Nine-year old solves rotating puzzle cube in record time

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.

Yiheng Wang from China made 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.

The second of Yiheng’s five solves (3.90 seconds) was the fifth-fastest single solve ever, mentioned Guinness.

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