Rubik's Cube

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The Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974[1&#93; by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the "Magic Cube",[2&#93; the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toys in 1980[3&#93; and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. As of January 2009, 350 million cubes have sold worldwide[4&#93; [5&#93; making it the world's top-selling puzzle game.[6&#93; [7&#93; It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy.[8&#93;

In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, among six solid colours (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow).[9&#93;  Red is usually opposite orange, yellow opposite white, and blue opposite green. A pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid colour. Similar puzzles have now been produced with various numbers of stickers, not all of them by Rubik. The original 3×3×3 version celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2010.

The Rubik's Cube has over 43,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations and only one solution. It is theorized from any solvable state on a cube, you can solve it within 20 moves. This is called God's number. At least two people have solved the cube in 20 moves during the Fewest Moves event at compititions.

The current world record is held by Feliks Zemdegs with a time of 4.22 seconds.