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Monday, January 16, 2006

Rubik's Cube solved in 11.13 seconds

On Saturday, twenty-year-old Leyan Lo of Caltech's Rubik's Cube Club solved the puzzle in 11.13 seconds, a new world record. From the Associated Press:

Besides blindingly fast fingers and a head for memorizing algorithms used by most top competitors to solve the cube, what is Makisumi's secret?

"I don't know. Faster first two layers," he surmised, referring to solving the first two layers of the cube's colored tiles before moving on to the last.

For his victory, Makisumi won a Rubik's Snake puzzle...

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