Six-year-old solves Rubik's Cube in record 4.27 seconds
A six-year-old Chinese girl has set a women's world record after solving the Rubik's Cube in just seconds.
Lian Yunzhi from south-west China's Sichuan province broke the world record twice in three days at two recent World Cube Association (WCA) certified competitions, according to state news agency CNS.
Lian's average speed was 4.52 seconds before she got it down to 4.27 seconds, making her the world's only female "cuber" to have an average time under 4.5 seconds, CNS said.
The state news agency reported Lian had mastered more than 1,300 Rubik's Cube solving algorithms, spending about two to three hours a day training over the past year.
Her parents took her to Shanghai to train with top professional coaches where her results improved dramatically, CNS said.
Teodor Zajder set the world record at the GLS Big Cubes Gdańsk event in February. (Reuters: Vincent West)
The world record for the fastest single solving of the 3x3x3 puzzle is just 2.76 seconds, set by nine-year-old Polish boy Teodor Zajder earlier this year.
His performance in Gdańsk, Poland, saw him break the previous record of 3.05 seconds.
The world of competitive Rubik's Cube solving, known as speedcubing, involves a range of different competitions including blindfolded and one-handed races, with cube faces of up to 7x7x7 squares.
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