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...Hungarian Horror Our Numbers column [Jan. 30] included an item on a California student who set a new record for solving the Rubik's Cube puzzle: only 11.13 sec. The cube became wildly popular in the early 1980s. Here's an excerpt from our first report on the phenomenon [March...
...Time it took California student Leyan Lo to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle, breaking the prior record...
...Doku to papers in 10 countries - including Croatia, South Africa and the U.S. - with more in the pipeline. His Su Doku book has sold over 120,000 copies, and two more are afoot. Gould admits he's been overwhelmed by the phenomenon, which fans call the 21st century's Rubik's Cube. "I don't think I could stop it if I wanted to," he says. "In the nature of addiction, it knows no national boundaries...
Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside playing, he was writing computer code. By junior high, he could solve Rubik's Cube in a few minutes. A college dropout, he went on to co-found a hacker's convention in San Francisco. "I was always really weird," he says. Yet it was only two years ago, at age 27, that he learned why. Studying psychological conditions, he determined that he had Asperger syndrome, a mild form of autism, which explained his social difficulties and seemed tied to his obsession with puzzles. Cohen says...
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