The Rubik's Cube has been around since the mid-1970s. Most people have seen one, tried to solve it and, in many cases, either given up or used the tried-and-trusted "take off the stickers" approach! However there is a whole community of expert cube solvers who can do all sorts of amazing things. There is even a video on YouTube of someone solving three Rubik's Cubes while juggling them! The current world record for solving a genuinely mixed cube is 5.5 seconds. The experts always study the mixed cube first, work out their plan to solve it and then race to make all of the required moves as quickly as possible. They even loosen up the cube so that it will turn more easily, shaving all important fractions of a second off their time.
I'm not at world record speed (my fastest solve is 75 seconds) but when you show this to someone who has never achieved more than one side of the cube they are genuinely amazed that you can do the whole thing so speedily. However there is another way to do the cube much faster and that is by using some magic. My record for a "magic" solve is less than two seconds - you have to see it to believe it - it's a great party trick!
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