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    "parsed_content": "AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENT6-Year-Old Girl in China Sets a Rubik\u2019s Cube RecordLian Yunzhi of China solved a Rubik\u2019s Cube five times in an average of 4.27 seconds, setting a women\u2019s world record.Listen \u00b7 2:43 min Share full article\n \n \n \n \n By Victor MatherSept. 23, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Lian Yunzhi grabbed an ordinary Rubik\u2019s Cube and solved it in under five seconds. Then she did it four more times.Her average time was a new women\u2019s world record.Lian Yunzhi is 6 years old.In video of a Rubik\u2019s Cube competition in Wuhan, China, held on Sept. 13, Yunzhi, wearing a headband with a red bow, picks up the 3x3x3 cube, spins it with blinding speed, then drops it onto a table, fully solved.After some attempts, she looks up implacably. But when she pops a particularly good time \u2014 under 4 seconds in one case \u2014 she breaks into a smile and claps her hands.Yunzhi\u2019s average time for five solves, dropping the fastest and slowest, was 4.52 seconds, according to the World Cube Association, which governs competitions and tracks record times for mechanical puzzles like Rubik\u2019s Cubes. Three days later in Guangzhou, she lowered the record to 4.27 seconds.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe men\u2019s record is 3.51 seconds, and is held by Yiheng Wang, who is 12.Speed cubers, as competitive Rubik\u2019s Cube solvers are known, study patterns and learn move combinations that will help them solve more quickly. But at the elite level, the key is \u201cDon\u2019t think, just solve,\u201d Max Park, an American speed cuber, told The New York Times.Cube records were once largely held by teenagers and people in their early 20s. In recent years, however, preteens have started taking over the top spots.Many are from China, which has schools that teach speedy Rubik\u2019s Cube solving.Cube enthusiasts also explain the plummeting age of champions by pointing to kids\u2019 enthusiasm for the puzzle, their ability to learn quickly and that they simply have more time to practice. Yunzhi practices two to three hours a day, her mother told Red Star News of Chengdu, China, via Agence France-Presse.There are records for other, more challenging cubes as well. The women\u2019s record for the more complex 4x4x4 cube is 23 seconds and change. Too easy? Then learn to solve a 7x7x7 and try to break the record of 1:49.Oh, and the Rubik\u2019s Cube has also been solved in under 20 seconds blindfolded.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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