Demonstrating the memorisation and motor skills of some sort of humanoid robot, Hungary’s Marcell Endrey spends three and a half minutes getting to know a scrambled 5×5 Rubik’s Cube, slips on a blindfold, and solves it in just over four minutes.
Last weekend, a new Rubik’s cube world champion was crowned in Bangkok. Polish speedcuber Michal Pleskowicz won the event by completing a Rubik’s Cube in 8.65 seconds, almost a second faster than the first runner-up, American Rowe Hessler, who clocked in at 9.56 seconds.
Why is the number 20 God’s Number? New research has proven that every possible position for the Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less.
Here at Kotaku, we’ve been inundated with Companion Cube stuff: Companion Cube flash cartoons, Companion Cube cakes, Companion Cube papercraft, Companion Cube parodies of current films, Companion Cube costumes (I don’t think we posted any of those), Companion Cube fuzzy and cute plushies … and now, those of you who are Companion Cube crazy can make your own Companion (Rubik’s) Cube! Stephen at Live Granades has complete instructions for making your own custom Rubik’s cube, with printable graphics for your very own Companion Cube. The materials list is pretty simple.
