World's Fastest RUBIK's Cube Solver?

Okay - so M. Night Shyamalan's dream was to be a RUBIK's cube champion. As for me, never did I solve the RUBIK's cube in all of my life, until NIWeek that is. NIWeek is held every year in Austin, and is a Worldwide Virtual Instrumentation conference. This year, the show was nothing short of last year and had all the bells and whistles - including a RUBIK's cube solver. Here is an article from DesignNews covering this demo.

On YouTube, you can find this solver - that solves the "specialized" RUBIK's cube in under a minute.


This application is designed to solve any RUBIK's cube that is of standard size in under 2 minutes and 26 moves. In fact, the students and professors are so confident that they are applying to the Guiness Book of World Records for the fastest RUBIK's cube solver.

Here is a video of their solver:



Some RUBIK's Cube Facts:

• Invented in Hungary by Sculptor Erno RUBIK
• A Rubik's Cube can have (8! × 3⁸⁻¹) × (12! × 2¹²⁻¹)/2 = 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 original start positions (save your breath - its 43 QUINTILLION)
• The first world championship was held in Budapest on June 5, 1982 and was won by Minh Thai, a Vietnamese student from Los Angeles, with a time of 22.95 seconds.

Cheers... Nomad