Rubik's cube offers 3 Ps

The Rubik’s cube also helps in the following ways:

• Increases general concentration which is important in the smallest to the biggest challenges in life.
• Improves your hand to eye coordination.
• Makes you a more patient person and as they say Patience, Persistence and Perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Rubik's cube helps brain cells

New evidence reported recently in Scientific American. Thousands of new cells are generated in the adult brain every day, particularly in the hippo campus, a structure involved in learning and memory. Within a couple of weeks, most of those newborn neurons will die, unless the animal is challenged to learn something new. Learning—especially that involving a great deal of effort—can keep these new neurons alive.

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(Sources: http://hyderabadtalks.com/2013/07/benefits-of-solving-a-rubiks-cube/) 

How does speedcubing affect my life?

Listed below are my thoughts, what about yours?

1. It helps to kill time when I am bored.
2. It is a form of exercise. Brain and finger exercise :P
3. An excuse to watch YouTube video to learn about speedcubing.
4. An excuse for not cutting finger nails so that it is easier to perform finger tricks.
5. An excuse when my parents ask me to do something productive.
6. Make me look unique among kids that play with phone.
7. I become a collector of cubes.
8. Take a break in between doing my school works.
9. One of the things to be brought along whenever I go out.
10. 2x2, 3x3, 4x4... these are not related to maths anymore!!

Rubik's cube as Teaching Device

Recently, I read an article written by Brian Rohrig, a science teacher at Jonathan Alder High School in Plain City, Ohio. He has been using the Rubik's cube in his classroom as an important teaching device. He has listed out the main benefits of using the cube.

• It builds confidence, especially with underachieving students.
• It promotes cooperative learning.
• It provides students with a framework for solving problem.
• It improves spatial awareness.
• It exercises the brain.
• It demonstrates the need for practice.
• It represents a pure example of true learning.

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http://www.youcandothecube.com/downloads/NSTA_Puzzling_Science.pdf

Rubik's Cube Improves Spatial Intelligence

Rubik’s Cube is one efficient way to improve our spatial intelligence and considered a perfect brain training, it’s a mechanical puzzle and comes in four different versions: the 2×2×2 (“Pocket Cube”), the 3×3×3, the 4×4×4 (“Rubik’s Revenge”), and the 5×5×5 (“Professor’s Cube”). The 3×3×3 version, which is the version usually meant by the term “Rubik’s Cube,” has nine square faces on each side, for a total area of fifty-four faces, and occupies the volume of twenty-six unit cubes (not counting the invisible cube in the center). Typically, the faces of the Cube are covered by stickers in six solid colors, one for each side of the Cube. When the puzzle is solved, each side of the Cube is a solid color.

To have a good brain training is one thing, and to solve the Cube’s puzzle is a different story. Many general solutions for the Rubik’s Cube have been discovered independently. The most popular method was developed by David Singmaster and published in the book Notes on Rubik’s Magic Cube in 1980. This solution involves solving the Cube layer by layer, in which one layer, designated the top, is solved first, followed by the middle layer, and then the final and bottom layer. Other general solutions include “corners first” methods or combinations of several other methods. Try first to play the game and see if you can feel comfortable solving it without the help of a solution manual. Good luck! Have a good brain and spatial intelligence training!

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(Sources: http://www.brainmetrix.com/rubiks-cube/)