SUNNYVALE — Solving a Rubik’s Cube puzzle is relatively simple, insists Nathaniel Knopf. Anyone can do it with practice. “It’s really about recognizing patterns,” said Knopf, 17, a junior at Tamalpais ...

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

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 ...

A machine has taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube without human assistance, according to a group of UC Irvine researchers. Two algorithms developed by the researchers, collectively called Deep Cube, ...

Logic says he almost went by the name Psychological. “My best friend [Big Lenbo] gave me the name Logic because for a while I was going with Psychological, but that’s a f—ing horrible rap name,” the ...

Anyone can solve a Rubik’s Cube, 16-year-old Ryan Przybocki said. What really sets someone apart from the rest is how fast you can solve it. He would know. The St. Stephen’s Episcopal School senior ...

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 ...