>>Ok, there is a new definition for loser:
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>>http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Man_takes_26_years_to_solve_Rubik%92s_Cube&in_article_id=471180&in_page_id=2
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>LOL. Thanks for the morning smile.
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>You have to wonder, though, how long it would take many other people to solve it if they absolutely had to and didn't have access to a guide showing you how to do it. It's not an easy puzzle, especially if you don't happen to be good at visualizing spatial relationships.

Back in high school in class of 34, we had almost 20 cubes being solved at the time
At the time when it become popular, it almost completely eradicated preferans (card game)

While professors were writing some boring stuff on board... {g}