Rubiks Cube
many many ways to finish

The rubiks cube was made by a hungarian man named Erno Rubik.The first won was made in 1974.It was originally called the "Magic Cube".In 1980 the Rubiks Cube won the "German Game of the Year" for the best puzzle that year.
This year in 2010 the rubiks cube is the 30th year anniversery for the Rubiks Cube.
In 2009 the Rubiks Cube sold more than 350 million cubes, making it the toy of the year. It is world wide considered as the worlds best selling toys.
In the classic Rubiks Cube it have six faces, with nine squares of all different colors.
The colors of the Rubiks Cube is white,red,orange,green,blue,and yellow.
The biggest Rubiks cube is 10 feet tall and weighing 1200 pounds.
The numbers of ways to complete a Rubiks cube is 519,024,039,293,878,272,000.
If all the Rubiks Cubes in the world were lined up in a straight line they would be 261 light years long.
In 1982 for 1 of every 3 homes in the world would have a Rubiks Cube in them.
There was a man that asked for a Rubiks Cube that was solid diamond,ruby,emarald,sapphire,topaz,and gold.Guess what he got it in a week later.
The Rubiks Cube use to be called the Golden Knot and the Inca Gold.
The first Rubiks Cube was actually a wooden sphere with a different amount of dots on each peice to solve it.
In 1981, the Rubiks Cube was included as an exhibit within the hallowed halls of the " New York Musuem of Modern Art".
The fastest the Rubiks Cube was ever done was done by a Netherlands man named Erik Akkersdijk in 7.08 seconds.It happened in the 2008 czech open.
On October 13, 2010 the worlds smallest Rubiks Cube was made by a man named Evgeniy Grigoriev and he broke the previous record of 12 millimeters by 2 millemeters less.
The first Rubiks Cube World Championship was held in Budapest in the year of 1982, and the winner was a American girl named Minh Thai completed it in 22.95 seconds,But that it slow compared to who beat it in 2008.
The current youngest official Speedcuber is China’s Enxi Xie, a little girl that is just 4 years, 6 months and 10 days, who solved the cube in just 1:28.06! That is incredible.
The youngest girl that solved a Rubiks Cube was only 3 years old,but however she is not a speedcuber like the girl above.
These were all of my facts on the Rubiks Cube, hope you liked them.

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