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New world record by Leyan Lo
January 15, 2006 - A 20-year-old California Institute of Technology student set a new world's record Saturday for solving the popular Rubik's Cube puzzle, turning the tiled brain-twister from scrambled to solved in 11.13 seconds. More... |
 Japanese puzzlers go back to basics
September 6, 2005 - It was an era of nuclear brinkmanship, trade wars and decidedly iffy hairstyles. But in Japan the early 1980s is also remembered as the heyday of a chunky plastic puzzle that drove millions of children to distraction. More... |
 Squaring up the cube
February 5, 2005 - With his eyes blindfolded, his nimble fingers twist and twirl the cube in a frenzy. His visage intent and mind focussed, he races through the moves encoded in his memory to crack the puzzle which had sent millions crazy in the 80s. More... |
 Rutgers Rubik's Cube whiz competes
January 21, 2005 - Bob Burton wasn't always a whiz at Rubik's Cube. But he's come a long way since then. The Rutgers College sophomore found himself competing against some of the world's fastest solvers Saturday. More... |
 New name into the Guinness World Record book
December 11, 2004 - A new Guinness World record was set when an electrical engineering student solved the most Rubik's cubes ever in one hour in Johannesburg on Saturday. Mitchell Brom, 21, solved 42 cubes at Sandton City Camera Land. More... |
 Rubik's Cube and speed Rubik's Cube solving
August 9, 2003 - I've never solved a Rubik's Cube in my life. Well, that's actually a lie. I did. I took the sucker apart, and reassembled it into the correct configuration. That's how an Engineer should solve those things. But I digress. More... |
 If you thought that crazy Russian's cube was enough, you were wrong...
January 3, 2000 - Ok, it's 1983 I'm sitting in my room trying to get the Rubik's cube I got for Christmas to go back to its original color scheme. More... |
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Beginners
Learn the notation
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This is an essential step before you start manipulating the Cube. Note that every solution provider may have a different way of denoting the faces, rows and columns of a Rubik's cube. More...
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Facts and figures
Did you know...
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... that there is only one correct answer but exactly 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 wrong ones for Rubik's Cube?
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Quotes
by Erno Rubik
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"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you." More...
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First world champion
Minh Thai in 22.95s
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The first world championship took place on June 5, 1982 in Budapest. More...
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Archives
Sensational articles!
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S. Ganesan meets wonder boy Bernett Orlando, endowed with memory that defies his age.
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