Rubik's Cube World Records

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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.

3x3x3 CUBE

The best time for restoring the cube in an official championship - The following table gives the world record history:

record holder	event	seconds	The book for speedcubers: "Speed Solving the Cube"- click here to order the book at amazon.com or (if you are from the UK) at amazon.co.uk
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
Yu Nakajima (Japan)	Kashiwa Open 2008	8.72
Erik Akkersdijk (Netherlands)	Czech Open 2008	7.08 VIDEO

5 attempts, average of all but fastest and slowest attempt: 10.07 sec, Tomasz Zolnowski (Poland) at the Polish Open 2009. The times for solving the cube were 10.80 sec, 12.08 sec, 9.77 sec, 8.68 and 9.65 sec
blindfold, fastest time (including memorising): 35.96 sec, Haiyan Zhuang (China) at the Beijing Summer Open 2009 on 16 August 2009 (DETAILS)
blindfold, fastest time (time does not include memorising): 23.06 seconds, Clément Gallet (France) at the European Rubik's Cube Championship 2006 in Paris
blindfold, most cubes: 24, Tim Habermaas (Germany) at the German Open 2008 in Gütersloh (DETAILS)
one handed: 11.97 sec, Chris Dzoan (USA) at the Bayview Hills Open 2010 on 16 January 2010
with feet only: 36.72 sec, Anssi Vanhala (Finland) at the Estonian Open 2009 on 7 November 2009 in Kose, Estonia
24 hours: 4786 cubes solved, Milán Baticz (Hungary) on 16/17 November 2008 DETAILS

The largest mosaic made from scrambled Rubik's Cubes is a replica of "The Last Supper", made of 4,050 cubes. It was created by Cube Works Studio in Toronto (Canada) in 2009.
The photo shows the previos record, set in Galicia, Spain. Five people needed 5 hours to solve and assemble 1848 cubes.
(see photo, with permission from David Calvo)
MORE DETAILS AND FOTOS

The individual record was a Christmas tree composed by Bernett Orlando (India) from 2025 cubes in Cologne (Germany) in December 2009 (see photo, more photos can be found HERE.)

The fastest robot to solve a Rubik's Cube was Rubot II, developed by Peter Redmond (Ireland). It solved a scrambled Rubik's Cube within 64 seconds (including the time to scan the initial position) on 8 January 2009 at the Young Scientist show in the Royal Dublin Society. DETAILS VIDEO

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.

The youngest person who solved a Rubik's Cube in a competition was Enxi Xie (China), who was 4 years 6 months 10 days old when he solved the cube in 1:28.06 minutes at the Guangdong Open 2007.

4x4x4 CUBE

fastest time: 36.46 min, Dan Cohen (USA) at the World Championships 2009 in Düsseldorf
blindfold, fastest time (including memorising): 4:42.34 min, Ville Seppänen (Finland) at the Aachen Open 2010

5x5x5 CUBE

fastest time: 1:07.25, Dan Cohen (USA) at the Big Cubes Summer competition 2009 on 26 July in Allentown, Pennsylvania, (USA)
blindfold, fastest time (including memorising): 15:22,00 min, Chris Hardwick (USA) at the Washington DC Open on 17 May 2008

6x6x6 CUBE

fastest time: 2:15.53 min, Michal Halczuk (Poland), Silesia Open 2009, 28 November 2009

7x7x7 CUBE

fastest time: 3:43.15 min, Michal Halczuk (Poland) at the World Championships 2009 in Düsseldorf

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