TOP 11 AMAZING RUBIK'S CUBES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
1. PETAMINX
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It is also known as the world hardest Rubiks cube(No doubt). It consist of 975 individual parts not including the 1,212 stickers that each had to be placed by hand. Peta- actually means 1,000,000,000,000,000, although that number could refer to the endless number of solutions. It was designed by jason smith and it took him 75 long hours to made this giant. The Petaminx sold on eBay for $3,550!(yeah thats true). The world record of solving petaminx is 7 hours and 45 minutes.
2. 17x17x17 Rubik's cube
Kenneth Brandon solved a 17x17x17 Rubik's Cube, the largest puzzle of its type, in 7.5 hours. The cube, which was designed by Oskar Van Deventer and consists of 1,539 parts, holds the Guinness World Record for largest Rubik's style cube.
3. Ghost cube
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The puzzle was invented by puzzle designer Adam G Cowan in 2008. The puzzle was inspired by the well-known Golden Cube, produced by Tony Fisher. These type of cubes require the knowledge of shape rather than colour to be solved.
4. Mirror cube
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The Mirror cube was invented by Hidetoshi Takejhi in 2006 who at the time called it the Bump cube
5. Qj Dodecahedron
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Its looks similar to magaminx but it is different.
6. The Rubix X cube
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When almost all of life’s mysteries have been solved, it’s time to turn to something new. Twist your brain into knots with the X-Cube, a mind-melting take on the original combination puzzle cube designed by Erno Rubik. The X-Cube can be twisted and configured into over 125 decillion permutations. That’s 36 digits in one number! (125,486,757,308,950,508,983,252,156,416,000,000 configurations if you’re counting.
7. The Quadruple cube combo
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Its look like the combination of 2x2 rubiks cubes.
8. The Gear ball Rubiks cube
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Challenge your puzzling skills with the brain meltingly-difficult Gear Ball. Slightly larger than a baseball, Gear Ball is like a Rubik's cube morphed into a sphere.Your goal is to twist and turn Gear Ball's surface until you form six solid faces of color. Completing the solution, however, requires more than just positioning nine pieces of matching color per side. You must also correctly align and orient the bordered gear pieces.
9. Square-1
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The Square-1, also known as Back to Square One and Cube 21, is a puzzle similar to the Rubik's Cube. Its distinguishing feature among the numerous Rubik's Cube variants is that it can change shape as it is twisted, due to the way it is cut, thus adding an extra level of challenge and difficulty. It was invented by Karel Hršel and Vojtěch Kopský arounf 1990.
10. Skewb
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The Skewb is a combination puzzle and a mechanical puzzle in the style of Rubik's Cube. It was invented by Tony Durham. It is cubical in shape, it differs from Rubik's construction in that its axes of rotation pass through the corners of the cube rather than the centres of the faces. There are four such axes, one for each space diagonal of the cube. As a result, it is a deep-cut puzzle in which each twist affects all six faces.
11. The Gear cube
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The Gear Cube was invented by Oskar van Deventer, based on an idea by Bram Cohen. It is like a 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube where all the edge pieces are cogs that turn when the outer layers are moved. If you give any face a half turn, the middle layer moves a quarter turn due to the edge cog wheels. The puzzle is manufactured and sold by Uwe Meffert.
