The scene opens on a massive case filled with twisty puzzles of all shapes and sizes. In the background, we hear the clicking of one of these puzzles as the camera focuses on a few of the puzzles. There are puzzles with gear shapes, puzzles with a pentagonal center piece, cubes made out of lego with a few blocks connecting the separate pieces to make the puzzle harder. Cubes that are tiny, and cubes that are massive. A puzzle shaped like a tree. A "triamese" puzzle made out of three The camera finally shows Shinsuke Nakamura sitting on the other side of the case. He has multiple classic Rubik's Cubes in a large box, and he is solving all of them in a few seconds, putting them aside, and grabbing another. He starts talking while solving the cubes.

You know, twisty puzzles are the ultimate mix of dexterity, skill, and ingenuity. It is considered an impressive skill to be able to solve one. And I could, ever since I first put my hands on one. It took me an hour to solve my first cube.

Now, he starts to get larger cubes out of the box, 4x4, 5x5, and 6x6. He solves them with a very impressive speed as well.

So I started to play with it more. I have it down in a few seconds now. I wanted more of a challenge after that first cube. Luckily, so did the rest of Japan. I found ridiculous cubes, with various modifications and sizes.

He starts to pull out cubes of different shapes. Pyramid, Rectangular Prism, and various others.

I found that these cubes were also rather easy. Cubing just comes naturally to me. Really, all cubes are rather easy to solve. In fact, it's easier to solve them than to say most of their names. Rhombicuboctahedron, cornerless rhombic dodecahedron, ultimate hexahedron. As complicated as they sound, I have solved all of them.
It just takes patience and practice.

He starts to take out puzzles that have a gear design, have curved edges, and even small colored balls in the 8 pieces surrounding the center on each side. The camera now goes into a time lapse. All sorts of cubes come out. Some change shape, some have false cuts, some have diamond centers, some don't have a center. By the very end of the time-lapse, Shinsuke pulls out a "Yottaminx" and starts to work on it. It is bigger than a basketball, and has seven layers of pieces. The result is 2943 individual parts. as he is solving this last one, he starts talking again.

I know I was supposed to appear on a game show, but the ones here in Japan are fucking crazy. There is a popular show where you have to guess whether an item is candy or the real thing. If you guess right, you win. I don't want to bite a pencil because I thought it was made out of toffee. That doesn't prove anything. But I'm sure that this means something. Look at this thing. Even I am going to spend at least a year on it. But when I finally finish it, it'll be as satisfying as winning a title. Well, not really. But you get the gist, it'll feel really really good to finish this. Have a nice day.