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The Rubik's Cube is a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 [ 2][ 3] by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, [ 4] the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Pentangle Puzzles in the UK in 1978, [ 5] and then by Ideal Toy Corp in 1980 [ 6] via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns ...
Speedcubing, also referred to as speedsolving, is a competitive sport centered around the rapid solving of various combination puzzles. The most prominent puzzle in this category is the 3x3x3 puzzle, commonly known as the Rubik's Cube. Participants in this sport are known as "speedcubers," who focus specifically on solving these puzzles at high ...
The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube. The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube by James G. Nourse is a book that was published in 1981. The book explains how to solve the Rubik's Cube. The book became the best-selling book of 1981, selling 6,680,000 copies that year. It was the fastest-selling title in the 36-year history of Bantam Books .
Rubik's Magic, like the Rubik's Cube, is a mechanical puzzle invented by Ernő Rubik and first manufactured by Matchbox in the mid-1980s. The puzzle consists of eight black square tiles (changed to red squares with goldish rings in 1997) arranged in a 2 × 4 rectangle; diagonal grooves on the tiles hold wires that connect them, allowing them to ...
A Rubik's Cube is in the superflip pattern when each corner piece is in the correct position, but each edge piece is incorrectly oriented. [8] In 1992, a solution for the superflip with 20 face turns was found by Dik T. Winter, of which the minimality was shown in 1995 by Michael Reid, providing a new lower bound for the diameter of the cube group.
6×6×6. 2018 Madrid. 5×5×5. Mats Valk (born 4 May 1996) is a Dutch Rubik's Cube speedsolver. He broke the Rubik's cube single solve world record twice with times of 5.55 seconds in 2013 and 4.74 seconds in 2016. He won the Rubik's Cube European Championship in 2018 [ 1] and was runner-up for 3x3x3 at the Rubik's Cube World Championships in ...
Meffert's. Country. Netherlands. The Gear Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle designed and created by Dutch puzzle maker Oskar van Deventer based on an idea by Bram Cohen. [ 1] It was initially produced by Shapeways in 2009 and known as " Caution Cube " due to the likelihood of getting one's fingers stuck between the gears while speedcubing. [ 2]
The Rubik's Cube group is the subgroup of the symmetric group generated by the six permutations corresponding to the six clockwise cube moves. With this construction, any configuration of the cube reachable through a sequence of cube moves is within the group. Its operation refers to the composition of two permutations; within the cube, this ...