Solving the Rubik’s Cube | National Geographic

but there is one thing the entire world
does agree on there has to be a way to
solve the Rubik’s Cube a way we came up
with this has to be the geeky geek of
all I have never finished a Rubik’s Cube
in my life never did master this thing
they make me incredibly anxious but why
is lining up the right colors of this
cube so insanely difficult the reason
there’s only one correct answer and more
than 43 billion billion wrong ones if
you started turning this once every
second the moment the universe was
created
you wouldn’t be finished yet but then a
rebellious 12 year old decides to take
matters into his own hands he cheats I
had a look inside to see how it worked
and that’s when the penny drop Patrick
sees that the six center pieces are
connected I now knew that I was able to
solve it and if you start with the
corners everything else eventually will
line up you’re always looking for the
way through the clue and the whole thing
fell into place after that
Patrick sells his solution to France 50
cents a copy
a publisher hears about it eight months
later he becomes the youngest author to
hit the New York Times bestseller list
you can do the cube turned out to be the
fastest selling book since Lady
Chatterley’s Lover TV shows it’s
important to remember that a corner
piece can only be a corner piece book
tours book signings radio interviews I
thought it might sell a few thousand
copies and instead it sold one and a
half million