I got a Rubik's Cube in the 1980s when they first came out. After about a month I finally managed to solve it. And over the next few months I refined my method into a technique that could reliably solve a cube in 2-3 minutes.
That seemed pretty good back then, since most people couldn't solve the cube at all.
Now the world record is 5.55 seconds! Woah, that's fast.
I'm in my forties now, so I don't expect to have the dexterity to get that good. But can I solve a cube in under a minute maybe? That's what I wondered. And here's how I got on.
