![]() The chances of generating a random scramble that can only be solved in 20 moves, no more no less, is around 1 in a billion. Although 490 million is a huge number, it is only a fraction of the 43 quintillion possible combinations (0.0000011328955% to be precise). Only around 490,000,000 combinations require the full 20 moves to be solved. This number may seem low, but theoretically it should be even lower. The term “God’s Number” was coined because the mind of a being able to find the shortest sequence of moves to solve any scramble sequence would have to be thousands of times more powerful than our own, able to test millions of different combinations in the blink of an eye, something that mathematicians believe only a Deity could possess. ![]() ![]() It has been proven that this number is 20 ( ), however the discovery is fairly recent (July 2010). God’s Number, as many cube enthusiasts will already know, is the maximum number of moves required to solve any of the 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 combinations of the cube.
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