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Rubik's Slide

Gizmodo praised the device for having a pleasing tactile quality and encouraging repeated play.


Atari Video Cube

The game utilizes a Rubik's Cube, but instead of rotating the sections of the cube, the player runs around, switching out the colors.

It received mostly positive scores from critics—said to be much easier than a real Rubik's Cube.

Bob Burton, Jr.

Tyson Mao agreed, so in the Caltech Summer 2005 tournament, Burton set the single solve world record for the Rubik's Magic (1.28 seconds) and the single solve (3.05 seconds) and average of five (3.54 seconds) world records for the Rubik's Master Magic.

At the 2005 Dutch Open Championship, Burton set the American record for the Rubik's Clock for single solve (24.12 seconds) and mean (32.68 seconds).

Chattahoochee High School

Notable clubs are the quiz bowl team, which tied for 7th nationally at the National Academic Quiz Tournaments High School National Championship Tournament in 2009 and 8th in 2012, the Rubik's Cube Club, the Beta Club, and the chess club, which placed 3rd overall in the 2008 Georgia High School Team State Championship.

Chuck Hoberman

In addition to toys such as the Hoberman sphere, the largest of which resides at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, Hoberman created the BrainTwist, a hard plastic tetrahedron that folds, stellates, and becomes self-dual while having a component that rotates similarly to a Rubik's Cube.

David Singmaster

A self-described metagrobologist, he is most famous for his cube notation to the Rubik's Cube (i.e., what letters denote what face to turns on the Rubik's Cube) and his huge personal collection of mechanical puzzles and books of brain teasers.

Édouard Chambon

Édouard Chambon (Valence), is a French software engineer who formerly was world record holder for fastest single time on a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube with a time of 9.18 seconds and fastest average time of 11.48 seconds.

Eric Drysdale

His best-known song, "This Rubik's Cube is Driving Me Crazy" was performed on an episode of Comedy Centrals Premium Blend in 2000.

Eric Limeback

He is currently ranked 50th in the world for speedsolving the Rubik's Cube.

His official YouTube channel has tutorials on how to solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded.

H.E.R.B.I.E.

Said powers fluctuate due to Franklin's failure to solve a Rubik's Cube and a nearby TV show urging someone to 'grow up'.

Holden Thorp

In the summer of 1981, at age 17, while studying guitar at Boston's Berklee College of Music, Thorp won first place and a $500 prize in a northeast regional competition to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle.

Implicit graph

For instance, in searching for a solution to a puzzle such as Rubik's Cube, one may define an implicit graph in which each vertex represents one of the possible states of the cube, and each edge represents a move from one state to another.

Jessica Fridrich

Fascinated by puzzles and complex geometry, Fridrich even has Rubik's Cube inventor Ernő Rubik's signature in her notebook.

Lawrence Leung

He is best known for his television series Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure based on his one man shows that tell stories around his obsessions such as breakdancing, ghosts, the Rubik's Cube and his family.

Lethal Inspection

In order to get to Hermes cubical, the group rotates right and left and up and down in the same fashion as a Rubik's Cube.

Macky Makisumi

He is best known for setting several world records for speedcubing, or quickly solving the Rubik's Cube.

Margaret Pomeranz

In 2009's Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure she and David Stratton review Lawrence Leung's attempt to set a world record for solving the Rubik's Cube whilst sky diving, as they sit on the landing site in their trademark armchairs.

MathPath

At MathPath he has taught such courses as problem solving, combinatorics, and solving the Rubik's Cube.

Chess, ping pong, pool, Rubik's Cube, Set and Magic: The gathering tournaments are played and organized during the students' free time.

Monir Amerkhous

Monir competed in the Rubik's Cube French Open organised by the World Cube Association and which took place in Paris the 15th and 16 March 2008.

Monir Amerkhous is a French/Moroccan citizen mainly known for holding the Moroccan national record in Rubik's Cube.

Muscle memory

This plays a role in major speedcubing methods such as Fridrich for the 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube and EG for the 2×2×2 Pocket cube.

Naser al-Din Shah's slide

In Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992: original Persian title: Nasseroddin Shah Actor-e Cinema), Golnar, the feisty heroine of classic Iranian movie Lor Girl (1932) is magically transported to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah, who falls in love with her and forces her to join his harem.

Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

A 4-door sedan was added to the Supreme lineup, with a new front end and a slight taillight lens restyle (resembling a touch-tone dial or Rubik's Cube - this lens style was used until 1984).

Once Upon a Time, Cinema

Transported to the Shah by being sent down his harem slide, Golnar rejects him, and attempts to escape, leading to a slapstick chase-scene.

Richard Fortey

He has also turned his pen to writing dinosaur poems for children and even a spoof book on the Rubik's Cube.

Rubik, Albania

Early Illyrian inhabitants of the area performed rituals which were established by the Roman King Numa Pompilius, yearly on the 25th of April, when farmers would sacrifice a red goat, a red sheep, and offer wine to the goddess.

Rubik's family cubes of all sizes

# Cube size: The number of cubies to be placed is a quadratic (second order polynomial) function of cube size and therefore has a major influence on cube solving complexity.

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Spidron

It was first modelled in 1979 by Dániel Erdély, as a homework presented to Ernő Rubik, for Rubik's design class, at the Hungarian University of Arts and Design (now: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design).

Stanford University Mathematics Camp

Also in 2007, Tyson Mao, one of the best cube solvers in the world, taught SUMaC students how to solve the Rubik's Cube.

Tehran Symphony Orchestra

During the years that followed, conductors such as Rubik (Ruben) Gregorian, Morteza Hannaneh, Haymo Taeuber, Heshmat Sanjari, and Farhad Meshkat took over as the conductors of the Orchestra.

The Story of Billy

The pre-ordering of the album began on 10 August 2012 in Taiwan and included a limited edition Rubik's Cube with each pre-order purchase.

Toby Mao

Tobias "Toby" Mao (born December 21, 1988) is one of the world's top competitive Rubik's Cube solvers.

Tyson Mao

Tyson began solving the cube during the Rubik's Cube's second boom in 2003, first using a beginner's method, then the Petrus and Fridrich methods.

Viva Forever

Then they fly him to another place in front of a huge Rubik's Cube.

Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana

The theme song to Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana is a remix of the three shows' opening sequences and theme songs in a format of a Rubik's Cube twisting and turning to the three shows' theme songs; it starts with Wizards of Waverly Place, then The Suite Life on Deck, and followed by Hannah Montana.


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