9-year-old Yiheng Wang (China) has yet again broken the record for the fastest average time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle cube. He achieved an astonishing time of 4.48 seconds, beating the 4.69-second record he set earlier this year, in March
A talented 9-year-old Chinese boy has solved the cube in a record-breaking average time. According to the Guinness World Record, the speedcubing prodigy Yiheng Wang (China) has broken the record for the fastest average time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle cube, with a time of 4.69 seconds.
Yiheng, according to the record-keeping organization, has surpassed cubing legends Max Park (USA) and Tymon Kolasinski (Poland). Who shared the record with a timing of 4.86 seconds.
Young speedcuber Yiheng Wang made five attempts March 12 at the Yong Jun KL Speedcubing 2023 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His recorded times of 4.35, 3.9, 4.41, 5.31 and 6.16 seconds.
No other speedcuber has ever recorded more than one sub-4-second solve over the course of five consecutive solves in WCA competition. This makes Yiheng the first person to have a sub-4-second solve counted in competition. Five years after Feliks Zemdegs became the first person to have a sub-5-second solve counted.
Yiheng is sponsored by cube manufacturer GAN. He is a member of the GAN Gurus, a team comprised of the best speedcubers worldwide. Yiheng has participated in nine WCA competitions so far in 2023, winning eight of them. He placed second in the Hong Kong Small Cube Day event, behind fellow Chinese cuber Ruihang Xu.
Although Max Park holds the single-solve world record of 3.13 seconds, 14-year-old Ruihang has actually solved it in a faster time of 2.68 seconds, as seen in the below video. However, as this did not occur in an official WCA competition, it cannot be recognized as the official world record.
Regardless, Ruihang has proved that a sub-3-second solve is humanly possible, and now every elite speedcuber is undoubtedly gunning to become the first one to do it in official competition.