The numbers
The Clock, in numbers
Everything countable about the Clock: the mathematics of the puzzle with its sources, and the live state of the sport, rebuilt nightly.
- A Clock has 1,283,918,464,548,864 face configurations (12¹⁴), and God's Number, the most moves a perfect solution ever requires, is 12. Wikipedia: Rubik's Clock
- Clock retires after the 2027 World Championship; every record then stands forever. WCA announcement, June 2026
- The world record single is 1.53 by Lachlan Gibson, standing 344 days.
- The world record average is 2.14 by Lachlan Gibson, standing 58 days.
- 1,007,844 completed solves are on the official record in Clock, from 7,129 competitions in 132 countries.
- 32,048 people hold an official ranking. The median personal best among all of them is 15.52.
- 17 people have ever gone under 2.00 seconds.
- The world record has moved 34 times since records began in 2003.
- 132 countries hold a national record, and the spread is wide: the fastest is 1.53, the most beatable 45.61.
- Results begin in 2003; every figure on this page recomputes nightly from the official export.
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