TetraCubing
Max Park 4.86 3x3 Tied World Record Average!
updated
(copied and pasted with minor changes from the video of my 2.82 WR single: youtu.be/Z5gzL2nlUyk?si=HNbpx-4hjcJaEaL8)
this was an unofficial event at an official competition (it was called 2x2x2 Squared which is the same as 2x2 except you have to use a 4x4 as the cube) and was not during an actual 2x2 round. i believe doing this in an actual 2x2 round would be illegal so please do not attempt to break this record in an official 2x2 round. i am “The WORLD RECORD Holder” for both single (2.82) and average (4.22) in this event as i have XWR on cubingcontests which is their equivalent of WR. ofc this is a silly event so the XWRs dont mean anything but i just wanted to make this video for fun :3
the POV angle was achieved by wearing a funny hat from some elementary school costume thing i randomly found in my closet and placing my phone in the hat vertically, very silly and also very uncomfortable as i could feel the phone pushing against my forehead lol
fun fact: this event was only held at one competition (the comp i got the XWRs at, over 2 years ago) until 2 weeks ago where a comp in portugal held it
lol
scrams at 1:17
super duper san diego 2024 pyraminx round 1 group c
3 moves to hedge
170th video, my 167th video was a 6.767+ pyra solve and my 169th video mentioned a 69.69 mega former pr single in the description 🤯
the 41st night of six sevenber (im sorry) (no im not)
got 69.69 PR single in the round before this i am very mature
didnt even realize the 41 at first lmao
missed podium by 0.34 yippee :3
the solve before this was a 6.07 2x2 single with the same judge
i should upload my 6.07 skewb average from worlds (2 solves were on stream) someday
my first mega video lol
song: youtu.be/wG7CqKQep9A?si=YoA5NggvfF6q-tId
promised yap about solve 3: ye i didnt start the timer massive skill issue, i noticed the timer wasnt running during the solve which was likely why i messed up AUF. really annoying as the last time i havent started the timer officially was 20 comps ago but oh well
i framecounted another official solve with the same CLL+AUF from the 3rd solve of this video: youtube.com/shorts/bUOF9MuRDtk (funnily enough also solve 3 of an average that would have been 2.21 if not for a +2), replaced it with my CLL+AUF from this solve and got a time of 1.45 which would have been my best solve, giving me a 1.87 average (winning the entire comp by 0.02, as 2x2 was the main event).
ofc this is just cope and im still pretty happy to finally break my former 2.27 PR average after 20 months. my global is like high 2 (im very inconsistent) so 2.27 was still a decent PR for me but i knew i was capable of better than that especially after failing PR average on the last solve twice over the past few months.
i definitely do want to improve my 2x2 consistency (terrible) / one-looking (also terrible) / alg knowledge (only CLL). being a timer start away from a sub-2 official average with 0 onelooks (pretty sure i didnt onelook AUF on solve 1, just figured it out during execution lol) definitely motivates me to improve my 2x2 solving.
if only the average were 2.22 lol, wouldve been podium 22 and 2nd with a 2.22 2x2x2 average. however in reality my podium 22 and 2nd with a 2.21 2x2x2 average has 8 2s, or 2x2x2 2s :3
yo amo cap on pen (shoutout to the tijuana cubing community for cap-on-pen-rotting me, i practiced it way too much in between solves of multiple rounds)
1:43 segUNGdo LUNGar atp 🤣🤣🤣
best +2 of my life (honorable mention 4.25+2=6.25 official 2x2 solve youtu.be/nkF4_8X64lY) (i got 3 official 6.25s in 2022, all in different events and all either PR singles or part of PR averages) (i havent gotten any official 6.25s since then)
the timer wasnt reset and it displayed 3.67, i actually got a 3.67 pyra solve in an earlier round lmao (as well as a 2.67 2x2 average)
this comp had a 6 minute 7x7 cutoff
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probably my cleanest official solve ever, quite happy with this
didnt expect to PR in my very first major championship round but i'll take it :P
also pretty cool to finally get sub-6 average 11 months after my 6.02 former PR average and after being 1 or 2 ticks away from sub-6 for 2 comps in a row prior to this
first round using earmuffs and they seemed to work quite well, also got a 2.85 PB single on phone timer between solves in the waiting area (PB by 0.6 seconds even though i missed the phone and had to tap it twice lol)
thank you to Jacob Lam for letting me borrow your hand warmers :D
day 1 of worlds was great, hoping to meet more people in the next few days :)
serious thoughts: nice to finally get clock PR single again after over 8 months, this is quite a large jump from my previous 4.90 PR single and the execution was pretty solid as well. counted an 11 in round 1 and barely made it to finals by 0.09 as the last seed, then DNFed my average this round and got last place :P (average was 5.91 without the DNFs so i'll upload that soon probably)
also ive gotten a DNF average in finals at every multiple-round comp after westerns lol
description stolen from youtube.com/watch?v=VL8YYy7pStk
congrats to Abby for winning the race to sub-6 average this round with a 5.65 average :D (watch the average here its pretty awesome youtube.com/watch?v=xWK2Ld5ZQ5I)
somehow did the mirror alg instead of the alg that would have skipped PLL, U M' U' M U2 M' U' M U2 from the position in the thumbnail would have solved the cube
this is somehow my 3rd time failing an official sub-6:
1. my current 6.28 PR single with a very long hesitation before reaching PLL at 4.0: youtube.com/watch?v=SEVXDHGKf2I&ab_channel=TetraCubing (the AUF hesitation on the visualization is quite accurate to what happened in the actual solve lol)
2. 6.13+2 from my former PR average with a long hesitation during F2L: youtu.be/yu0t3HPeINY?t=28
3. this video (also with a bit of a hesitation ig)
i definitely dont deserve to have failed sub-6 single this many times considering that they're not very common for me so im not too disappointed about this solve, 6.28 is still a decent PR single for me although it has been standing for over 17 months making it my longest standing PR lol (my 0.81 2x2 PR single was on the same day but the 6.28 happened first)
shoutout to ethan mc uber @clevercubers and @Rahul-Bollini for both getting a 6.28 clock average today :P
mitch failed sub mitch today as well very sad youtube.com/watch?v=0xPNYkplPkM&ab_channel=MitchellLane
also this solve was part of an 8.60 PR3 2nd place average, failed the last solve and my BPA (very possible) would have been PR average (8.19) and gotten me my first main event win. i now have 4 main event silver medals (3 in 3x3, 1 in sq1) without a main event win but oh well
i basically only practiced pyra for this comp and barely practiced skewb then i somehow did really good in skewb and bad in pyra :P
also now my pyra and skewb PR averages are tied which is pretty cool ig
this average is my 17th podium and 4th win (and my first win of 2025)
this is also my first podium with all the solves being tablecammed, 60fps tablecam quality is pretty good and i'll continue to use it at my next comps :)
this was also my 43rd comp and my old channel before i started this one was called 43Cubes, also the last 2 digits of the last solve were 43
3.21 (6.28) 3.95 (2.75) 3.64 = 3.60 PR average
1st place at UCSD Weeknights VI 2025
awesome spring break monday :)
congrats to Yichen for winning and getting sub-8 in round 1, and to Dom for getting 3rd and winning 2x2
sorry about the loud reaction lol, i was super relieved to not get something terrible on solve 4. luckily didn't distract any competitors as mentioned in the video
this is my first official pure sub-10 3x3 average after nearly 2 years of trying (also mentioned in the video)
also 4 J perms (2 Ja and 2 Jb) somehow + 1 Ub perm, pretty lucky :P
done at SoCal Speedcubing at Super STEM Saturday 2025, 3x3 Finals (my 5th organized comp!)
8.01 8.53 8.34 (7.28) (9.83) = 8.29 PR average
- this is my first 2x2 win
- i thought this was my official gan 2x2 debut but i forgot that i borrowed a gan during the round where i got my first 2x2 podium back in march 2023 (thanks nathaniel)
- this average happened at my 39th competition (former triple tied cali-only socal record!!!!!!! @ethanyay39 @ryansolves)
- i lost a 12 comp pr streak at this comp (from comps 27-38)
- this is my first time being on the podium for 3 comps in a row
- i am currently ranked 69th in the US for 2x2 single at the time of writing this
- both winning averages at this competition ended in .69 (19-person thursday night comp with only 3 rounds/events, the events were 2x2 5x5 and mbld but mbld does not have averages, shoutout to @AlvinLiuCubing for winning!)
- the other winning average (5x5) had a best single ending with 6.28 which is my 3x3 pr single
- the first solve had a corner twist caused by messing up AUF that i fixed the wrong way (DNF)
- every solve had at least 1 lockup
Oh.
happy to finally get an official sub-2 skewb single, only took 17 months after my 2.16 (lockup out of sub-2)
96th in the us and 10th in california, pretty nice to get top 10 in the state and top 100 in the us again
i probably made this video due to the newer wca instagram WR graphics that assign a unique color to each event or something
link to the document: docs.google.com/document/d/1pJQtZucJu-XWorh59BcCgMSaa2F0RxTWuJ2g4gWP32k/edit?usp=sharing
turning was definitely not perfect but still happy with this, sub 6 average next ig
part of 6.32 winning/PR2 average, will upload that tomorrow :)
first sub 5 single of the weekend in socal but definitely not the last, good luck to everyone at ucsb tomorrow!
also my clock PR single went from 5.09 to 4.90 no way keaton ellis and lucas etter reference???
i also got a 4.29 PR average in round 2 (counting 5.67 ☠️) that i might upload eventually. im sure nobody else in the round got a 4.2 PR average with a counting 5.6 :P
worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/full/#3l
context for #freehassan youtube.com/watch?v=F1yHtnzMWVk (description)
(for those unaware, 3 months ago yiheng got a 0.78 2x2 “WR” average with sliding which is an illegal technique to get faster pickup times, hassan did the same thing as yiheng (not to cheat, but to demonstrate how broken sliding is), he got DNFed and yiheng did not. sliding should be illegal for everyone imo but if youre going to let yiheng do it you might as well #freehassan)
(pls dont slide in comp btw)
the solve itself was 20 moves, 3 move layer into pre auf + 15 move cll + post auf, 20 moves / 1.63 seconds = 12.27 TPS
i immediately realized after seeing the time on my phone (thats why i showed my phone to the judge lol)
my fastest 3x3 solve of westerns 2024, my fastest at westerns 2022 was 7.80 bro fell off
both this and yiheng’s recent wr average are exactly 2 seconds away from 6.25 no way
"inspiration": youtube.com/watch?v=EE0ZIKgMLQQ
no none of this was done intentionally i just suck at competing apparently
this is SR12 (california) for average and even if i got BPA (5.47) it would still be SR12 which is pretty funny
solve 1 had a slight catch where i couldn't turn for like half a second which was a bit unfortunate as it cost me a sub-6 average but don't really care :P
solves 2 and 3 had good turning, both sub my previous PR single of 5.33 which was pretty unexpected
since my goal for the comp was a sub-6.5 average i told myself to just get a sub-7.5 single on solve 4 and somehow got a 6.13, i wasn't sure whether the average was sub-6 or not but knew that it was very very close (didn't dare calculate it before solve 5 though)
last solve was just a bad scramble i think, almost everyone got WPA lol. happy to not DNF it ig
i'll probably learn 7sf and maybe try to podium next year although not sure how possible that will be :P
@PurpleClock_NJKim not quite 5 words but no super long description at least lol
on december 16, 2023, i got my first official sub 2.5 average with a 2.44 (my first comp knowing full CLL, although hilariously i only used a CLL that i had learned on my worst solve which was a 9.83). after that, on january 7, 2024, i got a 2.48 PR2 average in round 1, then a 2.27 PR average in finals (but this time i used ortega on 3 of the 5 solves and the other 2 solves were just niklas and antisune, some of the easiest CLLs). although admittedly the scrambles were stupidly easy, i was still very happy with this average and didn't expect to beat it for a long time. i expected to at least get somewhat close to 2.27 at a few of my next competitions.
i was completely wrong. my best official average between this comp and the 2.27 was a 2.64, out of 8 rounds of 2x2. it felt like every other round i would start off badly, and just keep doing badly after the bad start. while setting goals for westerns, i decided to just make my goal to get a decent sub-2.7 official average (not sub-2.6, because the 2.64 was from a while ago and after the 2.27 i hadn't gotten any sub-2.7 averages other than that) to prove to myself that i could get somewhat close to my PR average after a long streak of mediocre performances.
as expected, round 1 of westerns did not go well, only getting 1 sub-3 (despite comfortably averaging sub-3 at home) and a 1.92+2 and 2.02+2 on my last 2 solves, placing me 50th in round 1. i realized during the round that my warmup cube was quite slow (it was actually my main that i accidentally overlubed a week before the comp, forcing me to use my backup cube as my main) and it could have affected my turning during the official solves. for round 2 of 2x2, i decided to borrow @ethanyay39's 2x2 to warm up with, which was a relatively fast mgc elite, much faster than my overlubed warmup cube. i had time to warm up before 2x2 round 2 because i was in group 2 (stage blue we need you, even though i was on purple stage) so i was feeling pretty confident going into the round. i knew that if i did well, i would probably make finals, although i had already made finals in 3 different events before that so it wasn't my main goal going into the round, i just wanted a sub-2.7 average.
the first scramble was easy and i got a 1.72 on it, my fastest solve of the year and PR3. solve 2 was a 2.74, then a 2.57 on solve 3 (couldn't onelook the 3 move layer somehow lol). surprisingly, this round was going well so far. before solve 4, i told myself "ok just get a 2.6 or faster on the next one then that's a sub-2.7 average". i was quite nervous for solve 4, but i think my confidence from starting the average well allowed me to get a clutch 2.31 single. i knew that the WPA was not only sub-2.7, but sub-2.6, which i was very happy with. i was also pretty sure i had made finals, so i just went all out on the last solve and got a solid 2.19 single which made the average 2.36, PR2 and 0.09 off PR.
im very happy to finally get another good official average after nearly 7 months (and one without only super easy CLLs lol), i also got another sub 2.7 in finals (which was actually a sub 2.6/3rd place for western competitors fail, might upload that average later). this average gives me motivation to practice more and hopefully beat the 2.27 average, maybe i'll learn EG-1 or something. @TWCubed race to official sub 2 average maybe???
definitely uploading more stuff from westerns soon (have 2 videos already edited so far), thanks for watching (and reading) :D
my first 2 solves were 8.71 and 8.20 (i average mid to high 9, so these solves are very good for me so far). then came solve 3. the scramble looked pretty good until i realized that it was really good after getting an unexpected OLL skip. all i had to do was a Z perm + U' (which funnily enough was the exact same PLL case that i got on solve 1, down to the AUF) and i would get a new PR single. unfortunately i missed AUF, causing me to +2 a 6.13 which would have been PR single (and sub-mitch ig). although i was disappointed about the +2, an 8.13 is still a very solid time for me. i knew that any sub-9 single on one of the last 2 solves would give me PR average, although PR average wasn't even my main goal going into the 4th solve.
i've been going for a pure sub-10 official 3x3 average (all 5 solves sub-10) ever since getting a worst solve of 10.33 at UCSD Spring 2023 (in April of last year, which is over 15 months ago). getting 3 8s meant that getting a pure sub-10 average was probably quite possible, which i've failed/come close to many, many times (before this round, i had 13 official averages where i got 4/5 solves sub-10 but not the 5th solve, including four sub-10s then a sub-10 +2 on the last solve, a worst solve of 10.13, and a worst solve of 10.15 with a cubedrop).
then on the 4th solve, i accidentally knocked over the cube cover before starting the solve, making the solve a DNF. i was very disappointed with myself for making such a silly mistake, especially because i had made the same mistake officially 4 months ago. knowing that a pure sub-10 average was now out of the question, i decided to go for PR average instead. thankfully, i was able to achieve an 8.16 on the last solve which almost gave me BPA (literally 0.001 off BPA lol) with an 8.36 PR average. i was happy about breaking my PR by a pretty significat margin (by 0.32, down from 8.68) but was disappointed about not getting the pure sub-10 average due to a small and avoidable mistake.
but i'm no longer disappointed about that anymore :)
if i had gotten a sub-10 single on the 4th solve (assuming it didn't lock in PR average), i would probably be very nervous on solve 5 because i would be just one solve away from a pure sub-10 average (which, at the time, i cared about a lot more than getting PR average), and this PR might have never happened. in a way, the DNF could have been a blessing in disguise, allowing me to not worry about getitng a pure sub-10 average. also, PR average is definitely a much more useful stat than pure sub-10 average, and is what counts on your WCA profile. i definitely hope i can get a pure sub-10 average soon (hopefully at westerns), but other that that i'm still very happy with this average.
i mentioned earlier that i average mid to high 9. so why was i not happy with my 8.68 former PR average? that's simply because i only started averaging mid to high 9 a bit over a month ago. i had competed in 6 official rounds from that time to before this comp, and my averages were 11.19, 9.45, 13.24, 9.73, 12.62, and 8.89. other than the 8.89 average at the end, i was getting incredibly poor results for my global, with 2 of these averages being over 3 seconds off of my best ao100 at home (9.44). even the 8.89 average was slightly disappointing because i locked up a lot on the last solve which cost me PR average. btw, obligatory reminder that i have a second channel @tetraaa_232 and i posted that average there: youtu.be/Ze58pan3_NY
basically, i just really wanted a new PR average to reflect my improvement in global average. i didn't expect a sub-8.5 average to come so soon, but i am definitely happy to have gotten an 8.36 official average, which i don't expect to beat for a long time. now all i need is that pure sub-10 official average, then i'll be truly satisfied with my official 3x3 results (don't really care about the PR single fail tbh, my current PR single of 6.28 is still very good for me and this would have only dropped it by 0.15, actually obviously i do care bc it cost me sub-mitch but whatever)
thanks for reading this incredibly long description (4699/5000 characters lol)
also sorry about the poor video quality on some of the solves, i prioritized visibility of the cube over video quality
@bluecuber can't wait for you to beat this soon :P
WTL;DHTTR (way too long, didn't have time to read): very happy with the average, not too mad about the 6.13+2 PR single fail, not mad at all about the DNF because it probably made me much less nervous for the last solve, no pure sub-10 average yet but hopefully i get that soon
hesitation before PLL was intentional, pretty much what happened in the actual solve as well
4.52 downsolve on my second channel @tetraaa_232: youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GsXXTmlyA&ab_channel=tetraaa_232
recon (thanks to @SkewbyCuber for making this): cubedb.net/solve/16452
if i had a nickel for every time i got a 4.77 average in skewb finals which podiumed but i didnt get a certificate this year i would have two nickels which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice youtube.com/watch?v=T4VoaPdIRZU&ab_channel=TetraCubing
PR average (4.46) fail but whatever (the round before was 4.4666...=4.47 average oops)
done at Somalia Championship 2024, or something like that
sub-4 official skewb average next (maybe) (maybe not)
music: youtube.com/watch?v=SYLNjMmk7MI&ab_channel=PurrpleCat-Topic
thanks to @SidShivnath for being a great judge during pyra finals!
got to test timebase for the first time this round (the timebase displays were only on a few stations)
more videos coming from this comp soon!
done at BASC 63 - Atherton 2024 (my 34th competition)
still pretty decent solve for me and guaranteed my first official sub 20 average :)
done at BASC 63 (first norcal comp yay)
hopefully i get pure sub-3 this weekend, this comp had 3 rounds and i did bad in all of them except for this one but i have 3 rounds this weekend as well so yeah
lol probably skill issue tbh but title bait is funni
the average actually started off really badly (8.3, 9.0, 8.9) bc i average mid to high 6, then i DNFed a 7. at first i thought of super safetying to get into finals but i saw that the scramble was good, i still safetied a bit though (paused before flipping and paused before stopping the timer).
getting this was just super unexpected considering how bad my previous solves were and im very happy with this solve overall.
i have 2 more clock rounds this weekend, after that im probably learning 7 simul flip and seeing how good i can get with it.
done during lunch at Agoura Cubing Returns 2024, we only had time to do 4 attempts though.
this was attempt 3, attempt 4 was a 2:17.32 but the camera fell over near the start of the attempt ;( here's a video of that happening, caught on Ethan's camera: youtube.com/watch?v=dKdQe7pt_lc
also ft. anime clock for the first time on the tetracubing youtube channel no way
music: youtu.be/JjNRU9CORyU
happy to finally beat my 2.14 former PR single, got some nice averages as well (4.33 and 4.19 PRs). sub 4 average soon???


