A teenage boy might have just beaten the world record for solving the Rubik's cube, doing so in mere seconds, according to iTV News. Fourteen-year-old Lucas Etter isn't old enough to drive, but that didn't stop him from solving one of the world's toughest puzzles in just less than five seconds.
On Saturday, at the River Hill fall competition in Clarksville, M.D., young Etter calmly completed his Rubik's cube in 4.904 seconds, just 0.35 seconds apart from the previous record, according to the Guardian.
In the video of Etter, he calmly and collectively solves the cube before rising in excitement.
Although the event is caught on camera it still needs to be looked over by the World Cube Association, which "governs competitions for all puzzles labeled as Rubik puzzles, and all other puzzles that are played by twisting the sides, so-called 'twisty puzzles.'"
There does seem to be a trend in teenage puzzle solvers as the record before Etter's was held by a teenager as well - Collin Burns, who had a time of 5.25 seconds, according to Time.
And the very first record holder was 16-year-old Minh Thai, whose 1982 time of 22.95 seems like a distant marker.
