CRASHED JOYSTICK

Speedcubing competitions involve solving the Rubik’s Cube in seconds. Basically math gymnastics for the gifted impatient.

✓ TRUE FACT
Elite solvers average under 10 seconds on 3×3, relying on memorized algorithms and extremely fast finger tricks. At the math level, the cube has about 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible states—so yes, “just wing it” is not a plan. (Cube Solver)

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