Who is the inventor of rubik cube

Well, it was clear from the get-go that the Cube is all about vast complexities and astronomic numbers. The Cube has become world-famous and some of its fame has also covered me with some stardust. But I have always been careful not to be too near the limelight…. Speedcubing is a magical glue that holds a global cubing community together. Friendships across continents and even marriages have been made by a shared interest in the Cube.

As a sport, speedcubing is robustly gaining relevance thanks to the enthusiasm of a wonderful grassroots organisation, the World Cube Association and more recently under the professional promotion of Red Bull. Everywhere, really: under water, in deserts, in space, or jumping down from dizzying heights — with or without a parachute.

This phenomenon is obviously more about robotics than cubing and it is mind-blowing to see how this research area is developing at the speed of light. Most recently, an AI robotic hand was introduced solving the cube the way we humans would do. He also appears in the upcoming edition of Guinness World Records out 14 September , along with several of our amazing speedcubing record holders.

Published 13 July Do you still have the prototype of your first cube? At first glance, the cube seems deceptively simple, featuring nine colored squares on each side. In its starting state, each side has a uniform color — red, green, yellow, orange, blue, or white. To solve the puzzle, you must twist the cubes so that eventually each side returns to its original color: The challenge is the astounding number of potential variations — more than 43 quintillion of them. To master the cube, you must learn a sequence of movements that can be performed in successive order — the subject of several best-selling books as well as online tutorials.

And the evolution of the cube — from a three-by-three-by-three shape to larger four-by-four-by-four and five-by-five-by-five ones — offers different complicated mathematical principles of group theory.

Sitting on the patio of his home in the hills of Budapest, Rubik, now 76, fiddled with a cube as he recalled its "discovery" and accidental success. After creating the cube, he explained, he was faced with a second challenge: how to solve it. At the time, he had no idea if his cube could even be put back into place, let alone how fast — and it took him a full month to solve his own puzzle.

It was fiendishly difficult "to find your way back, or to find your target — just to solve it as a combinatorical problem,'' he said.

His resume includes stints as a professor, architect, designer, editor and, now, writer.