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The Rubik’s revolution
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Written by Brandon McClung, The Eagle Staff Reporter
How easy is it tot get one side of a cube to match with all the same colors? How about after it’s been mixed up on a 3x3x3 cube? 4×4? 5×5? It’s not as easy as it may seem. This challenge has taken the form of the Rubik’s Cube.
The Rubik’s Cube has been one of the most popular and challenging games ever. The cube was created by Erno Rubix, a Hungarian sculptor in 1974. It has won German game of the year in 1980 and has sold over 350 million worldwide. The world record for the fastest time solving the cube was 5.6 seconds set by Feliks Zemdegs at the Melbourne Winter Open in 2011. A man by the name of Marcell Endrey solved the cube “blind” in 28.8 seconds at the Zonhoven Open in 2012.
Jymier Johnson, a freshman here at Obama, has been solving Rubik’s Cubes for almost a year now. In a recent interview he tells me that his quickest time was 45 seconds. This is a major improvement from the 10 minutes it took him when he first started. His advice for anyone trying to solve the cube was “Do your research. It’s that easy! It’s not that hard.”
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May 10th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
wow. my fastest is only just under 5 minutes. but he’s right; solving rubix cubes are actually incredibly easy once you know how. and once you know the method, it works for any size cube. so after that, it’s just practice getting faster.
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