![]() | Rubik´s 3x3x3 Cube: Youngest solver |
| Place | Result | Name | Quote | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 years 117 days | En-xi Xie | Check out the video. | 20060716 |
| 2 | 4 years 124 days | Yui Tomita | I was born in Japan on November 16, 2001. I'm enjoying solving with my father,mother,and elder sister. I want to participate in a Rubik competition in Tokyo in July. Here's my solving video. | 20060323 |
| 3 | 4 years 322 days | Valentine Chung | Valentine is from America. She decided that she wanted to solve it after watching her brother Maverick (now 7). Her fastest time at this age is just under 5 minutes. Valentine solving cube | 20080516 |
| 4 | 5 years 31 days | Daniel Hop | Daniel is 5 years and 31 days old. He lives in Holland. It took him 5 weeks to learn to solve the cube in about five minutes without any help. | 20060824 |
| 5 | 5 years 1 month 19 days | Emilien Combaret | 115s : Solve done at 5 years 1 month and 19 days Emilien has done 121 s at French Championship 2008 4 days later : http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?allResults=All+Results&competitionId=France2008 | 20080413 |
| 6 | 5 years 3 months | Sunwoo Ban | I'm SunWoo, Ban from KOREA. I solved Rubik's Cube when I was 5 years and 3 months old. My father taught me how to solve it. video. | 20060209 |
| 7 | 5 years 3 months 26 days | John Ismael Ugelstad | Success (3 min 5.97 sec). I did set the record according to the rules from WC2003 Toronto. My age was 5 years and 3 months and 26 days (born 2 sep 1999 and the record was set 28 Dec 2004). I was able to do it unofficially the 14 Nov 2004. Our home page. | 20041114 |
| 8 | 5 years 7 months 28 days | Rei Idekawa | May,2000. She was born in Tokyo. Oct,2005. She has begun to struggle for a puzzle. Jan,2006. She said that "I could solve a puzzle". And it was solved in about 5 minutes. Feb,2006. She participated in a JRCA meeting and solved it in front of audience.(1min42.58sec) Her height is just 1 meter. If height of a table is more than 1 meter, at the time of competition, audience cannot watch her. | 20060115 |
| 9 | 5 years 360 days | Wiktoria Zborowska | Pozdrowienia dla wszystkich malych Polakow w Polsce i na Swiecie. Wikusia. Moja strona | |
| 10 | 6 years 47 days | Mina Tomita | I'm from Japan. My best time is 2 min 8 sec. I will soon participate in a competition in Japan. | 20060205 |
| 11 | 6 years 5 months | Dylan Patch | n/a | 20080427 |
| 12 | 6 years 9 months | Jay Gyoury | I live in England and have been confidently solving for a while, I just need to get faster as I take about 4 mins. Not sure if I'm youngest in UK but age 6 seems good to me. Video of Jay | 20080405 |
| 13 | 6 years 319 days | Maverick Chung | He solved it first a few months earlier but we don't have the date. His fastest time so far is 2 and 1/2 minutes. | 20080301 |
| 14 | 6 years 348 days | Rebecca Hughey | My sister did it, so I decided I would too! Girls rule! | 20071016 |
| 15 | 7 years 64 days | Philip Bergh Sveen | I am from Norway. I have solved the cube many times. The first time was on May 10th 2008. | 20080519 |
| 16 | 7 years and 6 months | Bernett Orlando | my date of birth 23rd may 1996. When I first solved it last year in nov 2003 I was 7 years and 6 months. After that, I solved it successfully manytimes. My best performance is 1 min 50 sec which I solved it in dec -2004 when I am 8 years and 7 months old. | 20041231 |
| 16 | 7 years and 6 months | Sagar Nattuvetty | He was born on June 11th 1999, and started solving the cube fully in Dec, 2006. Here is a video of Sagar on Indian tv. | 200612 |
| 16 | 7 years and 6 months | Noah Hop | Me and my brother, together we are strong!! | 20070927 |
| 19 | 7 years and 11 months | Araceli Castro | I am from Granada. Spain. I do it for the first time when I was 7 years and 11 months. Antonio is my teacher and he is teaching me the 4x4. | 20060809 |
| 20 | 7 | Ewa Forys (maiden name: Zborowska) | I have had that (bad) luck, that Zbigniew Zborowski is my older brother and he did not let me live too long without an ability of solving Rubiks Cube. Ewka | |
| 20 | 7 | Dale Goss | I was 7 years old, Lyttleton Primary School, South Africa, Rubik Cube Competition. My winning time was 1 min 10 seconds. I won a bag of sweets! | 19811001 |
| 20 | 7 | Samuel Laire | n/a | 20050921 |
| 20 | 7 | Emilio Akira Morones Ishikawa | My uncle showed me how to do it. Now I am 14 years and I took it again since short time. | 20051129 |
| 20 | 7 | Kaho Idekawa | I was born in September, 1997. I live in Japan. In spring of 7 years old, it was solved. And I participated in "Japanese Championship 2005". My average time is about 100 seconds. | 20050903 |
| 20 | 7 | Ben Woo | I was taught by my brother and he taught me for a 3 days. I can do it around 2 minutes unless I screw up an algorithm. | 20071112 |
| 26 | 8 years 4 months | Kevin Chang | My brother Alan taught me with his website. | 20050702 |
| 27 | 8 years 196 days | Marie Hughey | I first solved the Rubik's Cube 2 days ago. My first timed solve was yesterday, 3:35. My best time so far is 2:29. GIRLS RULE! | 20070928 |
| 28 | 8 years 226 days | Nadine Wong | Time 2min 35s. solution not completely memorised yet. | 20080731 |
| 29 | 8 years 273 days | Jeffrey Tang | my brother taught me the f2l and i learned the last layer from youtube it was easy!!!!!!! | 20080106 |
| 30 | 8 years 9 months | Peck Ern-Wen | n/a | 20080915 |
| 31 | 8 years 10 months | Aaron Hartigan | I got my cube from one of my teachers and threw it aside. Thens after about three months I picked it up, became interested, and went online and found a video solution. | 20070805 |
| 32 | 8 | Logan Bird | I am from Canada, and my cousin Brent Morgan showed me how to solve to cube (I just learned today!). My time right now is around 15-17 minutes, but at least I can solve it, and I'm only 8 years old! (Brent Morgan): It took a little while to show him how, but he caught on pretty quick eventually. | 20030218 |
| 32 | 8 | Adam Zampino | I unofficially solved the Rubik's Cube in 70 seconds when I was 8 years old in the autumn of 1982. I routinely solved it in under 90 seconds during that time, mostly as a kid impressing my friends on the school bus. I started solving the cube when I was 7 (earlier in 1982). Over the years, I have still been able to solve the cube quickly, but not nearly as fast as speed cubers. Today, I can still solve the cube in 60 to 90 seconds routinely, though I don't play with cubes often (a couple times a year or so). | 1982 |
| 32 | 8 | Siu King Hay | It's easy!!!My fastest record is 86.73 seconds!! | 20080124 |
| 32 | 8 | Alexander Armbrust | My record is 1:27.00. | 20081015 |
| 36 | 9 years 302 days | Nathan Xu | Nathan is my little brother. He solved it in about 20 minutes. | 20070320 |
| 37 | 9 | Kirk Morrow | I was nine years old at the time. I can't even come close to that now that I'm out of practice. It was a lubed cube and I could solve it repeatedly in roughly 2 minutes flat. Now that I'm picking it up again maybe I'll be even faster. | |
| 37 | 9 | Shotaro Makisumi | I averaged about 2 minutes solving a cube. Now I am 12 and average 45 seconds. | |
| 37 | 9 | Simon Templier | Thomas Templier: "It's my little brother. He is 9 years old .He has done the cube in 2 min 06 sec with the method of Lars Petrus. I hope he will be a good cubist :-)" | |
| 37 | 9 | Sunil Pedapudi | This was when I was in 3rd grade, my teacher knew how to solve the cube so I just picked it up from her.book method, average like 109357320980961782 minutes [sarcasm..] | |
| 37 | 9 | Jason So | Hanson So: I taught my brother the layer-by-layer stragety. He was able to solve it today on June 5, 2004. I'm impressed. My brother can solve it in a couple of minutes. | 20040605 |
| 37 | 9 | Camille Briski | I am 9 years and 10 months old, almost ten, and my brother Cameron Briski taught it to me in about a week. | |
| 37 | 9 | Vishakha Patel | I am from India and in Grade IV and 9 year old. My dad taught me how to solve Rubik Cube (3x3x3) in one week when I came to USA. Presently I am able to finish in 6-7 minute. My dad has recorded video on Sept 2, 2006. | 20060902 |
| 37 | 9 | Andrew Roley | If only I would have known this category existed before it existed. | 20070330 |
| 37 | 9 | Steffi Padme T. Libid | This is Steffi Padme T. Libid my youngest daughter. She is 9 years of age from the Philippines. Birthday: August 3 1999. Steffi started to learn solving the cube last August 4 2008. We recorded one of her solving progress last August 24 2008 and shown here is her 1minute and 17.17seconds mark. Can be viewed here: Steffi in YouTube | 20080827 |
| 37 | 9 | András Szermek | Now I'm 10 years old and my average is 34 seconds. | 20090106 |
| 47 | 10 years 1 month 14 days | Vatsal Jayaswal | I cant believe i actually did it.And it was just so easy,thanks to jasmine lee's page. | 20070112 |
| 48 | 10 years 95 days | Natasha Wong | n/a | 20080607 |
| 49 | 10 years 7 months | Thomas Evans | One Day i got a rubiks cube from chritsmas and scrambled it. i felt like i wanted to so i learnt the agltohrims. now i now them off by heart. | 20080124 |
| 50 | 10 years 8 months | RJ Kanyur | I saw a friend at a Bible study do it so I went to www.rubiks.com and learned to solve it by Tyson Mao's video. My current best time is 1:11.16 My website! | 20080327 |
| 51 | 10 years 9 months | Jessica Federico | it's an official record, I resolved it at the french championship 2005. birthday : 07/13/94. I was ten and 9 months | 20050422 |
| 51 | 10 years 9 months | Tom Macadam | I learnt to solve the cube just as the summer holidays had started (I'm from Australia) and yeah, things just went like that. | 20080627 |
| 51 | 10 years 9 months | Ethan Armbrust | n/a | 20080930 |
| 54 | 10 years 11 months | Mike Catchen | My PR is 23.83 and i can do all up to 7x7x7 (never tried 6x6x6) | 20080720 |
| 55 | 10 | Joseph Liao | First time solving it (it waz pretty easy scramble), then I gave up the cube, then this year, Macky taught me how to solve constantly! | |
| 55 | 10 | Peggy Hsieh | My brother Jeff Hsieh taught me how to solve the cube. I coudn't solve it for a few months but now I finally did it using both the method he made up himself and Fridrich's method! | 20050329 |
| 55 | 10 | Ned Williamson | I can solve it in 45 seconds. | 20050407 |
| 55 | 10 | Raiza Mativo | i am Raiza mativo and i am 10 years old. i am born in Canada but my parents are from the Philippines. i got into cubing because of my older brother who taught. i solve just for fun but one day i wish to compete. This is my video that my brother took | 20060409 |
| 55 | 10 | Nathan Kennedy Bob | I'm only 10 years old and beat my old record of 56 seconds. I almost flipped because i beat my 13 year old friends record of 54 seconds. | 20070529 |
| 55 | 10 | Noah Radcliffe | I got the cube from my grandmother. :) | 20080123 |
| 55 | 10 | Samir Patel | record then was 1 min 12sec now it is 53 sec | 20080224 |