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THE GUINNESS BOOK — Confession: I have never solved a Rubik’s Cube.
I know solving the handheld puzzle is all about patterns — patterns you can now look up online, yet the solution has escaped me for decades.
Additionally, I’ve never been able to juggle. My hand-eye coordination is just fine for every day (slightly clumsy) use, but all my juggling attempts have been for naught.
Yes, I know these particular confessions are boring, but I bet they’re relatable to many. And they’re also the reason why I was particularly blown away by this featured video.
In this Guinness World Record showing, you’ll meet 13-year-old Que Jianyu from Fujian, China. He recently won a world record for the fastest solve of three Rubik’s Cubes while juggling them. (You can go back and read that sentence again. I’ll wait.
According to Guinness World Records, this teen tyke spent two years training to be the fastest, and his world record clocked in at 5 minutes 6.61 seconds.
Now, that record time doesn’t seem that fast compared to the 4.22 second-record for solving a single 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik’s Cube. But frankly, I am just impressed that anyone can juggle for over 5 minutes without dropping anything, never mind the Rubik’s Cubes. So basically, my mind was blown.
The record was filmed as part of a show called “iDream” in China. In true competition TV form, the music is dramatic, the cuts are dramatic, and the pacing is dramatic to really sell the intensity of the moment. Despite the cheese-factor of the manufactured drama, the video is worth the whole 4-minute watch.
THE GUINNESS BOOK — Confession: I have never solved a Rubik’s Cube.
I know solving the handheld puzzle is all about patterns — patterns you can now look up online, yet the solution has escaped me for decades.
Additionally, I’ve never been able to juggle. My hand-eye coordination is just fine for every day (slightly clumsy) use, but all my juggling attempts have been for naught.
Yes, I know these particular confessions are boring, but I bet they’re relatable to many. And they’re also the reason why I was particularly blown away by this featured video.
In this Guinness World Record showing, you’ll meet 13-year-old Que Jianyu from Fujian, China. He recently won a world record for the fastest solve of three Rubik’s Cubes while juggling them. (You can go back and read that sentence again. I’ll wait.
According to Guinness World Records, this teen tyke spent two years training to be the fastest, and his world record clocked in at 5 minutes 6.61 seconds.
Now, that record time doesn’t seem that fast compared to the 4.22 second-record for solving a single 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik’s Cube. But frankly, I am just impressed that anyone can juggle for over 5 minutes without dropping anything, never mind the Rubik’s Cubes. So basically, my mind was blown.
The record was filmed as part of a show called “iDream” in China. In true competition TV form, the music is dramatic, the cuts are dramatic, and the pacing is dramatic to really sell the intensity of the moment. Despite the cheese-factor of the manufactured drama, the video is worth the whole 4-minute watch.
