Russia's Timofei Tarasenko has broken four world records in less than a week, at two competitions in China: three in Beijing, from 1 to 3 October 2026 (6x6 and 7x7), and one in Guangzhou, on 5 and 6 October (5x5 average).
He now holds the world record average in 5x5, 6x6, 7x7 and Megaminx, plus the 7x7 single. The WCA, the association that runs official competitions, now credits him with 12 world records.
Three records in Beijing
At Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026, the run started with the 6x6: in the first round he solved it in 1:02.64, 1:01.63 and 1:01.00, a mean of 1:01.76. His own record, set in August in Kuala Lumpur, was 1:03.63, almost two seconds slower.
The most striking result came in the 7x7 final: a 1:27.47 single, the first ever under a minute and a half. The previous record, 1:30.59, belonged to Max Park of the United States, who ruled the big cubes for years and now keeps just one world record: the 6x6 single (57.69). In that same final, Tarasenko lowered the 7x7 mean to 1:35.93, 0.87 seconds faster than the record he himself had set a few days earlier in Hanoi.
And the 5x5 average, days later
The fourth fell at Guangzhou Grand Open 2026. In the 5x5 semifinal he solved it in 35.42, 31.87, 37.15, 30.90 and 32.28 seconds. Dropping the best and the worst, as competitions do, gives an average of 33.19, half a second below the 33.73 that Poland's Tymon Kolasiński set in May. It is his first 5x5 world record.
In 6x6 and 7x7 each solve takes so long that the result is a mean of just 3 attempts, with none dropped; in 5x5, as in 3x3, it is an average of 5.
At the same Guangzhou competition, China's Xuanyi Geng lowered the 3x3 single record to 2.51 seconds. You can see every world record, with videos, on our Rubik's Cube records page. And if you'd like to start with the 3x3, learn with our step-by-step Rubik's Cube solution and time yourself with the timer, which works out averages just like in competitions.