Rubik Cubes' inventor says his invention was created to examine what humans could accomplish with just their hands
cube that Erno Rubik invented 50 years ago would not survive the 1980s.
Yet millennials and Generation Z are as nuts about Rubik's Cube as their parents were, much to the amusement of its 79-year-old creator, who talked to AFP in a rare interview.
In a digital world «we are slowly forgetting that we have hands», Rubik said.
But playing with the cube helps us tap back into something deeply primal about doing things with our hands, he said — «our first tools», as he calls them.
"Speed cubing" and Rubik's Cube hacks are huge on social media, with youngsters regularly going viral while dancing, rapping and even playing the piano while solving the 3D puzzle.
Rubik said the «connection between the mind and hands» that the cube helps foster has been «a very important» factor in human development.
«I think probably the cube reminds us we have hands… You are not just thinking, you are doing something.
»It's a piece of art you are emotionally involved with," Rubik added.
— 43 Quintillion Solutions -
The unassuming Hungarian architecture professor never thought the prototype he devised would conquer the world — and set him up for life.
More than 500 million copies of the cult object have been sold — not counting the myriad of counterfeits.
Rubik's Cube has remained one of the world's top-selling puzzle games, with more than 43 quintillion — a quintillion being a billion trillion — ways of solving it.
Even after «hundreds or thousands of years», you would still be finding ways to crack it, Rubik enthused.
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