The Moobix blog

Guides, history and honest answers about the world's favourite puzzle — written to be useful, not to sell you anything.

Guides14 Jul 2026

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.

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Methods14 Jul 2026

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.

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History14 Jul 2026

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.

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Guides14 Jul 2026

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.

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Facts14 Jul 2026

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.

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Guides14 Jul 2026

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.

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Facts14 Jul 2026

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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