Marcell Endrey’s World Record For Solving Rubik’s Cube Blindfolded Spotlights Puzzle Studied By Computer Scientists (VIDEO) Think Rubik’s cubes are child’s play? Maybe so, but they’re also an obsession for computer scientists who specialize in so-called search and enumeration problems. In 2007, researchers at Northeastern University proved that no matter what its initial configuration, any Rubik’s cube could be solved in 26 moves.