Rubik’s Cube- Exercise Your Mind, Improve Your Memory & Improve Problem Solving Skills

Rubik’s Cube

It’s important for your health not only to exercise your body, but also exercising your mind plays a big part of a healthy body, this is why this week we bring you the Rubik’s Cube. The Rubik’s Cube was invented by Ernő Rubik, a professor in Budapest, Hungary. His vision was to help his students understand three-dimensional architecture problems.

In 1982 is where Speedcubing became a global sport and the first world championship took place in Budapest, where 19 people competed and the America’s Minh Thai took home the win with a single solve time of 22.95 seconds.

The biggest and fastest selling cult ‘toy’ of all time swept the world by storm in 1982. And now it’s back.

Rubik’s cube has six different coloured sides, each made up of nine squares. Once the faces are jumbled up, you have to twist and twirl them to return each coloured square to its place. Sounds pretty simple? You’d be surprised.

There are… wait for it… 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways of arranging the squares, and only one of these is the solution. So it’s a massive challenge to work it out completely on your own. Fortunately, this time round each cube comes with a fantastic games and solution booklet which shows you how to solve the cube and all about the games you can play including speedsiding: how fast can you solve one side of your cube.

 

How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube | WIRED