Fastest Rubik’s Cube Solve Ever

kottke.org May 19, 2025 By Jason Kottke

A group of three students at Purdue University have shattered the world record for the fastest Rubik’s Cube solve by robot — their bot solved the cube in just 0.103 seconds (103 milliseconds). As a comparison, the former record was 305 milliseconds and “a human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds”. As one of the students said, “So, before you even realize it’s moving, we’ve solved it.”

The world record for a human solve is 3.13 seconds by Max Park in 2023 (not anymore, see comments. (via we’re here

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A group of three students at Purdue University have shattered the world record for the fastest Rubik’s Cube solve by robot — their bot solved the cube in just 0.103 seconds (103 milliseconds). As a comparison, the former record was 305 milliseconds and “a human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds”. As one of the students said, “So, before you even realize it’s moving, we’ve solved it.”

The world record for a human solve is 3.13 seconds by Max Park in 2023 (not anymore, see comments. (via we’re here

Tags: robots · Rubik’s Cube · video

💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org

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