Rubik's Quest

To travel to Rubik’s homeland in Budapest, Hungary
via six European Countries.

Please post a photo of yourself attempting to solve at least one side of this tricky fellow.

• Ernö Rubik invented the Cube in the spring of 1974 in his home town of Budapest, Hungary. He wanted a working model to help explain three-dimensional geometry and ended up creating the world's best selling toy.
• Rubik's inspiration for the Cube's internal mechanism came from pebbles in the River Danube whose edges had been smoothed away.
• More than 300 million Rubik's Cubes have been sold worldwide. If all the cubes were placed on top of each other it would be enough to reach the North Pole from the South Pole!
• At the height of the Rubik's craze in the mid-1980s, it was estimated that one-fifth of the world's population had played the Cube.
• 'Cubing' still infects people of all ages. 'Cubaholics' are said to suffer from 'Rubik's wrist' and 'Cubist's thumb'!
• The Cube has inspired everything from fashion, architecture and music to films, plays and political speeches. There is also a dedicated art movement known as 'Rubikubism'.
• There are edible cubes, jewel-encrusted Cubes and even MP3 playing cubes! The biggest Cube in the world, on display in Knoxville, Tennessee, is 3 metres tall and weighs over 500kg.
• In May 2007, Thibaut Jacquinot of France became the first person to complete the Cube in under 10 seconds in open competition, setting a world record time of 9.86 seconds. The current world record for a single solve was set in June 2011 at the Melbourne Winter Open competition in Australia, by Feliks Zemdegs with an incredible time of 5.66 seconds!!
• On March 17, 2010, 134 school boys from DR Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham, England broke the previous Guiness World Record for most people solving a Rubik's Cube at once in 12 minutes. The Previous record set in December 2008 in Santa Ana, CA achieved 96 completions.