It was a contest to see who could solve a 3-by-3 Rubik's Cube the fastest. Three brackets of competition separated students into beginners who could solve the cube in 10 minutes or less, intermediate ...

Rubik's Cube inventor has seen his color-matching puzzle go from a classroom teaching tool in Cold War-era Hungary to a worldwide phenomenon with over 450 million cubes sold and a mini-empire of ...

Rubik’s Cube inventor offers advice for solving the timeless puzzle “Problem solving is a very basic activity of the human mind and if a problem is complex you need to divide the problem into ...

Fifty years ago, as he sat in his mother’s apartment in Budapest, Hungary, young professor, Ernő Rubik, finally finished the prototype of his “Magic Cube.” A teacher at the Department of ...

NEW YORK — If you’ve ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It’s worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it.

This weekend, the best Rubik’s Cube solvers in the world are competing at the Rubik’s World Cube Association World ...

The parents of Max Park, the 21-year-old who set a world record for solving a Rubik's Cube in 3.13 seconds, say that cubing "saved their son's life." ...

I wanted to solve a Rubik’s cube -- not because it would be fun, but because of an issue. You know when you bend your fingers and wrist and they crack? Yeah, that was an issue for me because it had ...

Bailey Burns learned how to 'speed cube' to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle in 19 seconds during a parabolic flight.

Practiced cube-solvers can complete the Rubik's Cube in a matter of seconds, with the current world-record holder solving a cube in 3.47 seconds.