Monday, January 9, 2012

The Rubik's Cube

by Buddy

Authors Note: This is a Project I have been working on for a while and its about the Rubik's Cube. I hope you like it!

The Rubik's cube is full of mysteries, millions of ways to sort the colors and, believe it or not, millions of ways to solve each color sort. The Rubik's cube has been a very popular puzzle ever since it was first made. It was made by a man named Ernõ Rubik in 1974. People host Worldwide speed solving contests and the fastest time in the world is 5.66 seconds. 


Ernõ made all of the Rubik's products such as: The pocket cube, Rubik's cube, Rubik's magic, Rubik's magic: Masters Edition, Rubik's 360, and the Rubik's Snake. The Pocket cube is a 2x2x2 cube, witch means it has 4 squares  per side, it the smallest Rubik's cube ever made. The original Rubik's cube is the 3x3x3 cube, it has 9 squares per side. Its the original Rubik's cube. The Rubik's magic 4x4x4 cube, it has 16 squares per side. The Rubik's Magic: Masters Edition is the 5x5x5 cube, it has 25 squares per side. Rubik's 360 is not a cube at all, it is a sphere with three layers and to solve you must get each ball that is in the middle layer to the right color slot in the third layer of the sphere. The Rubik's Snake is more of a fun type of puzzle. You can bend it at any part where small triangles connect and make make random shapes. To solve it you need to get into a ball shape. Ernõ only made the Rubik's products nothing else. There are many other Rubik's-like products, but none are as famous as the original Rubik's Cube.

Solving a Rubik's cube is easier than you think. A Rubik's cube can be sorted in to about Forty-three quintillion ways and they are all solvable. It usually takes less than 60 turns to solve a Rubik's cube. People who participate in would wide speed solving contests know the tricks to solving a Rubik's cube, that's what makes the world record possible. Most of the people that are in Speed Solving Contests solve it in around 7-8 seconds. There are different types of solving contests one of the craziest ones is solving a Rubik's Cube underwater in one breath, but this one is not held very often.

Rubik's Cubes are a lot easier to complete that most people think, all you need to know is a Rubik's cube solving Method and your good to go! Rubik's cubes can be hard if you don't know what you are doing, but if you get too caught up in it you could be sitting there for hours. Most people don't like Rubik's cubes for that exact reason, it takes a lot of patience. 

2 comments:

  1. First of all, the author's note needs to speak to what you are trying to accomplish here as a writer. There are always goals we have concerning audience and purpose, so there is always at least that to share. Next, look at how you actually try to use a few techniques to introduce the topic. Only use one. The details are out of place because if you use a different technique, then the startling facts just read like body paragraph information that hasn't been sorted yet. The second body paragraph doesn't have a topic sentence. There is a lot of good information here, but it reads like there should have been more time spent on pre-writing. That way, you could have sorted the facts out in such a way that allowed you to present them in a way that the reader could more easily take.

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  2. I really enjoyed all of your facts in this piece. In your body paragraph, you should also talk about the different ways to complete the Rubiks cube. Otherwise, great informational piece.

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