On Saturday April 19 2008 the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana funded in part by Taco Bell once again held "Rubik's" cube competitions. It is called The Cube since its most prominent feature is a very large black cube on the outside.
There's going to be a competition at Disneyland. Date Unknown. And a competition in San Diego on May 24 2008.
About 32 people competed. The final times were computed from the average of 5 solve times dropping the worst and best time.
All competitors are given a scrambled cube, scrambled the same way for everyone, and up to 30 seconds I think to view the cube before starting their solve.
The winning times in minutes:seconds.hundredths of seconds were:
3x3x3 one-handed 23.17 (best time 21.10)
3x3x3 blind-folded 4:11.56 (this year only one person completed a solve)
3x3x3 13.79 (best time 11.84)
4x4x4 1:03.12 (best time 59.18)
5x5x5 solution-1 41.31 (best time 30.00)
5x5x5 1:56:04 (best time 1:44:18)
Solution-1 is a cube shape when solved but changes shape as it is solved. It was released by Rubik's and is now being made by other people. The patent period has run out on the original 3x3x3 cube.
People are making their cubes. One made a 2x2x5 out of four 4x4x4 cubes using a single 4x4x4 core and all edge, middle and corner pieces. No center pieces.
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I also saw a 6x6x6 cube which had exploded. Wow! It was complicated inside. Someone is also making a 7x7x7 cube.
One company makes a 5x5x5 cube that is the same size as a 4x4x4 cube. So a single cube in the 5x5x5 is smaller than a single cube in the 4x4x4 so the total size of the 5x5x5 cube is the same as the 4x4x4.
There was a guest speaker which we missed since we arrived around 2:30PM.
12PM Guest speaker: UCI Grad Student Melissa Davis "How the Brain Works"
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