1981: The RUBIK'S CUBE Revolution | The Money Programme | BBC Archive
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- "It's one of those fiendishly brilliant and disarmingly simple ideas that can revolutionise the games market overnight."
The Rubik's cube - the brain child of Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture, Ernõ Rubik - is likely to find its way into many a Christmas stocking this year. The Money Programme's John Watkinson reports on how its phenomenal global success has got toy companies, inventors and enthusiasts clamouring to find the next big thing in puzzles.
Originally broadcast 13 December, 1981.
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I've been trying to solve this bloody thing since 1982, I'm now 55 year's old and still nothing, I have come to the conclusion I'm thick as a brick.
Same here 😂
Start with the white cross
Then for God's sake don't ever buy a barrel cube!
I'm 57 and the mongrel thing is sitting in front of me now, still unsolved.
I bought one cos all those darn kids on the bus coming home were solving it in seconds. Mine wore out and deposits black dust and is still unsolved Grrr
Just look up how to do it online. Then once you understand the formula you can do it super easily whenever you want.
I had a Rubik cube as a child and I still have a cube as an adult. The cube has stood the test of time.
i was bored of it as a child after 5 mins and moved on to the superior world of videogames
I was in one the regional finals that year, aged 12 and used to sell my solution booklets at school, including to the headteacher! My best was 25 seconds but only managed 1m 15s in the competition. Great to see this clip.
I hate you 😂😂😂😂Jk 👍
@@thebadgamer1967 It's ok, I've forgotten how to do the last bit now! 🤪
I like how one guy says, "only a fool" would try to follow after the Rubik's Cube, while another guy spent thousands making whatever that pyramid thing was.
Also, yes it went the way of the skateboard. Still going strong, and selling lots annually. Both having massive competitions throughout the year.
The pyramid guy and the guy saying "only a fool" are the same guy
@@JackDavis16 I thought it might have been, but wasn't sure. Got visually distracted towards the end of the video, and wasn't watching the screen.
It’s called a pyraminx
@@bigbosspanda1976 alright, cool. I don't remember what it looked like. Probably due to getting distracted during the video, as previously mentioned. Now I've got a name to go with, whatever the thing was. Thanks.
The current official world record is 3.47 seconds. The cubes they are now using look a bit looser than than the ones that I remember so that helps a bit but you've still got to work out the puzzle so it's an amazing feat.
wow i cant meow in 3.5sec
Most people who do speed cubing don’t actually work out how to solve it themselves, they just use an algorithm that works with every cube. You just need to memorise that then you can solve any standard cube. It’s easy to just find the algorithms online. The trick is just doing it super fast which mostly comes down to muscle memory.
@@rachelcookie321 beat me to it
@@rachelcookie321 well thats an extremely simplified way to put it. there are many methods and also hundreds if not thousands of different algorithms and it still takes a lot of time and effort to learn all the cases and methodology. its not as simple as memorising one algorithm and doing it as fast as possible as you say
A minute to learn, a lifetime to master...
Like Chess!
Not sure you can LEARN to "Do" a Rubik's Cube in a minute.
not released in australia until 1982
"Let's Twist Again.....And Again.....And Again...."
Ernő Rubik made more toys and almost every Hungarian child had them, but for some reason they weren't known anywhere else, which is very sad.
Nah. The rest were crap.
Matchbox had the licence for a while and released numerous Rubik's 'challenges' in the late 80s. You can see lots on Ebay but all look like they were just trying to squeeze a bit more money from the name and nothing like the cube.
£50 a child per year. If only you could do that today lol
£178 in today’s money with inflation. I think most people spend less than that on their kids for Christmas.
8:18 I didn’t know Will Byers from stranger things was a real person? 😂
Loved the Rubik snake I could do that
This is going to go the way of skateboarding.
That aged like milk… but to be fair, nobody expected its resurgence
00:19 in this video "Resulting in a new World record of 25.79 Seconds..
Yusheng Du says ........ 🤣😆😂🤣😆🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😆😆 HOLD MY BEER for 3.47 Seconds (As of Feb 2023)
8:49 who knew Harry Potter was a Rubiks Cube wizard 😂
You just wait and see, I recon that by 1983 kids will be playing damn video games.
So.
I could never do it, only if I took it apart 😬
Yes 👍
Use a tutorial
I still can't do it.
Just take the stickers off and hey presto
That’s cheating 😂
That’s torture
Well I just found out the cube I got for a quid in Blackpool was a fake 😂
1981 knock off quality was better than todays Rubiks though - won me many competitions 🤷🏻
Nowadays nobody has a skateboard or a Rubik's Cube.
skirrid!
moved to the states in 1980. thank god for monty python and rubik's cube. name's rurik and it would have been hell without that timely thingy. oh yah british guy monty python ha ha great.
Sam
52 years old have my original cube still can’t do it
Haha £50 per child? That's only £150 in today's money. Lots of parents I know often spend 1K+ per child
1k??? Every year. Now you’re making me feel poor lol. I always felt like I got a lot for Christmas because I’m an only child and I’m the youngest in the family (my cousins are a good few years older than me) so I was always they spoilt baby of the family. But my family never spent that much on me. I’m 17 so I’m still quite young and inflation hasn’t increased that much in my life. The most they ever spent on me in one year was probably about £400 but that was only because I got a Nintendo switch, most years it was probably about £150. 1K per a child? Really? How can anyone afford that. I don’t know anyone who got anywhere near that much for Christmas as a kid. Those kids must be so spoilt. I also got gifts/money from my grandparents and extended family but we’re just talking about parents here.
It will never catch on
calling him a communist millionaire felt like something out of a joke video. i forgot how blunt these videos were back then.
Yes back when facts were simply facts.
Looks like western countries didn't know too much about communism. Rubik has seen very little from all the royalties of his cube. The rights belonged to the state, and as any communist country, Hungary was after the western (so-called "hard") currencies.
Just watch a documentary about Tetris and how Alexey Pajitnov got nothing for his invention until 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
viva revolucion🐱👍🏿
Was he a communist? I haven't found any info on his party membership.
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