Six-year-old girl breaks Rubik’s Cube world record twice in two days

23 Sep 2026 • 7:36 PM MYT
The Independent
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Six-year-old girl breaks Rubik’s Cube world record twice in two days

  • Six-year-old Lian Yunzhi from Sichuan province in China has set a new women's 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube world record, breaking it twice within a three-day period.
  • She initially established the world record with an average solve time of 4.52 seconds before rapidly improving her record to 4.27 seconds.
  • Lian is now recognised as the only female speedcuber in the world to maintain an average solving time of under 4.5 seconds.
  • Her achievement follows intensive training over the past year, during which she spent two to three hours daily mastering more than 1,300 solving algorithms.
  • To help develop her extraordinary talent, her parents took her to Shanghai so she could train under professional coaches.

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