I had no idea there was such a thing as tactile Rubik's Cubes. Here's Big Wendy, an accomplished Rubik's Cube artist, making a portrait of Rubik's Cube inventor Erno Rubik using 400 tactile cubes while blindfolded. She says, "The actual portrait took me around 7 hours to finish and the prep took around 3."
Blinfolded, Big Wendy makes a portrait of Erno Rubik with tactile Rubik's Cubes
Robot solves Rubik's cube in 103ms, breaks world record
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The highest-order Rubik's Cubes
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Tiny metal Rubik's Cube requires tweezers
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