Max Park Broke the Rubik's Cube World Record TWICE in a row...

Max Park is insane .

On November 7th 2021 .

Max Park beats the world record average of 5.48 seconds with his own 5.47 seconds .

But then something happened later that day that actually made this average , not count as the world record .

What happened was Max Park beat the world record average again on the same day with a 5.32 average .

Absolutely destroying the previous average .

Even the worst solve in this one is better than the eighth best average in the world .

And if you look at the history of the world record average , it doesn't get broken all that often .

So for it to happen twice in one day is absolutely insane .

Max Park , you are number one cuber , but I don't need to be the one to say that .

Go look at his WC A profile .

This is the cleanest profile ever .

Well , besides two by two and square one , but he hasn't competed in those in years .

So if you take that off the profile , he almost has every world record in the events that he competes in 44 world records .

This should actually be 45 if uh the two world records counted .

But if two world records happen on the same day , they don't get to be both counted as world record .

You can see that on his profile here and it has actually happened before with the world record single , poor Keaton Ellis Lucas .

Why do you have to do it to him ?

So 5.32 absolutely crazy average .

But we are getting close to a sub five average .

I know me from many years ago would not have guessed that that was possible .

Or at least I didn't think it would come so soon .

So I want to know what your predictions are .

Leave them in the comments .

When do you think the first sub five average will happen ?

And what do you think the average will be ?

I'm probably gonna be so far off , but I think it'll be pretty soon .

I'm going to guess August 2020 22 which is next year and I think it'll be a 4.99 average .

I just think that would be the coolest number to get and I will not be making a prediction on who gets the average because I don't want to put too much pressure on anybody .

So today , I thought we could take a look at the solves from the newest world record average and see what we can learn from it .

This is the first scramble done with white top and green front And yes , I am using my Gan 11 12 M Pro Maglev here at Max , solve the blue cross .

And you can actually make an X cross pretty easily .

You can go try to find it if you'd like .

But how it is done is by moving the orange piece away here and then putting in red , then these two are solved opposite each other .

Now , yellow goes here which solves the corner and this is white here .

And that solves the edge then just D two .

But he did D prime D prime because Max doesn't do double flags .

This pair could easily be spotted in inspection as it barely moved .

So he first did this one by rotating like this and solving it into the back which gives two solved back slots .

And then we have this pair here and this pair here .

Max did this one as it doesn't require a rotation .

I personally saw this first and would have done it first .

So Max is better than me at Cubing , confirmed the way to solve this one is by moving the edge back here and then taking out the corner like this , then he solved this and then we have these two which he rotated and solved it into the front .

Now , generally you want to solve back slots .

But when it's the last slot , solving it as the front is often better .

So like this , oh wait , no double flick .

And then we have this oll easy .

But here you also want to pay attention to something which is this block .

I don't know how much Max is looking at this , but he clearly seems to know what PLL he's getting as he's going into it .

Or maybe he just has crazy fast reaction times .

But either way for this oll this , this and this block get preserved .

So if you see this , you can memorize it goes there .

And then what he did after was U two and solve this PLL I found these reconstructions on speed cube DB dot com .

So I want to say a special thanks to Gill for making speed cube DB and to Stuy for making these reconstructions , you can get some really cool stats here such as the move count and turn speed and time for every single step .

And it's crazy that Max can maintain over 10 turns per second through the entire solve .

But as we're gonna find out in terms of turn speed , this is actually one of the worst solves in the average for the second solve .

Max does the green cross .

And here we have yellow and orange with orange on top of yellow , which is good because you can insert these together white is over here .

It red's here .

So what he did was D two and then insert these two and insert white right after .

Now that leaves this pair right here .

And if you just did D you'd have to do a rotation to solve this pair .

So instead he does E prime or maybe he does this and rotates , I'm not sure .

So E prime it is and then insert this without a rotation , then we have this one right here and that goes with this one right here .

So here what he did , which is not what I would do .

What max did was pair this up like this and then insert it over here .

Now , I'll show you what I would have done later .

But let's just finish this solve .

So next is this pair and this one goes with this one and you can kind of tell even just from here because this one is blue , which is the last layer of color .

So the only remaining piece it could be is that one .

So that's just a look ahead tip .

So he did this one like this .

And then lastly these two , which he solved like this without a reg grip , well , without a double flick either .

And then we have this oll , this is a really important oll to know how to look ahead to PLL .

Because what you can do here is just pretend this one goes here .

And if you can recognize the PLL from these side stickers , which is a certain G perm , then you can just do the oll and you'll get this .

So then this is a G perm .

Now what I would have done differently for this solve .

During the second pair is I would have paired them up like this with a sledgehammer .

Then insert , now this is rotation list which looks better , but it leaves two solved front slots , which is not always better .

However , I would have seen this pair because they were just right here and easy to see .

So then I would have so this pair next and I see these two and oh , would you look at that ?

They're paired up and then I would insert this pair and then , oh , would you look at that PLL skip ?

I am better than Max Park confirmed .

Just kidding .

He got a five .

Even with a PLL skip , I probably would have gotten a six for the third solve .

Max did the white cross , which is a very obvious cross solution , at least for the first three .

I feel like there would be a bit of debate on how people do the fourth cross piece , but red and green were done like this and that sets up this first pair here .

Now , I think a lot of more intermediate cross solvers would solve this in a more move efficient way than what Max did solve it , maybe like this or maybe do a cube rotation and insert it like this or maybe even get fancy and do something like this .

However , I personally think what Max did was the best solution for this case and that is D prime , insert this one and then d that's not the most move efficient way to do it , but it's pretty safe and fast to do .

And it keeps the look ahead simple as this pair didn't move at all .

Next T solves this pair and then solves the orange and green pear .

And then we have this pair here and this pair here .

Now , obviously , this one is a bit easier to spot as this corner is a bit hidden .

So he went for this pair and it is done like this to pair them up and then insert into the back .

Now , at this point , you would not have seen another white corner up here and this is not it either .

So you have to know that for adjacent slots if you see the matching color and you know , this is the corner whites on the back .

So when you insert , you can immediately know this without having to actually see the whites and go into this pair right away .

Next is this oo and then PLL is an A perm and he does DD which oh , that could be faster .

Let's do this right ?

With D two flicks that was probably still slower than Max .

This solve was 66 moves and he did it in almost 13 turns per second over the whole solve .

Wow .

For the fourth solve , Max does blue cross again .

And in case you guys are wondering generally what you look for when you're doing or neutral cross is just a cross piece attached to the center and that is yellow or green or orange or blue in this case .

So how max did the solution was D prime and then insert white and red .

And he does this with RF prime , which you should do like this .

And that's what he does because it's an F move .

A lot of people don't think to use their ring finger .

But if you end up in this position , you should definitely use it .

I have a whole video about this and he noticed that by doing this , you get the white red edge solved .

So he tried to solve the white red corner as well before finishing the cross .

So what he did was insert this white red corner here like that and this completes the X cross , he aligns it and then inserts yellow .

I found this X cross to be a bit strange because after you solve red and white , you have this pair right here and it's pretty much made on the second move .

So it's not hard to spot .

And I imagine Max must have seen this but decided to do the X cross anyway , which breaks this pair .

What I would have done is ignore or maybe not even see the X cross because I already saw this pair and then just insert yellow normally and then solve this pair first .

So instead of just inserting yellow , he made the X cross which put this pair in this position .

And from here , you can still technically save it , but I don't think it's worth it anymore .

He just solved the X cross and did this and it made this very easy to track because he was probably watching this pair the whole time because of that , he immediately knew what his second pair would be , which is good .

So if you make an X cross and you immediately know what the second pair would be , then this is probably even better than what I showed just because he's optimizing for , look ahead as well as move count .

So he solves this pair and sees this pair next .

What he does next is interesting .

Instead of solving this in one of two rotational ways , either L prime U two L and then insert into the back or U two and then pair them up like this and insert into the back .

What he does here is rotate and then solve this pair .

So like II , I don't know why .

I think this is just actually worse .

But then he does this pair which requires another rotation and then uh he ends up with a Great Oll .

So who am I to say anything about his solves ?

So he does this oll like this and then this PLL .

So like this , here's the last solve of the average .

But at this point , he already had the world record average at 5.32 because the best and worst solves of the average don't count .

So , no matter what he gets here , if it's bad , he still gets a 5.32 average .

But of course , he had the chance to improve the average .

And if he had gotten the best solve on this fifth solve , then he would have had a 5.00 average .

So if you thought sub five was far away , it's not that far away for this solve .

There are plenty of good crosses to pick from .

He ended up going with yellow and I actually , I , I see white here .

Uh But it's not amazing .

I probably would have gone for orange because it is 123 move cross .

But I guess props to max were looking further .

Wait what ?

OK .

Uh Orange cross might have been best actually .

But for the solve , Max did the yellow cross , which is also a great cross to start with as you can make an easy X cross , he solves green and he solves orange .

And then here is the red blue and there is the red blue edge .

So he moves everything over .

And then by inserting this , this pattern gives you an X cross .

Max showed some great technique with how he started the solve .

The way he inserted green was not with an F move , but instead like a move .

And there's actually two reasons why you want to do it this way .

One reason is it puts your hand in this grip , which makes the orange cross piece a little bit easier .

The other reason is because it's generally better to start a solve with a finger trick that is a U or D turn rather than an F turn .

And that's because of the stack man timer .

You have to start with the cube on the table .

So you can't really access F turns as quickly as you can U and D moves , which can be done before you even lift the cube off the table .

So this finger trick was great .

And then the rest of the X cross next , he goes for this pair .

And one way you could do it is by solving it from here .

And then this way you don't have to cu rotate , but it does leave you with two solved front slots and you may be able to find things easily after , but you may not as well .

So it's generally safer in terms of your look ahead to do the other solution .

Instead .

What max did here is a rotation and then pair it up here .

And he noticed this and then another rotation and that it lets them insert it into the back .

Now , two rotations doesn't look so good , but it can be OK because it was hard to see pieces from the start .

So during each of those rotations , you have time to look ahead to what's coming next and you can use that time basically to plan out the rest .

So it's not really as bad as two rotations looks .

Then he noticed this is not quite a great pair .

So he went for the orange blue instead and this can be done with keyhole .

He took out the orange blue and then did D and then inserted the orange blue into the correct spots because the edge was already solved .

And this gave him a different case for the last slot , which he solved like this .

Then we have OLL .

And here it's important to note that this is going to move right here .

So it's good to know how your blocks get preserved because it can help you predict what PLL case you're going to get .

So he does the OLL and then here he aligns the blocks and then does an A perm but rotates first .

And this is usually not what you want to do , but for Aras , it can be fine .

And that's because for an A perm , you're doing a cube rotation already .

So it doesn't add much more time to just cube rotate somewhere else instead .

So he does the A perm with DD Flix .

Another thing you could have done for the last two slots since he was already in a keyhole mindset is to just insert this corner and solve it .

Now you have a solved corner and edge and then the other corner and edge can be solved together .

And this is called pseudo slotting .

So how this is done is by pairing up the two here that are not solved for a slot and then solving these two , how you normally would ?

Well , I guess we can even do a rotation list like this .

Oh , that's nice .

Let's see how the solve would have went if he had actually done that .

Oh , wow .

It's another a perm .

OK .

So that actually would have made the solve a little bit better .

But I don't generally expect people to be doing pseudo slotting in their solves .

Besides the awareness you need to set this up , you also need to be able to recognize this under pressure and it's the last solve of the world record average .

I I probably would not be attempting pseudo slotting either .

Also , how did he miss the Orange Cross ?

I think I may have heard somewhere that he doesn't do Orange Cross .

Uh I'm not sure if he's fully color neutral , but I mean , the Orange Cross was so easy if you guys know what's up with this .

Let me know in the comments , I don't know how to feel about those solves .

Well , one thing I've definitely learned is it seems like Max is using a lot of his inspection to make X crosses and that is actually very useful .

Maybe I'll try to use more X crosses in my solves because honestly , I don't even know what else I'm supposed to learn from this .

Like you can just have a high amount of turns in your solve .

But as long as you can turn crazy fast , like Max Park , then it doesn't even matter .

You can just get a world record average without even getting that lucky .

Why do I even bother learning all these advanced tricks ?

Oh , yeah .

It's because I can't turn as fast as Max Bark anyway , before I go cry in the corner .

I just wanna say thanks for watching and I'll see you all next time .