Professor Erno Rubik (Rubik's cube game percipta) padea born on 13 July 1944 in the city of Budapest, Hungary is at once an inventor or creator of the Rubik cube game commonly called magic cube is famous throughout the world. Erno Rubik taught in interior design and architecture (Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts) in Budapest when he created what is now known as the Rubik's Cube, the puzzle of three-dimensional which became a sensation around the world at the beginning of the year 1980.
Rubik studied architecture and design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in the late 1960's. He took a job as an instructor there, and outside his working hours he worked to build models of three-dimensional cube design. By the time teaching, Erno Rubik prefers to use real models made of paper, paperboard, wood or plastic to communicate / explain his idea to the students, so the explanation can be well understood and can be easily remembered by his students.
The first working prototype was completed in 1974 cube, and he filed for a patent on the design in early 1975. the puzzle is made up of smaller cubes, each colored cube (3 x 3 x 3) which can be manipulated by the player field of horizontal and vertical. In the "pure" form, six cubes - comprised of nine boxes - which are yellow, white, orange, blue, red and green. Once the cube has been manipulated, get the set back to its pure form is not so easy.
According to the knowledge, Erno Rubik takes about a month to solve the puzzle of the game cube that he created himself. And it took several years of preparation for the prototype in mass production, finally in 1977 the first Rubik toy on sale in toy stores in Budapest. Since that time Hungary was isolated at the end of the iron curtain 70'an, the market starts moving up. Hungary to the efforts of two people living abroad who bring these toys to the West, long after the toy is endemic in Budapest.
A Hungarian worker who worked in Vienna, "discovered" this toy while on duty in Budapest and tried to find a realtor toys in Germany. Eventually he even met with Tom Kremer, toy inventor who was born in Hungary with offices in London. Two people are finally making a marketing plan and ultimately get approval from one of the toy company executive who immediately ordered a million seeds
The first sales and popularity exploded in Europe, despite the lack of marketing or advertising campaigns. In 1980 the Rubik's cube game has been introduced into the United States and around the world and was dubbed "Rubik's Cube."
Toys that have sold millions and attracted the attention of mathematicians and others in the academic community, but also become a competitive event in 1982, when Budapest hosted the first world championship (Vietnam Minh Thai won, solve the puzzle in under 23 seconds ). Although the "craze" lasted only a few years, the Rubik's Cube is now a standard toy store and has spawned dozens of imitations and spin-offs. Rubik became one of Hungary's richest businessmen and continue to develop more games and puzzles, including Rubik's Revenge (4 x 4 x 4 cube) and Rubik's Snake.
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The fastest record in solving the Rubik's Cube (Record Indonesia) successfully printed on the anniversary event MURI (Indonesian Record Museum-World) on January 31, 2007 at Hotel Grand Temple, Semarang. Record time is 19.33 seconds recorded in the name of Abel Brata Susilo.
World Record in solving the Rubik's Cube with your eyes closed successfully printed on the competition Jakarta Open 2010 on January 31, 2010 in FX Building, Jakarta. Rubik's 3x3 size with closed eyes the greatest number of 16 pieces in 57 minutes completed on behalf of Muhammad Iril from Indonesia. Previously this category world record held by Jiang Tong of China with 15 Rubik's cube. Not only Iril Muhammad, son of the nation Indonesia also placed third in the world record by completing 11 Adi Wicaksono Rubik's cube without looking in 55 minutes 10 seconds. Wicaksono broken record when Indonesia Open 2009. All of this record was recorded at the World Cube Association (WCA).
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