This shouldn't take long. But it's pretty wonderful. Last week, I read a story in the Los Angeles Times about Max Park from Cerritos who set the world record for fastest solving of a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. There are 43 quintillion possibilities -- and it took him...3.13 seconds. The old record of 3.47 seconds was the Gold Standard and had stood for almost five years. As the article notes -- "Park’s dad said that when Max was a young child with autism, the family hoped he would take to Rubik’s Cubes to help with his fine motor skills. When his parents took him to his first competition more than a decade ago, Schwan Park said they hoped it would be 'a giant therapy play date.' "But then Max started winning." The article notes that Max has set close to 70 records in speed cubing competitions over the past decade. What stood out from this records is that the 3x3x3 is the original Rubik’s Cube, and the record is for a single time. (There are specialty competitions like taking the fewest moves or using just one hand.) “This was the actual apex of records … it’s the one that everyone covets,” his father Schwan Park said. I figured the video of the record had to be on YouTube. And it was. Just don't blink, because it's over really fast.
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