1. By January 2009, 350 Million Rubik's Cubes had been sold all across the world. 

2. The world record for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube was set by Collin Burns from the USA in april 2015 with a time of 5.25 seconds.

3.  A man named Gabriel Pereira Campanha solved a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube by using only his feet in 25.14 seconds at the Nova Odessa Open 2014.

4. The fastest time for a robot to solve a real 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube is 3.25 seconds, set by CubeStormer III, a robot built by using Lego Mindstorms and a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone.

5. There are over 43 quintillion ways to scramble a Rubik’s Cube. If you want the exact number, there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways to scramble a Rubik's Cube

6. If you turned one face of a Rubik's Cube every second, it would take 1.4 trillion years to go through all the possible combinations! In comparison, the universe is only 13.7 billion years old!


There are many different kinds of Rubik's Cubes. Here are some of the more common ones!
The original 3x3x3 Cube 

The Goal of this is to match all the colors on each side so each side has only one color. (Same Goal Unless otherwise noted.)

2x2x2 cube

The 4x4x4 Cube

The 5x5x5 Cube

7x7x7 cube

17x17x17 cube (INSANE!!!!!!!!!!)

The Pyraminx

The Mirror Cube

The Goal of this, is to solve the cube so that it actually is a cube!

Conjoined Cubes

(2+ Cubes) The goal of this is to solve all of the conjoined cubes so they all look like the solved 3x3x3 cube.

Megaminx

Gear Cube

Turn the gears so that the colors match.

Pentamix Cube

The Skewb

Rubik's 360

To solve this, you must get all the colored balls into their corresponding holes in the ball.

Rubik's Void

Same as 3x3x3 except there are no center pieces

Rubik's Tower
Rubik's Bricks

Goal is to make different shapes and forms with the pieces

Rubik's UFO

Make it so that all the colored semi circles match up on each side of the UFO

Futuro Cube

No Specific Goal

The Gear Ball

Basically gear cube but larger.

The Gear Shift

same as other gear puzzles.

The Touch Cube 

Solve like a 3x3x3 with your eyes closed.

Rubik's Slide

Many different goals

Icon Cube
Rubik's Snake

Make different sculptures by moving the pieces

Rubik's Revolution 


Most of these can be bought at the official Rubik's Website. Click the button below to see these items. 

If you would like to make a Rubik's cube mosaic, here are a few templates for mosaics that only take 36 cubes. 

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 Here is an example of modern Rubik's cubism. Can you guess who it is?