Nicolas Naing broke both the Megaminx Single and Average National Records at Northeastern Fall 2015 last weekend. This was his first WCA competition. Nicolas enters the Megaminx rankings at #6 for average and #9 for single. (54.76), 52.10, 46.80, 47.17 (43.92) = 48.96 seconds
Read More »The Journey We All Share
Shown originally at the Rubik’s World Championship 2015 Awards Ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Transcript is below: Hello, I am Natán Riggenbach, and this is the story of the Peruvian cubing dream. Sort of. It is a story of things seemingly impossible happening, and things undreamed of coming to pass, much …
Read More »Every position of Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 or less.
In 2010, God’s Number was proven to be 20 moves: With about 35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google, a team of researchers has essentially solved every position of the Rubik’s Cub, and shown that no position requires more than twenty moves. We consider any twist of any …
Read More »[Throwback] 2004 3×3 World Record by Shotaro Makisumi
This was set at the 2004 Caltech Spring competition by Macky.
Read More »Drew Brads breaks Pyraminx World Records at Lexington Fall 2015
2013 Pyraminx world champion Drew Brads broke the single (1.32 seconds) and average (2.52 seconds) world records in pyraminx at the Lexington Fall 2015 competition last month on Oct 24, 2015 in Lexington, Massachusetts. See the full thread on the forum here.
Read More »New 7×7 Average World Record, 2 minute, 30.14 seconds – by Feliks Zemdegs
Set at the Melbourne Cube Days 2015 competition last weekend in Melbourne, Australia.
Read More »Solving 3 Rubik’s Cubes while Juggling Them
Done by fellow speedsolving.com member Ravi Fernando.
Read More »[Throwback] Jean Pons breaks 3×3 world record at the Dutch Open 2005
Jeans Pons was one of the worlds best solvers in the early days of cubing. This video was quite famous at the time – it is him breaking the 3×3 world record with a time of 11.75 seconds at the Dutch Open 2005 competition over 10 years ago.
Read More »[Female World Record] Tiffany Chien 3×3 OH average: 16.01 seconds
Tiffany Chien set a new record as the fastest one-handed female average at the Hayward Rubik’s Rumble 2015 competition: (19.50), 16.82, 15.61, (14.91), 15.60 = 16.01 See the thread on the forums here.
Read More »New 5×5 European Records: Breandan Vallance 52.21 single, 59.51 average
Breandan Vallance of the UK set new European records in 5×5 at the UK Championships 2015 last weekend with a 52.21 second single and 59.51 second average: 1:08.36, 53.37, (52.21), (DNF(1:02.xx)), 56.80 The video of the 52.21 second single is shown here. See the thread on the forums here.
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