December 18, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google A Rubik’s Cube or “magic cube” can be configured over 43 quintillion ways, and every configuration can ...

This week, 14-year-old Lucas Etter set a new world record for solving the classic Rubik’s cube in Clarksville, Maryland, in the US, solving the scrambled cube in an astonishing 4.904 seconds. The ...

From square one, 8-year-old Everett McCauley is learning to think outside the box in order to solve one. A third-grader at Bamber Valley Elementary School, Everett is a “cuber” who can solve a 2-by-2 ...

You’d be forgiven for assuming that this video was the work of a talented animator, a visual effects artist, or an illusionist. But the only magic at play here is magnets and a magnificent execution ...

WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez learned to solve a Rubik's cube from Tyson Mao, one of the co-founders of the World Cube Association. In two weeks, Robbie got his solve time down from 45 minutes with Tyson, ...

Earlier this year, while putting together a video about the world’s fastest solvers of the Rubik’s Cube, I decided to devote some time to learning to solve the classic puzzle myself. Tyson Mao, a ...