Greetings and Good Afternoon my fellow bloggers!! This will be the first of a series of blogs regarding my 20 time quest to solve a Rubik's Cube. This cube of rubik that i speak of was invented by a game maker in the 1974 named Erno Rubik. This 3 by 3 cube with 9 colored squares comprising each faces grid is much harder to solve than what initially meets the eye. I have been baffled by this cube until hopefully now!!! I have owned and lost a couple rubiks cubes because of their frustrating nature and the fact that when you don't know how to solve one, they seem more useful out of sight.
My 20 time idea came from the discussion that you do something that you haven't been able to do but want to. I like working with my hands and puzzles are fun too. Being a portable and convenient item to bring each week for class and easily accessible for working on whenever i have the chance. Since my cube is lost, I want to find it, or purchase a new one for this activity because I hope to learn the art of solving it so i can impress my friends and family with my new talent.
This blog is my first, so feel free to comment and drop hints so that I can improve my updates later on. Hopefully my TED talk style presentation at the end of the year will involve me going through the process, explaining the various algorithms, and eventually solving the cube in a reasonable time for the class to see that it is, with a little hard work, possible to bring the colors back to their original matching state.
The rubiks cube is a really interesting toy that adults and young people alike can both master. Some of the world record solving times are less than 10 seconds!!!! Some people can, after looking and studying a jumbled cube, solve it blindfolded!!! I cannot do this by any means, but hopefully this project will end in success.
If you want some inspiration on what solving a cube may be able to do for you in impressing your peers, check out the video from the movie "Pursuit of Happyness" where Will Smith's character completes a cube in just seconds, impressing his co-worker, leading to his employment and ultimate success in the workforce after suffering through a difficult life of poverty.
