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So, I googled "how to solve a Rubik's cube," and discovered a bunch of educational videos, one of which billed itself being "the easiest way to solve a Rubik's cube." ...
Blink and you'll miss it: A Purdue University student team has built a robot that can solve a Rubik's cube in one-tenth of a second.
Half a century and 500 million sales later, it’s estimated that one in every seven people on the planet has attempted to solve what became “Rubik’s Cube,” a puzzle with a mind-boggling 43 ...
Purdue University Blink and you might miss it: A new robot developed by college students can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 0.103 seconds, setting a new world record.
A team of mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a quantum Rubik's cube, with infinite possible states and some weird new moves available to solve it.
If you want to become the fastest human to ever solve a Rubik’s cube, you need to beat the 3.13 second Guinness World Record set by Max Park in June 2023. Unfortunately, you’ll need superhuman ...
The parents of Max Park, the 21-year-old who set a world record for solving a Rubik's Cube in 3.13 seconds, say that cubing "saved their son's life." ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matthew Petrohay about his team's undergraduate project at Purdue University. They built a robot that set a new world record for shortest time to solve a Rubik's cube.