Teenager breaks world record for Rubik's Cube in front of friends, who go absolutely crazy

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Last month of school for this kid, who doesn't even look like he's cut from the same cloth as the spelling bee kids, is going to be :smokin


Watch teen solve a Rubik's Cube in a world-record 5.25 seconds

This kid is freaky fast. He sets a new world record by solving a Rubik's Cube in just over 5 seconds, besting the previous record by an impressive three-tenths of a second.



How long does it take you to solve a Rubik's Cube? Prepare to feel wholly inadequate when you learn that teenager Collin Burns set the world record on Saturday by solving the standard 3x3 multicolored cube puzzle in a blazingly fast 5.253 seconds at a Rubik's Cube competition.

The previous world record, set in 2013 by Dutch speedster Mats Valik, was 5.55 seconds. Burns -- a 2014 Rubik's Cube US national champion -- somehow managed to shave a full three-tenths of a second off the previous record.

It's insane to watch the video of Burns accomplishing the feat at the World Cube Association competition in Doylestown, Penn., in as little time as it takes you to read this sentence.

It was especially mind-blowing for me as it takes me 5.253 seconds to even start thinking about how I'm going to go about solving the Rubik's Cube. Check out the record-breaking performance in the video above, and get ready to hear the screams and cheers of some super-excited teenagers.

That kind of excitement is exactly what's helped make the Rubik's Cube -- a geeky favorite since the mid-1970s -- one of the best-selling and most-influential toys of all time.

The previous world record, set in 2013 by Dutch speedster Mats Valik, was 5.55 seconds. Burns -- a 2014 Rubik's Cube US national champion -- somehow managed to shave a full three-tenths of a second off the previous record.

It's insane to watch the video of Burns accomplishing the feat at the World Cube Association competition in Doylestown, Penn., in as little time as it takes you to read this sentence.

It was especially mind-blowing for me as it takes me 5.253 seconds to even start thinking about how I'm going to go about solving the Rubik's Cube. Check out the record-breaking performance in the video above, and get ready to hear the screams and cheers of some super-excited teenagers.

That kind of excitement is exactly what's helped make the Rubik's Cube -- a geeky favorite since the mid-1970s -- one of the best-selling and most-influential toys of all time.
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What are the standards for breaking this record? Like who messes the cube up first before the person gets to solve it?
 
Video took me down the Rubik's cube hole on YT for like 5 minutes
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This little kid right here though with one hand?!
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That obviously should be heavily looked into too when something like this happens :lol:

Somebody could be in tight with the guy who messed it up, or even if not have some sort of deal worked out (because they'd actually benefit if they didn't know each others) where they split the profits of whatever comes from this. Anything illegal like that probably wouldn't be on paper so it'd be easy for record-breaker guy who's profiting from the fame to be like "nah..." but with that out there people would look into it.
 
Need to murk both dese cats b4 one of em gets friendzoned and makes skynet.
 
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