History of World Records/5x5x5

This is a list of all WCA World Records for the 5x5x5 event, with links to videos, discussion threads, and reconstructions when possible. You can see other info at the WCA's historical world record list.

Single

Result	Name	Country	Competition	Result Details	Videos	Discussion	Puzzle Brand	Reconstruction
51.09	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Australian Nationals 2012			[1]	ShengShou (Florian mod)
51.31	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Australian Nationals 2012		[2] slomo	[3] [4]	ShengShou (Florian mod)
52.65	Kristopher De Asis	Canada	Vancouver Summer 2012		[5]	[6]	V-Cube	[7]
54.86	Yu Nakajima	Japan	Matsudo Open 2012		reaction only	[8]
56.22	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	World Championship 2011		[9]	[10] [11]	ShengShou
59.27	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	World Championship 2011			[12]	ShengShou
1:00.27	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Australian Nationals 2011		[13]	[14]
1:01.59	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Melbourne Summer Open 2011			[15]
1:02.93	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Australian Nationals 2010		[16]	[17]
1:04.33	Dan Cohen	USA	US Nationals 2010		[18]		V-Cube
1:06.93	Syuhei Omura	Japan	MegaHouse Cup 2010		[19]	[20]
1:07.25	Dan Cohen	USA	Big Cubes Summer 2009				V-Cube
1:11.02	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Czech Open 2009		[21]	[22]
1:13.22	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Danish Open 2009		[23]	[24]		[25]
1:13.28	Hsuan Chang	Taiwan	Taiwan Winter Open 2009		[26]	[27] [28] [29]
1:16.21	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Danish Cube Day 2008		[30]	[31] [32]
1:18.59	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Euro 2008		[33]	[34]
1:20.98	Dan Cohen	USA	US Nationals and Open 2008		[35]		V-Cube
1:23.83	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Madrid Open 2008			[36]
1:27.43	Takayuki Ookusa	Japan	Osaka Open 2008			[37]
1:28.66	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Belgian Open 2008			[38]
1:30.03	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Swedish Cube Day 2007		[39]	[40]
1:30.58	Mátyás Kuti	Hungary	UK Open 2007			[41]
1:38.78	Takayuki Ookusa	Japan	Japan Open 2007
1:44.47	Frédérick Badie	France	Belgian Open 2007			[42]
1:46.28	Frank Morris	USA	G-Wiz Fall 2006
1:47.22	Ron van Bruchem	Netherlands	Belgian Open 2006
1:51.41	Frank Morris	USA	Caltech Dallas 2005
2:08.45	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Euro 2004
2:19.69	David Wesley	Sweden	World Championship 2003

Average

Result	Name	Country	Competition	Result Details	Videos	Discussion	Puzzle Brand	Reconstruction
57.64	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Australian Nationals 2012		[43]	[44] [45]	ShengShou (Florian mod)
57.94	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Melbourne Summer 2012	57.11 1:06.05 56.65 56.72 1:00.00	[46] [47]	[48]	ShengShou	[49]
59.94	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	World Championship 2011	59.59 58.41 1:01.81 1:05.40 56.22	[50]	[51] [52]	ShengShou
1:04.20	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Australian Nationals 2011	1:02.34 1:04.18 1:06.08 1:10.36 1:02.34	[53]	[54] [55]
1:07.01	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Melbourne Summer Open 2011	(1:20.81) 1:06.68 1:07.31 (1:02.40) 1:07.05		[56]
1:07.59	Feliks Zemdegs	Australia	Australian Nationals 2010	1:02.93 1:08.56 1:04.16 1:10.69 1:10.06	[57]	[58]
1:13.36	Dan Cohen	USA	Chicago Open 2010	1:22.44 1:10.68 1:13.06 1:12.55 1:14.46	[59]	[60]	V-Cube
1:16.75	Dan Cohen	USA	UPenn Spring 2009	1:16.53 1:17.53 1:13.96 1:22.46 1:16.18	[61]	[62]	V-Cube
1:20.91	Hsuan Chang	Taiwan	Taiwan Winter Open 2009	1:13.28 1:19.71 1:21.53 1:28.46 1:21.50	[63]	[64] [65]
1:21.05	Michal Halczuk	Poland	Galanta Open 2009	1:16.36 1:21.80 1:20.38 1:30.06 1:20.96		[66]
1:26.86	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Brussels Summer Open 2008	1:25.78 1:26.61 1:24.58 1:28.19 DNF
1:29.40	Dan Cohen	USA	US Nationals and Open 2008	1:30.58 1:24.40 1:45.88 1:20.98 1:33.23			V-Cube
1:35.04	Takayuki Ookusa	Japan	Osaka Open 2008	1:37.86 1:44.65 1:27.43 1:32.30 1:34.96		[67]
1:36.02	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Belgian Open 2008	1:36.47 1:32.58 1:39.02 1:28.66 2:00.66		[68]
1:36.71	Erik Akkersdijk	Netherlands	Swedish Cube Day 2007	1:30.03 1:33.63 1:36.08 1:40.41 1:42.71	[69]	[70]
1:42.16	Takayuki Ookusa	Japan	Ibaraki 2007	1:36.08 1:45.86 1:35.90 1:48.52 1:44.53		[71]
1:45.07	Mátyás Kuti	Hungary	World Championship 2007	1:46.65 1:46.78 1:43.69 1:44.88 1:43.68	[72]	[73] [74]
1:50.01	Takayuki Ookusa	Japan	Japan Open 2007	1:47.53 1:51.93 1:54.66 1:50.58 1:38.78
1:51.37	Takayuki Ookusa	Japan	Osaka 2007	1:46.00 1:57.43 1:51.52 1:56.59 1:45.71		[75]
1:55.24	Frank Morris	USA	G-Wiz Fall 2006	1:51.78 2:02.46 1:58.26 1:55.67 1:46.28
1:58.66	Frank Morris	USA	US Nationals 2006	2:00.23 1:47.40 2:10.01 1:59.53 1:56.23
2:06.15	Olivier Gaucher	France	Dutch Open 2005	1:53.40 1:59.21 2:25.83
2:20.99	Frank Morris	USA	Caltech Dallas 2005	1:51.41 2:36.40 2:35.17
2:24.99	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Dutch Open 2004	2:25.04 2:29.99 2:19.93
2:30.35	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Euro 2004	2:38.44 2:35.53 2:17.09
2:50.45	Masayuki Akimoto	Japan	World Championship 2003	2:56.76 2:47.62 2:46.96
2:50.68	David Wesley	Sweden	World Championship 2003	3:22.12 2:50.23 2:19.69