This ingenius device.

[Phazite]

I've solve one once. It took a long time for me even after learning the algorithms. Back in high school Rubik's cubes became somewhat popular. I think a couple of my friends were able to solve it in about a minute. They were always competing for times.

I probably have one somewhere in my mess, bought it complete and never scrambled it to impress women

It's more impressive to create the checker board pattern, which is pretty simple to do with a completed cube, or the flower pattern which I don't know how to do.