Jessica Fridrich
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Jessica Fridrich is a Czech-American speedcuber who documented and popularised the CFOP method. This method describes solving the cube in a layer-by-layer fashion. First,the"cross" is made on the first layer, consisting of the center piece and four edges. The first layer corners and edges of the second layer are put into their correct positions simultaneously (four pairs). The last layer is solved by first orienting and then permuting the last layer cubies using a large number of algorithms.
Fascinated by puzzles and complex geometry, Fridrich even has Rubik's Cube inventor Ernő Rubik's signature in her notebook. Rubik signed the notebook at the Rubik's Cube World Championship in Budapest in 1982, an event where Fridrich finished tenth. In the Rubik's Cube World Championship in Toronto, Canada in 2003, she finished second.
In the speedcubing community she is considered one of the pioneers of speedcubing, along with Lars Petrus. Nearly all of the fastest speedcubers have based their methods on Fridrich's, usually referred to as CFOP (Cross, First 2 Layers, Orient Last Layer, Permute Last Layer).
She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Binghamton University.
Fridrich method naming dispute
See CFOP#Origin_and_Naming_Dispute.
See also
External links
- Jessica Fridrich's speed cubing page
- Interview with Jessica Fridrich and Zbigniew Zborowski about Feliks Zemdegs
- Jessica Fridrich's article on Wikipedia
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