Download Cracking the Cube: Going Slow to Go Fast and Other Unexpected Turns in the World of Competitive Rubik’s Cube Solving AudioBook Free
When Hungarian professor Erno Rubik created the Rubik's Cube (or, rather, his Cube) in the 1970s out of solid wood blocks, elastic bands, and paper clips, he didn't even understand if maybe it's solved, let alone that it could become the world's most popular puzzle. Since its creation, the Cube is becoming many things to numerous people: one of the best-selling children's toys and games ever, symbolic of intellectual prowess, a irritating puzzle with 43.2 quintillion possible permutations, and today an internationally sporting occurrence that is adding the common brainteaser to a fresh generation. In Breaking the Cube, Ian Scheffler shows that cubing is not only fun and video games. Along with participating in speedcubing tournaments - from the entire world Championship to local tournaments - and interviewing key characters from the Cube's history, he journeys to Budapest to get a meeting with the legendary and notoriously reclusive Rubik, who is still tinkering away with puzzles in his seventies.
