Gavin, 17 March 04
The Rubik’s cube with 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations – completed in under 15 seconds. I had one and as I recall got frustrated after 15 minutes; bored by 15 hours and gave up on it unfinished within 15 days.
Jessica Fridrich, an electrical engineering research professor at Binghamton University, finished in second place at the World Rubik’s Games Championships. She has developed a method of algorithms for solving the puzzle that is used by ”speed cubers” from all over the world, including the winner, who beat her time by less than a half a second.
