Japan Wins Rubik's Cube World Crown

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]Kyodo via Japan Today: Japanese man wins Rubik's Cube world championship
Japan's Yu Nakajima [he's 16] won the Rubik's Cube World Championships on Sunday in Budapest, the birthplace of the cult puzzle. Nakajima averaged 12.46 seconds in arranging the six different colors of the six-sided classic 3x3 cube, which has nine panels on each side to arrange. He beat Andrew Kang of the United States and Mitsuki Gunji, a fellow Japanese national. But Frenchman Thibaut Jacquinot still holds the world record of 9.86 seconds in the classic 3x3 event, which he set last May...more...

In case you are interested, the winner wass decided by taking the average time over five attempts.

[L S]

A Japanese teenager has won the Rubik's Cube World Championships in Hungary's capital, Budapest, taking less than 13 seconds to finish the cult '80s puzzle.



Yu Nakajima, 16, took home 5,000 euros (£3,400, $7,000) after winning the main event of the three-day tournament.....Nakajima solved the classic 3x3 version of the six-coloured cube - which has nine squares on each side - with an average time of 12.46 seconds in five attempts.

US contender Andrew Kang took second prize and Nakajima's countryman, Mitsuki Gunji, came third.
None were able to beat the world record of 9.86 seconds set by French cube enthusiast Thibaut Jacquinot in May. <more>