The invention of the Rubik’s Cube

[HenryBelcaster]

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[crazybird]

Mad respect to the students for calculating the number of possible combinations in their heads within seconds.





Edit: wow my email is going crazy

[YM-gpes]

Ouuhhhh the level of animation go up each week !! I it

[Calilou]

Just to let people now, the 43 quintillion combinations is not an exaggeration, which is mind blowing. In fact its exactly 43, 252, 003, 274, 489, 856, 000 combinations within a single rubiKs cube.

[TheSleepSteward]

Well to be a little more specific, that cube shown wasn’t the original cube that he showed his class. It was a wooden cube with dots to represent the different sides. And he didn’t just stare at it for a month and then come up with a solution; he worked whenever he could on his day offs or weekends to try and solve this puzzle he made and after about a month of nonstop effort he managed to solve it. One hell of a genius if you ask me!

[Master_Of_The_Universe]

Honestly Rubik seems like a dope teacher, just wanted to make a new way to show a problem and ended up making a something that has more uses than even initially intended

[allegianceproductionsoffic]

Respect to professor over here for having the patience to stare at a three dimensional object with 43 quintillion combinations for 1 month straight without a break. 🍷🗿

[blakerobinson]

One additional piece of info. The cube originally did not have any colors. It was more an experiment just to see if it was possible to have 26 small cubes that could be held together by an internal mechanism where each cube could change position/orientation. Later, colors were added to show the positions changing, and only then did he realize that he had created a puzzle.

[digiguy]

Gave one of these to my colorblind friend. In fact, he’s having so much fun with it that he hasn’t talked to me in months!

[swordzanderson]

Erno: "I want to be a cool teacher and inspire a new method of teaching."

creates one of the most famous mathematical toys in history that spawned entire world championships created to perfect the practice of solving his little cube, to this day.

Edit: Just because something is mathematical does NOT mean it can't be reduced to simple pattern recognition and muscle memory. Chess is a game of strategy and mathematical calculation, yet the best players ALSO call it a simple pattern recognition and muscle memory game. I did not, I repeat, I did NOT once say cubers solve mathematical equations while solving a Rubik's Cube.

[funnyfish]

The urge to go back in time and solve it for him.

[SleepyHead]

“But Erno he’s a dawg” got me dying 💀


Edit: I didn’t even know I was this good at making comments…

[thefaulpotato]

You are the first non Hungarian I've heard say Budapest correctly, good job on the video 😂

[Pixeljelly_only]

Rubik Ernő was a big man!
As a Hungarian i am proud🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺

[StronkPenguino]

“You ever think about how the inventors solved it for the first time? Me too.”
*Credits roll*

[EvCollect]

Yup staring at a cube for a month would be awesome 😎

[ThunderSth]

As someone who can solve it under 20 seconds, that he could figure it out on his own in only a month is really impressive

[FELYNLEMSAWALDI]

"And is still popular today"
-A wise Rubik's cuber🗿

[aron_sk]

as a hungarian, i can confirm that he pronounced Budapest right 👏

[JoaoTecoYT]

Mad respect to Erno for staring a cube for a month