Guinness World Record -- 839 Rubik's Cubes in 4:56:01 During a Marathon

ChickenWrap said:
I was actually going to attempt this record this year but my goal was 500 cubes....I probably shouldn't bother now :D

As for advice, I am a very strong cyclist (ie I can hold 24+mph for over 50 miles) and from my cycling experience, I think that anyone who is in reasonable shape could pedal the pedicab at 5.5mph for a 5 hour effort! I would actually volunteer to pedal it but I live 800 miles away!!
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Tell me when you go pro and get sponsored please. Technically weight does not affect constant motion at all, all energy is lost to friction, probably 70% fluid, and 30% rolling. Moving a bike at 6mph only needs like 25w, if that. With 1000 pounds it should be about 75w, due to extra rolling resistance and bearing friction. Once you hit a 1% grade, you need about 3x the wattage. So if it was flat it would still be easy. (200w is baseline for a in shape cyclist, over a 1 hour period).
 
Bunyanderman said:
Tell me when you go pro and get sponsored please. Technically weight does not affect constant motion at all, all energy is lost to friction, probably 70% fluid, and 30% rolling. Moving a bike at 6mph only needs like 25w, if that. With 1000 pounds it should be about 75w, due to extra rolling resistance and bearing friction. Once you hit a 1% grade, you need about 3x the wattage. So if it was flat it would still be easy. (200w is baseline for a in shape cyclist, over a 1 hour period).
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Dude, I race at the national level. I actually train for cycling and 200w is a baseline for your average joe. My average wattage is significantly higher than 200w, even for mutltiple hours of cycline. I don't know why you felt that need to bring this up literally months after I posted, but oh well.

Good luck with the attempt!! I hope you succeed and will be looking for your result!
 
ChickenWrap said:
Dude, I race at the national level. I actually train for cycling and 200w is a baseline for your average joe. My average wattage is significantly higher than 200w, even for mutltiple hours of cycline. I don't know why you felt that need to bring this up literally months after I posted, but oh well.

Good luck with the attempt!! I hope you succeed and will be looking for your result!
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Sorry I just thought it was funny, doing 50 miles in 2 hours is extremely fast! Not disputing your claims, this would definitely put you near the pro level. I would sure hope you can hold more than 200w for those speeds, you would need about 350w.
 
So close to the deadline. Did you wait near the end and just keep solving as many cubes as you could until you reached 5 hours? Or did you just pace yourself the whole race?
 
45 degree weather made the first hour particularly hard and had to wear fingerless gloves which slowed down a lot of those solves. We also had 2 people from the crew not make it so we had to make ends meet with 2 of my non cuber people and because 90% of the race including the place we stayed at didn't have cell or Internet service whatsoever (didn't know till we got there) we weren't able to use the timer that would've given me a better idea of how many cubes I was ahead or behind and my pace running with regard to that.

Overall I tried solving while running the entire time, of course there were times where I had to eat refuel and drink so that probably took some time away from solving. I had a camelbak along with a cooler full of Gatorade and food and stuff but neither of those made it to the starting line. Plan was to keep sipping as I was solving to save time but instead aid stations became a regular thing. There were times where I ran a mile or 2 at 7-8 minute pace without solving to catch up as we were trying our best to guess my actual time (GPS watch was started late). Overall it went really well though. It's really not as easy as you would think.

839 solves
20 skips
4 drops
0 pops
15 cubes (moyus and liyings from speedcubeshop)
 
newtonbase said:
Do you think you'll ever try it again?
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Never say never but I think since I have picked up other hobbies and interests it has been hard enough to get me to pick up a cube these days so this will most likely be a one-time thing (unless someone decides they want to do 840+ cubes in a sub-5 marathon).

Stefan said:
Lol...
Yeah, I and probably everyone else totally thought this is easy. Not.

Too bad you didn't reach your goal, but congrats on the achievement anyway. I mean, still the record by far, and very impressive.
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Yeah it would have been awesome to reach 1,000 and it would have been very doable I'm convinced if it weren't for the cold weather and other circumstances. I just meant it's not as easy as the 21-seconds per cube average would make it seem.

Did you know:

-Downhill running is no joke. Especially on your quads.
-OH THIS IS AN A-PERM! I KNOW THAT ONE!
-J-perms were the most common PLL (BY FAR). Maybe 100 total?
-I did Green cross about 3 times?
-I incorporated ZBF2L and ZBLL maybe about 10 times.
-I DIDN'T TRIP OR FALL!
-I kinda ran into someone as I was speeding up but just barely really.
-There were maybe two 8-second solves that were LOL crazy. This was no-inspection too.
-This whole thing almost didn't happen because my official bib was nowhere to be found until 10 minutes before start time.
-Race officials suggested I start asking people for their own bib, and they would change the name afterwards online.
-After so many no's, someone literally ALMOST gave me their bib until Whitney showed up with mine.
-Everett and Michael are AMAZING BEAT BOXERS/HUMAN DUBSTEP BOOMBOXES.
-Cubing with gloves (even if fingerless) is a handicap all on it's own.
-I don't even remember what the scenery looked like. But apparently it was beautiful.
-We had maybe 10 corner twists.
-The cubes were AMAZING otherwise. Seriously, speedcubeshop.com :tu
-It was a point to point race with no shuttle back up to the starting line after.
-I should've cubed an extra 3 minutes and 50 seconds to get in at least 11 more solves to make it 850.
 
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