World record solve time3.13 s
1.4 billionthsHuman lifespans
1.7 thousandthsDog walks
1.3 hundredthsTV commercial breaks
Max Park, 2023
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Rubik's Cube (World Record Solve)
43 quintillion states, solved in 3.13 seconds/Events & Phenomena
The Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible states, but any scrambled position can be solved in 20 moves or fewer (known as 'God's Number'). The world record single solve as of 2024 is 3.13 seconds by Max Park. The cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian architect Erno Rubik, who took a month to solve his own creation the first time.
Measurements
Rubik's first solve2.6 million s
86,400TikToks
5.2 millionSneeze durations
About 1 month in 1974
Possible permutations (log)19.6 B
266 millionthsApollo computers
6.5 millionthsInstagram photos
7 hundredthsTweets
43 quintillion states, ~19.6 bytes to encode
Standard cube edge length5.7 hundredths m
7.5 hundredthsCello lengths
2.28Postage stamp widths
1 tenthsHead circumferences
57 mm
Standard cube mass8.5 hundredths kg
106 trillionthsGolden Gate Bridge masses
170Hummingbird eggs