A nine-year-old boy from China broke the world record for solving the Rubik's cube: he solved it in 4,6 seconds

9-year-old child prodigy Yiheng Wang from China broke the record for the average time to solve a 3x3x3 spinning puzzle cube (Rubik's Cube) in 4,69 seconds. The edition told in more detail Guinness World Records.

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The young Yiheng toppled dice veterans Max Park (USA) and Timon Kolasinski (Poland), who together set the record with a time of 4,86 seconds.

Yiheng broke their record during the semifinals of the Yong Jun KL Speedcubining 2023 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on March 12.

Over five decisions, he posted times of 4,35, 3,90, 4,41, 5,31 and 6,16 seconds. According to the rules of the World Cube Association, the fastest and slowest results are not taken into account when calculating the average.

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Yiheng's second of five decisions (3,90 seconds) was the fifth fastest single decision ever.

The record for the fastest single decision remains at 3,47 seconds, set by Yousheng Du of China in 2018.

After Yiheng's record semi-final performance, he advanced to the final of the competition, where he won with an average decision time of 5,97 seconds.

Surprisingly, Yiheng actually broke the record two weeks earlier but was disqualified. During the first round of Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023, he averaged 4,75 seconds, but the cube was not shuffled correctly for one of the solutions, so his record time was cancelled.

In official WCA competitions, each cube is shuffled by designated human scramblers who prepare the cubes for the competitors following computer generated sequences.

However, sometimes human error can cause scrambling to fail, which unfortunately happened in Yiheng's case.

Luckily, now it has shown even faster times, and the scrambler can breathe a sigh of relief.

Yiheng is sponsored by cube manufacturer GAN and joined their Team Speed ​​Ace, an elite team of under-12 speedcubers, when he was just six years old.

Yiheng won all three speedcubing competitions he competed in in 2023, one of the first competitions held in Asia since the pandemic.

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At the 2023 Singapore Championships, Yiheng defeated Chinese prodigy Ruihan Xu in the final.

14-year-old Ruihana Xu is one of the few people to solve the cube on camera in less than three seconds, but he did not compete in an official WCA competition so cannot claim the world record. All speedcubing records are ratified by the WCA, after which they are recognized by the Guinness Book of Records Committee.

Yihenga and Ruihan are among the talented Chinese kids who have burst onto the speedcubing scene in recent years and now that WCA competition has fully resumed around the world, these young cubers are expected to break numerous records and set unprecedented task times.

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