Use
this link to get your Rubik's Cube from amazon.com(or this one if you are in the UK to get it from amazon.co.uk)
Too
easy?Use this link to get the next challenge: Rubik's 4x4x4-cube or this one for buying a 5x5x5 cube.
| Use
this link to get your Rubik's Cube from amazon.com (or this one if you are in the UK to get it from amazon.co.uk) |
Too
easy? Use this link to get the next challenge: Rubik's 4x4x4-cube or this one for buying a 5x5x5 cube. |
Read
more about speed cubing at the web page of
Jessica Fridrich, the 1982 Czech Champion, at www.speedcubing.com, on the web
site of the World
Rubik's Cube Association. A great
link page about puzzles of all kind can be found at www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/.
This list contains only records achieved in official competitions.
A large list of records without official authorization can be found at The Unofficial World
Records Page. More information about contests and records
(including other puzzles as well) are available at www.speedcubing.com and www.worldcubeassociation.org.
The best time for restoring the cube in an official championship - The following table gives the world record history:
| record holder |
event |
seconds |
| Ronald Brinkmann (Germany) |
West German Championship 1982 |
19 |
| Robert Pergl (Czechoslovakia) |
Czechoslovakian Championship 1982 | 17.02 |
| Dan Knights (USA) |
World Championship 2003 | 16.71 |
| Jess Bonde (Denmark) |
World Championship 2003 | 16.53 |
| Shotaro Makisumi (Japan) | Caltech Winter competition 2004 | 15.07 |
| Shotaro Makisumi (Japan) | Caltech Winter competition 2004 | 14.76 |
| Shotaro Makisumi (Japan) | Caltech Spring competition 2004 | 13.93 |
| Shotaro Makisumi (Japan) | Caltech Spring competition 2004 | 13.89 |
| Shotaro Makisumi (Japan) | Caltech Spring competition 2004 | 12.11 |
| Jean Pons (France) |
Dutch Open 2005 | 11.75 |
| Leyan Lo (USA) |
Caltech Winter competition 2006 | 11.13 |
| Toby Mao (USA) |
US Championship 2006 | 10.48 |
| Edouard Chambon (France) |
Belgian Open 2007 |
10.36 |
| Thibaut Jacquinot (France) | Spanish Open 2007 |
9.86 |
| Erik Akkersdijk (Netherlands) |
Dutch Open 2007 |
9.77 |
| Ron van Bruchem (Netherlands) | Dutch Championships 2007 | 9.55 |
| Edouard Chambon (France) |
Murcia Open 2008 |
9.18 |
The largest Rubik's Cube was built by Daniel Urlings
(Luxemburg). It could contain 64 normal sized Rubik's Cubes.
The best known algorithm for
solving the cube needs only 26 face turns. It is described in
the article
Kunkle, D.; Cooperman, C. (2007): Twenty-Six
Moves Suffice for Rubik's Cube. Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC '07), ACM Press.
Tomas Rokicki claims to have lowered the upper bound to 25. The draft
of his article which has not yet been published in a scientific journal
can be found here.
DETAILS
The most expensive Rubik's Cube was the Masterpiece Cube,
produced by Diamond Cutters International in 1995. The actual-size,
fully functional cube features 22.5 karats of amethyst, 34 karats of
rubies, and 34 karats of emeralds, all set in 18-karat gold. It has
been
valued at about US-$ 1.5 mio.
fastest time: 46.63
Sekunden, Mátyás Kuti (Hungary) at the UK Open on 10
November 2007 in Birmingham
blindfold, fastest time (including
memorising): 6:20.96 min, Chris Hardwick
(USA) at the Virginia Open 2007
fastest time: 1:28.66 min,
Erik Akkersdijk (Netherlands) at the Belgian Open 2008 in Leuven
blindfold, fastest time (including
memorising): 19:55:00 min, Chris Hardwick
(USA) at Chattahoochee 2007