American Max Park set a new world record.
The world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in the shortest amount of time has been officially set by puzzle expert and speed solver Max Park.
According to Guinness World Records, The 21-year-old clocked an astonishing timing of 3.13 seconds, 0.34 seconds off the previous record, which was set by China’s Yusheng Du in 2018. June 11, 2023.
Prior to this, Max’s fastest single solve was 3.63 seconds, placing him second only to Yusheng Du’s 3.47.
Video from Guinness World Records showed how his fellow enthusiasts from the cube happily cheered and celebrated the occasion.
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The record book organization further noted, “Max holds a multitude of other speedcubing records; in fact, he holds almost all of them. He holds the 4x4x4 cube, 5x5x5 cube, 6x6x6 cube, and both the single solve and average solve world records.” . 7x7x7 cube.”
He also jointly held the 3x3x3 average record with Tymon Kolasinski (Poland) with a time of 4.86 seconds, until it was broken by 9-year-old Yiheng Wang (China) on March 12, 2023, who clocked 4.69 seconds. Achieved it. ,
Max is no stranger to setting seemingly impossible records. When he set the 7x7x7 solo record with a time of 1 minute, 40 seconds, cubing veteran Erik Ekersdijk described it as the most impressive thing he had ever done.
“The record will stand for a while,” Eric said. Although he was wrong; Max broke it in 2022 with a time of 1:35.
“There was a time when Max couldn’t even open water bottles, but he showed interest in solving Rubik’s cubes,” said Max’s parents, Shawn and Mickey.
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