Rubik's cube

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Solving a Rubik's Cube.

“God damnit!”

~ You on a Rubik's Cube

“In Soviet Russia, Rubik's Cube can't solve YOU!!”

~ Russian Reversal on Rubik's Cube

"The Rubik's Cube," also known as the "Magic Cube" or "Impossible Cube," is a torture device invented by Ernő Rubik in 1974. The cube is, in fact, a puzzle, and, despite being impossible to solve, has gained world-wide recognition.

edit The structure of a Rubik's Cube

Your dream.

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The Rubik's Cube itself is manufactured in a variety of ways: 2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, 6x6x6 and 7x7x7. As the dimensions increase, the nerd cred, similar to street cred, gained from solving it exponentially increases. Each visible side of the Cube is covered with a sticker of a certain color. The squares themselves rotate around a central core. The "objective" of the cube is to make each of the six sides of the cube have all the same colored stickers which can only be done by peeling off the stickers and putting them in place.

Your reality.

edit Rubik's Solving Competitions

Humans as a whole are a highly competitive being, and Rubik's solving competitions are an outlet for such competitive nature. There are several types of competitions centered around Rubik's Cube solving ranging from the inane to the insanely inane. The actual current world record for speed solving is held by Feliks Zemdegs with a time of 5.66 seconds who, incidentally, also holds the record for highest number of years gone without companionship. It is to be noted that a faster time was recorded at the Semi-Bi-Annual South Austrian Cubing Cup by a colorblind man named Ronald Dean who "solved" the cube in 4.29 seconds. The final configuration of squares was incorrect, but feeling incredibly sorry for the man, they awarded him the record. To this day, Dean is still under the impression that he is the Garry Kasparov of the cubing world, and has several books on the New York Times best seller list, most of which were purchased out of pity.

edit Solutions To The Cube

Your nightmare.

Over time, various solutions have made their way into the public info-stream through literature, word of mouth, and the internet. Many believe that not figuring out how to solve the cube by ones self is a form of cheating and that the only way to truly "win" is to discover the solution by yourself. However, it's been called into question who the real winner is when taking into account one of them wasted weeks of human life playing with a plastic toy to achieve the same result as one who spent a couple of hours surfing the web.

edit Alternative Rubix Cube Models

• 1x1x1 Rubik's Cube: the hardest Rubix Cube to solve.
• Zen Cube: Identical to a standard Rubix cube, but all of the sides are the same color.
• Sudocube: A Rubix cube with no colors, but with a sudoku puzzle printed on the outside. The National Psychiatric Council is on record as naming the Sudocube as a direct factor in up to 15,000 cases of violent insanity in the month of April alone.
• Tic-Tac-Cube: A simpler version of the Sudocube.
• Sudden Death Rubik's Cube A Rubix cube with a timer activated as the first block leaves starting position. If the user has not solved the cube within a set amount of time, the user suddenly dies, usually by spontaneous combustion.
• Rubik's Pyramid: Resarchers are still debating just how it works.

edit External links

• The real 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube solution! - because foolishness can't last forever!