New Rubik's Cube World Record! 4.74 seconds (interview and breakdown)
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- New Rubik’s Cube World Record! 4.74 seconds.
I have a chat with Mats Valk about his record-breaking solve. Plus a break-down of how he actually did it.
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Scramble: B2 F2 D F2 L2 U R2 B2 F2 U2 L2 B' L2 R2 D' U2 L2 U' R' F R
Green cross: L' D R2
First pair: R U' R' U' L' U' L
Second pair: U2 R U R' U' d' R U R'
Third pair: y U2 R U' R' L U' L'
Four pair, sort of: y' U2 R' U2 R U2
Last layer: R' U R' F R F' U R
Bonus twist: U
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CORRECTIONS:
- People have pointed out (first person was Anurag Lamsal) it is not the fastest solve by a human, just the fastest official solve. There are videos of people solving cubes faster at home. Looking at you, Feliks.
- Let me know if you spot anything else!
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Mats must be thrilled to be interviewed by someone who actually understands a Rubik's cube.
but he doesn't really understand competitive cubing that much.
Jack Le but he actually wants to understand and isn't stupid. That's much better than most other interviewers ;)
I'm pretty sure Mats Valk understand a Rubik's cube a lot better than Matt.
Xiphos Gaming I'm pretty sure you completely missed the point.
What is there to understand? If you've done a competition, you probably understand competitive cubing.
Forced OLL skip and lucky PLL skip... What is this madness???
Quinson Hon vls magic™
rng man...
RNGesus strikes again!
If you never stop trying you will get there eventually ;)
That's how you do world records and why the usual winner of these competitions are best of 5 eliminating the best and worst time taking an average of remaining 3! :D
"... where this record was not set." Brilliant! You had me. Very interesting.
Yes!!! Cubing!!!
Ikr? The comments have no noncuber ppl
Hi! I love your videos man!
Code_Breaker _
Now it does
Lol Cubing in cubing, look more down there ↓
I like your channel!
Damn, that's impressive. I would have just put that pair in and dealt with the OLL & PLL.
normally People only mention this when it's bad, but that's a surprisingly good Audio Quality for a Skype interview. good Job!
+TheKincognito Thanks for mentioning when it's good! In the video you get the occasional glimpse of an earpiece I'm using. This means there is less feedback and I can also record the audio separately for better quality.
I know I’m late to the party but the method of skipping oll after making the last pair is called VLS which stands for Valk Last Slot. Mats was a major part of developing the algs and popularising it. It’s cool that he got to set a world record using a cube and a technique both named after him :D
Man that was fast, I had to watch it twice!... not because of how fast it was, but because soon as he put it down my computer crashed...
So fast that your PC crashed ;)
Taylor Clough just as your PC ran out!!
I wonder if Mats will actually take the time to watch this video, or is he busy solving 182.48945 rubik's cubes instead?
Edward Sim In sub-4.9 second times each, all in a row, with all different scrambles.
Amounts of whole things can only be whole numbers. That would mean he's solving only 182 Rubik's cubes. (I don't believe that he would break them into pieces to get that 0.48945)
he could get 48.945% of the way through the last solve
Atomacheart Ah, right. I was thinking that he is going to completely solve 182.48945 full cubes, meaning that he would have to break that one cube to solve it completely.
If anyone is even slightly interested in learning how to solve a Rubik's cube, I would definitely recommend it. It isn't as hard as you think (at least, if you follow a tutorial), and it is a lot of fun.
I think learning it trough a tutorial is really boring.
But learning it with commutators first and then following a tutorial and seeing how much your time improves is really fun. (you also sqeeze about 1.2-3 times as much time out of your cubes (depending on how fast you want to become) )
Caeden Austin Do you use special algorithms to only move a few pieces?
Caeden Austin bro Old pochman is used for blind solving
Caeden Austin Oops .....😅
Oh hi
This was not the fastest time ever. It was the fastest official time.
Pics or didn't happen.
Buttercak3 search 'feliks zemdegs 3.85' on TH-cam
The video you are talking about is theoretical (certainly possible) but unless the youtuber went into the competition, the person cannot claim the record. Frankly, the most important aspect on the official competitions that is not present in those videos is the pressure.
considering that every rubik´s cube can be solved in a maximum of 20 moves (if you could even know exaclty what those especfici 20 moves are) i think the limit of time a human could do it would be about 2,5-3 seconds actually, a rought estimate, but probably there´s not much more improvement after the 3.85 record (sorry if my english is bad)
I have the world record for the fastest "unofficial" time at 0seconds. I got very lucky with this scramble, D L2 B2 L2 R2 F2 R2 U2 R2 D' U' R' B F L2 F' B' R' U'
"Alright, Tschüss!" - I didn't even notice he wasn't a native speaker up until that point. (He is from the Netherlands)
Kram1032 Didn't he say 'Cheers'?
pretty sure it was Tschüss.
Kram1032 it was cheers, tschüss is german, not dutch
it is used in both countries....
Rewatching it it could really be either.
I started 1 cube when I was about 5 or 6 years old, and I have never touched another one in the last 20 something years... am I in the lead for the slowest Rubik solving yet?
Pretty sure the very first cube made was touched by someone who is now dead and current world record holder of longest solve. And if going by people alive... Unless you were there to touch the first ever made cube, you are still out of the running as i am sure there's at least one person in the first 100 or so to touch one in the 70's that hasn't yet solved it.
Cadde you must be fun at parties
RobinHood East Wanna find out?
villanelo1987 What about people like Shakespeare, Napoleon and Tutankhamun who didn't survive long enough to even see a Rubik's cube?
They don't count as have never started one.
Matt himself didn't beat the world record? What a Parker cube.
Matt Parker....
@@user-hy3lu3bj2e Matt Parker
For anyone who doesn't know what OLL and PLL stands for, OLL stands for Orienting the last layer. It is a stage of completing the last layer. You force all the last layer colors upwards and leaving the sides alone. There are 2 different ways of doing this. 1-look OLL uses only 1 algorithm to complete the process, but is very hard to master as there are 54 different possibilities, which means 54 different algorithms. Another way is 2 look OLL which you would use 2 algorithms to complete it. There are only 8 different algorithms including the first algorithm which is always the same. Next is PLL which is the next stage of OLL where you solve the sides of the last layer. PLL stands for permuting the last layer. There are 21 algorithms for 1-look PLL. I'm not very familiar with 2-look PLL because I never learned it, but I suppose it's a simpler version of 1-look. OLL and PLL are 2 parts of a specific method called the Fridrich's method, created by Jessica Fridrich. The process is called CFOP. C standing for Cross, F standing for First 2 Layers, also known as F2l. And finally O and P stand for OLL and PLL. Hope this was useful.
Ummm... Yeah OK so that was random. (It is 57 algorithms for 1-look OLL and 7 algorithms for 2-look, not including the two Algorithms you must do beforehand)
Good info for non cubers
Magma Crystal it's 10 algorithms for 2 look.
Andrew Li there are 57 algorithms in oll stop giving false info
Andrew Li 2 look oll has total of 10 algorithms.
3 for makong yellow cross
7 for orienting yellow cross
Again, stop giving false info
Thanks for that video. I think I was the perfect target audience for it, someone who understands the cube well enough to know how speed dubbing works and follow what you did, but not someone who actually put in the time to learn the speed cubing algorithms, since I vastly prefer creating my own methods. In my method, I focused on making it really really easy instead of fast and I can now teach pretty much anyone even those for whom the beginner's method is easy too hard.
you did pretty well for someone who isn't particularly familiar with rubik's cubes, but speedcubers watching this are cringing
+Ben Nutley It's a balancing act.
I can just solve in a long 2 minutes and this was very fun to see how speedcubers actually solve the cube with like matts said not overly complicated algorithms.
+Ben Nutley i didnt even know this was a speedcubers channel
Speedcuber here. I'm not cringing. What are you on about?
***** i was hoping the sarcasm was obvious. poe's law strikes again
I have touched one rubik's cube in my life.
I was given it, tried it, made fun of for not knowing the solution, watched my much older brother try and fail miserably, had my father try and fail miserably, and then a few weeks later, since I didn't even have the strength to turn the old, crummy mechanism... I tried taking off a sticker which resulted in two of the pieces falling out.
thank you Matt for all of these incredibly interesting videos!
“Last layer” = VLS (Valk Last Slot, where you insert the last F2L Pair while forcing an OLL skip) and “Bonus twist” is AUF (Adjust U Face)
congratulations Mats! Awesome job!
Looks like these competitions need to be recorded with a high-fps camera...
It's just his personal camera recording it.
Yeah, but Matt certainly would've wished to be able to extract the solution just from watching the video frame by frame.
I know all of that, you seemed to presume a lot from a short comment :p
Records don't even need videos anyway.
HI THERE it really makes no difference at all to the legitimacy, there are tons of eyewitnesses anyway and what the wca says goes.
I assume everyone responding to this is just incredibly stupid.
Clearly, what the man is saying is that for all Rubik's competitions, it would be handy to have a high for camera so that other people who also solve Rubik's cube can watch and learn techniques right off the videotape.
It was so incredibly obvious what he meant that no reasonable human being could have missed it and yet, here we have it.
Wow I love dis channel, keep up the good work man!
Awesome interview. Thanks!
It's ~100ms per move. That's faster than what's humanly possible on most musical instruments.
more like 125ms/move. 100ms/move is 10TPS while this solve was 8(S)TPS - 125ms/move
ozdergecko on a professional level more than 10 notes per second is definitely possible on many instruments. That'd be sixteenth notes at a speed of 150 bpm for example.
Not Broihon -- yes it is. It isn't on others :-)
I could do up to 10/s on a classical guitar (not counting flamenco arpeggios [Rasgueado technique] which can be easily done much faster).
But I wasn't nearly as good that I could have finished a music-university study in my home town Vienna.
I stopped playing 25 years ago bc of stage fear and didn't start again, bc. its so frustrating. Head still knows, fingers don't.
Check out David Garret's "Flight of the Bumblebee" World Record where he averages 13 notes per second. If you are going to compare a world record holder to others, you should compare to other world record holders. Still... Impressively fast, though.
You're right.
Very mesmerizing is this fellow Austrian:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Grubinger
(more on the German WP page, but there are probably examples on youtube too).
and broken again by 0.01 seconds get rekt
Wow some of my favourite things, competitive speedcubing and Matt Parker! Very good job on the research for this one.
"Pick up a cube if you want to follow along"
Just on my desk, 5 inches from my hand.
do you need an AoLong?
Code_Breaker _
You noob lol, it doesn't matter....
YOU NOOB , it was a joke lol
ikr? deez ppl sometimes.
Lol. Mine was already in my hand. Lol 😂
In case anyone in the comments was wondering, the previous fastest time was 4.90
I know that was by Lucas etter
how to define if a rubik's cube is random enough to start with
oldcowbb computer generated scrambles
What if it's solved right away? Is that a time of zero?
that would be awesome, haha. but, no
It's like a lottery xD
oldcowbb Every single one of the 43 quintillion is at most 20 moves away from being solved
Hey Matt , great video~
Fantastic record well-explained
The first time I solve the cube. When I solved the first two layers the last one was already done. So lucky.....
1 of every 15k times that will happen
whoa
Hoo Dini Nice name
John Yang its called a last layer skip and that's really rare so you better had cherished the moment
Roman Chapkis yep
I'm a little surprised that the scramble is sub optimal. It can be done in a maximum of 20 moves, but this one is 21.
Here's a 18 move scramble for the same cube, it can't get any shorter:
R' B L2 B2 L2 F2 D L' F' L' B' D2 L2 D2 F2 R D' U
Generating optimal scrambles is slower.
TheRandomno and pointless...
TheRandomno Okay, optimal ones are a lot slower, but a 20 move scramble can be generated nearly instantly with a good program. With this scramble even a 19 move is practically instant. But even if it's a couple seconds, these scrambles are generated
Ster Cola Would a 50 move scramble be acceptable to you? Of course not. You and I just draw the line is slightly different places. I think that if the computational time to save a move is less than the time to make the move, it should be done.
Ster Cola There is a small reason to want shorter scrambles. I've heard that sometimes, if the scrambler makes a mistake and doesn't notice it in time, they may not accept the solve. If the scramble length is shorter, there's a slightly smaller chance for the scrambler to mess up.
Landon Kryger yes, but if you have to generate scrambles for a competition, it takes a significant amount of time to generate several optimal scrambles over several sub-optimal scrambles. The extra move doesn't come close to making a significant difference in errors for scramblers.
Awesome Video. Wish I could have met you when you where in New England. We could have had an interesting conversation about the mathmatics of pool (pocket billiards). Keep up the good work.
Great video!
Non-cubers are mind blown by this video, while cubers are cringing.
Kappa
Why? I am a cuber and a maths fan, my mind is not blow, yet I am not cringing.
Are.... we having a sequel with new of Feliks' 4.737 solve?
Nice video, are you planning on attending any more UK competitions?
YES MATT, and congratulations Mats Valk
Most reconstructions: "AUF: U"
This reconstruction: "Bonus twist: U"
IM DYING LOL
Interviews Valk, uses GAN...
Cool video! :)
he seems like the nice sort of person you would want to beat a record.
congratulations
0:12 A moment of silence for the person who farted in the middle of that world record.
Probably just a chair being slid.
Parker Square
Valk Cube
At 0:22 all speedcubers screamed. That's the fastest official solve by a human, not the fastest solve outside of a competition
yes, but its also important to understand that as with ANY world record, it has to be made official in some way for it to actually be recorded as the best. The solves that are made official are also ones that are THAT much more deserving as well.
+Standup Maths you should do another video like this for the new world record of 4.73, and interview feliks zemdegs.
a rubik's world record by someone other than Felix? huh
GroovingPict the past 5 3x3 individuals or so haven't been felix
GroovingPict I was like "IS IT FELIX!?!?"
juz to let yall know, his name is 'Feliks' not Felix
Well Feliks also has World records for almost all the cubes from 4x4x4 to 7x7x7. All in all he's by far the best.
+Tim Fischer Nah Jay bae is better. wcadb.net/kinchranks.php
Tangentially related, is there an algorithm that if continually repeated will pass through a solve regardless of the initial scramble?
LapidopteraLady if the initial scramble is "already solved", yes.
Yes, random moves
LapidopteraLady I believe people had tried to find that algorithm (I think they called it Devil's Algorithm). They later proved that such algorithm does not exist.
There is one that passes through every position once, called the Devil's Algorithm, and it's 4.3 * 10^19 moves long. I don't know if there is one shorter than that that will do the same thing if it is repeated, but it wouldn't be any easier for a human to learn since (length of sequence) * (number of repeats) has to be at least 4.3 * 10^19, and the number of repeats is never more than 2520.
LapidopteraLady
tl;dr
no.
You are just about the best person ever.
Valk's cube and Parker square, the perfect duo.
This world record was broken today by Feliks Zemdegs with time of 4.737. By just 0.001
anirudh prakash 0.007*
"We have nothing but Vats cubes"
*solves on a Gans*
honestly my favorite part of the video
F stands for front btw :P and mats inserted the last f2l pair using a method he made VLS (valks last slot) to force OLL skips, he got lucky with also getting a PLL skip. so he basically got a forced LL skip which is awesome
I was at the UKC! I'd be interested to see your video on it :D
This was beaten by a lad named Feliks Zemdegs. He got 4.73 seconds, only 0.01 seconds faster than Mats who got 4.74. Either way, I'm a fan of both people.
Which is now 4.22 by Feliks.
The thumbnail has a Gans, but didn't Mats solve the Valk 3?
The bottom left is Matt's cube, the bottom right is Mats' cube.
Walrus Hero
Why does it matter!??!?
Gefeliciteerd Mats Valk!
Me: Does half a turn.
Mats: Completes the cube.
Noooo!! Feelllllliiiixxxxxx😭😭
Sasha Bautista he didnt even have the record
He does have the best average of 5 still. If I remember correctly.
+Sasha Bautista He has got every other record.
Plus, the record he broke wasn't Felix's. It was by Lucas Etter: 4.90 seconds.
Tofofoso
Plus, it's Feliks
"fastest ever a human has solved a rubiks cube" this was official. Feliks zemdegs once got 3.something unofficially
Feliks has a 3.52 official PB
also if you're counting prepared solves, people can sub 2 them (technically speaking, that is solving a rubiks cube from a scrambled state)
+EpiCuber7 unofficial*
Code_Breaker _ lol
It's his official unofficial PB
cool video!
I know this isn't to do with a rubix cube but I enjoyed your pi videos so much that I was wondering if you could do a video on calculating pi using the Buffon's needle problem?? Would be really cool
What defines a rubix cube solving world record, some rubix configurations are easier than others
Since it has to be at an official competition, you're pretty tightly constrained in how easy it can be.
MineKynoMine rubik's, not rubix
He11H0und of Doom
toemaytoe tomato
carrionpigeons
then doesn't that limit the amount of configurations?
MineKynoMine I think that 2x2x2 record is like 4 moves, and beforebthat there were records as low as 3 moves, perhaps even 2. You might break it if you get a lucky 1 move solution...:-D
3.82 by felix
Miraj Ali And 3.52 by Feliks (not on cam)
i love how mats pronounces qiyi mofange
And now you can make a new video and interview Feliks Zemdegs, because he got the world record last weekend! Feliks' solve is very impressive, because he didn't skip parts of the solve like Mats did. Also, he coincidentally sat right next to Mats Valk while getting the world record.
That is in fact not the fastest anyone has solved a Rubik's Cube. A handful of people have gotten faster times at home. Mats Valk's world record was set at an official competition, which is the only place you can get official times.
Might want to check the comments first.
Matt11111 -- A record is not a record if it can't be verified, i.e., held in a public place with official timers. Anybody can claim they did so and so at home.
Najeeb Sheikh there's a video of feliks getting a 3.90 on camera.
There might be, but official records require official time keepers at a sanctioned event.
seppomania got 3.something
8:24 SEE YOU SOON???
Amazing!!
Holy moly, I'm an amateur cuber (I have only 1 medium quiality cube and I get about 35-45s) and that last part was completely shocking. I can't imagine how many hours of both practice and studying it can take to be able to do that naturally
Wow, it's already broken. 4.73
Surprised it was in Indonesia
So was I
He's studying in Singapore, so I wasn't particularly surprised that he attended an event in Indonesia; they're neighbouring countries.
NUS or NTU?
Gusti Scarlett same
4 minutes ago? Wow, first time I checked TH-cam today. And damn those are some impressive moves.
Well that was quick (pun intended). Feliks got it yesterday.
there is a faster record of 3.85, but since it wasn't done in an official event, so it didn''t count.
DiscoDerp Ikr
"There was a faster time of 3.85, but it wasn't done in an official competition, so it didn't count"
fixed your grammar for ya
Fastest official solve, not fastest solve ever
Jordan Nexhip its true hut who cares
But
Jordan Nexhip
Official solves are the only ones that matter.
Gonna have to do a new one of these. Feliks Zemdegs just broke the record in competition with a 4.73 and no last layer skips!
Are you doing to an updated interview for Feliks? Feliks Zemdegs just set a new record of 4.73. The funny thing was that Mats was sitting right next to him when he did it.
that's only the official WR, the unofficial WR is likely a low 3 seconds.
Jazz Walker its in the high 3
Faz PB was 3.78 2 years ago, pretty sure it's low 3.
loiloiloi6 what's faz?
faz is a nickname for Feliks Zemdegs, who has the UWR of 3.52 seconds.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1etN_cYzamRragAUqp06ybWQmBOP91s3WeZNn0spiVT4/edit#gid=0
Mats' Facebook page link is correct in the description, but wrong in the video at 13:38. Maybe put an annotation on it?
Huh. Interesting. I'm a subscriber, but I missed this one, and it just showed up as a recommended video to another of your videos you just uploaded today as I'm posting this.
I'm a little bit into the cubing world, I'm sort of an amateur cuber myself (my average is around 2 minutes with a standard crappy Rubik's Brand cube), and I'm subscribed to at least a few people who only do cubing videos, so I was shocked to just learn today that the record was broken way back on... November 11th... 2016...
Oh... right. I can understand how this story got buried.
When is that video at the end going to be available? It's like, a whole new year now and it's still not clickable.
At 1:43 you said "im gonna have a breakdown" i thought at first you were gonna cry or something lol
Just to clarify, the final pair wasn't inserted because he could use an algorithm from a algorithm set called "Valk Last Slot", which he formulated :P so it was Mats Valk solving a Valk 3, using Valk Last Slot. :)
For the record: 4.74 isn't the fastest anyone has ever solved, but this is the _official_ record (Zemdegs has solved a cube in 3.85 four months ago (you can find it on TH-cam), but it wasn't recognized since it didn't happen at any kind of cubing event).
Bit late to the party, but it would have been good to include the cube rotations x' y' at the beginning of the solution (i.e. starting from the scrambling position with green front and red right, you do x' to put the green down and y' to put the orange in front). Nothing major but it does make it easier to follow ;-)
This reminds me to look up my cube again and finish learning how to completely solve it. I am wondering about something though, lowercase d means you twist the bottom two layers right? Isn't that the same as just twisting the top face in the opposite direction? If so then what is the benefit of doing the bottom two layers instead?
yes it's the same, but it also accomplishes a change in which face is facing you (your perspective on and hand position on the cube). you could just simply twist the top face, but if you are also going to be moving the cube in your hands after it anyways, its a nice shortcut (in writing notation AND to get to a new set of moves faster). also, a trick that helped me learn algorithms easier and faster when i first learned was to try to forget about how its written and instead think of only the movements i had to do. from there, i could think of the movements almost musically, because of how they felt in motion with their rhythm.
Feliks Zemdegs broke the world record now! He solved it in 4.73 seconds! He beat Mats by 0.01 seconds
How Standupmaths revealed winter variation before we even figured it out
I went to high-school with that guy! I had no Idea he got this far!
SPEEDCUBING IS THE KING OF THE INTERNETZ!!!
it's been broken again , now 4.73 it's the new record
I got one of those cubes as a child and I still have it. Unsolved.
Feliks Zemdegs: "Nice world record you got there, it would be a shame it I beat it by 0.01 seconds"
When can we expect the full feature of UK Champs? :)
Hey! I average around 30 seconds.. I have a fun fact.. The method he used for the last slot is called VLS (Valk Last Slot) and he made it himself! And he didnt permute the pieces he just got lucky on having a pll skip!
Matt Is it possible to make a non-resolvable Rubik's cube? Thanks!!
Damn, I have a cube that's been unsolved for almost 2 years. Props to anyone that can actually solve one of those things.