History of World Records/Square-1

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This is a list of all WCA World Records for the Square-1 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
5.66	Rasmus Stub Detlefsen	Denmark	Royal Corner Twist 2018		[1]		Cosmic Volt M
5.73	Charlie Stark	UK	Guildford Open 2017		[2]	[3]	X-Man Volt
5.88	Nathan Dwyer	USA	Buzzer Beater 2017			[4]
6.67	Helmer Ewert	Sweden	Swedish Decathlon Challenge 2017		[5]	[6]	Qiyi
6.84	Tommy Szeliga	USA	Indiana 2016			[7]	Qiyi
6.96	Bingliang Li	China	Guangzhou Wushan Open 2014		[8]	[9]	mf8 V1
7.41	Andrea Santambrogio	Italy	Legnano Open 2013			[10]
8.65	Bingliang Li	China	Guangdong Open 2010		[11]	[12]	mf8 V1
9.93	Piotr Michał Padlewski	Poland	Polish Nationals 2010		[13]
10.90	Andrew Nelson	USA	US Nationals 2010
10.93	Simon Crawford	United Kingdom	Bristol Spring 2010		[14]
10.96	Piotr Michał Padlewski	Poland	World Championship 2009		[15]			[16]
12.05	Jianwei Zhu	China	Beijing Summer Open 2009		[17]	[18]
12.50	Piotr Michał Padlewski	Poland	Czech Open 2009		[19]	[20]
13.55	Grzegorz Prusak	Poland	Poznan Open 2008		[21]
13.56	Grzegorz Prusak	Poland	Polish Open 2007			[22]
16.45	Grzegorz Prusak	Poland	Wroclaw Open 2007			[23]
19.46	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Belgian Open 2007			[24]
23.65	Michael Fung	Netherlands	Dutch Open 2006
25.04	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Belgian Open 2006
25.29	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Dutch Open 2004		[25]
32.62	Mike Godfrey	United Kingdom	Dutch Open 2004
41.80	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	World Championship 2003

Average

Result	Name	Country	Competition	Result Details	Videos	Discussion	Puzzle Brand	Reconstruction
8.45	Brandon Lin	USA	Rockville Winter 2017	8.35 7.84 9.76 7.31 9.16	[26]	[27] [28]	QiYi
9.07	Brandon Lin	USA	Clifton Winter 2017	7.61 10.24 10.49 8.81 8.17	[29]	[30] [31]	QiYi
9.33	Brandon Lin	USA	Slow N Steady Fall 2016	9.48 22.53 9.32 8.09 9.20	[32]	[33] [34]	QiYi
9.75	Ty Marshall	USA	Berkeley Summer 2016	10.37 9.68 9.52 10.04 8.79	[35]	[36]
9.90	Brandon Lin	USA	Slow N Steady Winter 2016	11.24 10.40 8.91 7.37 10.38	[37]	[38]	QiYi	[39]
10.21	Bingliang Li	China	Guangzhou Wushan Open 2014	9.36 11.43 6.96 9.83 12.06	[40]	[41]	mf8 V1
11.31	Bingliang Li	China	Guiyang Open 2012	11.24 10.43 10.87 11.82 13.62
11.33	Bingliang Li	China	Changsha Open 2011	11.83 14.13 11.44 10.72 10.11		[42]
11.78	Bingliang Li	China	Shenzhen University 2011	10.30 15.65 11.75 12.15 11.43
12.37	Bingliang Li	China	Guangdong Open 2010	13.83 11.53 13.88 11.75 8.65		[43]
12.99	Bingliang Li	China	Guangzhou Big Cubes 2010	12.94 11.21 14.52 14.27 11.77	[44]	[45] [46]
14.33	Piotr Michał Padlewski	Poland	Bialystok Open 2010	12.41 13.46 20.58 15.02 14.50	[47]
14.61	Jianwei Zhu	China	Beijing Summer Open 2009	16.44 15.66 13.65 12.05 14.52		[48]
16.28	Dan Cohen	USA	Safe Haven 2009	16.27 14.46 16.38 16.18 DNF			mf8 v1
16.62	Kazuhito Iimura	Japan	Kanazawa Open 2008	16.15 17.94 15.77	[49]	[50]
17.77	Kang Ji-Jon	Korea	Cheonan 2008	15.00 21.03 17.27		[51]
19.57	Grzegorz Prusak	Poland	Polish Open 2007	26.58 13.56 18.56		[52]
22.85	Grzegorz Prusak	Poland	Wroclaw Open 2007	25.68 16.45 26.42		[53]
24.59	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	US Open 2007	23.32 23.73 26.73
25.82	Mátyás Kuti	Hungary	German Open 2007	31.06 25.80 20.59
25.98	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Belgian Open 2007	27.69 19.46 30.78		[54]
28.14	Michael Fung	Netherlands	Dutch Open 2006	23.65 27.53 33.24
31.85	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Euro 2006	28.96 35.61 30.98
32.01	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	German Open 2006	33.25 36.16 26.62
33.21	Lars Vandenbergh	Belgium	Dutch Open 2004	40.17 25.29 34.18