7 surprising facts about the Rubik's cube

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Did you know that Rubik's cube record holders are traditionally teenagers and children? It is believed to be due to more flexible neural connections. The reigning champion Patrick Pons is only 15 years old: the guy solved the Rubik's cube in 4, 69 seconds.

1. Rubik's cube was invented by the Hungarian sculptor and architecture teacher Ernö Rubik. In recent years, the author of the puzzle has been video game development … Ernö Rubik spent whole monthwhen he himself first tried to solve the Rubik's cube.

2. Any color combination in the classic Rubik's cube can be achieved in less than 20 moves.

3. Rubik's Cube has 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 possible permutations. Within the framework of human thinking, such a value is practically infinity.

4. Luck will not help you. If the player makes a permutation once per second, he will need 4200 trillion yearsto iterate over all possible configurations.

5. World record holders of past years - Felix Zemdegs (4.73 seconds), Lucas Etter (4.40 seconds), Colin Burns (5.25 seconds), Mats Wolf (5.55 seconds). They all used the Friedrich method. But it is not at all so simple: there is about 120 algorithms to solve the puzzle using this method.

6. The average person rarely thinks that the speed of assembly depends not only on the method: the cube must be of high quality and pre-oiled, because time goes by for a fraction of a second.

7. The toy turned out to be very popular: about 350 million Rubik's cubes were sold all the time. Every sixth person in the world already found an algorithm to solve this problem.