The largest speedcubing event in North America, the Rubik’s WCA North American Championship, is taking place in Minneapolis from July 18-21. Sam Richard is a pro speedcuber and a Rubik’s Ambassador ...

The Rubik's Cube was created 50 years ago by Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik. Over 500 million of them have been sold. Needless to say, the 3D puzzle has captured the imagination of countless students ...

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 ...

We saw the Rubik's Cube prowess of athletes like gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik (BS EE), swimmer Nic Fink (BS Agricultural Engineering, MS EE), and basketball player Canyon Barry (BS Physics, MS Nuclear ...

The last time a human set the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube, it was Max Park, at 3.13 seconds for a standard 3×3×3 cube, set in June 2023. It is going to be very difficult for any human to ...

It was fair and square. A specially designed Mistubuishi robot in Japan set a remarkable Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in a split second. The champion TOKUI Fast Accurate ...

Sam Richard navigates his entire life like it’s a puzzle. While working as a guidance counselor at the Claude Moore Recreation Center in Sterling, he is constantly finding solutions to daily tasks; ...

Move over, human speedcubers. The Rubik’s Cube world has a new champion. Final-year University of Bristol Computer Science student Matt Pidden, seeking a dissertation project, discovered the robot ...

A team of Purdue undergraduates has smashed the world record for the fastest machine solve of a Rubik's cube with the absurd time of 103 milliseconds. For reference, it takes 200 to 300 milliseconds ...

Blink and you'll miss it: A Purdue University student engineering team has built a robot that can solve a Rubik's cube in one-tenth of a second — faster than the average time it takes to blink an eye.

Ernő Rubik, who turns 80 on July 13, finished the prototype of his "Magic Cube" 50 years ago. Fifty years ago, as he sat in his mother’s apartment in Budapest, Hungary, young professor, Ernő Rubik, ...