Even on my laptop’s tinny speakers, the sound is unmis­takable: the click-clacking, slip-sliding sound of a Rubik’s Cube whipping into shape. “It’s my first solve of the day,” says ...

A robot built out of Lego can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about 3.2 seconds, but some 40 years after I first picked up the iconic puzzle, I’ve yet to solve it on my own. I assumed that ...

The Rubik's Cube world champion is 19 years old an can solve it in less than 6 seconds. While you won't get anywhere near his time without some years of practice, solving the cube is really not ...

This week, 14-year-old Lucas Etter set a new world record for solving the classic Rubik’s cube in Clarksville, Maryland, in the US, solving the scrambled cube in an astonishing 4.904 seconds.

A Rubik’s Cube has one core, eight corner cubies, and 12 edge cubies. Creative Commons/Wikivisual The immediate math to be done with those numbers is the total number of ways you can scramble a ...

The simple game is so complex that there are over 43 quintillion (4.3252x10 19) ... The lowest provable number of moves needed to solve a Rubik's cube was 27—until now.