Over the past 10 years or so, solving the Rubik’s Cube has gone from a novelty toy to pick up every once and awhile, to what is now an extremely competitive community of puzzle solvers. The new-found love for the puzzle and competitive nature of Rubik’s Cube solvers has cubers from all over the world solving the puzzle in times that were never thought possible. Let’s take a look at the top 5 fastest Rubik’s Cube solvers and what their times are.
#5. Max Park (US)
Starting off our list at #5 is one of the fastest and most famous speedcubers in the world. Max Park currently holds the 5th fastest single solve time with a 4.40 second solve. If we were talking about who is the best overall speedcuber, Max would likely be top 2 on our list. He holds the world records for 5×5 – 7×7 single as well as the world records for 4×4 – 7×7 average of 5 solve times!
At a young age, Max was diagnosed with autism and his parents introduced Max to cubing as a means to help him grow his social and communication skills. It just so happened that Max fell in love with solving the Rubik’s Cube and going to competitions. Fueled by his passion for the puzzle and determination for self-improvement, Max quickly started placing at competitions. What had started as an exercise in socialization and communication, lead to one of the fastest speedsolvers the world has ever seen! Max continues to break records and impress fellow speedsolvers at each competition he goes to.
#4. Nicolás Sánchez (US)
#3. Patrick Ponce (US)
Patrick’s 4.24 solve currently claims the record for the fastest time in North America! Equally as impressive, Patrick is also in the top five for 5×5 single (40.43) and 3×3 one-handed (7.06).
#2. Feliks Zemdegs (Australia)
Feliks has beaten more world records than any other cuber with an astounding 121 total world records. He currently holds the world record for 3×3 average with an average time of 5.53 seconds. Many cubers today would agree that Feliks is the reason speedcubing is as competitive and as popular as it is. We would also highly recommend the following video by Chris Olson that goes into detail on Feliks and why he is such an icon.
#1. Yusheng Du (杜宇生) (China)
If you are interested in seeing a breakdown of how he solved the cube so quickly, Phillip Lewicki did a great reconstruction of the solve:
With the solve times for 3×3 getting so incredibly fast, many people are starting to wonder if Yusheng Du’s world record time will ever be beaten. Only time will tell.
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