World Record Predictions for Year 2025

[SH03L4C3]

No way in hell someone is getting a 2.68 single

yeah. It has to be a 2.69

 

[StrategySam]

yeah. It has to be a 2.69

Maybe at home, no way in comp. The current 3x3 single scramble is so incredibly lucky.

 

[SH03L4C3]

Only cubehead will be able to get a 2.69 with his fire treated valk.

Maybe at home, no way in comp. The current 3x3 single scramble is so incredibly lucky.

 

[RyanSoh]

3x3 - 2.68/4.40

Maybe at home, no way in comp.

2.68 World Best Single
Accurate prediction!
But 4 years too early

 

[scrubizilla]

No way in hell someone is getting a 2.68 single

Yep like others have said ruihang xu just apparently got a 2.68 single not official but still also ruihang xu is an insane young cuber look him up on youtube and also i dont like commas cuzz im cool and commas dont have any place in society and should literally be made extinct also i think that commas are a waste of time and should never have even exsited in the world BOOM

 

[Spacey10]

Yep like others have said ruihang xu just apparently got a 2.68 single not official but still also ruihang xu is an insane young cuber look him up on youtube

When this mn realizes commas exist :flushed:

I think 3x3 has been pushed to it's limits, and the furthest it can go is 2.3 I think. I also definitely seeing a clock wr or average we doin, considering the rise in clock

 

[StrategySam]

So well, uhhh. This is embarrassing :^P.

 

[scrubizilla]

When this mn realizes commas exist flushed

I think 3x3 has been pushed to it's limits and the furthest it can go is 2.3 I think I also definitely seeing a clock wr or average we doin considering the rise in clock

wait a second, do you see any commas in that post.
jk, and i appreciate the observation wait- but cmon I'm just a young person, and I'm not too concerned with commas. I just don't think of them much when writing a small message to someone.

 

[Existential Shrimp]

2.647 3x3 single.

 

[Competition Cuber]

well well well...

 

[Competition Cuber]

Let's update my predictions:
(single/average current single/current average)

2x2: .37/0.98 .49/1.21
3x3: 2.99/4.04 3.47/5.69
4x4: 15.43/19.81 18.42/21.13
5x5: 32.02/36.06 36.06/39.65
6x6: 59.76/1:08.97 1:13.82/1:17.10
7x7: 1:35.42/1:44.87 1:44.02/1:50.10
3BLD: 13.64/16.78 16.22/18.28
3FMC: 15/19.66 16/22
3OH: 5.79/7.88 6.88/9.42
Clock: 3.01/4.02 3.29/4.43
Megaminx: 23.16/26.64 27.81/32.03
Pyraminx: 0.78/1.49 0.91/1.86
Skewb: 0.80/1.78 0.93/2.03
Squan: 4.55/5.99 4.95/6.73
4BLD: 59.87/1:04.63 1:08.07/1:21.81
5BLD: 2:02.38/2:35.62 2:38.77/3:23.92
3Multi-BLD: 62/63 57:13 50/52 56.32

These almost all got obliterated

 

[Ordway Persyn]

2x2 - 0.37/1.03 0.43/0.88
3x3 - 3.70/4.89 3.13/4.05
4x4 - 13.95/18.62 15.71/19.38
5x5 - 29.88/33.83 30.45/34.76
6x6 - 1:01.52/1:10.63 58.03/1:05.66
7x7 - 1:34.54/1:43.19 1:34.15/1:39.68
OH - 6.05/8.92 5.66/8.09
3BLD - 11.11/15.65 12.00/14.05
FMC - 18/20.33 16/20
Feet - 15.10/18.73 15.56/19.90 (by 2020 though)
Mega - 20.03/24.46 23.18/26.60
Pyra - 1.04/1.75 0.73/1.15
Skewb - 1.01/1.82 0.75/1.52
SQ-1 - 4.18/6.25 3.41/4.81
4BLD - 1:03.88 51.96/1:06.46
5BLD - 2:20.49 2:04.41/2:27.63
MBLD - 58/61 (60:02) 62/65 (57:47)

Clock - 1.97/2.39
I used different colors to represent if my predictions were off by <1%, <5%, <10%, <20%, <30% and 30%< respectively. I also gave a penalty for not predicting feet being removed as If it hadn't my predictions would have been much more off. I didn't predict 4Bld or 5Bld Mean as i don't think they were official at the time, though my single predictions were closer to the current WR means so I doubt any predictions i would have made would have been accurate. I also forgot clock though I would have not predicted it getting half as fast as it has.

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

Sub 3.5 for 3x3
Sub 15 4x4
Sub 25 5x5
Sub 1 6x6
Sub 1:30 7x7
These may be a stretch but here

Little did he know how quickly a Sub-3.5 would follow

 

[Cubingmadness123]

SINGLE AVERAGE
3x3 2.77 3.89 (YIHENG)
2x2 0.38. 0.85 (YIHENG)
4x4 15.68. 19.33 (MAX PARK)
5x5 29.97. 34.63 (TYMON)
6x6 None this year
7x7 none this year
OH 5.54 (Dhuruva) 7.98 (Sean)
PYRA 0.68 1.09 (lingkun)
Skewb 0.71. N/A (KAIXI)
SQ-1 3.49 4.77 (Dylan BaumBach)
3BLD 11.92 13.91 (Tommy Cherry)
4BLD N/A
5BLD N/A
FMC 15 15 (Evan) (Radomil) 19.67 (Wong)
MBLD 67/69 (Graham)
Clock 1.93. 2.32 (Volodymyr)
Mega 22.98 26.57 (Timofei)

 

[Cubingmadness123]

3x3 - 3.03/4.41
2x2 - 0.42/1.06
4x4 - 14.98/17.00
5x5 - 27.88/31.11
6x6 - 59.80/1:03.45
7x7 - 1:37.16/1:43.22
3BLD - 11.02/14.38
FMC - 17/20.67
OH - 4.99/7.31
Feet - 13.28/15.17
Clock - 2.93/3.81
Mega - 20.18/22.95
Pyra - 0.75/1.51
Skewb - 0.80/1.58
Sq-1 - 3.72/5.03
4BLD - 1:03.10
5BLD - 2:57.87
MBLD - 59/60 in 59:50

Honestly can't wait to see how wrong I am. I tried to make these sound ridiculous now, because the future records will seem ridiculous/impossible to us. With the insanely fast growth rate of cubing, I wouldn't be surprised if we see large, specialized communities develop around more events, kind of like what we've seen with 3BLD and MBLD recently. I feel like most events won't have a single dominating person, but rather an entire group of people who are all equally skilled and capable of getting WRs.

(Also, I'd like to predict that some events would be added and some would be removed, but that's a shot in the dark at this point. Really hard to say what will be trending enough to become an event between now and then.)

That is actually really close

 

[DGCubes]

That is actually really close

Eyyyy yeah I'm pretty proud of these! The only ones where I feel like I totally missed the mark are 4BLD, 5BLD, and Clock - definitely didn't anticipate Stanley Chapel or the 7simul revolution.

 

[turtwig]

SQ1: 2.5, 4.00: Most people here are putting the sq1 times as above 3x3. I disagree, as I think that fundamentally a SQ1 solve will only involve looking at the cube 6 times, and so will be quicker

It's funny that SQ-1 is almost 2 look now and it's still slower than 3x3. Although I suppose Yiheng and Xuanyi are almost 2-looking their 3x3 solves, too.

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

SINGLE AVERAGE
3x3 2.77 3.89 (YIHENG)
2x2 0.38. 0.85 (YIHENG)
4x4 15.68. 19.33 (MAX PARK)
5x5 29.97. 34.63 (TYMON)
6x6 None this year
7x7 none this year
OH 5.54 (Dhuruva) 7.98 (Sean)
PYRA 0.68 1.09 (lingkun)
Skewb 0.71. N/A (KAIXI)
SQ-1 3.49 4.77 (Dylan BaumBach)
3BLD 11.92 13.91 (Tommy Cherry)
4BLD N/A
5BLD N/A
FMC 15 15 (Evan) (Radomil) 19.67 (Wong)
MBLD 67/69 (Graham)
Clock 1.93. 2.32 (Volodymyr)
Mega 22.98 26.57 (Timofei)

I heavily doubt we will get a pyraminx WR average until at least very late 2025

 

[Cubingmadness123]

Update
3x3 Yiheng 2.96 xuanyi 4.01
2x2 Yiheng 0.38 Yiheng 0.81
4x4 Tymon 15.63 Tymon 19.07
5x5 Tymon 30.12 Tymon 34.61
6x6 N/A
7x7 Tymon 1:33.99
SQ-1 Sameer 3.49 sameer 4.57
Clock Volodymyr 1.77 Volodymyr 2.32
Megaminx Timofei 22.93 Timofei 24.97
Rest are the same