The Moobix blog
Guides, history and honest answers about the world's favourite puzzle — written to be useful, not to sell you anything.
How to Solve a Rubik's Cube: the Beginner's Method Explained
A plain-English walkthrough of the layer-by-layer beginner method — seven stages, four short algorithms, and no memorisation marathon.
9 min read →CFOP vs Roux vs Beginner Method: Which Should You Learn?
An honest comparison of the three most popular Rubik's Cube solving methods — move counts, learning curves, and who each one suits.
8 min read →The History of the Rubik's Cube: from Wooden Prototype to 3-Second Solves
How a Hungarian architecture lecturer's classroom model became the best-selling puzzle in history — and how solving it became a sport.
7 min read →Rubik's Cube Notation Explained: What R, U' and F2 Actually Mean
Every letter, apostrophe and 2 in cube notation, decoded — plus slice moves and rotations, with a free interactive cube to practise on.
6 min read →How Many Combinations Does a Rubik's Cube Have? (43 Quintillion, Explained)
The famous 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 number — where it comes from, how the maths works, and why you'll still never repeat a scramble.
6 min read →Why Is My Rubik's Cube Unsolvable? Twisted Corners and Flipped Edges
If your cube seems impossible, it probably is — here's how popped or twisted pieces break a cube, how to spot it, and how to fix it.
6 min read →God's Number: Why Every Rubik's Cube Can Be Solved in 20 Moves
It took 30 years and about 35 CPU-years of computing to prove that no scramble needs more than 20 moves. Here's the story of God's Number.
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