{"id":80,"date":"2010-08-09T21:54:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T21:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2022-07-25T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:27:41","slug":"rubiks-cube-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/08\/rubiks-cube-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubik’s Cube Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I had planned to write about some of my favourite puzzles. Today it was discovered that any Rubiks cube (3×3) can be solved in 20 moves or less (www.cube20.org)<\/a>. Recently I learned how to solve a 3×3 rubiks cube, and it takes many more than 20 moves! It’s all about combinations and learning moves.<\/p>\n

7.08 seconds is the world record for solving a Rubiks Cube<\/a>. Below is a video showing this world record. In a following post I’ll add details of how I solve the rubiks cube, albeit a good deal slower, and it won’t be like I done when I was younger and peel off the stickers!<\/p>\n

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If you want to give the Rubiks Cube a go to bring back some memories, head over to www.cube20.org<\/a> or here<\/a>, where there is a Java Applet which can let you have a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had planned to write about some of my favourite puzzles. Today it was discovered that any Rubiks cube (3×3) can be solved in 20 moves or less (www.cube20.org). Recently I learned how to solve a 3×3 rubiks cube, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}