The Superflip or 12-flip pattern is probably one of the most complicated configurations of Rubik's Cube that you can find.
43,252,003,274,489,856,000 is the number of possible legal arrangements of a standard 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube. This number is a bit over three dozen quintillion.
Puzzle designer Grégoire Pfennig from France created an incredible 3D printed 33x33x33 Rubik's Cube - with 6153 moveable parts!
In fact, this number has been found to be about 43 quintillion, which is 43 followed by 18 zeroes! One cannot even fathom how large this number is. It is larger than the total number of grains of sand on the Earth's surface put together, and even the number of stars within our observable universe.
The CFOP method (Cross – F2L (first 2 layers) – OLL (orientate last layer) – PLL (permutate last layer)), also known as the Fridrich method, is one of the most commonly used methods in speedsolving a 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube. It is one of the fastest methods with the other most notable ones being Roux and ZZ.
Which Method Is More Widely Used and has Achieved the Fastest Speed-cubing Times? The CFOP is more widely used than the Roux. Most world records have been attained using the CFOP, so we can conclude that it is the fastest method in terms of numbers.
Just to give you an idea of how big of a number we're dealing with 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 is read as 43 quintillion, 252 quadrillion, 3 trillion, 274 billion, 489 million and 856 thousand. That number is more than the amount of sand grains on our plant, which is insane!
As discussed in our blog, a quadrillion can be defined as 1 with 15 zeros. It can written as 1,000,000,000,000,000. We have one quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, and the list goes on till Graham's number.
A quintillion is the number name for 10 raised to the power of 18, that is, one followed by 18 zeros. In the International numeral system, a quintillion has 6 groups of zeros in 3, that is, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Albert Einstein died in 1955, 19 years before the 3x3 cube was invented, so he would never have seen the puzzle and probably never imagined it, however, we can theorise over whether he would be able to solve the cube if given the opportunity.
ZZ stands for Zbigniew Zborowski, the inventor of the method. He came up with it in 2006, with one of its key features being high turning speed, with the steps allowing for easier cube movements.
Notation: -------- F = Front side of cube (facing you) U = Upper side L = Left side R = Right side D = Down side green side = side with green in center white side = side with white in center etc... center piece = piece in center of a side corner piece = pieces at the corners edge piece = not center or corner pieces.
Parentheses are just there to make things easier to remember. Like (F R U' R' U' R U R' F') (R U R' U') (R' F R F') Brackets have actual meaning. There are two kinds: Conjugates: [A: B] = A B A'
1+1 is a mathematical expression that evaluates to: 2 (number) (in ordinary arithmetic) 1 (number) (in Boolean algebra with a notation where '+' denotes a logical disjunction) 0 (number) (in Boolean algebra with a notation where '+' denotes 'exclusive or' operation, or in a quotient ring of numbers modulo 2)
Like zillion and jillion, gazillion is a made-up word meaning "a whole bunch" that's modeled after actual numbers such as million and billion.
X is rotatating the cube with the R face, like a 3R, X' is 3R'. Y is the same except U-face, (3U). And Z is around the F-face (3F). You can use www.algdb.net to find different PLL algorithms.
The radical sign ∛ is used as a cube root symbol for any number with a small 3 written on the top left of the sign. Another way to denote cube root is to write 1/3 as the exponent of a number. Cube root is an inverse operation of the cube of a number.
The Zborowski-Bruchem Method (also known as the ZB method) was invented by Ron van Bruchem and Zbigniew Zborowski in 2003. After solving the cross and three F2L pairs, the final F2L pair is solved simutaneously with orienting the last layer edges. This is known as ZBLS.
The list of unofficial world records also features many puzzles which are not WCA official events.Also known sometimes as WB (world best) List of unofficial world records. WCA.
The Mayer line method is a procedure for generating a regression line for a given scatter plot by calculating means (averages). This line can be used to interpolate or extrapolate values, in other words, to make predictions.