Did anyone else feel compelled to look Professor Rubik up? He wasn’t bald, didn’t have a mustache, and was a much younger man five minutes after inventing his cube.
I say this just as a curiosity, not an actual criticism.
A handful of geniuses can solve them without hesitation. For the rest of us, there are a few basic algorithms for switching colors in specific locations. The instructions usually come packaged with the cube. Learn those and anyone can make it look pretty simple.
JayBluE almost 10 years ago
It was a good idea, at first …. – It seemed to work so well on paper….
Kyle Robert almost 10 years ago
Did anyone else feel compelled to look Professor Rubik up? He wasn’t bald, didn’t have a mustache, and was a much younger man five minutes after inventing his cube.
I say this just as a curiosity, not an actual criticism.
katina.cooper almost 10 years ago
And then his grand daughter came in and said, “WOW, I bet this could make a whole bunch of money if we sold this”.
JayBluE almost 10 years ago
And he struggled with it so much.. I just know he’d been waiting to say: “Now that we’ve gotten that squared away…”
Seeker149 Premium Member over 9 years ago
A handful of geniuses can solve them without hesitation. For the rest of us, there are a few basic algorithms for switching colors in specific locations. The instructions usually come packaged with the cube. Learn those and anyone can make it look pretty simple.
Nyckname over 5 years ago
I never got much below ninety seconds on it.
If I’m remembering the story correctly, it was invented almost simultaneously by someone in Japan.