Category: Rubik's Cube Curiosities
Does Solving a Rubik's Cube Make You Smarter?
Do you have to be a genius to solve a Rubik's Cube? Does it make you smarter? What the science says, and what the cube really trains. Read more: Does Solving a Rubik's Cube Make You Smarter?
Rubik's Cube crafts: a stop motion video and some headphones
A stop motion video made by Mexican students and some wooden headphones shaped like a Rubik's Cube. Two ideas to make your own. Read more: Rubik's Cube crafts: a stop motion video and some headphones
The world's most difficult Rubik's Cube: from 17x17 to 33x33
A 17x17 has 1,734 stickers and takes hours to solve. What is the biggest cube in the world? From Kenneth Brandon's 17x17 to the 33x33. Read more: The world's most difficult Rubik's Cube: from 17x17 to 33x33
Rubik's Cube combinations
How many combinations does a Rubik's Cube have? 43,252,003,274,489,856,000. An infographic compares it with the seconds since the Big Bang. Read more: Rubik's Cube combinations
Robots that solve the Rubik's Cube: from 3 seconds to 0.1
In 2014 a Lego robot solved the Rubik's Cube in 3.25 seconds. Today the record is 0.103 seconds. The story of the fastest robots. Read more: Robots that solve the Rubik's Cube: from 3 seconds to 0.1
Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube
Biography of Erno Rubik, the Hungarian architect and professor who invented the Rubik's Cube in 1974: his childhood in Budapest, his work and his puzzles. Read more: Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube
Patrick Bossert, the boy who taught the world to solve the Rubik's Cube
At 13, Patrick Bossert published “You Can Do the Cube”, one of the best-selling Rubik's Cube guides of 1981. His story and his interview on video. Read more: Patrick Bossert, the boy who taught the world to solve the Rubik's Cube
The Cube and I (Rubik's Cube Poem)
The Cube and I: a funny poem about buying a Rubik's Cube, trying to solve it all night and all day, and managing just one side. Read more: The Cube and I (Rubik's Cube Poem)
Rubik's Cube Solutions (without notation)
Most Rubik's Cube guides use a notation you have to learn first. Ours doesn't: why we explain each step with pictures so anyone can solve the cube. Read more: Rubik's Cube Solutions (without notation)
It took Erno Rubik one month to solve his own puzzle
Did you know it took Erno Rubik more than a month to solve his own cube? He wasn't even sure there was a way to do it. This is the story. Read more: It took Erno Rubik one month to solve his own puzzle
