{"id":16414,"date":"2019-08-06T13:59:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.potentialplusuk.org\/?p=16414"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:25:32","slug":"tips-wanted-bobby-seagulls-rubiks-cube-summer-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potentialplusuk.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/06\/tips-wanted-bobby-seagulls-rubiks-cube-summer-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips Wanted &#8211; Bobby Seagull&#8217;s Rubik&#8217;s Cube Summer Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Bobby Seagull needs your help.<\/p>\n<p>This maths teacher and TV maths educator; University Challenge alumnus; presenter of Monkman and Seagull\u2019s Genius Guide to Britain (a new series is due back on our screens this autumn); puzzle setter extremo and Potential Plus UK Ambassador has taken on a summer challenge\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201cOne of my projects over the summer is to try and learn how to solve a Rubik&#8217;s Cube. As a child, I sometimes struggled with this and solved it in a long-winded manner. But I&#8217;d love to hear from you on any tips you might have so I can learn a proper method to solve them, and then get quicker. You&#8217;ll be helping Mr Seagull against some of my school students who can solve Rubik&#8217;s Cubes quite quickly!\u201d <\/em><\/span>[Bobby Seagull]<\/p>\n<p>What tips would you give Bobby to speedily solve his Rubik\u2019s Cube Dilemma?\u00a0 Email them by August 30th to <a href=\"mailto:Focus@potentialplusuk.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Focus@potentialplusuk.org<\/a> and we\u2019ll pass them on to Bobby to see how he gets on!<\/p>\n<h2>Rubik\u2019s Cube Fact File<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rubik\u2019s Cube is a 3D 3x3x3 combination puzzle made up of twenty-six miniature cubes twisting around a central pivot.<\/li>\n<li>There are 43 quintillion possible combinations \u2013 and one solution to the Rubik\u2019s Cube.<\/li>\n<li>The Cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture <em>Ern\u0151 Rubik.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>To solve a Rubik\u2019s cube each of its six sides must be twisted into a single colour of 9 squares: white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. When the cube was originally launched the colours were stickers \u2013 leading to a little judicious cheating by peeling them off a square and moving them if a person couldn\u2019t work out how to solve the cube!<\/li>\n<li>Speedcubing\/Speedsolving involves solving a variety of twisting puzzles including the Rubik&#8217;s Cube.<\/li>\n<li>The World Cube Association regulates and holds competitions for twisty puzzles. Up to February\u00a02019, more than 118,000 people from around the world have participated in World Cube Association competitions.<\/li>\n<li>Tim Wong holds the record for independently completing a Rubik\u2019s Cube in the fewest moves &#8211; only 19! &#8211; in 2015.\u00a0 This was later equalled by Marcel Peters, in 2016. The average number of moves to solve a Rubik\u2019s Cube is 50.<\/li>\n<li>Yusheng Du currently holds the record for solving the Rubik\u2019s Cube with two hands in 3.47 seconds.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SB3ut65SFUU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/SB3ut65SFUU<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Feliks Zemdegs holds the record for the fastest one-handed solve of 6.88 seconds <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3FDmmL5vKHg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/3FDmmL5vKHg<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Daniel Rose-Levine holds the record for solving the Cube with his feet in 16.96 seconds (example of him solving the cube with his feet <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-qY_Po-RTOE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/-qY_Po-RTOE<\/a> )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Humans aren\u2019t the only ones solving Rubik\u2019s Cubes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 DeepCubeA \u2013 an artificial intelligence neural network &#8211; which mimics how the human brain works &#8211; taught itself to solve the Rubik\u2019s Cube in 1.2 seconds. While not as fast as min2phase (see below), min2phase was a purely mechanical algorithm dedicated to solving the cube only. DeepCubeA is a great development for artificial intelligence, as a machine\u00a0 reasoning and learning for itself, this offers the potential of applying that reasoning to other problems. (algorithm: <a href=\"https:\/\/codeocean.com\/capsule\/5723040\/tree\/v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/codeocean.com\/capsule\/5723040\/tree\/v1<\/a> )\u00a0 Read more about its success at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-49003996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-49003996<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018 the record for a robot solving a Rubik\u2019s Cube was created by MIT students Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo \u2013 the min2phase algorithm (algorithm: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cs0x7f\/min2phase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/github.com\/cs0x7f\/min2phase<\/a> ) solved the 3x3x3 cube in 0.38 seconds!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-responsive\"><center><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OZu9gjQJUQs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If, like Bobby, you are trying to work out how to solve Rubik\u2019s Cube, take comfort that it took its inventor, <em>Ern\u0151 Rubik, <\/em>a month to solve it \u2013 and if all else fails, there is a guide to how to solve a 3x3x3 cube on the official Rubik website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubiks.com\/solution-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.rubiks.com\/solution-guides<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>About the Author:<\/strong> <em>Geraldine Glover is Potential Plus UK&#8217;s Community Information Coordinator. 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