If you're trying to solve a Rubik's Cube, the key is to break the puzzle down into several smaller steps.

I assumed that successfully unscrambling a cube would forever remain on my bucket list, but a smart Rubik’s Cube is finally teaching me the strategies to solve one.

So how do the likes of Lucas Etter work out how to solve Rubik’s cube so quickly? They could read instructions, but that rather spoils the fun.

VIDEO: You start with the "white cross" and the rest comes naturally. If not, we've broken it down into 6 simple steps to solve the Rubik's cube.

Solving a Rubik's cube is really hard, so with the recent news that the record has been broken with the cube solved in just 3.13 seconds, you may be wondering how to solve it yourself ...

Rubik’s Cube Genius I hope you were able to catch today’s segment on Tyson Mao, the young man responsible for teaching Will Smith and Oprah how to solve a Rubik’s cube, and fast!

Scrambling it is much easier than solving it. But it still involves some fascinating questions, such as the number of random moves needed to consider the cube truly messed up.

Then in the 1980s it was renamed to the Rubik's Cube. The Speed Cube is a special version of the Rubik's Cube that is meant to be solved very quickly.