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The most valuable cube ever made is the Masterpiece Cube, valued at $1.5m. This 18-carat cube with lots of precious stones (including rubies and emeralds) was created in 1995 by Diamond Cutters International.
It is estimated that less than 5.8% of the world’s population can solve The Rubik’s Cube.
Over 350 million Rubik’s Cubes have been sold worldwide. It’s the best-selling toy of all time.
The fastest time of solving The Rubik’s Cube is in 0.637 seconds which was achieved by a Robot.
The current world record for solving The Rubik’s Cube is an astonishing 4.59 seconds which is held by (SeungBeom Cho, Korea). Speedcubing (Solving Ribik’s Cube) is going from strength to strength!
The first world championship was held in 1982 – with a winning solve time of 22.95 seconds.
Every legal permutation of The Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. Wow !!!
If you turn The Rubik’s Cube once every second, it will take you 1.4 trillion years to go through all the permutations. (The universe is just 14 billion years old!)
If you had one cube for each scramble position and laid them all side-to-side, they would stretch 261 light years from Earth. Or you could use them to cover the Earth… in 273 layers!
There are more than 43 quintillion ways to scramble Rubik’s Cube. In fact, there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possibilities!