Last Sunday, June 11, the young American Max Park broke the world record for the fastest time to solve a 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube, managing to crack the puzzle in an unprecedented time of 3.13 seconds. The young man of Korean descent managed to be the fastest in history to solve a spinning puzzle cube at the Pride in Long Beach 2023 event in Long Beach, California, USA.

Park is a legend of speed cubing and holder of multiple records, in his short 21 years of life he has managed to break the individual record of 3x3x3 of 3.47 seconds4.5 years old, set by the Chinese Yusheng Du at the Wuhu Open 2018 in China, on November 24, 2018 and getting the title ‘cuber’ of the fastest 3x3x3 ruby ​​in the world.

The ‘cuber’ shared the moment in which he achieved the record time on his twitter account and as can be seen in the images, the participants in the event had time to analyze the positions of the boxes and establish a action plan to resolve as quickly as possible. The moment Park hit the time button, everyone in the room knew they had witnessed a historic moment.

Park’s other records

As of June 11, 2023, Park holds the world records for 3x3x3 cube (individual), 4x4x4 cube (individual and average), 5x5x5 cube (individual and average), 6x6x6 cube (individual and average) and 7x7x7 cube (individual and average), according to Guinness World Record record. He also jointly held the average record of 3x3x3 (4.86 seconds) since September 24, 2022 with Tymon Kolasiński (Poland), although he was surpassed on March 12, 2023 by Yiheng Wang (China) with a time of 4.69 seconds.