How Rubik are you ?
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.
Popularity: 6% [?]
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
I can’t play games like this as it makes me frustrated
but I’ll check the links and let’s see if there’s a workaround to always solve the game 
jimmy´s last blog ..Yuk Dukung Kampanye Nothing Wasted. Vote for Indonesia!
rudy Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
My brother does, not me
Some site provides a video tutorial too.
Anyway, thanks for your visit.
cuma mau sedikit ralat..rekor tercepat indonesia sekarang 14.44 detik, masih dipegang ama abel brata dibuat pada indonesian open 2009 30 agustus 2009..selain itu indonesia menjadi no 2 dunia untuk kategori multi blindfolded, solved 11 from 11 atas nama wicaksono adi dibuat juga pas indonesian open 2009..:)
rudy Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 9:10 am
@mulyadi, thanks lho untuk updatenya. That’s my brother
rudy´s last blog ..How Rubik are you ?
Pertama kali saya kenal Rubik kalau tidak salah saat saya berusia 6 tahun atau 7 tahun, beberapa kali bertemu dengan game ini setelah SMP, SMA juga Kuliah namun sekalipun tidak pernah berhasil sampai finish:))
Abi´s last blog ..Cari Duit Via Twitter Dengan Ad.ly Dan SponsoredTweets.Com
rudy Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
@Abi, idem Mas Abi, hehehe.
Saya juga ga pernah berhasil, palingan hanya satu permukaan doang.
Howdy mas Pandu..
Rubik? I was about 10 years old when my elder brother bought some.
One side for me was so easy.
6 sides?? .. so frustrating so I had to hide and started removing those sticky colored-label one by one and put it back on the ‘right’ place..
abbie´s last blog ..[Autoblogging MODE: OFF]
rudy Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
hahaha, ga beda jauh kalo gitu
Leave your response!
recent comments
follow us on twitter
tags
activity ariel arthemia becky becky's club blog blogging born chris christmas cloudy collection coloring page cuisine culinary daddy disney domain dot id family first post fun stuff girl's thing greeting history hobby internet jakarta kid zone little mermaid merry christmas mobile phone mommy news new year pandu pdf pippo playground princess recipe rudy siani the Pandu wordpress
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck and Luke Morton requires Flash Player 9 or better.
categories
archives
blog visitor stats
Today: 20, This month: 2628, On-Line: 1supported by
partner links
recent post
Most Commented
Most Viewed