New record of the Rubik's cube with two hands: 4.22 s


    Felix Zemdegs set a world record in human assembling a Rubik's 3 × 3 × 3 cube with two hands in one attempt

    People have long lost hope of competing with robots in assembling the Rubik's Cube. Thus, the absolute record among robots is0.38 seconds, and the roboconstructors still boasted that they specifically put pauses between movements to reduce the risk of breakage of the die.

    Against this background, the achievements of people look faded, but no one thinks to cancel the championships. In the end, because there are championships in checkers, chess, go, poker and other games where the computer has surpassed the person. People compete with each other and demonstrate the amazing abilities of the human mind. Let not as quickly as a computer program, but the brain of homo sapiens is also able to calculate options and make decisions with great speed.

    Another proof of this is a new record for assembling a Rubik's cube of 3 × 3 × 3 format. The world record now equals 4.221 seconds - and again it belongs to the 22-year-old Australian named Felix Zemdegs, who set records before, and was also a multiple world champion.


    As the Australian press writes, Felix bought his first Rubik's cube in 2008 at the age of 12, impressed by the speed cube build videos he found on YouTube. An hour later, he collected it.

    A month later, the guy was already coping with the puzzle for half a minute. Less than two years later, the boy won the world record at the Melbourne Cube Day 2010.

    In an interview with the Huffington Postafter winning the second world championship in assembling Rubik's Cuban, he said that this focus is available to everyone, only practice and patience are required. Practically all the participants of such championships learned how to assemble a Rubik's cube on manuals from the Internet or on YouTub: “It just takes a little practice and patience. But as soon as you understand the solution, everything becomes quite standard. You understand that for the first stage you need to make such movements, then go to the next stage and decide this part. This is a kind of newbie method. And then, as soon as you learn more and practice, you begin to collect it more intuitively. ”

    “I’m always very impressed with the people who have found the solution themselves, and I think it’s incredibly difficult,” says the record holder. “I could not even imagine such a thing - this is one of the most impressive things.”

    According to the table of records , this is the eighth record of Felix Zemdegs. The first one he installed in 2010 (7.03 seconds). Then, within two years, he improved his own achievement five times, and then the palm passed to another athlete. Finally, Felix regained the record in 2016 (4.73 seconds), then lost again, and now he once again improved the world achievement by 37 hundredths of a second.

    Felix gives one piece of advice to those who want to find a way to build a Rubik's cube on their own. He recommends that the 54 colored squares of the cube be presented not with stickers, but with fragments.

    The champion also refuses to recognize himself as more gifted than other competitors. He does not agree that he has some talent: “Literally everyone can learn this. Obviously, to achieve high results, you need some ability to recognize images, spatial thinking, finger dexterity. I'm not sure that this necessarily correlates with general intelligence, but definitely requires spatial thinking. And in order to achieve high speed, in reality you just need a lot of practice and dedication. "

    By the way, Felix owns several more current world records in other disciplines: a record for the average of five attempts with the exception of the slowest and fastest (5.99, 5.28, 5.25, 6.13 and 9.19, average 5, 80 c), as well as the world record for one-handed assembly (6.88 s, installed in 2015, on video ).


    For reference, there are 43 quintillon (43 * 10 18 ) Rubik's cube combinations. It is believed that the cube is the leader among the toys in the world in terms of total sales: around 350 million cubes were sold worldwide. The patent for the puzzle belongs to the Hungarian sculptor, designer and puzzle lover Erno Rubik .

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