SpeedCubing.com News archive 2004

  
December 31, 2004Official World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for all categories.
December 29, 2004BitTorrent creator and puzzle fan Bram Cohen was featured in a very nice article on Wired.
December 21, 2004All visitors to the NBA game Suns vs. Knicks on February 5, 2005 will receive a premium give-away Rubik's cube.
December 18, 2004Join the special edition Christmas Fewest Moves Challenge! Also join the other weekly international online competitions: Saturday Contest and Sunday Contest.
December 15, 2004The cube is back in the UK!
December 14, 2004Check out this very impressive video of 6 year old Ulf Wong solving Rubik's cube in 37.89 seconds!
December 13, 2004Hanson So posted pictures of the Kennedy Middle School Fall competition 2004.
December 11, 2004Lars Petrus won the Kennedy Middle School Fall competition 2004 with an average of 25.17 seconds. Thomas Bischof and Toby Mao finished second and third. Full results are available.
December 11, 2004Katsuyuki Konishi posted an amazing video of him solving the 21 last layer permutation algorithms in 48.42 seconds (bottom of the page: ex PLL21).
December 11, 2004How wrong can a journalist be about Rubik's cube records?
December 10, 2004The Kennedy Middle School Fall competition 2004 will be held on Saturday December 11, 2004 in Cupertino, California, USA. For more information: contact Hanson So.
December 9, 2004Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 4x4x4 cube, with a new average record of 1 minute 8.95 seconds.
December 8, 2004Rubik's Cube revival? Yes!
December 1, 2004Will Rubik be the new international super-power?
November 28, 2004Results of Swedish Cube Day 2004 are now available.
November 23, 2004This is what 1981 Cube-A-Thon runner-up Jeff Varasano is doing nowadays.
November 20, 2004Jon Morris posted a video of a nice tv interview on 9&10 News.
November 19, 2004Updated World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for Rubik's 3x3x3 Cube.
November 17, 2004PK-USA.com posted an extreme cubing video.
November 16, 2004Full results of Spanish Championship 2004 are now available.
November 16, 2004Stefan Pochmann posted his report on the Spanish Championship 2004.
November 16, 2004Álvaro Ibáñez posted his report on the Spanish Championship 2004.
November 15, 2004Ernesto Fernández won the Spanish Championship 2004, with an average in the final of 31.43 seconds. Luis Rey and Manuel Madrid finished second and third.
November 14, 2004Álvaro Ibáñez posted videos of the Spanish Championship 2004: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.
November 11, 2004Math teacher and speedcuber Ian Winokur was featured in a nice article (page 4) in The Record, the newspaper of Horace Mann School.
November 10, 2004Speedcubing.com.pl (Poland) posted a gallery of pictures of the European Rubik's Games Championships 2004.
November 7, 2004Marcus Stuhr broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's cube blindfolded, with an amazing new record of 1 minute 41 seconds, including memorization!
November 7, 2004Julien Sanchez posted more videos of the Ile-de-France competition 2004. Thanks go to Gilles Roux for recording and contributing the videos.
November 5, 2004The Swedish Cube Day 2004 will be held on Saturday November 27, 2004 in Uppsala, Sweden. Contact Anders Larsson or Gustav Fredell from the Swedish Cube Association for more information. Registration form and location are now available.
November 3, 2004Wynne Chyou won the informal Westview Nexus' Rubik's Cube-Off with a best time of 35.84 seconds.
November 2, 2004Peter Babcock appeared in a nice article in Ripon College Days.
November 1, 2004Halloween party with guys dressed like Rubik's cubes.
October 31, 2004Shotaro Makisumi won the for fun negative time contest with a time of -59 minutes 42.25 seconds. Overall 17 people competed to represent six countries! Check out the results.
October 30, 2004Halloween means cube pumpkin time, says Alex Courrau.
October 29, 2004Loïc Fremont and Régis Hanol posted some videos of the Ile-de-France competition 2004.
October 29, 2004Rubiks.com posted a nice Polish tv commercial featuring the cube.
October 28, 2004Jon Morris was featured in an article in Traverse Magazine.
October 27, 2004Jon Morris received a Special Tribute certificate from the State of Michigan, for winning the US title during the US Nationals 2004 on July 10.
October 23, 2004Bertrand Bordage won the Ile-de-France competition 2004 with an average of 17.62 seconds in the final. Frédérick Badie and Jean Pons finished second and third.
October 23, 2004Full results of the Ile-de-France competition 2004 are now available.
October 20, 2004The Spanish Championship 2004 will be held on Saturday November 13, 2004 in Madrid.
October 20, 2004Milan Vodicka posted his pictures of Dutch Cube Day 2004.
October 17, 2004Shotaro Makisumi broke two official world records during the Caltech Fall Competition 2004: 3x3x3 average (14.52 seconds!) and 3x3x3 blindfolded (3 minutes 10.54 seconds).
October 17, 2004Full results of the Caltech Fall Competition 2004 are now available.
October 16, 2004Shotaro Makisumi won the Caltech Fall Competition 2004. In the final he set an average of 15.28 seconds, beating Brent Morgan and Leyan Lo who finished second and third.
October 16, 2004Join this week's international online competitions: Saturday Contest, Sunday Contest and Fewest Moves Challenge.
October 15, 2004Lars Vandenbergh posted a video of Stefan Pochmann's Rubik's Magic world record.
October 14, 2004The Ile-de-France competition 2004 will be held on Saturday October 23, 2004 in Paris Antony, France. Contact François Séchet for more details.
October 13, 2004Report of Dutch Open 2004 is now available.
October 12, 2004Full results of Dutch Open 2004 are now available.
October 10, 2004Lars Vandenbergh won the Dutch Open 2004 title. In the final he set an average of 17.67 seconds, beating Dutch champion Ron van Bruchem, who was the fastest in the semi-final.
October 10, 2004Stefan Pochmann broke two official world records during Dutch Open 2004: Rubik's Clock (9.05 seconds, video) and Rubik's Magic (1.36 seconds, video).
October 10, 2004Lars Vandenbergh broke three official world records during Dutch Open 2004: 5x5x5 average (2 minutes 24.99 seconds), Square-1 (25.29 seconds, video) and Square-1 average (33.21 seconds).
October 6, 2004Updated World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for Rubik's Magic.
October 3, 2004Updated the full program and time schedule of Dutch Open 2004, which will be held on October 10, 2004.
September 24, 2004Updated World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for Rubik's Clock.
September 19, 2004Milan Vodicka posted pictures of the Czech Championship 2004 and the Czech Puzzle Party 2004.
September 18, 2004Updated World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for Rubik's 3x3x3 cube blindfolded.
September 16, 2004Marek Dvorak won the informal Czech Championship 2004 with a time of 1 minute 11 seconds in the final. The championship was organized by Josef Jelinek and Milan Vodicka.
September 15, 2004The Middlehaven area in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom will soon have a Rubik's Cube cinema.
September 13, 2004Yet another attempt to equal Rubik's cube...
September 11, 2004The Japanese Yahoo speedcubing club was featured in a Japanese Yahoo newsletter. That newsletter was sent to 756,549 Japanese, which brought the club 50 new members.
September 10, 2004Thanks to our Swedish friends (especially Dennis Nilsson) we now have a great 43 minute compilation video (834 MB!) of the European Rubik's Games Championships 2004!
September 9, 2004Updated World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed.
September 8, 2004The Czech Championship 2004 will be held during the 10th Czech Puzzle and Game exhibition in Prague on September 11, 2004. Send an e-mail to Jaroslav Flejberk for more info.
September 7, 2004Daniel Hayes broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Megaminx, with a new record of 1 minute 43.35 seconds.
September 5, 2004Shotaro Makisumi broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 3x3x3 cube, with an amazing new average record of 14.47 seconds.
September 1, 2004Jon Morris posted a nice article that was published in his company's internal newsletter.
August 30, 2004The Caltech Fall Competition 2004 will be held on Saturday October 16, 2004 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. For more information: contact Tyson Mao or check out the Caltech Yahoo Group.
August 29, 2004The final of World Cube Cup 2004 will be between USA team A and Japan. USA team B and Poland will battle for bronze. The final ends on September 9.
August 28, 2004Shotaro Makisumi posted a video of him solving 3 cubes in a row in 46.61 seconds.
August 24, 2004Katsuyuki Konishi posted videos and pictures of the World Championship 2003.
August 21, 2004Dutch Cube Day 2004 will be held on Sunday October 10, 2004 in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Registration for Dutch Open 2004 (held during Dutch Cube Day) is now open.
August 19, 2004Ton Dennenbroek posted an interview with Peter Sebesteny, the inventor of the Rubik's 4x4x4 cube. Ton also posted his pictures of the European Rubik's Games Championships 2004.
August 17, 2004Shotaro Makisumi broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 3x3x3 cube, with an amazing new average record of 14.68 seconds. He is unofficially the first person to break the 15 second barrier.
August 17, 2004Kåre and Gunnar Krig were featured in a nice Swedish article in Norrköpings Tidningar.
August 17, 2004Jon Morris broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 3x3x3 cube, with a new single solve record of 10.15 seconds.
August 15, 2004Join this week's international online competitions: Friday Contest, Saturday Contest, Sunday Contest, Fewest Moves Challenge and Blindfolded Solving Contest.
August 14, 2004Updated World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for Rubik's 5x5x5 cube fastest time and Rubik's 5x5x5 cube average.
August 13, 2004Updated World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for Rubik's 4x4x4 cube fastest time and Rubik's 4x4x4 cube average.
August 13, 2004Dan Harris did a very nice radio interview on BBC World, together with David Singmaster! (starts at 17:58 and 35:45)
August 12, 2004Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed with an awesome new average of 10 record of 33.06 seconds.
August 11, 2004More links and media are now available on the European Rubik's Games Championships 2004 site.
August 10, 2004Updated World Rankings 2004 (including national records) are now available for Rubik's 3x3x3 cube fastest time and Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average.
August 9, 2004Koen Heltzel posted a great set of pictures of the European Rubik's Games Championships 2004 (Media => Pictures section of his site).
August 9, 2004Jon Morris was featured in a nice article on MLive.com.
August 8, 2004The European Rubik's Games Championships 2004 were a big success. Several world and national records were broken. Full results are now available.
August 6, 2004First pictures and more newspaper articles are now available in the media and pictures sections of the European Rubik's Games Championships 2004 site.
August 6, 2004Good luck to all competitors at the European Rubik's Games Championships 2004 tomorrow!
August 6, 2004Which cuber near Augusta can help this journalist?
August 5, 2004Stefan Pochmann posted a great video of him solving Rubik's Magic in less than 1 second.
August 5, 2004Our puzzle friend Rune Wesström appeared in a crossword puzzle in the Swedish tabloid Expressen. The solution to the puzzle is "Becomes quite twisted".
August 4, 2004Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi won the Animal Planet competition with an average of 15.69 seconds and a fantastic (but lucky) best time of 10.07 seconds. Tyson Mao finished second with an average of 20.71 seconds and a best time of 19.31 seconds.
August 3, 2004Japan won the 1st team round of the World Cube Cup 2004, with a team average of 18.41 seconds. The quarter finals end on August 12.
August 2, 2004Animal Planet will film the informal competition on August 4 from 10am in the Gates Library, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena USA. Contact Tyson Mao for more information.
August 1, 2004Stefan Pochmann broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's Clock, with a new average record of 9.89 seconds.
July 30, 2004Katsuyuki Konishi posted a cool video ("5 cubes in a row") of him solving 5 cubes in a row, in 1 minute 24.48 seconds.
July 30, 2004There will be USA Midwest competition on January 29, 2005. Contact Jake Rueth for more information.
July 29, 2004Ron van Bruchem will be on Dutch national tv on Saturday July 31 from 7:30pm in the show De Zomerse Zaterdagavond.
July 28, 2004Tyson Mao won the EPGY 2004 Session 2 competition with an average of 21.44 seconds and a best time of 17.70 seconds. Alex Landau won the beginners competition with a best time of 57.76 seconds.
July 28, 2004Check out these funny cube cartoons by Jim Orton.
July 27, 2004Olivier Gaucher broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 4x4x4 cube, with a new record of 52.64 seconds.
July 27, 2004Wiktoria Zborowska is now unofficially the youngest person to have solved a Rubik's 4x4x4 cube, aging only 7 years 11 months and 12 days.
July 27, 2004Ron van Bruchem did a radio interview (sorry no footage) on the Dutch Rock channel City FM.
July 26, 2004Ronald Hoekstra was the hand-double of Eion Bailey in the movie Mindhunters. He had to solve a cube twice with the hairs on his hands made black.
July 26, 2004Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 4x4x4 cube, with a new average record of 1 minute 14.08 seconds.
July 26, 2004Brent Morgan was featured in an article in Tucson Citizen.
July 26, 2004The EPGY 2004 Session 2 competition will be held at Stanford University on July 27 at 7:30pm. Contact Tyson Mao for details.
July 20, 2004Jon Morris posted his pictures of the US Nationals 2004. Jon was also featured in some newspaper articles.
July 19, 2004Hanson and Jason So posted their pictures of the US Nationals 2004.
July 15, 2004Ton Dennenbroek was featured in an article in Dutch national newspapers.
July 14, 2004Updated Speedcubing World Rankings 2004 are now available for Rubik's 3x3x3 cube fastest time and Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average. Thanks to Douglas Li for helping us.
July 13, 2004Andy Camann posted his pictures of the US Nationals 2004.
July 13, 2004Full results of the US Nationals 2004 are now available.
July 13, 2004For Professor Rubik's 60th birthday the German broadcasting company WDR made this radio item, which includes a short interview with Professor Rubik.
July 12, 2004Check out this cool radio interview with Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi after the US Nationals 2004.
July 10, 2004Chris Hardwick is the US National Champion 2004 for 3x3x3 one-handed, 4x4x4 and 5x5x5. He set an official world record for one-handed solving with 25.95 seconds. He also set official world records for 4x4x4 for single solve (1 minute 12.85 seconds) and average (1 minute 15.54 seconds).
July 10, 2004Jon Morris is the US National Champion 2004. He was the first US citizen in the final, with an average of 20.06 seconds and a best time of 18.96 seconds.
July 10, 2004Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi won the Rubik's 3x3x3 cube competition at the US Nationals 2004 with an average in the final of 17.26 seconds and a best time of 14.39 seconds. He solved all 13 cubes in the competition under 18 seconds. Macky also won the blindfolded solving competition with a best time of 3 minutes 36.85 seconds, a new official world record.
July 10, 2004Good luck to all competitors at the US Nationals 2004 today! Check out the video of the official world record by Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi.
July 9, 2004Dan Harris was featured in a nice article in the local newspaper Evening News.
July 8, 2004Tyson Mao won the EPGY 2004 Session 1 competition with an average of 24.49 seconds and a best time of 21.50 seconds. Hanson So won the beginners competition with a best time of 1 minute 3.37 seconds.
July 8, 2004Stefan Pochmann posted some great videos, including an instructional video for Rubik's Master Magic and an amazing video of him solving Rubik's Clock in 10 seconds.
July 7, 2004Anyone who can solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded while standing on the head, would have been able to predict the democratic running mate.
July 6, 2004Thomas Templier broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 3x3x3 cube, with a new record of 10.40 seconds.
July 6, 2004Richard Patterson broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Pyraminx, with a new average record of 8.8 seconds.
July 6, 2004Thanks to Koen Heltzel we now have a recent video of Ron van Bruchem.
July 4, 2004Joël van Noort won the handicap competition at the informal Dutch Cube meeting of July 2004. Check out the report, results and pictures.
July 3, 2004Only one week left before the US Nationals 2004! You can still register and join this great event. Don't miss it.
July 2, 2004David Wesley is leading in the World Cube Cup 2004, an unofficial online competition organized by Tyson Mao. His average is 15.81 seconds and his best time 14.74 seconds. Fastest overall time is 14.20 seconds by Masayuki Akimoto. Qualification for the competition has ended. Poland, USA, Japan, France, United Kingdom and Germany each have a complete team of 5 members. The final teams are available now. The scrambles for the 1st team round are posted and are due no later than July 18.
June 29, 2004Evan Gates, the creator of the fastest cube solving robot in the world, posted a video of a 10.30 seconds robot solve.
June 27, 2004Swallow a scrambled Rubik's cube, then vomit it back up solved. Where can we hire this magician?
June 26, 2004According to the biggest commercial tv network in UK Dumb Foreigners solve Rubik's cubes underwater.
June 25, 2004Happy Medium Films is developing a documentary about Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi and the cubing phenomenon, with the help of Tyson Mao and Sunil Pedapudi. Erika Speed and David Paszkiewicz will be filming at the 2004 US Nationals at Caltech. Those who participate will be filmed and some will be interviewed. Here's a little teaser video of CubeFreak.
June 21, 2004In the new music video of the German singer Clueso there is an old man solving a Rubik's cube on the toilet.
June 20, 2004Jim Carrey obviously never heard of a blindman's cube (site about Helen Keller).
June 18, 2004Olivier Gaucher broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 5x5x5 cube, with a new record of 1 minute 55.60 seconds. Olivier is now unofficially the first person to break the 2 minute barrier. He also set a new average record of 2 minutes 20.67 seconds.
June 16, 2004Tyson Mao has organized the World Cube Cup, a new online competition where participants compete as representatives of their country. The deadline to tryout for all countries ends July 1, 2004. Participation is open to everyone.
June 15, 2004David Matics won the competition at Temecula Valley High School with an average of 38.29 seconds and a best time of 31.96 seconds.
June 14, 2004Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving Rubik's 4x4x4 cube, with a new record of 58.55 seconds. Chris is now unofficially the first person to break the 1 minute barrier.
June 12, 2004Katsuyuki Konishi posted another amazing video ("anyway") of him solving 12 cubes in a row, averaging 16.56 seconds per cube.
June 12, 2004There is a special 50th edition of the Fewest Moves Challenge, so we like to see many competitors.
June 11, 2004Some lucky people can now play Rubik's cube on a mobile phone.
June 10, 2004Yes, our site is back up again! Our host had suspended our site because a popular Japanese site deeplinked to the video of Chris's blindfolded solve. That deeplink caused over 80GB of traffic in june (9 days....)!
June 9, 2004Should we feel old or is this journalist wrong about young people not knowing Rubik's cube?
June 8, 2004Dan Harris posted his report of the Dutch Cube meeting, including some pictures and videos.
June 7, 2004Ton Dennenbroek won the handicap competition at the informal Dutch Cube meeting of June 2004. Check out the report, results and pictures. More pictures and a video on Koen Heltzel's site (Pictures section).
June 6, 2004Dutch Cube Day 2004 will be held on Sunday October 10, 2004 in Groningen, The Netherlands. There will be a speedcubing contest and plenty of opportunities to meet friends and exchange/buy/sell puzzles. Contact Dutch Cubist Club for more information.
June 5, 2004Jon Morris found this crossword puzzle. Could someone help us with 19 across?
June 3, 2004Why do outsiders always think we are nuts? ;-)
June 2, 2004The new Icelandic movie Nói is about an albino boy who, among other things, likes to play with his Rubik's cube. Check out the trailer of the movie.
May 31, 2004Rubik's cube did not make it into the UK top 10 list of favorite toys. Barbie and Action Man did... :-(
May 30, 2004Katsuyuki Konishi posted a cool video ("Solving in Solo") of him solving on stage during a performance of his band Rock Eye.
May 29, 2004Chris Szlatenyi broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube with his feet, with a new record of 1 minute 34.39 seconds. He also set a new 10 cube average record of 2 minutes 2.98 seconds.
May 28, 2004Frank Morris posted a nice video of his second tv appearance.
May 27, 2004Even Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, likes Rubik's cubes.
May 22, 2004Dave Orser broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube blindfolded, with an amazing new record of 1 minute 52 seconds, including memorization!
May 19, 2004Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 4x4x4 cube, with a new record of 1 minute 0.89 seconds.
May 16, 2004Ron van Bruchem broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube, with a new record of 10.88 seconds.
May 13, 2004Mark Longridge posted the 4th issue of 1982/83 Ideal Toys Rubik's Cube Newsletter. This is the last issue and great stuff for the cube fan!
May 12, 2004Check out the funny new Rubik's cube promotional video (right-click to save to harddisk).
May 10, 2004A short impression video (by Eurosport channel) of the French Championship 2004 can be downloaded.
May 8, 2004Ton Dennenbroek found 3 original issues of the 1982/83 Ideal Toys Rubik's Cube Newsletter. This is great stuff for the cube fan, so check out his corner of this site for the files!
May 8, 2004Guillaume Meunier was featured in a nice article in the French newspaper Le Parisien.
May 7, 2004Chris Hardwick solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube blindfolded in 18.50 seconds (not including memorization)! Check out the awesome video.
May 7, 2004Stefan Schönwälder was featured in a nice article in the German newspaper Sächsische Zeitung.
May 6, 2004Gilles Roux was featured in a nice article in the French newspaper La Nouvelle République.
May 4, 2004Milan Vodicka posted his pictures of German Cube Day 2004.
May 1, 2004Guillaume Colin posted his pictures of the French Championship 2004.
April 29, 2004Katsuyuki Konishi posted an amazing video of him solving the 57 last layer orientation algorithms in 1 minute 54.96 seconds (bottom of the page: ex OLL57).
April 26, 2004Speedcubing World Rankings 2004 are now available for Rubik's 3x3x3 cube fastest time and Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average.
April 25, 2004Full results and report of German Open championship 2004 are now available.
April 24, 2004Ron van Bruchem won the German Open championship 2004 with an average of 18.52 seconds and a best time of 15.98 seconds. Lars Vandenbergh finished second in the nerve-racking final, after excellent performances in the first round and semi final. Newcomer Michel Bechtatou became German champion, finishing third.
April 24, 2004New York Times printed an interview with Andy Camann in the teen news supplement Upfront.
April 23, 2004The German Open championship 2004 will be held on saturday April 24 during the German Cube Day 2004 in Gütersloh. More details can be found on the German Yahoo Club and on our events page
April 19, 2004Full results of the French championship 2004 are now available.
April 18, 2004French newspaper Le Parisien printed an article on Guillaume Duquenne and an article on the French championship. Both before the championship.
April 17, 2004Thomas Templier won the French championship with an average of 21.18 seconds. His best time was 18.84 seconds. Nicolas Vienne took second place, with Frederick Badie finishing third. Thanks to Julien Sanchez we now have the first parts of the results.
April 16, 2004Lars Vandenbergh posted a report and pictures of his cube marathon (860 cubes in 6 hours!).
April 13, 2004The French championship 2004 will be held on Friday April 16 in Novotel Les Halles in Paris. The championship will be organized by Winning Moves. More details can be found on the French Yahoo Club. There will be an informal championship meeting on thursday April 15 at 7pm under the Eiffel tower.
April 11, 2004Marcus Stuhr broke the Unofficial World Record for most difficult blindfolded cube relay. The record now stands at one 5x5x5, one 4x4x4, two 3x3x3, and one 2x2x2. Amazing!
April 8, 2004Michael Peters solved a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube in 2 minutes 3.24 seconds while pogo sticking! Check out a video of it.
April 7, 2004Tyson Mao and Daniel Henage posted some great videos of the Rubik's cube competition at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. These videos include a cube solving robot.
April 6, 2004Koen Heltzel posted a crazy video of him solving a cube in a roller coaster. Check out the media section of his site for more.
April 3, 2004Shotaro Makisumi won the Rubik's cube competition at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, with a fantastic overall average of 15.62 seconds and a best time of 12.11 seconds. Second in the ranking was Lars Petrus.
April 2, 2004The French Canadian online newspaper Cyberpresse posted a nice article about Dan Gosbee, organizer of the 2003 world championship.
March 26, 2004Pasadena Star News posted a nice article about Shotaro Makisumi and the April 3, 2004 Caltech competition.
March 19, 2004There will be a Live Chat about Fewest Moves Solving on Sunday March 21 at the Yahoo Fewest Moves Solving club. It will start around 6pm GMT.
March 18, 2004Joe Allen solved a computer 55x55x55 cube in 23 hours and 24 seconds. Where will this end?
March 15, 2004Dave Orser broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube blindfolded, with an amazing new record of 2 minutes 8 seconds, including memorization!
March 13, 2004Join this week's international online competitions: Saturday Contest, Sunday Contest, Fewest Moves Challenge, Wednesday Contest and Blindfolded Solving Contest.
March 7, 2004Katsuyuki Konishi broke the Unofficial World Record for the new Official Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average, with a new average record of 15.68 seconds.
March 6, 2004Tomas Sirgedas won the Short Cube Program Contest with an amazing 874 character program solving random cubes in very few moves! Stefan Pochmann created the shortest program of 528 bytes in Perl!
March 2, 2004Stefan Pochmann solved the Megaminx blindfolded! He is possibly the first person to ever do this. Amazing!
March 2, 2004Mike Tryczak broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Skewb, with a new average record of 9.95 seconds.
February 25, 2004Games magazine printed an article, title "Rubik's Cube...Cubed", about Duane Cash and his cube collection. You can find the article in the Gamebits section on page 4 of the April 2004 issue.
February 25, 2004Daniel Hayes broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Megaminx, with a new average record of 1 minute 58.92 seconds.
February 24, 2004Quinn Lewis and Joey Spadafora were featured in a nice article in a local newspaper.
February 22, 2004Unofficial World Records Page update: The Official Rubik's cube 3x3x3 Averages list has been added in place of the original average list. Records in the original averages list are linked to from the bottom of the new averages page. We encourage everyone to submit your new Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average records according to the new rules. Records submitted under the old rules will still be accepted to the original list, but will not be posted on the new official averages list.
February 21, 2004Join the first ever blindfolded solving contest. It is a weekly competition to take place every Sunday. The first competition starts this Sunday, Feb. 22.
February 19, 2004Matthew Fryett solved a 4-dimensional 2x2x2x2 Rubik's Cube! 4D cubing is also still alive and well. You can try a 2x2x2x2 cube online.
February 18, 2004There is a short cube appearance in a new tv commercial of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
February 17, 2004Shotaro Makisumi broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to strengthen his 6th place ranking in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 15.98 seconds.
February 17, 2004Chris Moyer-Grice solved a 40x40x40 Rubik's cube! Amazing! Big cube solving is still alive and well.
February 11, 2004An official WCA recognized Rubik's cube competition will be held on Saturday April 3, 2004 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. There is an entry fee of $2 if you register early, or $4 if you register at the door. Trophies will be supplied by Seven Towns. For more details, please e-mail the organizer Tyson Mao.
February 10, 2004Gilles Roux is back with another very funny cube video (bottom left of the page).
January 30, 2004Tyson Mao and Daniel Henage posted some great videos of the Rubik's cube competition at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
January 30, 2004Puzzle designer Tony Fisher created three beautiful new puzzles.
January 28, 2004The Short Cube Program Contest is underway. Try to make a very short cube solving program and send it to organizer Tom Rokicki before the end of February 29.
January 27, 2004Current Science posted a nice article about Dan Knights and the 2003 World Championship. Also featured is Chris Hardwick.
January 26, 2004Shotaro Makisumi won the Rubik's cube competition at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, with an average of 16.53 seconds and a best time of 14.76 seconds. Second in the ranking was Lars Petrus.
January 19, 2004Gaétan Guimond posted some nice pictures of an aluminium Rubik's 5x5x5 cube. Also check out the videos of his tv appearances.
January 18, 2004Frank Morris broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to achieve 9th place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 16.75 seconds.
January 16, 2004The results of the 100th edition of the online Japanese Speedcubing Contest are online now. Thanks to Suehiro Kondo and Masayuki Akimoto for organizing this event.
January 15, 2004Lee June Kyo posted a video of his tv appearance (29MB file on a slow server!). He solved several cubes one-handed, one with his feet and one blindfolded.
January 14, 2004An informal Rubik's cube competition will be held on Saturday January 24, 2004 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. There is an entry fee of $3 if you register early, or $6 if you register at the door. The first place prize is a Stackmat timer! For more details, please e-mail the organizer Tyson Mao.
January 13, 2004Katsuyuki Konishi posted a video of another tv appearance (scroll down to middle of the page).
January 10, 2004Chris Hardwick broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube one-handed with a new record of 26.67 seconds. He also set a new 10 cube average record of 37.62 seconds.
January 7, 2004The 100th edition of the online Japanese Speedcubing Contest closes today. You can download the competition information. Do not forget to post your results (Yahoo club members). Guests can send their results in an e-mail.
January 6, 2004The new "official rules" for average records are still open for discussion, so please join this discussion (Yahoo club members) or send us your ideas.
We already received some record posts in the new category. We will list these records once we have a few more on the list.
January 5, 2004Request to all record posters: please post your new average records according to the new "official rules". Soon we will open a new category where we only allow new 3x3x3 average records according to these rules.
January 4, 2004Masayuki Akimoto broke the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 4x4x4 cube average. The new record is 1 minute 18.96 seconds.
January 4, 2004Masayuki Akimoto broke the Unofficial World Record for Rubik's 2x2x2 cube average. The new record is 6.49 seconds.
January 4, 2004David Wesley broke his Rubik's 3x3x3 cube average record to strengthen his 7th place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top Ten, with a new average record of 16.21 seconds.
January 3, 2004Discuss fewest moves strategies on the new Fewest Moves Challenge club on Yahoo.
January 2, 2004Check out this cool new Rubik's mouse with two floating cubes inside.