![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a World Cube Association that hosts over 1,000 annual speed-cubing competitions. Hundreds of books analyzing the cube’s design and sharing speed-solving strategies have been written. Since then, there have been 350 million cubes sold across the globe, not counting knockoffs. A shy Hungarian architecture professor, Rubik created the cube when he was 29 and spent a maddening month trying to solve it (there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 combinations but only one solution). ![]() This is common knowledge, but it dawned on me again this morning when the New York Times ran a profile of Erno Rubik, the 76-year-old inventor of the Rubik’s Cube. Outside of tomahawk-throwing daddies ( Jason Momoa) and cutie dough-punchers ( Jake Gyllenhaal), modern men are, shall we say, largely uninspiring. Photo: Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images ![]()
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