Competitions held in school gymnasiums are usually loud. But this one was different: All that was heard amid the silence was the whirring of plastic.

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If you’ve ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It’s worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it. “Problem solving is a very ...

Maggie Jordan feverishly studies the multicolored cube. You can see the gears turning in the 15-year-old’s mind as the puzzle turns in her hands. She whispers to herself as she memorizes the pattern.

On Saturday, Lafayette High graduate Benson Kim and about 85 other participants will be in a speed cuber competition in Williamsburg.

The red numbers on the digital clock speed by, fingers move with a rhythmic and automatic precision, and the blocks of color click into place. That’s the scene at Stanford University’s Dinkelspiel ...

You should be able to complete this step just by playing around with the cube. Make sure that the edges of the cross match the center squares on the adjacent sides. Step 2: Finish First Layer Step 3: ...

Few things reveal the limits of someone's problem-solving skills faster than a Rubik's cube, the multi-colored, three-dimensional puzzle that has befuddled so many since the 1970s. Though the cube has ...