Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. My son and I just solved our first Rubik’s Cube together. Admittedly, it took a number of ...

They’re known as "speedcubers," young people who can solve the puzzles presented by the colourful cubes in just a few short seconds. Alisa Siegel takes us to a Toronto competition where teens race to ...

It is fitting that this weekend’s Rubik’s Cube World Championship is taking place in Las Vegas. The multi-coloured toy that dominated the youth of millions will feel at home in a city not exactly ...

Speedcuber Levi Gibson at his home in Ashfield. At the Rubik’s World Cube Association World Championship 2025 in Seattle, Gibson solved three randomized cubes with an average of 20.33 moves, placing ...

IT WAS hailed as the world’s first “sub-4”. On November 24th 2018, Yusheng Du, a Chinese Rubik’s Cube enthusiast, solved a standard 3x3x3 cube in an astonishing 3.47 seconds. The feat, now an official ...

A University of Michigan student is one of the world’s foremost “speedcubers,” a person capable of quickly solving a Rubik’s Cube. He also is an accomplished violinist. Stanley Chapel says the two ...

I was just a little old for the Rubik's Cube phenomenon of the 1980's, but my little brother had one and I remember spending the better part of the Christmas vacation he got it trying to solve the ...

This weekend, Edinburgh will host the first major cubing competition in Scotland since the Scottish Championships back in May. Speedcubing remains popular in Scotland and these competitions attract ...