The Rubiks Cube

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By The Coconut Club Navinn Kumar Muhammad Haikal Muhammad Al Amin Muhammad Haziq Muhammad Afiq

Rubik's Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ern Rubik. Common misspellings include rubix cube and rubics cube. This plastic cube comes in four widely available versions: the 222 ("Pocket Cube"), the 333 standard cube, the 444 ("Rubik's Revenge"), and the 555 ("Professor's Cube"). The 333 version, which is the version usually meant by the term "Rubik's Cube", has nine square faces on each side, for a total area of fifty-four faces, and occupies a volume of twenty-seven unit cubes. Typically, the faces of the Cube are covered by stickers in six solid colours, one for each side of the Cube. When the puzzle is solved, each side of the Cube is a solid colour. The original 333 version celebrated its twentyfifth anniversary in 2005, when a special edition Cube in a presentation box was released, featuring a sticker in the centre of the white face (which was replaced with a reflective surface) with a "Rubik's Cube 1980-2005" logo. Originally called the Magic Cube by its inventor, it was renamed Rubik's Cube in 1980 by Ern Rubik and released worldwide in May of that year, winning a Spiel des Jahres (game of the year) special award for Best Puzzle. It is said to be the world's best-selling toy, with some 300,000,000 Rubik's Cubes and imitations sold worldwide. One of the most famous cubing method is speedcubing

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Many speedcubing competitions have been held to determine who can solve the Rubik's Cube in the shortest time. From 2003 - 2006 there have been 72 official competitions with 33 of them in 2006 alone. The first world championship organized by the Guinness Book of World Records was held in Munich on March 13, 1981. All cubes were moved 40 times and rubbed with petroleum jelly. Official winner with a record of 38 seconds was Jury Froeschl, born in Munich. The first international world championship was held in Budapest on June 5, 1982, and was won by Minh Thai, a Vietnamese student from Los Angeles, with a time of 22.95 seconds. Many individuals have recorded shorter times, but these records were not recognized due to lack of compliance with agreed-upon standards for timing and competing. Only records set during official World Cube Association (WCA)-sanctioned tournaments are acknowledged. In 2004, the WCA established a new set of standards, with a special timing device called a Stackmat timer. Erik Akkersdijk of the Netherlands set the current world record of 7.08 seconds at the 2008 Czech Open held on July 12-13, 2008. The official world record based on an average of the middle three out of five Rubik's Cubes is 10.63 seconds, set by Tomasz Zolnowski, on April 4, 2009, at the 2009 Warsaw Open. Both records are recognized by the World Cube NEXT Association.

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