I worked on that thing for a decade of my life to just get 2 sides. My son picks one up and solves after a weekend. Now he can do it any time he wants and I still cant. I would like to choke Old Man Rubik!!

:lol:

 

I have broke many cubes in my day.

 

All different colors, pictures, textures, countries of origin, years, makes and models.

 

I can usually break one within about 17 seconds of trying to solve it.

 

My personal record was a complete shattering in 4.8 seconds.

 

Thats a good record. I will have to try and break it :lol:.

Thats a good record. I will have to try and break it :lol:.

 

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

 

LOL

Some Rubik's Cube facts...

 

Ernő Rubik invented the Cube in the spring of 1974 in his home town of Budapest, Hungary. He wanted a working model to help explain three-dimensional geometry and ended up creating the world’s best selling toy.

 

Rubik called his invention the ‘Magic Cube’. It was renamed the Rubik’s Cube by the Ideal Toy Corporation in 1980.

 

More than 300 million Rubik’s Cubes have been sold worldwide. If all the cubes were placed on top of each other they would reach the top of Mount Everest, twice!

 

At the height of the Rubik’s craze in the mid-1980s, it was estimated that one-fifth of the world’s population had played the Cube.

 

‘Cubing’ still infects people of all ages. ‘Cubaholics’ (AKA statman) are said to suffer from ‘Rubik's wrist’ and ‘Cubist's thumb’!

 

There are edible cubes, jewel-encrusted Cubes and even MP3 playing cubes! The biggest Cube in the world, on display in Knoxville, Tennessee, is 3 metres tall and weighs over 500kg.

 

National and international ‘speedcubing’ championships have been held regularly since 2003. The World Cube Association now runs competitions where players have to solve the Cube one-handed, as well as having to solve the Cube using only your feet. There is even a competition where players have to solve the Cube as quickly as possibe blindfolded!

 

In May 2007, Thibaut Jacquinot of France became the first person to complete the Cube in under 10 seconds in open competition, setting a world record time of 9.86 seconds. The current world record for a single solve is held by Yu Nakajima of Japan with a time of 8.72 seconds.

 

The speed Cubing Championships were held in Budapest in October 2007 and were attended by Ernő Rubik himself.

A standard ‘3x3x3’ Rubik’s Cube has 6 coloured sides, 21 pieces and 54 outer surfaces.

 

This means there are more than 43 quintillion possible configurations, or 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 to be exact. But there is only one solution.

 

Allowing a second for each turn, it would take 1400 trillion years to go through all the possible configurations. By comparison, the universe is around 13 billion years old.

 

‘God’s algorithm’ is the name given to the formula for solving the cube in the least possible number of moves. Scientists put this figure at 25.

 

 

All the above info, including that in post #19, came from Rubik's official website... http://www.rubiks.com/World/Cube%20maths.aspx

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