Rubiks Cube Guinness World Records World Records Included 1 - Rubik's Cube - Mats Valk - 5.55 2 - 4x4 Cube - Feliks Zemdegs - 25.34 3 - 5x5 Cube - Feliks Zemdegs - 50.50 4 - 2x2 Cube - Christian Kaserer - 0.69 5 - 6x6 Cube - Kevin Hays - 1:40.86 6 - Rubik's Cube: One-handed - Giovanni Contardi - 9.43 7 - Rubik's Cube: With feet - Fakhri Raihaan - 27.93 8 - Rubik's Cube: Blindfolded - Marcin Zalewski - 23.80 9 - 4x4 Cube: Blindfolded - Marcell Endrey - 2:30.62 10 - Rubik's Cube: Multiple Blindfolded - Marcin Kowalczyk - 32/32 55:36 11 - Pyraminx -Oscar Roth Andersen - 1.36 12 - Square-1 - Bingliang Li - 8.65 Records 1) Single time: The current world record for single time on a 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube was set by Mats Valk of the Netherlands in March 2013 with a time of 5.55 seconds at the Zonhoven Open in Belgium. 2) Average time: The world record for average time per solve was set by Feliks Zemdegs at the Australian Nationals 2013, with a 7.49 second average solve time. 3) One-handed solving: A time of 9.43 seconds was made by Giovanni Contardi at the Italian Championships in 2012. Michał Pleskowicz solved five cubes in an average time of 12.67 seconds at the Cubing Spring Grudziadz 2012. 4) Feet solving: Fakhri Raihaan solved a Rubik's Cube with his feet in 27.93 seconds at the Celebes 2012. 5) Group solving (12 minutes): The record for most people solving a Rubik's Cube at once in twelve minutes is 134, set on 17 March 2010 by school boys from Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham, England, breaking the previous Guinness World Record of 96 people at once. 6) Group solving (30 minutes): On November 21, 2012, at the O2 Arena in London, 1414 people, mainly students from schools across London, solved the Rubik's Cube in under 30 minutes, breaking the previous Guinness World Record of 937. The event was hosted by Depaul UK 7) On November 4, 2012, 3248 people, mainly students of College of Engineering Pune, successfully solved the Rubik's cube in 30 minutes on college ground. The successful attempt is Recorded in the Limca Book of Records. The college will submit the relevant data, witness statements and video of the event to Guinness authorities. 8) Blindfold solving: The record for blind solving is held by Marcin Zalewski of Poland, who solved a cube blindfolded in 23.80 seconds (including memorization) at the Polish Nationals in 2013. 9) Multiple blindfold solving: The record is held by Marcin Kowalczyk of Poland, who successfully solved 32 of 32 cubes blindfolded at the Grudziadz Open 2013 10) Fewest moves solving: Tomoaki Okayama of Japan holds the record of 20 moves set at the 2012 Czech Open. 11) Non-human solving: The fastest non-human time for a physical 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube is 5.27 seconds, set by CubeStormer II, a robot built using Lego Mindstorms and a Samsung Galaxy S2. This broke the previous record of 10.69 seconds, achieved by final year computing students at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia in 2011. Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via German businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. As of January 2009, 350 million cubes had been sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy.

• published: 21 Sep 2013
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