{"id":245487,"date":"2026-10-16T01:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/gods-number-is-20"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:47:37","slug":"gods-number-is-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/gods-number-is-20","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Number is 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gods-number-is-202.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Rubik\u2019s Cube is one of the most iconic mathematical puzzles ever invented, created by Hungarian architect Ern\u0151 Rubik in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>A standard 3\u00d73\u00d73 cube has-1 possible configurations \u2014 roughly 43 quintillion!<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the remarkable mathematical result: every reachable configuration can be solved in 20 moves or fewer, provided a 180\u00b0 face turn counts as one move.<\/p>\n<p>Proven in 2010, this result is known as God\u2019s Number.<\/p>\n<p>A simple-looking puzzle. More than 43 quintillion configurations. And a mathematically proven upper limit on the number of moves needed to solve any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Reference: [God\u2019s Number Is 20 \u2014]\/\/www.cube20.org\/) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/gods-number-is-20\">Continue reading \u201cGod\u2019s Number is 20\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rubik\u2019s Cube is one of the most iconic mathematical puzzles ever invented, created by Hungarian architect Ern\u0151 Rubik in 1974. A standard 3\u00d73\u00d73 cube has-1 possible configurations \u2014 roughly 43 quintillion! And here\u2019s the remarkable mathematical result: every reachable configuration can be solved in 20 moves or fewer, provided a 180\u00b0 face turn counts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}