metro.co.uk - 1/12/2009
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'I have missed important events to stay in and solve it and I would lie awake at night thinking about it. 'I have had wrist and back problems from spending hours on it but it was all worth it. When I clicked that last bit into place and each face was a solid colour, I wept.' Wife Jean, 47, said ...
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Man Solves Rubik's Cube After 26 Years of Trying, Weeps in Victory [Champion]
Gizmodo —
... Oh, and you know this is a record. A spokesman for the World Cube Association, said it was 'definitely the longest it has taken' to finish the cube. Now that is a true champion. [Metro] ...
Man takes 26 years to solve Rubik’s Cube
Boing Boing —
For the last 26 years Graham Parker has been obsessed with solving Rubik's cube. He finally did it.
'I cannot tell you what a relief it was to finally solve it,' the 45-year-old from Portchester, Hampshire, said. 'It has driven me mad over the years – it felt like it had taken over my life.
'I have missed important events to stay in and solve it and I would lie awake at night thinking about it.
'I have had wrist and back problems from spending hours on it but it was all worth it. When I clicked that last bit into place and each face was a solid colour, I wept.'
He's probably happy he solved it, but I predict that he is going to go through a period of ...
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