LINKS

SpeedCubing links

Yahoo speed solving rubik's cube club http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/speedsolvingrubikscube
Rubik's cube lovers forum. There are about 200 people listed at the end of 2001.

Unofficial World Record http://www.speedcubing.com/
This page has been built by Crhis, who is the founder of the YSSRCC. Now, Chris and Ron are co-host.
Thanks for updating.

Message Board of Rubik's Cube 1(JAPANESE) http://www.freeml.com/ml_mess.php?ml=rc-club
Message Board of Rubik's Cube 2(JAPANESE) http://www.egroups.co.jp/group/speedcubing
Mailing list for Japnese cube lovers. 50 peoples are listed at Sep 2003.
ONLY JAPANESE. No.1 is inactive No.2 is active board for everything about speedcubing.

Speedcubing.com http://www.speedcubing.com/
Ron van Bruchem is the owner of this site. Thank you for Great effort.
I learned a lot of algorythms from this site. The WC1 video is also available.

How to solve Rubik's cube within 30 sec http://ksuehiro.hp.infoseek.co.jp/index.html

How to solve Rubik's cube within 20 sec http://naitsu.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
Naitsu (ikenosima) owns these web site.
He introduced Jessica's method to Japan and contributed to establish Japnese cube lovers community.

Planet Puzzle  http://www2.u-netsurf.ne.jp/~katsu-k/index.html 
He describes precisely how he solves.
Graphics and homepage techniques are great. Only Japanese but must see.

Jessica Fridrich's page http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cube.html
The bible for speedcubist. Most ofspeedcubist referrs her methods.

Dan Knights' page http://benjerry.middlebury.edu/~knights/
World champion 2003 with 20.0 in average.
There are a lot of tips about finger short cut and maintainence.

Speed solving video page http://www.rubiks.dk/
Jess Bond, who is the world record (16.53 sec) holder, built this site. He developed nice timer for speedcubing.

Alternative Sunday Contest http://ulysse.iie.cnam.fr/formet/contest/
Benoit Formet's site. He holds Sunday contest every week.
He also analyzes old data statistically.
Thanks for having Sunday contest. That's fun.

Jon Morris's page  http://nascarjon.curvedspaces.com/cube.htm
We used to live close together.
He made his page with RubikPlayer introducing Jessica's method.

Doug Li's page  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dlli/
He is math student in Univ of Michigan.
We met several times to exchange algorithms.

Cube (Japanese) http://park-avenue.homeip.net/park-avenue/index.html
Contests are held. But really tough.

1st Revenge ~Revenge of QVIC~ 2nd Revenge ~Revenge of QVIC2~
(Japanese) http://www.biwako.ne.jp/~hiroharu/
Good BGM. But only in Japanese.

MedaBorg http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~mrt/mrt_meda.htm
Good program. The web site is Japanese but the application is in English.
Program can solve 2x2x2 and 3x3x3 by the developer's method, It looks like human solving.

Lars & Karl JAVA applet http://lar5.com/cube/ http://www.javaonthebrain.com/
Lars Petrus was the forth at WC1. His home page and the most popular java applet.
Very light. But can't describe slice moves.

Michael Schubart's cube http://www.schubart.net/rc/
Made at 1995. The origin of Lars & Karl' cube.

VirtualCube http://members.rogers.com/cheong.gan/vcube/home.html
One of the greatest PC-cube. You can play freely. Square-1 is also available.

David Byrden's cube http://byrden.com/puzzles/
Various kind of cubes and cube like puzzules.

Rubiks.com http://www.rubiks.com/ Then go to PLAY ONLINE
GREAT CUBE. You can play online.  

Other interesting links

3D puzzle reconstruction studio
Katuhiko Okamoto is a professional craftman.
He is interested in creating new cuboid puzzles from original Rubik's cube.
Must see product list.