Rubik's Facts
A high schooler from Los Angeles solved the cube in 22.95 seconds at the Budapest world championship in 1982.
Fourty-three quintillion is 43 million million million. There are only about 30 million seconds in a year. It would take a thousand million years, looking at a thousand patterns every second, to see all the combinations possible with a Rubik's cube.
It took Erno Rubik one month of solid twisting to solve his creation the first time. He was not even sure there could be a method of solving it prior.
Some people can solve the Rubik's cube in 52 moves from any scrambled position.
Theoretically the shortest path to solving Rubik's cube from any scrambled position is as few as 22 twists. So far no one has succeeded in demonstrating this method.
Within a year of launch, Rubik's cube became the fastest selling puzzle of all time.
Fourty-three quintillion is 43 million million million. There are only about 30 million seconds in a year. It would take a thousand million years, looking at a thousand patterns every second, to see all the combinations possible with a Rubik's cube.
It took Erno Rubik one month of solid twisting to solve his creation the first time. He was not even sure there could be a method of solving it prior.
Some people can solve the Rubik's cube in 52 moves from any scrambled position.
Theoretically the shortest path to solving Rubik's cube from any scrambled position is as few as 22 twists. So far no one has succeeded in demonstrating this method.
Within a year of launch, Rubik's cube became the fastest selling puzzle of all time.
