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Fewest Moves: New World Record 20 moves

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Tomoaki Okayama (岡山友昭) 20 Move FMC WR

Sorry to keep you waiting.
Now I'm back to the hotel and as a first thing to do I came here. :)

I am pretty happy to announce that the oldest official world record (Fewest Moves: 22 moves)
has been finally broken as follows.

Scramble: L' F2 R B2 D2 L' B2 U B2 L B' R' U B2 D' R U B' (18f*)
Solution: L2 U2 L F' U' F2 U D' B' R2 F2 D B2 D' U F D F' U' F (20f)

NISS solve.

(Inverse)
Pre-scramble: L

2x2x3 block: B2 D' F R2 B D

(Normal)
Pre-scramble: D' B' R2 F' D B2

All but 4 corners: L2 U2 L F' U' F2 U
Correction: D' B' R2 F' * D B2

Insert at *: F' D B2 D' + F D B2 D'
Insert at +: U F D F' U' F D' F'
I got the 13-move skeleton in 19 min., and wrote down the 20-move
final solution in 50 min. Then I checked the solution again and again,
and was satisfied in 55 min. I brought my sheet to Ton Dennenbroek and
reported my result.

Thanks to everyone, I finally did it!
But as Mike Hughey said, it is not the end, but surely this record will be further broken.
The next world record is under God's number!
 
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Congrats, pretty sure 20 will stand unbeaten for quite a while.

I do agree that this is very likely (after all, the last record stood for years), but it's definitely not guaranteed - all it takes is one lucky solve (and a really good competitor!).

Great result! I am looking forward to hopefully getting to see the solution.
 
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