How do you know Rubik? I was about 12 years old when my auntie brought Rubik as gift for us, me and my cousin, one for each. I remembered we tried it so hard just to finish a single side. It felt like winning a lottery when could finish 2 sides. No internet at that time, so you could not surf to find out how to solve for all 6 sides. And, no one played it in my home town. It was not popular.
I am very surprise when i knew my brother started playing Rubik recently. He said it is quite popular for people playing it now, even there is a community for it.
What do you know about Rubik?
The Rubik’s Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernö Rubik. It is widely considered to be the world’s best-selling toy. In a classic Rubik’s Cube, each of the six faces is covered by 9 stickers, among six solid colors (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow). A pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colors. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid color. The original 3×3×3 version celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005. (source: Wikipedia)
The current world record for single time on a 3×3×3 Rubik’s Cube was set by Erik Akkersdijk in 2008, who had a best time of 7.08 seconds at the Czech Open 2008. The world record average solve is currently held by Tomasz Zolnowski; which is 10.63 seconds at the Warsaw Open 2009.
Abel Brata Susilo is the fastest man in Indonesia who hold this title on January 31st, 2007 as recorded on MURI (Indonesia World Record Museum). His best time is 19.33 seconds. But, it’s been re-new down to 14.44 second on last August 30th, 2009 at Indonesia Open 2009 by Abel Brata Susilo, himself.
And, another interesting news, a robot could solve it in 47 seconds during Indonesia Robotic Olympiade event (IRO 2009) on last August 9th, 2009 at Jakarta. The Lego robot – robot’s name, has a specialized skill to solve Rubik cube.
How about my brother? Well, he could manage it around 38 seconds, not bad, right? Faster than robot !
How to learn and solve it?
Here is a good one for learning. I found in English and Indonesia language. And if you are in Indonesia, you could join to Indonesia Speedsolvers Community (ISC), where you could interact, learn, share anything about Rubik.
It’s a pleasure to tell that we are available in mobile web if you browsed us using mobile phone. It would have a simple and friendly look for mobile browsing. Simple makes it faster in loading speed, while friendly look gives easy navigation.
Why is in mobile web version ?
Simply, current gadget development progress opened this opportunity. Smartphone, BlackBerry, iPhone, and common mobile phone are enabled for internet browsing. More and more people use this option to get connected to internet, instead of using computer.
And, 3G with HDSPA connection gives a high speed connection and faster loading bandwidth.
These become a reason why many websites and even blogs are also optimized for mobile web version.
Our internal statistic supports and proves it. Symbian, iPhone and BlackBerry are on our Top 10 Operation System used, instead of Windows, Linux, and Mac-OS. And Opera mobile web browser is on our Top 5 Browser used list.
Those figures encourage us to create a mobile version for our blog.
There are several option available to make mobile web version. Either using third party which offering this function freely, or build it internally. But, with WordPress makes it even simple by using plug-in available.
So now, you could easily visit our blog anywhere, anytime, and by using ANY GADGET.
It’s good to be back. So glad to be back again.
After the last disaster or catastrophe (read: Houston, we got a problem !!!), this blog is fully recovered now. Of course, there were something lost, which mentioned on the previous post before. Most of comments and all blog statistics are gone.
All postings are retrieved back again. Luckily, we still kept backups on Windows Live Writer and our off-line back-up, so they could be re-published again.
Moreover, we switch to a new hosting place as well, which reliable hopefully. We don’t know about an access or loading speed, but you may always give us a feedback.
Learning experience?
Always backup the database and upload data regularly, and DO checking and verify it ASAP (Our database backup is corrupted, even downloaded successfully).
If you are aware, there are some new features on this blog. That’s right, we take this chance to review existing plugins and implement new ones such as, the Pandu social profile (left blog page), 125 x 125 advertisement slots (You are welcome to advertise, contact us for more info), and our Twitter update, which we think these would be useful, attractive, powerful, and suitable to this blog.
Last, we are sure the Pandu is stabile and ready to be fully operated now. We are welcome to your comment, suggestion, feedback, idea, and question. You could use all channels available.
It’s good to be back, so good to be back … (performed by Natalie Cole).
It’s true, not a joke! We got a problem with blog database and files since yesterday. A catastrophe, what a big lost.
We are really sorry if any of your comment were lost.
Update progress will be followed.
Update news !
PlayGround page is recovered !!! (03-11-2009)
All posts are back again, all components work well now 
(06-11-2009)
Lost, is only for comments & stats …