Cracking the Cube: Going Slow to Go Fast and Other Unexpected Turns in the World of Competitive Rubik's Cube Solving

Author: Ian Scheffler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A journalist and aspiring "speedcuber" attempts to break into the international phenomenon of speedsolving the Rubik's Cube-think chess played at the speed of Ping-Pong-while exploring the Cube's rise to iconic status around the globe and the lessons that can be learned through solving it. When Hungarian professor Erno Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube (or, rather, his Cube) in the 1970s out of wooden blocks, rubber bands, and paper clips, he didn't...Read more