The numbers

The 4×4, in numbers

Everything countable about the 4×4: the mathematics of the puzzle with its sources, and the live state of the sport, rebuilt nightly.

A 4×4 has exactly 7,401,196,841,564,901,869,874,093,974,498,574,336,000,000,000 positions (7.4 × 10⁴⁵). Jaap's Puzzle Page
God's Number, the worst-case length of a perfect solution, is unknown for the 4×4 and every larger cube: nobody has the computing power to check. The mathematics gets harder much faster than the cubes do.
The world record single is 15.18 by Tymon Kolasiński, standing 274 days.
The world record average is 18.56 by Tymon Kolasiński, standing 232 days.
2,604,100 completed solves are on the official record in 4×4, from 12,145 competitions in 152 countries.
83,917 people hold an official ranking. The median personal best among all of them is 1:13.23.
42 people have ever gone under 20.00 seconds.
The world record has moved 51 times since records began in 2003.
152 countries hold a national record, and the spread is wide: the fastest is 15.18, the most beatable 3:21.43.
Results begin in 2003; every figure on this page recomputes nightly from the official export.