Isabella Wight had been practicing for weeks, meticulously repeating Rubik’s Cube sequences. The Anchorage student admits she has “an unhealthy number of cubes at home.” But like most of the local ...

Solving a Rubik’s Cube is usually as far as most people get. But for those gathered Saturday at the University of Arizona campus to compete in the 2023 AZ Speedcubing Summer, completing the popular ...

Competitors from all over the world raced each other to complete cubes of all shapes and sizes, sometimes blindfolded or one-handed.

A rainbow of colors blur and fingers fly as competitors race to solve the mystical puzzle of the Rubik's Cube. Forty-three quintillion combinations make up the intricacies of a Rubik's Cube. That's 43 ...

Since its invention in 1974, the Rubik's cube has taken the world and its hobbyists by storm. But the brightly-colored block puzzle has also fostered some fierce competition, as global puzzle fanatics ...

Lots of people store Rubik's Cubes in the memory vault along with Cabbage Patch Kids, leg warmers, Flock of Seagulls videos and Walkmans. But for 14-year-old Zachary Ochs of Castle Hayne, the twisty ...

Maggie Jordan feverishly studies the multicolored cube. You can see the gears turning in the 15-year-old’s mind as the puzzle turns in her hands. She whispers to herself as she memorizes the pattern.

Sitting in the Eagle Ridge Middle School’s media center after school, sixth-grader Joseph Ong unpacked nearly a dozen different types of cube puzzles, the most famous being Rubik’s Cubes, from a black ...

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Rubik’s Cubes certainly can be a cause of frustration, but Saturday afternoon in Fountain Valley, it was just an exercise in fun. The second “Day of the Cube” 3-by-3 speed cubing event was held at Los ...