The Megaminx, is a dodecahedron-shaped twisty puzzle, it has 12 center pieces (around which the faces can turn), 20 corner pieces and 30 edge pieces. It was invented in 1982 by a few people independently but was first created by Dr. Cristoph Bandelow and soon after by the famous Uwe Mèffert who gave it it's current name. Other names for this puzzle are The Magic Dodecahedron and The Hungarian Supernova.

There are many similarities between the Megaminx (3x3x3) and the original Rubik's Cube. Both are face-turning puzzles that have fixed centers and a single edge piece between any two adjacent corners. It is quite surprizing at first glace, but the similarity between the puzzles also comes in to play when solving the Megaminx - the solution is almost identical to the Rubik's Cube's solution and many of the Rubik's Cube solving algorithms can be used on the Megaminx.

The difference between the two however is very obvious, while the Rubik's Cube is a cube (with 6 sqare faces) the Megaminx is a dodecahedron (with 12 pentagon faces). This creates a lot more moving parts - 50 in the Megaminx compared to 20 in the Rubik's Cube, therefore the number of possible combinations is also much greater - 1.01x10⁶⁸ (around 101 unvigintillion) which is a number most of us had never heard of before.

The Megaminx series is one of the most famous series in the cubing world. The puzzle has many variations and modifications, along with higher-order versions such as the Gigaminx (5x5x5) and the Teraminx (7x7x7).

The Megaminx is an official WCA puzzle and the official record for fastest solve is 24.44 seconds set by Leandro Martín López (Argentina) at Di Tella Open v2 2023.

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#rubiksfriend

i love it! it's so a great thing! it's easy to solve it if you know how to!

gigaminx lover

bro i have real gigaminx and ive easily solved it

Declan

I can solve it in 5 minutes 30 seconds

Eve

I can solve IT in 1 Minute

Scared of Megaminx #3

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

SKCubes

Got them but takes me approximately 20 minutes to solve now

SKCubes

I am going to get two rl megaminxes so i am so excited!

Scared of Megaminx #2

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

Bex

I can solve almost every cube but still cant figure out how to solve megaminx lol. Anybody know some good tutorials??

Samuel

Amazing app! I never knew how similar this was to a 3x3!

Hafs

Very hard solving at first but now easy with this app.

sigma

its hard but i like it like that

demi

I have one of these

Scared of Megaminx

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Eric Chen

So hard

Bruf

Bru so hard

Flip

This is the hardest thing ever

InfiniteCubing

I solved it all!, in ipad lol

hendawy

did you know that there is an algorithm the solve the 1x1x1

Imperfectcub

A few days ago I tried the Megaminx for the first time in real life. Solving it was tricky at first, as I got the first 2 layers completed but didn't know what to do next, but I watched a tutorial that really helped me out and now I know how to solve it! It's not that difficult, it's just time consuming, it takes ~5-7+(?) minutes for me to solve it. Knowing how to solve it is very cool.

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