Speedsolvers , your young time to stick is 4.74 seconds .
Rubik ’s block record book are like Mario speedruns . We know they ’re going to happen , but because clutching the deed involves paring off fractions of a 2d they ’re still so impressive .
But the novel record - bearer , Mats Valk , had a secret artillery .
Many speedsolvers attempt record with custom cubes . The monetary standard , stock - bought Rubik ’s is just too slow and clumsy to be private-enterprise . Valk went one step further and used his own — the Valk 3M.
TheValk 3is a stock spring - based cube custom built to Valk ’s specifications , while theValk Mis riff on the same square block but with four dozen tiny magnets embedded in it for placid feedback . There ’s no information on any Valk 3 M that we can find — and the video ’s verbal description links to the Valk M. More than likely it could be a typographical error , though the 3 M could also be some prototype only uncommitted to Valk himself . We ’ve emailed him for clarification on the subject .
In any type , this extra square block — and year of practice session — gave the young Valk the 0.26 2nd border he needed to beat outprevious champion Lucas Etter . Can you play along a individual move he ’s build ? I sure ca n’t .
Update 11/7/16 10:35am EST : Valk also localise a record for dissipated time anyone has ever responded to an electronic mail enquiry . He clarified that the 3 M and the M are indeed the very same block .
The secret component was magnets all along .
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