I told them I could solve with one hand but they rejected my application on health conditions, as one’s fingers start aching after 20 minutes into the task. “I had submitted my application to the Guinness World Records for solving the Rubik’s Cube in the speed category. He broke the first record on Octoby solving 2,176 Rubik’s cube with his left hand. He broke all his records on the same date in different years. As a competitive speed solver with the World Cube Association, I officially solved Rubik’s Cubes with two hands, one hand, with feet and also blindfolded.” I am the first Indian speedsolver and the first Indian unicyclist to ever set a Guinness World Record. I solved it in 2.93 seconds and broke the record,” he says, adding, “I was featured in the Guinness World Records 2018 edition and Limca Book of Records (Feb 2017 edition). “People had put up videos online showing them solving the puzzle but they are all unofficial. He claims there wasn’t any official record broken in this puzzle. These pieces need to be organised into a solid cube). He found a solution to solve the soma cube puzzle (soma cube is a 3x3x3 dissection puzzle, which is split into seven different pieces, made of 27 cubes. While working on this record, he had a happy accident. I practiced for a year-and-a-half in pools and in 2017, broke the record by solving them in 53 seconds,” he claims. So, I had to mirror what I was doing with my left hand. “I am left handed and hence, do not have any muscle training in my right hand. He solved them in one minute, 24 seconds. He later decided to break the records of a Spanish in speed solving two cubes under water. He took a break for six months, only to practice and break another record at the Indian Memory Championships, in which he ranked fourth in India. I had bruises all over my body, but continued practising,” he says. I had swollen ankles and a ligament tear. “I used to practice at night to avoid questions from people. “So long as he does the 6×6 and I still get to do the 3×3,” Thorp said.Krishnam also faced several health issues and was hospitalised couple of times. So would Thorp accept a Rubik’s Cube throwdown against Hays? “If you just need to clear the decks in your brain, spending two minutes putting the cube together is a great way to go to a place where you’re not thinking about anything else but that.” “I haven’t had a chance to unpack mine yet, but I usually keep one in my office,” Thorp said. Thorp himself still plays the Rubik’s Cube. “To be able to solve it at all is a herculean effort, and to do be able to do it in 1:40 is almost otherworldly.” “What Kevin has done is an extraordinary challenge,” Thorp said. Today, the best competitors can solve the cube in less than 10 seconds. He won the first round, solving the standard 3×3 cube in 48 seconds. As a teenager, Provost Holden Thorp, PhD, competed against fellow champions on the television show That’s Incredible. Hays, 19, of Renton, Wash., is studying math, in Arts & Sciences, and computer science.Īnd he’s not the only Rubik’s Cube master on campus. Hays also won first place in the 5×5, 6×6 and 7×7 events at the World Rubik’s Cube Championship 2013, which took place in July in Las Vegas. Hays came close to breaking the world record two years ago, but then the cube literally fell apart in his hands. It will be a long time before I get a time that good again.” “In competition, I’m pretty nervous,” Hays said. Hays said he never expected to break the world record. You need the kind of mind that can see something and then immediately associate it with what you have to do.” “It’s more pattern recognition and muscle memory execution. “It’s not as much math as you might think,” Hays said. These days, he only practices before big competitions. He started playing as a high school freshman and, at one point, trained three hours a day. Recognized as one of the globe’s best solvers, Hays said he has memorized some 80 algorithms to master the 6×6 cube. Most of us grew up trying (and failing) to solve the standard 3×3 cube, which has nine squares per side. The 6×6 cube has 36 squares per side that’s a total of 216 squares Hays twisted and turned into perfect alignment.
Hays solved the “6×6” Rubik’s Cube in 1 minute, 40 seconds - 9 seconds faster than his previous record. 3 at the Vancouver Open in Surrey, British Columbia. Louis incoming sophomore Kevin Hays busted his own Rubik’s Cube world record Aug.
WUSTL sophomore Kevin Hays works to solve a Rubik’s Cube in record time.