It's been 50 years since the Rubik's Cube first launched, and it's captivated audiences ever since. With a special 50th anniversary retro cube on the list of this year's top toys, the puzzle's ...

We’ve all seen videos of Rubik’s cube champions who can solve the puzzle in less than 5 seconds. And there are cube-twisting robots that can solve the cube even faster, often in under a second.

Solving Rubik’s Cubes is a learnable skill. However, to compete at the top level, you’ll have to train hard. Speed cubers can solve a 3×3 cube in under ten seconds these days, after all.

A woman will be competing against others to solve a Rubik's Cube as quickly as possible when an event is held later this month. Emily Marshall, 19, said there was "a wonderful community" around ...

The Rubik's Cube is a puzzle challenging people ... It was then tested on 1,000 of these and managed to solve all of them, finding the shortest path to the solution about 60% of the time.

Retro may be cool, but it’s not fast. Speed cubes take what was great about the original Rubik’s Cube—the joy of solving a beautifully tactile, brightly colored brainteaser—and make the ...

It was a YouTube video that first hooked Alexander Choi, 10, and his brother, Roman, eight, on Rubik’s Cubes last ... ever since seeing that first puzzle-solving tutorial, says their mother ...