In Less Than 11 Seconds, Little Boy Solves Rubik's Cube While Juggling Balls

Most of us cannot juggle a ball or solve a rotating puzzle. But now a young lad from Singapore has mastered the craft of solving a rotating puzzle cube with one hand while using another hand to juggle the ball. He skillfully did these two tasks as a stellar example of hand-eye coordination and also broke a world record in the process. On April 21 this year Zirui Mason Zhou from Singapore solved a 2x2x2 rotating puzzle cube whilst juggling a ball, in just 10.43 seconds. With this, he got the Guinness World Record for “Fastest time to solve a 2x2x2 rotating puzzle cube whilst juggling.”

Even though this record was made over a month ago, the Guinness World Records shared a video of Zirui’s successful attempt on Instagram on May 29. This niche game video got over 12,000 likes, with people lauding the young speedcubers for their stellar talent.

Commenting on it, an Instagram user wrote, “Now this is a record. Children are actually killing it.” Another person wrote, “The brain calculation required in this is just genius.” Someone joked, “He should put this video on his resume as “Great at Multitasking.” Pointing out the dizzying speed of the task, an Instagram user remarked, “I can’t even focus while watching this, he’s good.” An Instagram user wondered, “Okay Asians need to tell us what they really do feed their kids! Because they are practically good at almost everything.”

This is not the only speedcubing record broken by Singaporean speed cubists in recent years. On June 19, 2023, another Singaporean speedcuber Daryl Tan Hong An got the record for “Fastest time to solve a rotating puzzle cube (3x3x3) under water” after he solved the cube in just 9.29 seconds.

Earlier this year on February 2, Lim Kai Yi from Malaysia got the world record for the “Fastest time to solve two rotating puzzle cubes simultaneously whilst suspended upside down” with a timestamp of 52.40 seconds.

Similarly, Korean-American Max Park made history after he solved a Rubik’s cube in a competitive setting in 3.13 seconds. He made this the record at the Pride in Long Beach 2023 event on June 11, 2023, at the official World Cube Association (WCA) competition.