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 really true. Don’t you want to know, do you? Why I choose this title. Now, I found out a good tool to prepare my blog post – off line. Last time, I need to keep on line when write down a post. Of course, I could use NotePad or Word as for a draft post, which I found not suitable enough.
First of all, I must give a credit to Mas Eko which keep my spirit and bring my motivation back. His post about Windows Live Writer 2009 open my eyes – it is the tool which I looked for.
Not only that, the portable or stand alone version which I downloaded for using is really – really a good tool. If Mas eko used an external hard drive, I decide to use a thumb drive (flash disk) as a media. Now, i could use on any computer as long as installed with .Net Framework.
This post is written down on Windows Live Writer already. It makes my day and what a great weekend !!
It’s almost cloudy in all over Jakarta within past 2 (two) days. Dark cloudy and followed by rain. Rainy season is started, and flood is lying in wait for.Do you know Independence Day movie? Did you watch it? Do you still remember it? It is just like that. Scary and horror.
These pictures are taken on last 2 (two) days using my mobile camera from my office at 4th floor.
This is a picture of Cawang – East Jakarta view. I decided to take picture because of the moment which i told you, and also it is a very interested situation.
Prepare your self and remind your family, friends, colleagues, even your Boss. Take good care of your health. And if you are using car or motorcycle, make sure it is on the perfect condition. Don’t forget to bring some snack on your backpack or bag incase you got trapped under traffic jam.
Last, keep our finger cross and be patience.