The history of the fastest 3x3 Rubik's Cube solve times

WARNING: Some of the times (approx. 2%) are shown as 0.01 seconds lower than they should be. I'll fix this bug if I ever make an update video in the future! I programmed the animated bar graph with Processing 1.5.1. The units for this bar graph are seconds, not minutes! I forgot to make that clear. Also, only solves done officially at WCA competitions were included. Data source: World Cube Association's website Music: "Kingdom of One" by Shogun Taira https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4co-nL0rVas I noticed that the creators of the big 4 methods all appear in the top 10 at some point (Jessica Fridrich, Lars Petrus, Zbigniew Zborowski, and Gilles Roux). Also, I didn't realize when I uploaded this, but ties are broken in an unusual way: whoever's WCA ID is later alphabetically gets placed first. Since IDs start with a year, that means that "late starters" theoretically have the advantage here. In future videos, I'll make it so that the later solve (regardless of ID creation) will be placed lower instead, since that seems more logical to me.

Comments

1. great video!!! An update would be great since the fastest has now been broken.
2. Hello, is it possible to do this with cubes like the 6x6 or the 7x7?
3. lol I would technically beat a world record if I were in the 80s lol
4. why is this so inspiring
5. Feliks: stuff u guys hahahahahahah
6. I once judged chris hardwick in americus open 2017 for 4x4. Back when i didnt know he was a member of the wca board.
   facepalm
7. lars petrus in 1982 xD
8. 0:56 the beat dropped in my birthday:v
9. This is fake. Zemdegs is the WR holder!!!!!!!!!!
10. lol feliks set a world record already again
11. which programs did you used to make this chart
12. felix appear in 2010 and kick their ass
13. Update
14. Oh my gosh, Minh Thai held the world record for 21 years?!?!
15. Felix is back with 4.61
16. so out of date :/
17. Keaton Ellis 5.09 80 minutes
18. go on and update
19. now time for an update for mats valks. he broke the world record less than 4.90 secs
20. And now Mats Valk is back on top again with 4.74