Daily puzzle · 2026-10-10 UTC
The Daily Scramble
One 2×2 cube, the same puzzle for everyone, resetting at 00:00 UTC. Scramble it and put it back. It is the smallest cube there is — every position is reachable in a handful of turns, and a beginner can finish it.
Today’s cube
The timer starts on your first move. Press a face letter on your keyboard, or hold Shift for a counter-clockwise turn.
U
L
F
R
B
D
- Time
- 0:00
- Your moves
- 0
- Par
- 10
- Solved stickers
- 3/24
Turn a face
No moves yet
Today’s scramble
Shown so you can check that the puzzle is real, and so anyone with a physical cube can scramble along.F B2 R' U2 F' R' B' U D' F'
Everyone gets this same scramble today, because it is generated from the UTC date rather than at random. That is what makes the result comparable with a friend’s.
How it works
- A 2×2 cube has eight corner pieces and no centres, so it is the only cube a beginner can finish in a few minutes. Every position is reachable in a small number of turns.
- Turn a face with the buttons or with the letter keys U D L R F B. Hold Shift for a counter-clockwise turn.
- The timer starts on your first move. Your streak counts a solve once per UTC day — solving at 23:00 and again at 01:00 counts as two days, not two solves.
- Par is the length of today’s scramble, not the optimal solution. We do not run an optimal solver, so claiming a “fewest possible moves” number would be inventing one. Par is the standard the scramble sets, and beating it means you solved it more directly than the way it was scrambled.
- Nothing you do here is sent anywhere. The streak is stored in this browser and there is no account.
The cube’s own story — invented in Budapest in 1974, patented, oversold, abandoned, and rescued by the expiry of its own patent — is in the registry: the Rubik’s Cube entry and the full story.