Six-year-old Lian Yunzhi redefines speedcubing with sub-4.5 second averages
Lian Yunzhi, a six-year-old from Chengdu, China, has established a new women’s world record for solving a 3x3 Rubik’s Cube. She achieved an average time of 4.27 seconds across five solves at a World Cube Association-certified competition in Guangzhou on September 16, 2026. This followed a previous record-setting average of 4.52 seconds in Wuhan on September 13. Her parents report she practices two to three hours daily, mastering over 1,300 algorithms.
