SpeedCubing.com News archive 2003

December 29, 2003Grant Tregay, 2003 world champion MegaMinx, posted his MegaMinx solution.
December 28, 2003Dror Vomberg, 2003 world champion blindfolded cube solving, built a fully functional paper Rubik's cube.
December 26, 2003Werner Randelshofer has released a new version of his Disassembled Cube applet.
December 25, 2003Lars Vandenbergh, 2003 world champion Square-1, posted his Square-1 solution.
December 24, 2003Daniel Hayes got a new license plate for his car. Who said he was addicted to speedcubing?
December 23, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi posted an amazing new video of him solving 12 cubes in a row, averaging 17.02 seconds per cube. Katsu also posted an explanation of the video.
December 21, 2003Chris Szlatenyi broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube with his feet, with a new record of 1 minute 50.74 seconds.
December 19, 2003The 100th edition of the weekly online Japanese Speedcubing Contest is open until january 7, 2004.
December 18, 2003Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's Revenge 4x4x4 cube, with a new average record of 1 minute 23.17 seconds.
December 17, 2003David Wesley broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's Professor 5x5x5 cube, with a new record of 2 minutes 8 seconds. He also set a new average record of 2 minutes 38.7 seconds.
December 16, 2003Daniel Hayes broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a MegaMinx, with a new average record of 1 minute 59.02 seconds.
December 15, 2003Lizzie Smithe solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube in 26.98 seconds while scuba diving. Incredible!
December 15, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi posted the second part of his 2003 world championship diary (translated from Japanese to English by Excite).
December 12, 2003Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's Revenge 4x4x4 cube, with a new record of 1 minute 6.26 seconds.
December 9, 2003Mirek Goljan, for the Oct. 31 Fewest Moves Challenge, broke the Unofficial World Record for fewest moves to solve a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube (Half turn metric), with a new record of 22 moves.
December 9, 2003Gilles Roux broke the Unofficial World Record for fewest moves to solve a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube (Slice turn metric), with a new 10 cube average record of 35.7 moves. He also set a new 100 cube average record of 37.92 moves.
December 8, 2003Mike Tryczak broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Skewb, with a new average record of 10.9 seconds.
December 4, 2003Maarten Steurbaut built two working Rubik's 3x3x3 cubes out of LEGOs! Check out his first larger version. Also check out his second smaller version.
December 4, 2003Grant Tregay broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a MegaMinx, with a new record of 1 minute 44.88 seconds.
December 3, 2003Shotaro Makisumi broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to achieve 6th place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 16.1 seconds.
December 2, 2003Mike Tryczak broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Skewb, with a new record of 6.63 seconds.
November 28, 2003Stefan Pochmann broke his Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's Clock, with a new average of 10 record of 10.59 seconds. Impressive!
November 27, 2003Chris Szlatenyi broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube with his feet, with a new 10 cube average record of 2 minutes 42.81 seconds.
November 23, 2003Shotaro Makisumi broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube while idling on a unicyle, with a new record of 15 seconds.
November 18, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to achieve 5th place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 15.93 seconds.
November 18, 2003"Speed-cubing" (also: "speed cubing") is word of the day on The Word Spy.
November 17, 2003Trevor Holland was featured in a nice article in a local newspaper The Edmond Sun.
November 16, 2003New York Times posted a very interesting article about the 2003 world championship, featuring Andy Camann and Ron van Bruchem (you need to register to be able to read it online, it is free). You can also view the scanned page.
November 14, 2003Kenneth Brandon, 2003 world champion Siamese cube, broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Siamese cube, with a new average record of 1 minute 3.04 seconds.
November 9, 2003Check out this video of Wiktoria Zborowska solving the cube for her third trial at the 2003 world championship. Wiktoria was the youngest solver there, at only 7 years old!
November 9, 2003Jacob Rueth posted his 2003 world championship pictures.
November 9, 2003Andy Bellenir broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a pyraminx, with a new average record of 9.96 seconds.
November 8, 2003Boston Globe posted a very interesting article about the revival of Rubik's cube, featuring Andy Camann and speedcubing world champion Dan Knights.
November 2, 2003Chris Hardwick broke an Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed, with a new 3 cube average record of 36.05 seconds.
November 1, 2003Lee June Kyo broke an Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed, with a new 10 cube average record of 39.71 seconds.
November 1, 2003Lee June Kyo set two Unofficial World Records for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 with his feet, with a 3 cube average record of 2 minutes 36.94 seconds, and a 10 cube average record of 2 minutes 45.92 seconds.
October 31, 2003Masayuki Akimoto, 2003 world champion Rubik's 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cube, posted videos of his 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 solves on the world championship stage.
October 29, 2003Lars Vandenbergh broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to achieve 6th place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 16.38 seconds.
October 28, 2003Stefan Pochmann broke two Unofficial World Records for assembling a Rubik's 3x3x3 Cube, with a new average record of 15.9 seconds. He also set a new record of 14.2 seconds for a single run.
October 27, 2003Tyson Mao brought a Caltech (California Institute of Technology) tradition to the Unofficial World Records page, introducing negative time speed solving based on their "Negative Time Tommy's Run" tradition, performed once a year when daylight savings ends. His younger brother Toby Mao also did a negative time run, setting the fastest time on the list.
October 26, 2003Stefan Pochmann broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Skewb, with a new average record of 12.6 seconds.
October 24, 2003Dan Harris is finally back with his weekly Fewest Moves Challenge! Try to beat the fewest moves masters.
October 21, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi broke the Unofficial World Record for solving 3 Rubik's 3x3x3 Cubes in a row, with a new record of 51.68 seconds. He also set a new average record of 58.36 seconds. See a video of him solving 3 cubes in a row in under 60 seconds.
October 20, 2003Milan Vodicka posted his pictures of Dutch Cube Day 2003.
October 20, 2003Dror Vomberg, 2003 world champion blindfolded cube solving, will appear on Italian tv channel Rai Uno on October 22 from 8:55pm until 11pm. He will solve the famous 15 piece sliding puzzle blindfolded in the show "Scommettiamo che...?" .
October 19, 2003Andy Camann posted his pictures from the Disney Pop Century Resort Media Event, where he showed the cube to promote the 80's section of the new resort.
October 19, 2003A German Yahoo speedcubing club has now opened.
October 17, 2003Stefan Pochmann posted his pictures of Dutch Cube Day 2003.
October 14, 2003Joe Allen solved a computer 39x39x39 cube in 17 hours and 1 minute. Where will the big cube solving end? Amazing!
October 14, 2003Daniel Hayes broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a MegaMinx, with a new average record of 2 minutes 5.57 seconds.
October 13, 2003Jess Bonde broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to achieve 9th place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 17.16 seconds.
October 12, 2003The 23rd Dutch Cube Day was a big success with about 150 puzzle fans attending.
October 11, 2003A street interview with speedcubing world champion Dan Knights can be seen on the site of Discovery Channel Canada. There is also some footage of the world championship. You can also download it.
October 8, 2003Guinness Book of Records now lists Jess Bonde's official speedcubing record, set at the 2003 world championship. There is also a short article and a video of Jess.
October 8, 2003Lars Vandenbergh broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Square-1, with a new record of 21.77 seconds. He also set a new ten cube average record of 29.22 seconds.
October 5, 2003Nathan Christie broke two Unofficial World Records for most moves done on a Rubik's 3x3x3 Cube in 1 minute, performing 924 moves using both hands and 414 moves using only 1 hand. See videos of both attempts.
October 5, 2003Chris Hardwick posted his 2003 world championship pictures.
October 4, 2003Thomas Templier broke the Unofficial World Record for fastest Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average, with a new record of 15.2 seconds.
October 2, 2003Daniel Hayes broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a single MegaMinx, with a new record of 1 minute 48.00 seconds.
October 2, 2003Richard Patterson solved Rubik's UFO in 45.19 seconds.
September 30, 2003Corey Duford solved the Missing Link in 37.86 seconds.
September 28, 2003Andy Bellenir, 2003 world champion Pyraminx, is featured in a local newspaper article.
September 27, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to achieve 5th place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 16.45 seconds.
September 26, 2003The 23rd Dutch Cube Day will be held on saturday October 11, 2003 in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. The program includes a lecture on the World Rubik's Games Championship in Toronto and an official competition.
September 21, 2003Andy Camann broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to tie for 1st place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 15.4 seconds.
September 20, 2003Sandy Thompson posted pictures of his huge Rubik like puzzle collection.
September 20, 2003Frank Morris is featured in a very cool and funny interview on local tv.
September 15, 2003Michael Atkinson solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube while experiencing 2.5-3 G's of force on a ride at the fair! He is also the third person to break the 40 second barrier for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed, with a time of 38.6 seconds.
September 15, 2003Jessica Fridrich, 2003 world championship runner up, is featured in a very nice newspaper article.
September 14, 2003Adam Géhin broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record, strengthening his 2nd place ranking in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 15.7 seconds.
September 14, 2003Jasmine Lee posted her 2003 world championship pictures, including a very nice newspaper article.
September 13, 2003Chris Szlatenyi solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube in 3 minutes 18.41 seconds using only his feet! Absolutely amazing!
September 12, 2003Lee June Kyo broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed, with a new average of ten record of 41.15 seconds. He also became the second person to break the 40 second barrier, with a new best time of 37.69 seconds.
September 11, 2003Adam Géhin tied the Unofficial World Record of 11 seconds for fastest time to solve a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube. It's now a 3-way tie - are faster times to come?
September 10, 2003Griffin Kinley solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube and a Rubik's 4x4x4 cube while having his teeth pulled on two separate visits to a dentist.
September 10, 2003Jason Hildebrand posted his 2003 world championship pictures.
September 9, 2003Grant Tregay broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a single MegaMinx, with a new record of 1 minute 54.52 seconds.
September 9, 2003Chris Hardwick and Andy Savoy are featured in a local North Carolina newspaper article about the World Championships.
September 9, 2003Lars Vandenbergh, 2003 world champion Square-1, is featured in a (Flemish) newspaper article.
September 7, 2003Dan Gosbee posted his 2003 world championship pictures.
September 6, 2003David Barr posted his 2003 world championship pictures.
September 4, 2003Dror Vomberg, the 2003 world champion blindfold cubing, appeared in an article in Canadian Jewish News about blindfold puzzle solving.
September 4, 2003Frank Morris is featured in a nice article in Idaho Statesman.
September 4, 2003Daniel Harris posted an interview with 2003 "fewest moves" world champion Mirek Goljan about his fantastic ability to solve a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube using as few moves as possible.
September 3, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi posted the first part of his 2003 world championship diary (translated from Japanese to English by Excite).
September 2, 2003Here are some links to other picture galleries of the 2003 world championship:
Jessica Fridrich, Andy Camann, Frank Morris, Sandy Thompson (day 1), Sandy Thompson (day 2), Jon Morris, Ton Dennenbroek, Ian Winokur, Dan Harris, Katsuyuki Konishi, Jess Bonde, Lars Vandenbergh.
August 29, 2003Pictures of the 2003 world championship prizes and items can be found on Katsu's WC2003 treasures page.
August 28, 2003Here are some links to news after the 2003 world championship:
News.com Australia, Daily News Tribune, CNews, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Wire, News Wire Canada, Local6.com, Newton Tab (1), Newton Tab (2), Newton Tab (3)
Try Google News for even more articles.
August 25, 2003The WC2003 lecture by Claude Crépeau can be found online.
August 24, 2003Dan Knights is the new Speedcubing World Champion. In a nerve-racking final with a big audience and many cameras, he averaged 20.00 seconds for three cubes. Jessica Fridrich finished 2nd and David Wesley finished 3rd.
August 24, 2003Masayuki Akimoto is the new world champion speedcubing Rubik's 4x4x4 cube. David Wesley came in second, with Ron van Bruchem finishing third.
August 24, 2003Masayuki Akimoto is the new world champion speedcubing Rubik's 5x5x5 cube. David Wesley came in second, with Grant Tregay finishing third.
August 23, 2003The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper, published an article on the world championship. Unfortunately one name below the picture is not correct...
August 22, 2003The last cube get-together before the world championship was a big success, with more than 60 people attending. There was also an opportunity to test the timer pads.
August 21, 2003About 30 people gathered for a nice cube get-together at the Crowne Plaza Toronto Don Valley hotel. Check out the bottom of the picture gallery to see a few pictures.
August 20, 2003Brent Morgan solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube in front of a 34,500+ people audience at the Diamondbacks game yesterday.
August 20, 2003Newton Tab published an article on the upcoming world championship featuring Andy Camann.
August 20, 2003Amigoe, a newspaper from Aruba, published an article on the upcoming world championship featuring Michiel van der Blonk.
August 19, 2003Shotaro Makisumi posted a video of him solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube blindfolded. Shotaro is only 13 years old. Fantastic!
August 19, 2003Daniel Hayes broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a MegaMinx, with a new average record of 2 minutes 17.07 seconds. He also set a new single MegaMinx record of 1 minutes 54.99 seconds (first person under 2 minutes).
August 19, 2003Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed, with a new record of 29.80 seconds.
August 18, 2003Lars Vandenbergh broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Square-1, with a new average record of 40.24 seconds. He also solved a single Square-1 in 29.70 seconds.
August 17, 2003BBC World made a short tv item on speedcubing. You can watch the item online (scroll to 13 minutes and 20 seconds).
August 13, 2003Rubik Studio will be providing the scrambles for the 3x3x3 event during the upcoming World Rubik's Games Championship.
August 13, 2003Grant Tregay broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a MegaMinx, with a new average record of 2 minutes 19.01 seconds.
August 13, 2003Gilles Roux published an interesting new speedsolving method.
August 12, 2003Cubing has reached even the furthest-flung parts of the globe.
August 11, 2003Lee June Kyo opened a new video page with many Korean speedcubing videos.
August 10, 2003Nathan Christie performed 876 moves in 1 minute on a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube, averaging an amazing 14.60 moves per second.
August 9, 2003Nice prank with a cube and an art piece.
August 8, 2003San Francisco Chronicle published an in-depth article on the upcoming world championship, featuring Dan Knights and Lars Petrus.
August 8, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi solved 154 Rubik's 3x3x3 cubes in 1 hour, averaging 23.37 seconds per cube.
August 6, 2003Daniel Harris had a tv appearance on BBC 1 (British television) on August 1, in the Eastern England regional news. The item was about his preparation for the world championship. Dan also solved a cube underwater in a tropical fish tank. You can download the video.
August 5, 2003Gilles Roux posted a cool video of his new "glowing" cube.
August 4, 2003Zbigniew Zborowski solved 148 Rubik's 3x3x3 cubes in 1 hour, averaging 24.32 seconds per cube.
August 3, 2003Some trailers for a cubing documentary, currently being filmed, can be downloaded. The documentary will feature Dan Gosbee, Dan Knights and the upcoming World Rubik's Games Championship.
August 3, 2003Shotaro Makisumi is now unofficially the 3rd person to have solved a Rubik's 4x4x4 cube blindfolded. He needed 50 minutes and 10 seconds, including memorization.
August 2, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi made his 3rd tv appearance. Videos of his tv appearances can be downloaded from the bottom of his video page.
August 1, 2003Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed, with a new 3 cube average record of 39.51 seconds.
July 31, 2003Herbert Kociemba created a beta version of Cube Explorer 3.0, the world's fastest cube solving program. This new version has web cam support to scan your cube.
July 30, 2003Dror Vomberg is now unofficially the 2nd person to have solved a Rubik's 5x5x5 cube blindfolded. He needed 1 hour 29 minutes and 45 seconds, including memorization.
July 30, 2003David Wesley again broke the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average, with a new record of 16.26 seconds.
July 28, 2003Richard Patterson performed 788 moves in 1 minute on a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube, averaging an amazing 13.13 moves per second.
July 21, 2003Dave Orser broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube blindfolded, with an incredible new record of 2 minutes 13 seconds, including memorization.
July 20, 2003Lee June Kyo won the first Korean Championship with a best time of 16.96 seconds. Second was Yum Suk Hoon with a best time of 23.89 seconds. A video of the winning solve can be found online.
July 18, 2003Dror Vomberg is now unofficially the 2nd person to have solved a Rubik's 4x4x4 cube blindfolded. He needed 28 minutes and 5 seconds, including memorization.
July 17, 2003Cubestation.co.uk opened a Speedcuber Gallery, where you can see the faces behind the names. Post your picture too! If you want, you can also post your profile.
July 15, 2003Richard Carr solved a Rubik's 5x5x5 cube, a Rubik's 4x4x4 cube and a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube blindfolded. Where will this end? It is out of this world.
July 15, 2003The World Rubik's Games Championships are now listed on the site of the venue Ontario Science Centre.
July 14, 2003Gilles Roux posted more very funny cube videos on his home page.
July 13, 2003Brent Morgan solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube under water in 20 seconds.
July 12, 2003Lee June Kyo broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed, with a new 10 cube average record of 50.66 seconds.
July 7, 2003Adam Géhin won the French Championships with an average of 18.17 seconds for the middle 3 out of 5 cubes. Check out a picture of the top 5 of the French Championships.
June 25, 2003Adam Géhin broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to strenghten his 6th position in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 17.3 seconds.
June 24, 2003Shotaro Makisumi is unofficially the youngest person to solve Rubik's 3x3x3 cube averaging under 20 seconds, aged 13 years and 95 days.
June 19, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to strengthen his 5th position in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 17.02 seconds.
June 16, 2003Masayuki Akimoto broke the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 2x2x2 cube average. The new record is 6.90 seconds.
June 16, 2003Masayuki Akimoto broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to reach 6th position in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 17.51 seconds.
June 16, 2003Masayuki Akimoto broke the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 4x4x4 cube average. The new record is 1 minute 31.3 seconds.
June 16, 2003Ron posted a new speedcubing video on our Yahoo speedcubing group. It was made during a company dinner.
June 15, 2003The Wednesday Contest is a new weekly contest for speedcubing. There will be different challenges, among them: one-handed solving and a handicap competition.
June 12, 2003Gregory Dyke solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube while wakeboarding, in 53 seconds.
June 10, 2003Dave Orser solved an amazing 10 Rubik's 3x3x3 cubes blindfolded. After memorizing all 10 cubes in 1 hour and 11 minutes, he solved them in 1 hour and 52 minutes.
June 9, 2003The 7th weekly Fewest Moves Challenge has started. Try to solve this week's cube in as few moves as possible using any human system. Also check out how Mirek Goljan solved the week #3 cube in only 27 moves.
June 7, 2003The Official World Rubik's Games Championship site is now open at www.rubikschamps.com!
June 5, 2003Jessica Fridrich posted some very impressive speedcubing videos. Her style and speed are fantastic.
June 4, 2003Adam Field solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube in front of an audience of 1600 people, in 45 seconds.
June 2, 2003The 23rd annual Dutch Cube Day, organized by the Dutch Cubists Club (NKC), will be held on Saturday October 11, 2003 in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Check out the pictures from last year's Cube Day.
June 1, 2003Max Hurgin solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube while water-skiing, in 54 seconds.
May 27, 2003The World Rubik's Games Championship is now on the list of upcoming events on Toronto.com.
May 22, 2003Adam Géhin solved 140 Rubik's 3x3x3 cubes in 1 hour, averaging 25.71 seconds per cube.
May 18, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi made his second tv appearance on May 12, 2003. Videos of his tv appearances can be downloaded from the bottom of his video page.
May 17, 2003Grant Tregay broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a MegaMinx, with a new record of 2 minutes 11.56 seconds. Grant also set a new Megaminx average record of 2 minutes 27.37 seconds.
May 15, 2003Gilles Roux solved 6 Rubik's 3x3x3 cubes under water in 3 minutes 46 seconds. Gilles posted a video of this attempt on his site.
May 14, 2003Suehiro Kondo strengthened his 9th position in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 18.7 seconds.
It is getting busy at the top with 16 people averaging under 20 seconds, and 50 people averaging under 30 seconds.
May 11, 2003Dan Knights equaled the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average with an average of 16.8 seconds. Welcome back, Dan!
May 6, 2003Dan Knights solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube during a freefall, in 32 seconds! His achievement was filmed for a new VH1 show, which will be aired sometime in June, 2003. You can download the video. Outrageous!
May 6, 2003Justin Vining trained 46 people to solve a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube.
May 4, 2003Mr. Tom Cutrofello, puzzle wizard and Middle School teacher in New York, organized the Annual MiniTerm Rubik's Cube-O-Rama on Trevor Day School. Check out the very nice video they made.
May 3, 2003Ralf Laue and Dror Vomberg competed in a blindfold puzzle competition on the tv show Rekordfieber, which was broadcast by the German tv station ARD. Dror won the competition, solving the famous 15 piece sliding puzzle blindfolded in 60 seconds.
April 30, 2003Masayuki Akimoto broke the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 5x5x5 cube average. The new record is 3 minutes 11.5 seconds.
April 30, 2003Masayuki Akimoto broke the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 2x2x2 cube average. The new record is 7.98 seconds.
April 21, 2003Chris Hardwick posted a very cool video of him solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed.
April 20, 2003Dan Harris solved 6 Rubik's 3x3x3 cubes under water in 4 minutes 10 seconds.
April 16, 2003Lars Vandenbergh broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to reach 9th position in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 19.08 seconds.
April 13, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi posted a fantastic video of him solving 12 Rubik's 3x3x3 cubes in a row for an average of 18.17 seconds. A must see!
April 11, 2003Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's cube one-handed, with a new record of 38.37 seconds. He also set a new average record of 44.10 seconds.
April 8, 2003Rubiks.com by Hessport inc. released a new video tape with a 7 step beginner solution, featuring Dan Knights. There is also a video tape for people who want to improve their solving time.
April 6, 2003Ross Palmer broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's cube while idling on a unicycle, with a new record of 19.86 seconds.
April 1, 2003Ron appeared in an article of the April 2003 issue of his company's magazine: 'Rbij' (50,000+ readers). The article featured one page with pictures, and one page with an interview about his puzzle interests.
March 23, 2003Jaap Scherphuis gave a major update to his Puzzle Page, with new puzzles, pictures and solutions.
March 14, 2003A video of the BBC Children tv appearance of Olly Hayden was posted on our Yahoo speedcubing group.
March 13, 2003Gaétan Guimond created a cool compilation video of his tv appearances.
March 9, 2003Shotaro Makisumi is unofficially the youngest person to have solved a cube blindfolded, aged 12 years and 262 days.
March 7, 2003Grant Tregay broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a MegaMinx, with a new record of 2 minutes 21.56 seconds.
February 26, 2003Dan Gosbee confirmed that the World Rubik's Games Championships will be held on August 23 and 24 in Toronto, Canada.
There will be a prize money of at least 10,000 Canadian dollars, thanks to several sponsors.
February 18, 2003Masayuki Akimoto broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 5x5x5 cube, with a new record of 2 minutes 52 seconds.
February 13, 2003Chris Hardwick can be seen solving a cube, in a promo in between video clips on MTV. Cool!
February 12, 2003Dave Orser broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's cube blindfolded, with a fantastic new record of 2 minutes 40 seconds, including memorization.
February 3, 2003Richard Carr solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed blindfolded.
January 31, 2003Richard Carr solved a Rubik's 5x5x5 cube and a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube blindfolded.Where will this end? It is out of this world.
January 16, 2003Katsuyuki Konishi appeared on Japanese tv (Toukai tv) in a variety show called "Bakusyou, Tyuuzaikun ga iku" which means "the burst of laughter, policeman go". The show was recorded on December 21. His times were 15 and 25 seconds.
January 13, 2003Gilles Roux broke the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 2x2x2 average. The new record is 10.50 seconds.
January 3, 2003Ton Dennenbroek posted pictures of his extensive puzzle collection. Check out his Puzzle Building Corner on this site.