Solving a 5x5 Rubik's Cube

In my final post, I will be talking about and talking about how to solve the 5x5 Rubik's Cube. This is the most overwhelming cube yet, with a whopping 2.8 x 10^72, or 280 trevigintillion possible configurations with once again, only 1 of those configurations being a solved cube(Harris 121).

Along with the 2x2 and the 4x4, experience and knowledge of the 3x3 cube can greatly help in learning this cube, and how to solve it. Harris agrees, "As with the 4x4x4 solution, this solution is geared toward cubers who already have some experience with the 3x3x3, have learned a solution or figured it out on their own, and can solve it from memory without any problems(Harris 121).

Thank you for reading all of my blog posts this quarter, and I hope throughout these 5 posts, if not helping you I have at least entertained you and potentially given you inspiration to try and enter the puzzling world of Rubik's Cubes.




Question: Have you every heard of and/or tried solving a 5x5 Rubik's Cube? If so how difficult was it, and how much did your knowledge of the 3x3 help you with solving it?

Harris, Dan. Speedsolving the Cube: Easy-to-follow, Step-by-step Instructions for Many Popular 3-D Puzzles. New York: Sterling Pub., 2008. Print.