Yu Nakajima
Yu Nakajima (中島 悠, born February 15, 1991 in Ebetsu, Hokkaidō) is a Japanese Rubik's Cube solver.
Yu held the former world record for average time solving a Rubik's Cube (11.28 seconds) and formerly held it for a single time solution (8.72 seconds) on the standard 3×3×3 cube solution.[1] He beat the previous world record holder Edouard Chambon, who had a single solve record of 9.18 seconds.[2] Both records were set on May 5, 2008, at the Kashiwa Open 2008. On May 23, 2008 Yu posted a video on YouTube where he completed the cube in 6.57 seconds.[3]He solved the Rubik's magic in 1.05 seconds.
Feliks Zemdegs
Feliks Zemdegs (born 20 December 1995 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian Rubik's Cube speedsolver. The surname is Latvian. He bought his first cube in April 2008 inspired by speedcubing videos and tutorials on Youtube. The first unofficial time he recorded was an average of 19.73 seconds on June 14, 2008. He currently uses the Fridrich method to solve the 3x3x3 cube and the CLL method to solve the 2x2x2 cube.
He won the first competition he attended, the New Zealand Championships (July 2009) with an average of 13.74 seconds in the final round. He also won 2x2, 4x4, 5x5, 3x3 Blindfolded, and 3x3 One-Handed
At his next competition, the Melbourne Summer Open (January 2010), he set his first world records for 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 average, with times of 9.21 seconds and 42.01 seconds respectively. Since then he has broken more records as listed in the table below.
Chris Dzoan
Chris Dzoan first learned to solve the Rubik’s cube in October of 2005. Although he is amongst the fastest in the world at solving the cube with two hands, he specializes in one-handed speed solving. In 2007 he broke the world record for having solved the Rubik’s cube with one hand. He has since broken the world record three more times.
Chris learned to solve the Rubik’s cube from his brother Dan who has also held the world record for the one-handed solve. His sister Brittany at one time was the fastest female speed-cuber in the world.
Chris is also an amateur/semi-professional magician. He performs his Rubik’s cube magic routine at various corporate events and private parties around the country. Chris has seamlessly integrated his skill with cubing along with magic. When he performs at the Magic Castle people are just as amazed and astounded with his skill solving the cube as they are with any magic they have seen. Chris makes solving the cube look like real magic.
Chris is currently living in southern California where he is finishing his last year at the University of California, Irvine.
Dan Dzoan
Dan Dzoan solves a Rubik’s Cube, it’s with the same nonchalance that you and I might use to drive a car. He holds the cube familiarly, fingers flying as he turns it with a soft crunching sound. First, a green side emerges, then a yellow side, and then, in a flash, he’s done. “I find it kind of fun,” he says, casually scrambling the cube.
But in January when he solved a 3x3x3 cube one-handed in 17.9 seconds, setting a then-world record in speedcubing, Dzoan did not hold back. He jumped in the air, leaping along the length of the stage and high-fiving friends and fellow competitors while the audience at the CalTech Winter Rubik’s Cube Tournament cheered.
Not bad for someone who learned to solve the puzzle less than two years ago.
