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A Rubik's Cube has 43 quintillion wrong turns

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The globally adored Rubik's Cube seems mathematically simple on the surface, but its mechanical center allows for an incomprehensible amount of visual combinations. If you turn it randomly, there are 43 quintillion wrong ways the colored tiles can face, yet incredibly, the absolute hardest scramble can always be perfectly solved in just twenty moves.

A Rubik's Cube has 43 quintillion wrong turns
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