![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a World Cube Association that hosts over 1,000 annual speed-cubing competitions. Hundreds of books analyzing the cube’s design and sharing speed-solving strategies have been written. Since then, there have been 350 million cubes sold across the globe, not counting knockoffs. A shy Hungarian architecture professor, Rubik created the cube when he was 29 and spent a maddening month trying to solve it (there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 combinations but only one solution). This is common knowledge, but it dawned on me again this morning when the New York Times ran a profile of Erno Rubik, the 76-year-old inventor of the Rubik’s Cube. Outside of tomahawk-throwing daddies ( Jason Momoa) and cutie dough-punchers ( Jake Gyllenhaal), modern men are, shall we say, largely uninspiring. Photo: Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images ![]()
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