His average solve time for each Rubik’s cube over the course of that video demonstration run was 14.79 seconds. He says he had an average solve time as low as 12.50 seconds during two practice ...

Earlier this year, while putting together a video about the world’s fastest solvers of the Rubik’s Cube, I decided to devote some time to learning to solve the classic puzzle myself. Tyson Mao ...

The sought-after Rubik’s Cube algorithms are those that move just a few of the cubies while leaving the rest untouched. The limitations to the algorithms are the key to that number 12.

The Rubik's Cube is a massively well-known puzzling tactile toy, one that has been enjoyed since it arrived on the market in 1977. The difficulty and problem-solving prowess needed to unscramble ...

Rubik’s Cube, Rubik’s polyhedra and all the many knockoffs that have appeared in the cube’s wake are known as permutation puzzles because they are based on moves that rearrange, or permute ...

In 2010, a group of mathematicians and computer programmers proved that any Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves. ... Letters to the Editor.

But a quantum Rubik's cube cranks that possibility space up to infinity. All it takes is to give the solver a new quantum action – the ability to move a piece into a quantum superposition where ...

Among this subset of keeners were Bram Cohen, a computer programmer (and the inventor of BitTorrent, a file-sharing protocol) who devises Rubik’s-like puzzles, such as the Maltese Gear Cube (in ...

A pimply teenager walked us through “The Easiest 10-Minute Rubik’s Cube Lesson,” demonstrating specific processes to tackle each side. Over and over, I fumbled the righty and lefty algorithms.