Magic cube also called Rubik’s cube is a popular puzzle developed by Erno Rubik in 1974. It has gained  popularity. It was awarded the German Game of the year in 1980 and the best puzzle.

A standard Rubik’s cube has got six faces with different colors facing towards us. In the standard Rubik’s cube the color scheme is: white opposite yellow, red opposite orange and green opposite blue. The first company to manufacture Rubik’s cube was Rubik’s Brand Limited in Hungary and is named after Erno Rubik. The company started to export

Rubik’s cube world wide from the 1980s.

A standard Rubik’s cube is 2¼ inches in each side. It consists of six center pieces (a piece with only one color), 12 edge pieces (a piece with 2 colors) and eight corner pieces (a piece with 3 colors). It has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 numbers of scrambled possibilities (approximately 43 quintillion) but a few standard ways to solve them.

The most popular method for beginner’s cubers is a layer by layer method where each layer is solved to completely solve a cube. It was developed by David Singmaster. But the most popular speed cubing method is the Fridrich method developed by Jessica Fridrich. In this method, a cross is made in a side and two layers are solved simultaneously. It allows you to solve a cube in an average of 55 moves where you have to roughly remember 120 algorithms.

Many speed cubing competitions are held every year all over the world. The umbrella organization for cubing is World Cube Association which holds cubing competitions every two years where competitors compete in different ways to solve it. One handed solving, blindfolded solving, solving by feet, solving in fewest possible moves and

so on.

The world record for the quickest solve is held by Lucas Etter in an incredible time of 4.90 seconds and the world record for average is by Feliks Zemdeks with an amazing time of 6.54 seconds followed by his own record in one handed solving in 10.87 seconds, and the world record for blindfolded solve is by Kaijun Lin in an unbelievable time of 21.05 seconds. A robot had set a record to solve a Rubik’s cube in 0.900 seconds.

Therefore, buy these twisty puzzles and start solving them. You will feel refreshed and annoyed too if you won’t be able to solve them. Do enjoy these mind blowing puzzles!