Mathematically the Rubik’s Cube is a permutation group. It has 6 different colors and each color is repeated exactly 9 times, so the cube can be considered as an ordered list which has 54 elements with numbers between 1 and 6, each number meaning a color being repeated 9 times.We can rotate the 6 faces of the cube so we can define 6 basic operations or permutations which rearrange the ordered list in a certain way. Repeating and combining these permutations we can define new permutations, which rearrange the list in an other way

The Rubik’s cube has a lot of direct and indirect benefits. Some of them are that it will help you improve your cognitive and problem-solving abilities as well as your memory. It will also teach you many life lessons like patience, perseverance and focus in the process. These benefits are what you will notice when you solve the cube not just once but many times, every single day.

The Rubik’s Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. According to the inventor himself, “There are axises, to turn the axises you turn the faces, it contains 27 different pieces. What you can see is only 26, because there is one in the middle”.

The reason the Rubik’s cube became so popular was because of its incredibly simplistic design, combined with its extreme difficulty. With over 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible positions on the puzzle, it added to the challenge of solving it.It has therefore become a puzzle that is both admirable as well as irritable when people think about it.

The Rubik’s Cube is not age restricted. Any person who is between 5 to 99 can solve the cube and benefit from it.

No.There is no concrete evidence to support the claim that solving a Rubik’s Cube increase the Intelligence Quotient of a person. Although a correlation can be seen with people who know how to solve the cube and people with high IQ, there is no proof that solving it will increase IQ.

There are many advantages to solving the Rubik’s cube that will indirectly help your brain become sharper. For one, it betters your eye-hand coordination. It improves your concentration in general and ensures that you can process your thoughts faster. It makes you more patient and a better problem solver. It also improves your finger dexterity and agility.

It’s not you – solving a Rubik’s cube quickly is officially hard. A recent study shows that the question of whether a scrambled Rubik’s cube of any size can be solved in a given number of moves is called “NP-complete: That’s maths lingo for a problem even mathematicians find hard to solve. But under the right guidance and training, anyone can learn to solve the cube.

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It’s estimated that less than 5.8% of the world’s population can solve the Rubik’s Cube. Here’s how you can learn to solve the Rubik’s Cube 

The number of algorithms vary based on the methods used but one method exists which has a total of 537 different algorithms to remember. Although it is only used by speed cubers, they use a combination of different methods so they do not have to remember all the different algorithms. However, there are a small group of people who have learnt all of them.