive way - it's really cool.)
Very well done Mr. Steven Brundage! Insane cube and sleighting skills on display. The only thing I haven't figured out is where you hid the smoke and mirrors. Steven Brundage to you, sir.
Amazing,highly skilled and original work. Congratulations.
This is what I love about magic when it's well done: Even when you know the trick and how it's done, if it's well executed it's still a thing of beauty.
Beautifully done!
watched it in 1/4 speed and I STILL couldn't see how you did it...amazing! Congrats!
You are a decent and extremely talented . Its great to see talent find its way - Thanks Steve
Most entertaining Rubik's Cube trick ever! Awesome!
Amazing routine.Great performance.
very impressive method of getting cubes to become complete. The psychological portion of making the cubes be random to the eye is just brilliant. A very impressive new-age trick that magic needs, and extraordinarily well done, sir.
Outstanding tricks, man! Usually on magic acts I can have a reasonable guess as to how they do it, but here Im just dumbfounded. That's especially surprising since Im pretty good at solving rubix cubes myself. Keep up the good work!
I love how even if you fool Penn & Teller, they applaud you and give you a trophy with a big F*** U* on it. They still get the last laugh
That smile at the end though...Haha he was the happiest bastard I ever seen.
My last present ever from my Grandpa before he died was a Rubix Cube. But my father smashed it in a drunken rage before I ever got to solve it.
Troy Martinez lol
Troy Martinez well you could still do it, it'd just be harder
Troy Martinez I'm sorry. I hope you still have the pieces for memories, good or bad.
Troy Martinez that's fucked up mate !
Troy Martinez right in the feels
Great job! You really are the CUBE magician :)
The bag one I saw your hand move, which is still awesome with how you just need to move your thumb and pinky to move those around. The rest is awesome, I loved it!
Was awesome getting to see you do some of this in Saratoga
While to me it's obvious how it's all done and it doesn't look like magic, that's not to take away from the shear impressiveness of it all. The speed and skill at which you're able to manipulate those cubes, as well as the power of memory required to be able to work back from any moves made is astounding. Very enjoyable to watch, and glad you're doing what you seem to love.
Lots of fancy single-hand fingerwork, but that doesn't make it any less impressive! Amazing job!
you sir should definitely try to compete in a Rubik's cube competition... I was literally amazed by the trick... good job!!
How?? I keep watching your video and I am amazed every time I watch it.
Gob smacked - incredible work!
dude that 1 sec drop+solve was epic!
truly amazing!
So if this doesn't beat juggling ... I can't even finish this sentence
Great Job Steven you are truly amazing :)
Good job man!!
Amazing... no word for that man
I think if P&T knew more about Rubik's cubes, they could have figured it out. I believe I figured out a few of them, just by knowing about Rubik's cubes, but some of the sleight of hand was just beyond my knowledge.
+ComfortBlades SAME :)
He throws the cube behind his back and catches it in view of us, but then dips it down below the desk before finally revealing it to be solved. Did he do a switch while it was under the desk?
He probably solved it with one hand lol
+Autotrope No, because he made a specific scramble that he remembered and does it really quickly while his hand was behind his back. No switches.
+ComfortBlades Penn said on his podcast... he really didn't have a trick... he's just wicked good at solving the cube. He does use some sleights for the routine and to cover the moves... but essentially. He's just really good
You have inspired me to start cubing maybe one day I will be as good or maybe close to being as good as you! Keep it up you have a great talent!
For the trick at 1:50
To set it up he did something like:
'R2 U2 F2 R D' F2 B2 D F U2 F2 L2 D F2 D' R2 B2 L2 D' R2 B2 U
so 3 sides were solved and 3 weren't (You can do it in less moves that what I wrote there but I'm not bothered figuring it out.). He then did a simple 4 moves, U2 R' U' D2, to mess up the 3 solved sides.
Then to do the trick at 1:54 he undid those 4 moves, D2 U' R U2, leaving a cube with 3 solved and 3 not. He then dropped it and twisted it to have the 3 solved facing the camera.
Also notice at the very start he never showed the white side because it was almost done.
i can see that but i question the other tricks he does
+Cian McElhinney Also he scrambles it a couple of seconds later to hide the fact that the cube was only half solved
+Cian McElhinney i guess I'll never understand blowing the trick up. I guess so people can understand. But the average person still wouldn't understand what you mean by R2 U2 F2 bah bah bah lol. Only cube people.
think of those letters as a movement of the cube prime or r' means you would move Right counter clockwise each letter stands for the part of the cube or google it im horrible at explaning it
what the hell penn looks different
RonPaulOrDie he lost a LOT of weight
Brandon Funkhouser He knows where it is.
+Brandon Funkhouser n
you are amazing man!
Steven.. Saw you in the Spa on Broadway last summer.. great job
Congrats!
Picked up another subscriber.
Thats some pretty amazing one-handed skills.
Cube fan here. Nice job!
Nice. Congrats! Best of luck to you.
NOW THATS GOOD MAGIC DUDE!
I am sure Penn and Teller knows how it's done. But they realise he is so good that he deserves to win.
Great trick and presentation.
That trophy though, haha! Good stuff.
Its confirmed. Your my number one favorite magician.
Well done!
as an amateur trying to get into speed solving, your speed is impeccable. maybe the cubes had predetermined solves, but even then, gods number is still pretty impressive to remember. absolutely astonishing
Amazing job
Steven you should tour colleges for this stuff. People go crazy for this kind of thing. Louisiana Tech top of the list!
That is incredibly good sleight.
Great Job Brother.
Only cubers will understand this. ;)
That's why you fooled Penn and Teller.
1:57 Steven's hand is shaking. I can't imagine how nerve wracking it would be standing in front of them and the world like that.
Haha! This is an incredible trick, some parts of it I think I worked out. Like the last part when you put the cube in Tellers hand? It was already matching the other one you had that you mixed earlier, you didn't need to do anything. Even if I'm wrong, incredible trick. I have a feeling you compete in Rubix Cube solving competitions in your spare time ;)
you are both very good at slight of hand and finger tricks. I wish I could one hand as fast as you.
I can figure out most of them, but the way he performs it is great. Smooth and confident, it takes time too do magic with a rubik's cube, but if you can do it you'll fool anyone.
its pretty neat how you are really doing it, memorized moves
Good job!
i dont want to be that guy but your speed when preformin algorithms is astonishing and inhuman. its spectacular to watch!
i saw how you did a couple of the tricks but still a great preformance
Very cool. Totally would have fooled me.
Amazing!
1:13 😂😂😂I saw him solving the cube
Oml I am so proud of him for fooling them. I'm still mad that he didn't make it through on AGT. Even Penn and Teller are impressed!
He did in fact make in back into the show on agt, he was brought back as a wild card
+Abuzz03 Yes I saw that yesterday on TV! I'm so happy for him and for the internet and social medias for convincing the judges that he does deserve to be a wild card! I was so happy for him I was tearing up tbh 😆
He's a savant. Perfect memory.
Great trick.. loved it.
Brilliant magic 👍👍👍👍👍
This is crazy!!
super cool!
Holy hell Penn and Teller is so old that i remember
Carrying off a big F U off stage for the crowd hahahaha
The main trick, where he gets Penn to scramble the cube is all legit, he makes it difficult to keep track of which is Penn's when he rotates them in his hands. When Teller picks one it is actually Penns' cube which kind of plays into Stevens' hand. His cube is scrambled with a well thought out algorithm and so he can leave that on the table and takes the one of out Tellers hands and does all the tricks with it to make people forget about the one on the table. At the end, he just does the same algorithm and both cubes match.
If Teller took his cube at the beginning, he could have just picked up Penn's from the table and used that one to do the tricks with then at the end use the same algorithm for the exact rubik cube trick. I hope I got it right, it sounds pretty flawless however I'm not 100% I described it properly.
Congrats on AGT tonight
That is really impressive. Two things I would love to know how to do is to sing awesome, and know magic.
Awesome!
If i am correct, the cube that teller had at the end of the trick is the one that the magician mixed at the beginning, that being said there is a set pattern you can do that appears as though your mixing the cube but is just a pattern that you can count how many times you have done it, that being said at the end of the trick the both have the same cube, he could have easily been counting the pattern until penn said stop and then just redid the pattern again the same amount of times while talking to get it to look the exact same, very good stuff i enjoyed watching it. (This is a prediction)
Penn Jillette shriveled up in the shower
Congratulations! Being able to fool Penn and Teller must feel good.
Well done
Honestly while still cool and all, it seemed that Penn and Teller just thought; "Well I don't know." and that was it. Come on guys?! As someone that can solve a cube in about a minute(Yes I know how slow that is) and having watched a fair amount of videos of crazy stuff others can do and experimenting with my own quick solve tricks, it's not difficult to think of how he did most of these.
But anyhow, congratulations to the guy though. I wouldn't mind seeing what other kind of tricks he can do. :)
1:12 You can see him solving it while he takes it out...still pretty amazing though
Saw it too. He needs a bigger bag or smaller hands.