Watch the wonderful reaction after the Rubik’s Cube World Record was smashed
The first official record – 22.95 seconds – was set at the first world championship, held in 1982 in Hungary, home country of the cube’s inventor, Erno Rubik.
Seriously, at 14 years of age, we were barely able to do long division and this brother is solving Rubik’s Cubes in an insane amount of time.
Etter’s time was 4.90 seconds, 0.35 seconds better than the record-holder going into Saturday’s competition, Collin Burns.
Etter’s accomplishment was the first official solve to come in under 5 seconds.
In 2014 Lucas set another record for the smaller “2x2x2” Rubik’s Cube, beating it in 1.69 seconds during a World Cube Association-sponsored competition at the University of MI.
Lucas beat the previous record of 5.25 seconds, set in April by Pennsylvania teenager.
After designing his “magic cube”, Rubik realised he could not actually solve the puzzle – it took him more than a month to solve it.