First Person Ever To Solve The Cube?

[Stefan]

I guess those 3 were probably just one of the first to PUBLISH their method's though.

Many methods were published around 1980 already.

 

[Godmil]

I guess those 3 were probably just one of the first to PUBLISH their method's though.

Fraid that's not the case either. There was a knowledge bottleneck around the late 90's and early 2000's, the cube wasn't as popular and there wasn't many places to find out about it. Thankfully though Fridrich and Petrus had websites up explaining their methods, so that's how many people took their first steps into speedcubing.

 

[Rune]

"A paper that Ollerenshaw published in 1980 in the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications gave one of the first general methods for solving the Rubik cube puzzle (or the Hungarian magic cube as it was often called then) that tried to minimize the total number of moves needed. The algorithm did the bottom face first, then the top corners, then the middle slice edges, and finally the top edges, producing an average of 80 moves. Ollerenshaw worked with the cube so much that she required surgery to fix her "cubist's thumb" tendinitis."