The competition took place in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Participants were given a total of five attempts to solve the puzzle. And nine-year-old Yiheng Wang managed to astonish everyone: during his semifinal performance the boy posted times ranging from 3.9 to 6.16 seconds.
The rules of the World Cube Association require that the final result be calculated without counting the best and worst times. The average was therefore taken – and so Yiheng's cube-solving time came to 4.69 seconds.
The result set by the prodigy has officially been entered into the Guinness Book of Records. The previous record time was 4.86 seconds and belonged to American Max Park and Pole Tymon Kolasinski. In addition, Yiheng's fastest solve became the fifth-fastest single solution of the puzzle in history.
