Solving Rubik’s Cubes is a learnable skill. However, to compete at the top level, you’ll have to train hard. Speed cubers can solve a 3×3 cube in under ten seconds these days, after all. [aaedmusa] ...

This is the incredible moment that Oliver Frost shaved more than eight seconds off his own world record for solving a 4x4 Rubik's Cube whilst blindfolded. The 21-year-old neuroscience student from the ...

A University of Bristol student has smashed the world record for solving a 4x4 Rubik’s Cube with a robot. Matthew Pidden, 22, built 'The Revenger' in 15 weeks for his dissertation, and it solved the ...

The Rubik’s Cube has only six faces, each presenting only nine cubelets, but the end result is to offer a mind-boggling number of permutations, only one of which embodies the desired solution. The ...

NEW YORK — If you’ve ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It’s worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it. “Problem solving is ...

An international team of researchers using computer time lent to them by Google has found every way the popular Rubik's Cube puzzle can be solved, and showed it can always be solved in 20 moves or ...

How do you learn to solve a Rubik’s Cube? Back in the dawn of twisty-puzzle time the answer was “You Can Do The Cube”, a book that sold over 1.5 million copies in 1981. Today, with a wide range of ...

For Northeastern University computer scientists Gene Cooperman and Daniel Kunkle, Rubik’s Cube isn’t a game—it’s the ultimate combinatorial puzzle, and their solution promises to improve all our lives ...

A 30-year quest to find the fewest number of moves needed to solve any one of the billions of configurations for a Rubik's Cube may have ended. Any scrambled puzzle can be solved in 20 moves or fewer, ...

The Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian architect called Erno Rubik A 30-year quest to find the fewest number of moves needed to solve any one of the billions of configurations for a ...