The Rubik's Cube was at its prime in the 1980s, among Care Bears and big hair. In fact, more than 100 million of these puzzles were sold in that decade. But while many 80s fads went the way of the ...

Look out, cubing fans, the master of Rubik’s has outdone himself again. Max Park, a 21-year-old California native, was declared the new world record holder last week after solving a 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube ...

Rubik’s Cubes are perplexing puzzles, especially if you don’t know the rotations required to solve them. Doing so has become a speedrun of sorts, as folks the world over compete to finish one as fast ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. – If you’ve ever tried solving a Rubik’s Cube, it’s likely taken you a while – perhaps a few hours, a few days, a few weeks, or even longer. But how about solving a Rubik’s Cube in ...

A six-year-old girl from China has set a new women’s world record for solving the 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube in 5.97 seconds. Cao Qixian, of China’s Jiangsu Province, achieved the feat at the Rubik’s Cube ...

In 2010, a group of mathematicians used a bank of supercomputers at Google to show any Rubik's Cube could be solved in 20 moves.

A robot in Japan has set a new world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in the fastest time. Guinness World Records recognised a time of 0.305 seconds for the Mitsubishi Electric machine, breaking the ...

Are you smarter than your smartphone? And how "smart" is that "smart"phone, anyway? At the ARM Developer Conference in Silicon Valley this week, we found out. An HTC Nexus One smartphone was able to ...

Bailey Burns learned how to 'speed cube' to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle in 19 seconds during a parabolic flight. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

This guy’s thinking outside the box. Florian Kastenmeier, of Germany, now holds the Guinness World Record for assembling the largest collection of rotating puzzles in the world — a whopping 1,519. The ...

Move over, human speedcubers. The Rubik’s Cube world has a new champion. Final-year University of Bristol Computer Science student Matt Pidden, seeking a dissertation project, discovered the robot ...