Guinness World Records: You won’t believe how long this 9-year-old took to solve a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle cube

The child prodigy achieved the record during the semi-final of the Yong Jun KL Speedcubing 2023 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Young Yiheng has made it to the record books (Source: Guinness World Records.com)

Can you believe that a nine-year-old has become the youngest to break the record for the fastest average time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle cube — all within 4.69 seconds? Yes, that’s exactly what Yiheng Wang from China did to make it to the Guinness World Records by dethroning reigning speed cube veterans — Max Park (USA) and Tymon Kolasinski (Poland) — who jointly held the record with a time of 4.86 seconds.

The child prodigy achieved the record during the semi-final of the Yong Jun KL Speedcubing 2023 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Over the course of five solves, he recorded times of 4.35, 3.90, 4.41, 5.31 and 6.16 seconds. As per World Cube Association (WCA) rules, the fastest and slowest times are discounted when calculating the average, noted Guinness World Records.com.

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The second of Yiheng’s five solves (3.90 seconds) was the fifth-fastest single solve ever, mentioned Guinness. However, the record for the fastest single solve ever remains 3.47 seconds, achieved by Yusheng Du (China) in 2018.

In the final of the competition, Yiheng won with an average solve time of 5.97 seconds.

According to the records site, the youngster has been scrambling with a cube ever since he was six. Yiheng has won all three speedcubing competitions he entered in 2023, which were among the first events to be held in Asia post-pandemic. At the Singapore Championship 2023, Yiheng defeated fellow Chinese cubing prodigy Ruihang Xu in the final, it mentioned.

According to Guinness, he broke the record two weeks earlier, but it was disqualified due to a scrambling issue at the first round of Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023 where he clocked in an average of 4.75 seconds. Turned out that the cube had been incorrectly scrambled for one of the solves, thus his record-breaking time was discounted.

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Foe the unversed, jumbling up each cube is also called ‘scramble’ where designated human scramblers prepare cubes for competitors by following computer-generated sequences. However, human error can lead to incorrect scrambles.

Speed cubing records are first ratified by the WCA, whereupon they are also recognised by Guinness World Records.

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