New Rubik's Cube world record set (11.13 seconds)

[Shibby]

I couldn't find a video of him, but so you can see how fast it is, here's a video of the previous record holder of 12.11 seconds http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...Rubik%27s+Cube



http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/16/rubiks.ap/

Competitors race to solve the popular puzzle

Tuesday, January 17, 2006; Posted: 6:33 a.m. EST (11:33 GMT)


Tyson Mao, competes in the 3x3x3 Blindfolded Rubik's Cube competition Saturday in San Francisco.
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A 20-year-old California Institute of Technology student set a new world record for solving the popular Rubik's Cube puzzle, turning the tiled brain-twister from scrambled to solved in 11.13 seconds.

Leyan Lo is part of Caltech's Rubik's Cube Club, a student group that hosted the competition at the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco. Lo's record-setting time came early Saturday, among his first five tries in the preliminary rounds.

The record-setting solve caught competitors and Lo himself by surprise.

"It's kind of scary now that I set it, because I have two more (attempts) to go," Lo said humbly afterward. His time of 11.13 seconds broke the previous record of 11.75 seconds, set by Frenchman Jean Pons at the Dutch Open competition last year.

Still, the world record alone didn't gain Lo the overall champion's title at the event, which was determined by averaging three of five solution times in the final round. For that title, Lo went up against the teenager widely considered the fastest Rubik's Cube solver on the planet -- Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi, a 15-year-old from Pasadena.

Makisumi prevailed, clocking in with an average time of 14.91 seconds in the final round to take first place.

Besides blindingly fast fingers and a head for memorizing algorithms used by most top competitors to solve the cube, what is Makisumi's secret?

"I don't know. Faster first two layers," he surmised, referring to solving the first two layers of the cube's colored tiles before moving on to the last.

For his victory, Makisumi won a Rubik's Snake puzzle, one of several variations of the basic cube which has sold more than 100 million worldwide, according to the manufacturer.

[Control]

Damn, he broke my record of 5 months that I set 2 years ago....

[meat12]

I still never figured that thing out :D

[Bouncer]

i havent played with one of them since i was little. i ended up using it as a baseball. lol

[phatchopper]

I used to peel the stickers off and make it look like I solved it

[Bouncer]

I used to peel the stickers off and make it look like I solved it

:laughnew:

[babyblues]

I used to peel the stickers off and make it look like I solved it

I bounced mine off the wall cause it was so damned frustrating and then put the pieces back together so it looked like I solved it.

[Scrumhalf]

When this thing first came out, I think I was in junior high. It consumed me for about 2-3 months until I figured it out. The fastest time I have done it in is a shade under 1 minute, but I didn't have any special gift for it - just fast hands and a relatively nimble mind. 11 or 12 seconds is just insane - what you need is for your brain to be wired in a special way to comprehend spatial transformations instantaneously. Kinda like champion chess players who can "look" multiple moves ahead, except spatially instead of temporally.

[phatchopper]

When this thing first came out, I think I was in junior high. It consumed me for about 2-3 months until I figured it out. The fastest time I have done it in is a shade under 1 minute, but I didn't have any special gift for it - just fast hands and a relatively nimble mind. 11 or 12 seconds is just insane - what you need is for your brain to be wired in a special way to comprehend spatial transformations instantaneously. Kinda like champion chess players who can "look" multiple moves ahead, except spatially instead of temporally.

NERD!................ j/k

:laughnew:

[Scrumhalf]

NERD!................ j/k

:laughnew:

I take that as a compliment....lol

[babyblues]

When this thing first came out, I think I was in junior high. It consumed me for about 2-3 months until I figured it out. The fastest time I have done it in is a shade under 1 minute, but I didn't have any special gift for it - just fast hands and a relatively nimble mind. 11 or 12 seconds is just insane - what you need is for your brain to be wired in a special way to comprehend spatial transformations instantaneously. Kinda like champion chess players who can "look" multiple moves ahead, except spatially instead of temporally.

My best was under 3 minutes. I think most of it is mathematics. I would think the point is to minimize how much thinking and reaction you have to do on the fly.

[Puddles]

I liked my pet rock much better.