![]() ![]() And I decided since everyone thought it was dumb that I was obsessed with things I would teach them how to solve a Rubik’s cube so they too saw the magic and became obsessed…I taught someone who got really good and caught on fast then challenged me to a showdown. Extract 2: “I was once addict as well.Every time I try to stop, I can't put it down for five minutes! I just have to solve it! Everyone says it’s just a phase but I really don't think it is”. Extract 1: “I have recently been diagnosed with Rubik’s Cube Addiction Syndrome and it is getting out of control.Their focus is on speed, stamina or overcoming extra obstacles-such as being blindfolded." There was a spike in sales in the US in 2006, attributed to Will Smith's movie The Pursuit of Happyness, in which Smith's homeless character solves a Rubik's Cube and impresses a businessman.Extreme devotees find completing it easy. There are said to be 43 quintillion permutations-the number of possible positions the cube can hold…Some see it as a challenge-like swimming the Channel or climbing Everest-that must be overcome. It all relies on impressive engineering-an internal pivot allowing both the rows and columns to turn. The challenge then is to return it to its original state with each side a single colour. That is, until the cube has been thoroughly scrambled. Every face is a different colour-white, red, blue, orange, green and yellow. ![]() As an object it has charm-its colours, the distinctive rattle as the pieces turn, a pleasing feel in the hand…The traditional cube has six faces each with three squares by three. After being relaunched in 1980 as the Rubik's Cube, it sold an estimated 350 million around the world. A robot can do it in 3.253…The Magic Cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik. “In the 1980s, Rubik's Cubes seemed to be everywhere, but there are still legions of people obsessed with the coloured puzzles. ![]()
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