Few things reveal the limits of someone’s problem-solving skills faster than a Rubik’s Cube, the multicolored, three-dimensional puzzle that has befuddled so many since the 1970s. Though the ...

The world record for unscrambling a Rubik's cube keeps dropping, as fleet-fingered speedcubers hone their pattern recognition and "lookahead" skills.

Nature | 4 min read AI solves the Rubik’s cube For the first time, a deep-learning algorithm has taught itself an efficient way to solve a Rubik’s cube.

The Rubik's Cube is a classic puzzle toy, but trying to solve it for the first time can be a daunting task. Fortunately, there are some very good guides that show you how to tackle the puzzle.

To win the World Cube Championships -- a place where top competitors can solve the frustrating (to the rest of us) Rubik's Cube puzzle in under 10 seconds -- Max Park deftly flipped the squares ...

Researchers at the University of California believe they've created an algorithm that can solve the Rubik's Cube on its own. It depends on "autodidactic iteration" which is a "novel reinforcement ...

I assumed that successfully unscrambling a cube would forever remain on my bucket list, but a smart Rubik’s Cube is finally teaching me the strategies to solve one.

In fact, there’s a concept in the world of the Rubik’s cube known as God’s algorithm, which would be the way to solve a cube if an all-knowing deity eyeballed it and simply knew how to solve ...

How to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 2 minutes You’ll be able to impress all your friends (and make some new ones) with this trick.