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 ...

Since its invention in the 1970s, there have only been a few things that have revealed the limits of problem solving skills in humans faster than a Rubik’s Cube. The 3D multicoloured, logic puzzle has ...

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has created computers that can drive cars, synthesise chemical compounds, fold proteins and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman level. However, these ...

Australian Feliks Zemdegs is defending his Red Bull Rubik’s Cube 3x3 speedcubing title in Moscow on November 17. The 23-year-old, dubbed the Usain Bolt of Rubik’s Cube solving in some circles for his ...

A team of four students at Purdue University has built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about one-tenth of a second The robot, which the team has dubbed the “Purdubik’s Cube,” solves the ...

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 ...

My average time is six seconds to solve a Rubik's Cube He can solve it with one hand, he can solve it while running and he can solve it with a glance, while in conversation. Meet Ireland’s reigning ...

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 ...