I initially saw a bunch of friends at high school do it and I just asked them 'how'd you learn how to do it?', and they said they looked up a YouTube tutorial. I first solved a Rubik’s Cube when I was around 14 years old. Now it's starting to become a bit more of a bigger thing again which is pretty awesome.Īt what age did you solve your first cube? What is the enduring global fascination with the Rubik’s Cube?įrom my understanding it kind of peaked around the 80s and sort of died in the 90s but it made a comeback in the 2000s and 2010s. That did get broken again by a guy in Canada called Jake Klassen who broke it with a time of 19.79 seconds. So the fastest average of three solves in a round of a competition. Have you held other Rubik’s Cube Guinness World Records titles?Īround three weeks after breaking my initial world record, I broke the world record for the fastest average time to solve a Rubik’s cube blindfolded, with a time of 20.03 seconds. The largest competition I've ever attended was the world championships in Paris back in 2017.
I regularly attempt competitions around Australia, sometimes internationally as well. Which Rubik’s cube events have you attended?
I also try and turn more accurately to prevent any mis-turns during the competition. I spend a lot of time training the mental aspect of things, stuff like meditation and simulating competitions, just to make sure I’m on my A-game at the actual competitions. You kind of have to do everything almost perfectly, because one wrong move and the cube might not be solved at the end. It's a bit more mentally draining than doing it with your eyes open. What are the particular difficulties to solving a cube with a blindfold on, and what are your solutions to these difficulties? We recently interviewed Jack on all things cubing, including his motivations, strategy and inspirations.