Speed Cubing at Caltech
19 years, 9 months ago

Speed Cubing at Caltech

Wired  

Will Arnold is working up a sweat as he twists and turns a Rubik's Cube - with his toes. Watching Arnold's feet is fascinating, but the real star here is 15-year-old Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi, who can arrange the cube's multihued matrix into solid-colored sides faster than anyone else on the planet. At the fad's height, a high school student named Jessica Fridrich quietly invented a way to crack the puzzle in under 20 seconds. A Hewlett-Packard employee named Dan Gosbee organized a tournament in Toronto in 2003 - the first in 21 years - and the cube's unlikely comeback was on. - John Geirland POSTS > Trackback Tagging Kids Like Cattle The Online Poker State Lord Vader Pays a Visit Speed Cubing at Caltech Blog Spring Bipolar Innovation

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50 years of the Rubik’s Cube | How a Hungarian professor’s humble teaching tool charmed the world and continues to hold sway in the digital age
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50 years of the Rubik’s Cube | How a Hungarian professor’s humble teaching tool charmed the world and continues to hold sway in the digital age

The Hindu  

On a September afternoon in 1980, I boarded the Coromandel Express at Howrah station. New generations have developed the same strong relationship with the Cube”Ernő Rubik Inventor of the Rubik’s Cube Journey of evolution Ambar Chatterjee, who retired as the head of the nuclear physics division at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, is someone else with cubing experiences from 1980. Milestones …

Meet 9-Year-Old Chinese Boy Who Solved Rubik's Cube In Record-Breaking Average Time
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Meet 9-Year-Old Chinese Boy Who Solved Rubik's Cube In Record-Breaking Average Time

News 18  

It was in 1974 when a Hungarian architecture professor, Erno Rubik, invented the very first Rubik’s Cube. Now, a boy from China has created a new world record by solving a Rubik’s cube in the fastest average time. 9-year-old Yiheng Wang has been garnering praise and appreciation for breaking the record for the fastest average time to solve a 3x3x3 …

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