8x8x8 Rubik's Cube

the Chinese companies ShengShou and YuXin.

## About the Rubik's Cube

ThisRubik's Cube consists of 296 pieces ("cubies") on the surface. There are also 84 movable pieces entirely hidden within the interior of the cube, as well as six fixed pieces attached to the central "spider" frame. There are 216 centerpieces which show one color each, 72 edge pieces which show two colors each, and eight corner pieces which show three colors. Each piece (or sextet of edge pieces) shows a unique color combination, but not all combinations are present (for example, there is no edge piece with both red and orange sides, since red and orange are on opposite sides of the solved Cube). The location of these cubes relative to one another can be altered by twisting the layers of the Cube 90°, 180° or 270°, but the location of the colored sides relative to one another in the completed state of the puzzle cannot be altered: it is fixed by the distribution of color combinations on edge and corner pieces. Currently, the 8×8×8 is produced with white plastic as a base, with red opposite orange, blue opposite green, and yellow opposite black. The V-Cube version has one centerpiece marked the letter **V**. Versions with black plastic and a white face, with the other colors remaining the same, are also available. The V-Cube has rounded sides like the V-Cube 7, whereas the Chinese versions have flat faces. On all versions, the outermost layers are thicker than the middle ones. This difference allows the use of a thicker stalk to hold the corner pieces to the internal mechanism, thus making the puzzle more durable.

## Facts

The 8x8x8 Rubik's Cube has 6 fixed centers, 210 other centerpieces, 72 edge pieces, and 8 corners.

The current unofficial world record is 4 minutes and 36.3 seconds by Mattia Furlan from Italy.

There are 35,173,780,923,109,452,777,509,592,367,006,557,398,539,936,328,978,098,352,427,605,879,843,998,663,990,903,628,634,874,024,098,344,287,402,504,043,608,416,113,016,679,717,941,937,308,041,012,307,368,528,117,622,006,727,311,360,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, about 3.52×10217, or about 35 unseptuagintillion possible combinations.

The V-Cube has one center piece marked with a "V", which distinguishes it from the other three in its set. This increases the number of patterns by a factor of four to 1.41×10218, although any of the four possible positions for this piece could be regarded as correct.

## How to Solve

1. Step1: ► Learn how to fix up 4 TOP corners
2. Step2: ► Learn how to fix the other 4 corners
3. Step3: ► Learn how to make 12 nice edges
4. Step4: ► Learn how to make 6 nice faceCenters
5. Step5: ► Learn how to fix up 12 good edges

**MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO SOLVE HERE.**

## Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Cube\_8
2. https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/8x8x8\_Cube
3. https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/List\_of\_Unofficial\_World\_Records
4. https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Panagiotis\_Verdes
5. https://www.v-cubes.com/verdes-innovations-sa/company-profile
6. https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Shengshou
7. https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Mattia\_Furlan
8. http://www.ganpuzzle.com/vcube888s.htm