The World’s Fastest Speedcubers Are Teens
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2018
- Speedcubing is a competitive sport that involves solving cube puzzles as fast a possible. Waypoint visits a recent tournament that was attended by some of the fastest and most passionate speedcubers in the game.
Since the 1980’s, Speedcubing has captured the minds of mathematicians and puzzle enthusiasts. In recent years, competitive speedcubing has grown into an international craze, and the median age keeps dropping. While the world record holder is in his 20’s, most competitors are under the age of 18.
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Cameraman: so what shot do you want me to do next?
Director: let’s just get a close up of the child’s *tongue*
Bruh😂
When?
@@ItsLia534 0:15
Sorry can’t like because it’s at 69
@@timnguyen6471 why?
"The World’s Fastest Speedcubers Are Teens"
Feliks: "Am I a joke to you?"
Why is this comment so underrated 😂😂
He used to be a teen! hahaha. I got into cubing in 2003 when Dan Knights won the first world championship since 1982 with an avg of exactly 20 seconds! He was 24. Funny how far it has come!
i guess his twenty teen
Yusheng: GODDIE
I was going to see that when I first started the video
Yusheng Du just got a 3.47 to beat Feliks Zemdeg's 4.22. It's insane that an almost unknown cuber can beat a wr, just goes to show how scramble dependent the single world record really is.
GabuShipa it is a huge jump for world record
idk if you mean that feliks did the 3.47 or no bcs that was Yusheng Du
It kinda sucks for world class people that had potential to beat the 4.22 for a 3.47 to happen which will be unbeatable for many years. Still, another lucky scramble will happen one day that will be used to beat the record.
Andrew Rojo yep
Now no one cares about the 3x3 single wr
This video is actually interesting to watch, even as a cuber
Yeah
Yep,
That’s the reason it’s interesting to watch
Hello Cameron
The character in ur profile pic was made by a roux solver
This was actually a pretty good video. It's rare that mainstream media tackles cubing with any degree of genuine interest and "non-cringiness". Congrats.
Luri What is the show my back
I expected they'd say something cringy like "Solving a Rubi(X) cube is one of the most difficult tasks to do, only the smartest ones who can apply math and logic into what they do, can solve it."
Ya it feels relevant...
Iuri Grangeiro, I know right.
Feliks zemdegs, Max park, kevin hays, mats valk
No teenagers in my list
Max is a teen.
@@samkarro oops
Patrick ponce, steve cho, lucas etter
Ok but they all started cubing as teens my dude, people get older believe it or not. Also pretty much all cubers are teens
Seng-Hyuk!
Uhhh, the world record holder is 22.
milkn cookies ...they acknowledged it in the description. And also mentioned that most competitions at teens. Pls read
A lot of the currect record holders and cubers at the top, including Feliks Zemdegs, happen to be in their early 20s. These are the same "kids" who were just starting out 8-10 years ago, and they stuck with it long enough so now they're young adults who are still very competitive.
*Waiting patiently till you're 20*
He’s been since he was 12, so he had he time to practice while he was young
yeah that's true and also mats valk and max park and stuff
"if you know how to solve a rubik's cube and can do it under 10 minutes, then you should definitely sign for a competition near where you live"
THIS IS MY BIGGEST MOTIVATION STARTING NOW LOL HAHAHAHAHAHA
Danny Hoang I mean this statement is satirical, and I don't have enough confidence plus I don't own a speed cube. Its just my motivation that everyone has a chance to join. Not minding embarassment or anything lol
I average 30 seconds is that good ? I just started 1 mont ago
Rip Xxxtention How did you get sub-30 in 1 month? What’s your secret? Did you have to practice non-stop? Feliks Zemdegs took 2 months for sub-20.
I got under a minute pretty fast on the 3x3. Just watch tutorials on CZcams and try to memorize the algorithms. Use the letters first then try to do it without looking.
You should be at least under 1 minute before you go to a competition. We don't want lots of clueless beginners tying up the solving stations with 5 minute plus solves! If someone takes over 2 minutes to solve a 3x3, they should be booted out of the competition and told not come back till they have improved. They may be required to submit video evidence that their solves are of sufficient standard to be allowed to register for another comp.
"I don't usually remember my dreams, but, I think I've had a couple dreams that I've cubed in"
Well that is a thing for all people that have a passion or a hobby. For example: an artist can have a dream where he/she is painting something ect.
I was scrolling through the comments and saw this when he was saying the same thing.
I started 3 weeks ago, and have a pb of 1.19, and an average of 1.06, so its really not that hard
Ross Steel he and my pb is 30 sec. Youre better than me now
Memorizing hundreds of algorithms. . .I feel like I've wasted my time memorizing hundreds of Pokémon now.
MissAshley42 😂
You have
U can just memorize 52 algs for roux method
it aint that hard
ive wasted my time remembering pokemon, i dont now, now i just remember algorithms. but i know waaaaay less than the rest of them
Feliks zemdegs: hold my beer
3.47 rip
_Al1g8t0r _ yusheng du: beer my hold
@@hey.tobiii proceeds to get 2 secs
Hold my stackmat
lol, he’s like the only one that can drink beer in these competitions.
6:02 it sounded like he was rapping
Lol
Cubers here?
Edit:thx for likes!
Edit 2:sub me for support pls no hate
Yep!
yep
Me
E.T. Cuber sup
Yep!
Any other cubers here?
`me
me
Hecc yeah
Twistii Cuber here!
EVERYONE!!!!!
0:16 when you see your mom cooking chicken
ItzChase That’s me lol
ItzChase 😂😂
😂
Scratch the “cooking chicken part”
Mark 😂😂
I will never understand why there is hate in the comments rn.
This is a great video, and does a good job at presenting the speedcubing community to the world.
Zachary Trudell but its not true.
@@kys4111 What"s not true?
I get weird VIBEs from you
@@shy2959 ?
@@shy2959 are you from ca or rca xD
4:40 greatest poem in cubing history
“Worlds fastest speed cubers are teens”
Feliks Zemdegs: -_-
._.
Well feliks was a teen when he began
Feliks was teen
Me: Finally solved one
Speed cubers : Pfft Really
oh yeahyeah
Naruto Abad no, I would be happy, because, if you continue to strive to get better, then you’re another part of the community
No one is actually like that, just some people who just learned how to cube and gets a 3 minute solve then brags about it. It happens on my school
finneko yeah it happens at my school too i just laugh silently whenever i see one trying to brag about it i dont say anything cuz im not mean the cubing community are mostly really nice and are welcoming
I just joined a school. And there's this kid who brags about he's 2.30 sec solve, And I on the other hand was Speed Cuber who can solve a cube on 8 sec. I challengeedhim, And you know it, He got pissed that i beat him hard, I solved the cube in 10 sec while he did it on 2.44, He tried bullying me after school, But I used to watch WWE a lot, So I picked him up then in gave him a Samoa Drop, Then he ended up in hospital for a week, Then I got in trouble, Suspension for 2 weeks...
I just got my competition pb on 3x3 8.64 and all I can say is that this community is something special all you get is support from people you never have seen before.
Toasty nice!
I love how that one guy and everyone else thought 4.59 to 4.22 was a huge jump in world record time. And then 3.47 happened.
Fax
@@alexanderpersaud oh hey bud
Younger kids process images 80 percent faster than adults. Meaning that essentially, like owls, they can see in slow motion.
liiifejuice man I _just_ watched that video right before this one!! 😂😂😂
Hahahha Sacha be trollin 😂😂
It's because of the blink 182 hormone :^)
liiifejuice You just have to practice everyday. My kids are some of the world's youngest verified solvers and they are not prodigies at all. We just practiced everyday.
good lookahead almost entirely negates that fact
6:02 *top 10 rappers enimem was afraid to battle*
"the new wr has been set by Feliks Zemdegs"....as always
His birth name is actually zeliks femdegs it was a typo in the comp stats or whatever and is corrected it to feliks zemdegs which is his name now and also feliks’s middle name is azcar which means fast soo
Ding ding ding
Correctomendo!!!!!!
3.47 man
@@eskertkai9837 which means god made him for this
@@benjaminmoua78 i feel like ive heard that in danganronpa
You guys are sooooo good at the Rubik's cube! Good job! 👍🏻
Edit: 4 years later....
Learned new puzzles and currently avg 15sec on 3x3
Cubers?
yes
PB?
Waheeeyyy
9.007
22.3 (IK I'm slow)
I think this is a great up to date video about the community around speedcubing great job
I think it’s cool that they work on skills like these and work to improve, it’s really awesome to see really young teens memorize really difficult algorithms and be able to solve complicated cubes
Nazi Party some people find it difficult to memorize algorithms considering you have to memorize the process, certain situations, and put together the algorithm for that specific scramble
"this is a massive jump for a world record" the next one went from 4.22 to 3.45 lol.
TheJellyDonut you mean 3.47
NoobCubing only 2 hundredths off
@@wastefulxe4037 2 hundredths off still make a difference
Eric Lee well yes but actually no
Tragic Trap it does, what if there is a 3.46 solve? What is the WR then?
"Kids have more times to practice" SO TRUE
I love how our community is gaining more exposure!!! keep it up cubers!!
I'm 34 and started cubing this year, after about 1 year of practice i'm now in sub 50. Hope to be in sub 30 on next year.
sammy tong please tell me which tutorials and which yters to watch to get faster rn I’m sub 2
Unx virse I recommend J Perm honestly, he has tutorials on beginners method and speedcubing method, gives tips for finger tricks and algs and basically like everything.
Isn't there some economic trend thst shows mental puzzles start in the adult market and move down into the juvenile as time goes on? Sudoku was an example I saw, I think. Anyways, this is cute and I love how confident the kids are and committed to doing their personal best.
Paraquito If not there should be. I see this being a possible and popular high school activity or club. It looks like a more physically involved intellectual activity in comparison to puzzles or chess.
The Worlds Fastest Speedcubers Are Teens
almost every world class person is an adult
VecolityPlayz as the top speed cubers retire, the teens will take over
Supernova Cuber yeah but the teens bill become adults lol
Really, really like Ponce's attitude. Seems like a genuine, sincere young guy.
Thanks!
As of January 7, 2023, Yusheng Du still holds the WR for 3x3 at 3.47 seconds. The WR average for 3x3 is held both by Max Park and Tymon Kolasiński. Max Park also holds many of the world records for almost all big cubes. Max Park also has the 2nd fastest solve in the world at 3.63 seconds while Tymon has the 4th best at 3.97 seconds.
I live in iraq they don’t even know what a rubiks cube is😢 I just wanna compete 😢😢😢
:,(
Sorry man
i feel you
:(
feel you bro i'm from egypt and i have almost four years cubing on a one dollar cube because we don't have speed cubes here
I think most of the viewers of this video are actual speedsolvers like myself rather than the average person :D
Not me : ( I even looked it up how to do it and they didn't help me at all!!
Aerma do u think u can show us non cuter how to do it? And actually explain it lol
@@josephgriffin475 Just search up videos that say How to solve a Rubik's cube. I suggest Sergs.b. That's where I learnt.
Aerma not me
J perm is a good youtuber
"Kids Are dominating because they have more time to practice......
School:Are U sure bout that?
I started learning it when I was 16 and now I am 18, able to solve it under 15 seconds. As long as you really enjoy it, anything is possible. I am attending a university currently, and while that would mean I have more workload, I still make time for speedcubing whenever I have free time
My friends: it took me 5 years to solve my cube
Me:was it because its a rubiks brand lol
Them: No its because i dont know what a f turn is
Me: 🤦♂️
0:31 "it becomes a SPORT after a while"
Yeah i have been cubing for 3 years now i can lift 10 pounds with my pinky from the twinsting of the cube
O yea 😂😂😂
I wish they talked about how fun competitions are and how weirdly friendly the community is
I watched this video years ago, it has inspired me to begin cubing, I am now consistently sub 20.
46.4 secs is the fastest I'll probably ever get, it took me 3 years to solve my first 3x3.
Soup it’s not like you tried every single day
tok me 3 days now im sub 20 after a few months
if you use a tutorial it takes under an hour but i kind of wish i solved without a tutorial first all though i doubt i could of because when i got into speedcubing i was digging around my closet and found my old 5x5 which i knew i couldn't solve without a tutorial, after i learned to solve it i got a 3x3 but to solve the 5x5 you have to know how to solve the 3x3 so i already knew ;p
My best is 7.11 ive cubed for 1 year
Mine is 5.03 :)
I don’t think this an event that should divide genders in competition.
Well its not divided everything is in one leaderboard categorized by fastest time, it just so happens to be that she is fastest of all the females.
Kimberly that girl is rank 30 in the world which is impressive. their is actually very little difference between males and females in terms of advantage its just that there is so much more males into this competition than females it will be very rare to see high ranked females
Ah. I miss understood. I thought she was saying that they compete separately. LOL.
THEY. DO. NOT.
it's the exact opposite actually
^^^
“I was surprised because it was a huge jump for the wr” *yusheng du enters the room*
damn how i miss this. waypoint doing work
That zoom in on his lips tho at the beginning eeewwww
I had no idea that there was this whole world of cubers, I genuinely thought I was the only loser in my bedroom messing about with cubes for hours. Also wtf, speed cubes? I learned with my dad’s 3x3 (that he’d been struggling to solve since 1980!) and it either locks up or falls apart when I try to go too quickly! I need to look into this!!
Best of luck for this journey inside a rabbit hole.
With regards,
A fellow cuber
@@lalchan same
This isn’t a sport, this is more of a community, cubes unite!
As a cuber, they really aren't wrong about the comp nerves. Especially if you do bad you get mad or upset. Doing these competitions is really stressful
Also, The People With The Most Free Time On Their Hands Are Teens
Highschool doesn't exist now does it
IT TOOK ME 3 DAYS TO SOLVE A 4×4
Mr Pyro Maniac I never completed the cube!😂
congratulations. It took me forever
It took me 2minutes 30 seconds
Really? It only takes me sub 3 minutes
I just got a 4x4 pb, it’s 1:58.68, is that good?
2 years in my recomandation and now i finally watch it xD
5:58 that is perfect music with what he says!
Just incredible! Those kids are amazing...
I can do it but im not amazing...:‘(
I think most speedcubers are teens because they have access to the internet for guides unlike adults did (I am teen btw)
ankith mahesh yea, the first real CZcams tutorials for getting faster were by Feliks when he was a teen
This kids face has been in my recommended for so long and now I’m finally watching the video
"kids have so much time to practice"
School : "is for me?"
It kinda depends on luck sometimes cause if you're lucky you get to skip some algorithms
I am not a speed cuber so correct me if I'm wrong
Ur right
Yes, sometimes you can get an oll or pll skip, x cross, 1 or more cross pieces solved, and some others
2x2 and pyra I luck based but that's all) skew is kinda too I guess)
Yep any ll skip is good
It can be luck, on one of my best solves I got to skip OLL and PLL (last layer)
My biggest accomplishment is solving the red side of took me 2 minutes
Where are you now? Im curious
M_Meg the magic of tutorials exist, so go watch J perm’s
I am curious how have you progressed
Where are you now
We need a follow up on this video!
6:00 thought he was gonna start rapping for a second there 😂
The kid said J Perm. Enough said.
wait so there syaing that cuz im 11 and i completed the rubiks cube in 53 seconds im a speed cuber? THATS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
No speed cuber is sub 20 or 30. 53 seconds is a beginner time.
@The Fake Slim Shady "Technically" according to who? There's no definition written down or agreed, but the best people on the world, the ones who go to competitions regard 1 minute as a laughable time. You need to be sub 20 in the advanced category or 20 to 30 in the intermediate speed cuber bracket. Anything over 30 seconds is beginner territory.
@@somfmagician according to the Best girl cuber in the video
@@duckduck4923 That's not "technically" it's just Dana's opinion. She's somewhat of an ambassador, so she's biased to make comments to encourage novices.
Go to a competition and most people regard a solve average of anything over about 30 seconds as pretty embarrassing and not really speed cubing.
They might not admit it, just to be kind to beginners, but that's what they think deep down.
If you go to a comp there's only ever a handful of novices over 30 seconds.
Dude... You just said yourself it's opinionated
They make cubing sound like an addiction
I misread the title and watched 5 minutes of the video thinking the title was: "the worst speedcubers are teens" 😂
You cube bro?
Sub-7 with CFOP
@@wolfsha1500 how long have you been doing roux?
most of my time cubing, roughly 9 months
@@wolfsha1500 i have been cubing about 8 and a half months and average 18 seconds pb 14 seconds. most people say that cfop and roux have a big gap but thst isn't that big tbh
Nice
Those 164 dislikes are from noncubers
Gordon Ramsay no...
Also, you have THE greatest name
one of my friends, Ameer, is 2nd in the world for a 0.51 2x2 single. another one of my friends, Jonathan, is 13th in the world for a 0.60 2x2 single
As both a teen and a speedcuber, this video made me very happy
I just started cubing yesterday and it takes me like 10 min. to solve a 3x3. How long should I expect it to be before I'm under a minute?
Scott G. If you get hooked like most people and start to practice and learn more algorithms then it will probably take around 5 days. Once I learned to solve a cube it was three days before I was sub 1. Granted I was cubing all day but it is not hard.
@@parkercarrus5425 Yeah I'm officially hooked haha. I haven't had a whole lot of time to just sit down and practice consistently, but for the past couple days, I've had a cube in my hand every chance I can get. Hopefully within a week I'll be sub 1.
Me personally it took me around a week because I had a lot of time on my hands. You might to be able to get sub 1 in maybe 2weeks if you grind.
Wow all the replies are saying a week or less...I got sub minute twice after like a month (although I used beginners method and didn’t really practice).
@@st9459 yeah bro it depends on person to person , some people have more free time than others so they practice more become faster earlier.
1:27 "I was shocked because that was a huge jump for a world record."
Yusheng Du has entered the chat.
Feliks Zemdegs and Max Park: *hold my rubiks cube*
I averaged 20secs in like 6 months, and than i quit for a year, because of that i forgot oll and pll, so i’m actually back to it but gotta learn some of it, but before i was using full pll but 2 look oll, imma go for all of the 70+ algs now
This documentary seems a few years behind the times? Speedcubing has been pretty popular for at least 5-10 years now. Or maybe I've just watched too many 3x3 reviews and world record attempts over the years.
Edit: And yes, the median age has gone down. I didn't even realize that was the actual point of this video when I first commented. I'm way too high.
6:00 I thought he started rapping
Lol yeah
Lol same
Most speed cubers are teens,Feliks Zemdegs,Mat Valk:am I joke to you?
IKR
one of the kids go to my school and he acts wayyy different than what how he acts on this vid. it’s scary. i never thought he was on this vid
these kids are so damn impressive wow
Thank you!
He’s probably voting for t Seires
And here I am learning how to solve a 3x3 and can't even tell the difference between R and R' when trying to do things fast
Once there cube pops during a competition......THEY'RE are going back to MINECRAFT
Jus Jay no
2019??
Did somebody saw hashtag cuber
MrFoot I DID
Why didn't Phil Yu get interviewed
killer pt he wasn’t there
My dream is to go to a competition but no-one round where I live cubes.
1:42 “counting 15!!!” Lol
I can solve a rubiks cube but it takes a average of 1 min and 30secs
Mabel Martinez At least you spelled it right!
Mabel Martinez you’re still a cuber
Is it okay if I solved it 35 secs??
3:53 I get this all the time
Non cubers come up to me and say "can you teach me the solution?" I tell them that we use methods and you have to watch on youtube but then they call me cheaters lol
I’m watching this so I can probably get this off my recommendations
There's no near comp in my place :(
Same
Same here in Indonesia
I never solved one Rubik's Cube growing up 😔
A Wolff I used to solve mine all the time -- real easy too; rotate the top row 45°, then rotate either outside column 90°, when the whole cube comes apart, reassemble it in the correct order. Works flawlessly!
CymrilTaran if a cube breaks by trying to cornercut 45° then it's a fucking horrendous cube
@@GeometryDashProgam3r for a speed cube thats bad but from a rubiks brand thats what i would expect.
Godly Mango nah I've had a Rubik's brand and a Rubik's 2.0 and they're insanely right with no way to tension them
@@GeometryDashProgam3r what do you mean by "insanely right?"
1:26 he had no idea what was coming for him lol
Hey but in this video the H perm you had said it's not exactly an H perm coz it swaps in + SIGN from the top layer for PLL
I brought a cube in January and I still can’t solve it 😭
obiwan8393 because you don’t try
obiwan8393 i got mine 3 years ago and i still cant solve it
obiwan8393 😀😀😀😀
Lol non cubers
@@MegaMinecraftNinja1 they are so annoying
Any cubers here? I'm a cuber and avg 22 seconds😉
Edit: 2y later.. I went from avg 22sec to 15sec on 3x3!
⬇ ⬇
Im a cuber too and my avg is 17 my main event is skewb
Nice
Kathrin Cubing thx
6:01 the kid has some flow lmao
1:38 Why the hell is this kid celebrating after getting a 15+ second solve 😂🔫
Justin Z. It’s mostly a new personal record