So, what is a Rubik’s Cube?

If I were to hand you a Rubik’s Cube right now, do you think you would be able to solve it? A lot of people would say “no” before making that hilarious joke about peeling the stickers off that I definitely haven’t heard before.

But what if I told you that the Rubik’s Cube is actually quite straight-forward to solve? While it will take hours and hours to get to the point where you can solve it in 30 seconds, the process of solving the cube itself really isn’t that difficult with the right resources. This article is going to look at how I learned to solve the Rubik’s Cube for the first time, and how the task many consider as ‘impossible’ is very much possible.

So, what is a Rubik’s Cube?
The Rubik’s Cube is a famous puzzle designed in 1974 by a Hungarian professor, known as Ernő Rubik. The puzzle consists of a large cube being split into a 3×3 orientation of smaller cubes, with each side being able to rotate 360 degrees. Each side is assigned a colour, and the cube is considered ‘solved’ when each side is made up of just one colour.

Every time you rotate a side, it breaks the colours apart, scrambling the puzzle. Once the cube is fully scrambled (such as in the example below) the aim is to try and piece all the colours together until it is back in its solved form.

Sounds easy, right?