This record has stood 344 days. The last ten records in the event lived an average of 83 days each, which makes this one venerable. The record has been broken 32 times since 2003, when Jaap Scherphuis set the first mark of 38.97. The longest reign belongs to Sam Zhixiao Wang (王志骁): 1,156 days.
Editor's note: The WCA has announced that Clock will be retired as an official event after the 2027 World Championship in Uppsala, so its last records will stand forever. WCA announcement, June 2026.
Every holder
33 record solves- 20251.53 Lachlan Gibson — the current record · Hasty Hastings 2025
- 20251.64 Volodymyr Kapustianskyi — held 140 days · Moorhead Madness 2025
- 20251.86 Lachlan Gibson — held 113 days · A New Year in Auckland 2025
- 20241.97 Brendyn Dunagan — held 139 days · La La Land 2024
- 20242.15 Volodymyr Kapustianskyi — held 21 days · Cubing in Oak Creek 2024
- 20242.25 Niklas Aasen Eliasson — held 57 days · Vännäs & Friends 2024
- 20242.29 Niklas Aasen Eliasson — held 6 days · West Coast 3: Trollhättan 2024
- 20242.31 Eryk Kasperek — held 22 days · No Triangle in Rzeszów 2024
- 20242.40 Eryk Kasperek — held 27 days · Cube4fun Lublin on WEII 2024
- 20242.54 Neil Gour — held 105 days · Side Events Bangalore Jan 2024
- 20232.61 Tommy Cherry — held 203 days · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023
- 20232.77 Cham J. Chambers — held 84 days · Wiltshire Spring 2023
- 20212.87 Yunhao Lou (娄云皓) — held 693 days · Guangdong Open 2021
- 20213.22 Yunhao Lou (娄云皓) — beaten again within the day · Guangdong Open 2021
- 20193.29 Suen Ming Chi (孫銘志) — held 770 days · GDSY Open 2019
- 20183.40 Yunhao Lou (娄云皓) — held 245 days · Shenzhen Open 2018
- 20153.73 Nathaniel Berg — held 1,127 days · Danish Open Championships 2015
- 20154.80 Evan Liu — held 77 days · Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2015
- 20155.25 Nathaniel Berg — held 41 days · Generalforsamlingen 2015
- 20115.27 Sam Zhixiao Wang (王志骁) — held 1,156 days · Shanghai Snowball Winter 2011
- 20115.65 Sam Zhixiao Wang (王志骁) — beaten again within the day · Shanghai Snowball Winter 2011
- 20115.83 Javier Tirado Ortiz — held 71 days · World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011
- 20115.88 Sam Zhixiao Wang (王志骁) — held 76 days · Guildford Summer Open 2011
- 20106.25 David Woner — held 358 days · United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010
- 20106.36 Yu Sajima (佐島優) — held 61 days · Kawasaki Open 2010
- 20106.90 Taki Sugimoto (杉本太暉) — held 71 days · Japan Open 2010
- 20096.93 Olivér Perge — held 126 days · Bristol Open 2009
- 20097.08 David Woner — held 203 days · Carnegie Mellon Spring 2009
- 20077.69 Mátyás Kuti — held 658 days · Czech Open 2007
- 20058.39 Stefan Pochmann — held 616 days · Rubik's World Championship 2005
- 20049.05 Stefan Pochmann — held 391 days · Dutch Open 2004
- 20049.54 Stefan Pochmann — held 169 days · German Open 2004
- 200338.97 Jaap Scherphuis — held 245 days · World Rubik's Games Championship 2003
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