3×3 single · world record · live
2.51
Xuanyi Geng (耿暄一) · Guangzhou Grand Open 2026 · 5 October 2026
This record has stood 19 days. The last ten records in the event lived an average of 362 days each, which makes this one young. The record has been broken 36 times since 1982, when Minh Thai set the first mark of 22.95. The longest reign belongs to Minh Thai: 7,749 days.
Every holder
37 record solves- 20262.51 Xuanyi Geng (耿暄一) — the current record · Guangzhou Grand Open 2026
- 20262.76 Teodor Zajder — held 240 days · GLS Big Cubes Gdańsk 2026
- 20253.05 Xuanyi Geng (耿暄一) — held 300 days · Shenyang Spring 2025
- 20253.08 Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — held 57 days · XMUM Cube Open 2025
- 20233.13 Max Park — held 615 days · Pride in Long Beach 2023
- 20183.47 Yusheng Du (杜宇生) — held 1,660 days · Wuhu Open 2018
- 20184.22 Feliks Zemdegs — held 202 days · Cube for Cambodia 2018
- 20174.59 SeungBeom Cho (조승범) — held 190 days · ChicaGhosts 2017
- 20174.69 Patrick Ponce — held 56 days · Rally In The Valley 2017
- 20164.73 Feliks Zemdegs — held 265 days · POPS Open 2016
- 20164.74 Mats Valk — held 36 days · Jawa Timur Open 2016
- 20154.90 Lucas Etter — held 350 days · River Hill Fall 2015
- 20155.25 Collin Burns — held 210 days · Doylestown Spring 2015
- 20135.55 Mats Valk — held 784 days · Zonhoven Open 2013
- 20115.66 Feliks Zemdegs — held 616 days · Melbourne Winter Open 2011
- 20116.18 Feliks Zemdegs — beaten again within the day · Melbourne Winter Open 2011
- 20116.24 Feliks Zemdegs — held 49 days · Kubaroo Open 2011
- 20116.65 Feliks Zemdegs — held 98 days · Melbourne Summer Open 2011
- 20106.77 Feliks Zemdegs — held 77 days · Melbourne Cube Day 2010
- 20107.03 Feliks Zemdegs — beaten again within the day · Melbourne Cube Day 2010
- 20087.08 Erik Akkersdijk — held 854 days · Czech Open 2008
- 20088.72 Yu Nakajima (中島悠) — held 68 days · Kashiwa Open 2008
- 20089.18 Edouard Chambon — held 72 days · Murcia Open 2008
- 20079.55 Ron van Bruchem — held 91 days · Dutch Championship 2007
- 20079.77 Erik Akkersdijk — held 42 days · Dutch Open 2007
- 20079.86 Thibaut Jacquinot — held 161 days · Spanish Open 2007
- 200710.36 Edouard Chambon — held 70 days · Belgian Open 2007
- 200610.48 Toby Mao (毛台立) — held 204 days · US Nationals 2006
- 200611.13 Leyan Lo — held 202 days · Caltech Winter competition 2006
- 200511.75 Jean Pons — held 90 days · Dutch Open 2005
- 200412.11 Shotaro Makisumi (牧角章太郎) — held 561 days · Caltech Spring competition 2004
- 200413.93 Shotaro Makisumi (牧角章太郎) — beaten again within the day · Caltech Spring competition 2004
- 200414.76 Shotaro Makisumi (牧角章太郎) — held 70 days · Caltech Winter competition 2004
- 200415.07 Shotaro Makisumi (牧角章太郎) — beaten again within the day · Caltech Winter competition 2004
- 200316.53 Jess Bonde — held 154 days · World Rubik's Games Championship 2003
- 200316.71 Dan Knights — beaten again within the day · World Rubik's Games Championship 2003
- 198222.95 Minh Thai — held 7,749 days · World Rubik's Cube Championship 1982
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