Wednesday, June 08, 2005
After all these years, I've finally discovered why I always sucked at Rubik's cube . . . From
Wired:
At the fad's height, a high school student named Jessica Fridrich quietly invented a way to crack the puzzle in under 20 seconds. The key is memorizing some 100 algorithms. Then, after arranging a cross-shaped pattern on one side of the cube, a player can quickly solve a column at a time by applying the right algorithm. . . [read more]Me and algorithms just never did get along.
