The Rubik’s cube craze ran through the world like wildfire in the 1980s. This simple mechanical puzzle is made from small pieces, called “cubies”, in a 3x3x3 structure in which each of the six faces ...

They might be a throwback to yesteryear, but we still have serious problems with the Rubik's Cube. We've looked at endless YouTube tutorials to figure out how to solve them - apparently Will Smith is ...

It looks like the world’s fastest Rubik’s Cube solve is, unofficially, 1.019 seconds, thanks to an Arduino chip, some 3D-printed parts, a piece of software and two clever guys. Officially, the world ...

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In 2010, a group of mathematicians used a bank of supercomputers at Google to show any Rubik's Cube could be solved in 20 moves.

Even with some help from the internet, it can take some people hours, if not days or weeks, to solve a Rubik's Cube. But it took Max Park just 3.13 seconds. The 21-year-old Korean American prodigy ...

PARIS: Students at Purdue University in the US have developed a robot Rubik’s Cube champion, capable of solving the famous puzzle faster than the blink of an eye. Dubbed the Purdubik’s Cube, this ...

The Rubik’s Cube has only six faces, each presenting only nine cubelets, but the end result is to offer a mind-boggling number of permutations, only one of which embodies the desired solution. The ...

The teenager, Feliks Zemdegs, took an average of 8.18 seconds to solve the classic 3x3 Cube. His fastest time was 7.36 seconds. He also won the 4x4 and one-handed 3x3 contests. Dutchman Mats Valk came ...

Students at Purdue University in the US have developed a robot Rubik's Cube champion, capable of solving the famous puzzle faster than the blink of an eye. Dubbed the Purdubik's Cube, this robotic ...