Cubing the news

[Theromy]

My dad showed me the news paper this morning, it had some a page on cubing

Here are some outtakes:
1974 - Cube developed my Erno Rubik
1980-1982 - 100million sold
22.95sec - Fastest in first championship 1982
9.86sec - Current world record
43,252,003,274,489,856,000 - Total possible configurations
26 - Fewest moves ever to solve a cube
7 - Age of youngest solver under 20 seconds.

"It's transformation has been remarkable. One the pastime of the least popular kid in the playground"

"It might be pushing it to describe cubing as cool"

"Among the competitors will be Dan Harris, the British Champion with a personal best time of 10.44sec"

"...the fastest one off time is claimed by the Canadian champ - Harris Chan, who did it is 4.92sec."



There's more but those are the main bits I read

 

[Stefan]

There was already a link on the speedcubing.com front page yesterday. Don't you check that one every few hours? Dude!

 

[Theromy]

Ha, I've only been on that page a few times.

I'll have to check it more often then ^^ Thanks for telling me though

Edit: I see the UK open is there, I think I'll go to that one, it's in a month so hopefully I'll be getting better times by then