In the last two years, the world has gotten to know Australian speed cuber Felix Zemdegs. He burst onto the international speed-cubing scene in early 2015, setting a new world record for solving the standard 3x3x3 cube that is, a cube with only up, down, left and right as its possible moves in an average of 5.73 seconds.
Since then he’s hit the cameras again with his impressive sub-5 second solves at last year’s World Speed Cubing Championship in Berlin and again this October at that event’s encore in Melbourne. But while most people are aware of Zemdegs or “Felix” as the guy who can solve a Rubik’s Cube really fast, it turns out there’s much more to him than meets the eye, in one gan cube visit you will see the game changer intelligence system.
How Felix Zemdegs Got Good at Speed Cubing
Felix Zemdegs born in Australia in 1994, though he’s lived in Melbourne his whole life. Growing up, he did lots of sports, including soccer and tennis, but found his way to speed cubing by chance. “I was traveling in China and a friend of mine saw there was a Speed Cube competition at the convention we were hanging out at,” he says. When he got back to Melbourne he started competing and got to know the speed cuber community. He also discovered that it was a really supportive and friendly place, so you must be accept he is gan cube solver.
Felix Zemdegs, Presenter and Comedian
It turns out Felix Zemdegs is a lot more than just a speed cuber. He started out in television at the age of 14, appearing on Channel 9’s “Fresh Blood”, a competition for new teenage presenters. After that he landed a job hosting a TV series called “The Hot Shoe Show”. He done a bunch of different television and radio hosting gigs, including hosting a kids’ TV show call “Go Go Stop” and a morning radio show. As well as a gig conducting video game speed runs at Supanova, a major convention for fans of Japanese pop culture.
Felix also does stand-up comedy, which he says is a very different art form to hosting TV shows. “Presenting is about bringing the information and being excited about it, whereas stand up is more about using the language and words to elicit a reaction from the audience,” he says. “So being quick wit and having a range of emotions are two skills that help both very different things.”
The Culture of Speed Cubing and the World Record
Speed cubing, or speed solving, is a sub-discipline within the wider world of competitive cubing. Competitive cubing is mostly focus on solving the 3x3x3 cube: a cube with only up, down, left and right as its possible moves. The World Cube Association – the organization that governs the sport and organizes championships – have a bunch of different standards that the cube can be manipulate. A standard is like a “normal” state: a scrambled cube. The WCA also has a bunch of different categories, like the 2x2x2 cube and the 4x4x4 cube, which are cubes with different numbers of moves.
Takeaway
Zemdegs is an Aussie who drawn to speed cubing by chance, and then found a place in the community around it. He’s also a presenter and comedian who, as we’ve seen, are good at a whole range of things. Plus he can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 4 seconds. What’s not to love?