NO one can quite get their head around this complex optical illusion which shows multiple Rubik’s Cubes at once.
As if one Rubik’s Cube wasn’t enough, someone has combined two – or so it seems.
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The gif is so mind-boggling that one user said “this hurt my brain”.
“I was expecting something like a cube roll that somehow continues to make its pattern again,” another commented on Reddit.
“I was not prepared for the mental pain when a section of it rotated instead.
“Thankfully after that my brain caught up with what was happening so the pain didn’t continue.”
The optical illusion uses common 3D drawings to trick our brains.
“I believe there’s a change in line width which makes you see different perspectives,” another said.
“I could be wrong, though.”
The real Rubik’s Cube was first created back in 1974, and is one of the most popular and well-known 3D puzzle games in the world.
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Since its inception, humans have been competing to solve the tricky puzzle in record times.
As you might expect, robots are better than humans at solving it.
So much so, a droid current holds the world record, which is a staggering 0.38 seconds.
The human world record stands at 4.22 seconds.
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The Rubik’s Cube – a brief history
Here’s what you need to know…
- The Rubik’s Cube is a 3D combination puzzle that involves sliding coloured blocks around
- Each cube has 54 squares, split evenly into six different colours
- The objective is to have all six sides of the cube occupied entirely by a single colour
- It was invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik
- It was originally called the Magic Cube
- Rubik licensed the puzzle to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980
- In then won the German Game of the year special awarded for best puzzle that same year
- By January 2009, more than 350 million Rubik’s Cubes had been sold worldwide
- It’s considered to be the world’s best-selling toy and puzzle game
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