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Feliks Aleksanders Zemdegs (/ˈfɛlɪks ˈzɛmdɛɡz/, Latvian: Fēlikss Zemdegs; born 20 December 1995) is an Australian Rubik's Cube speedsolver. He is the only person to have won the World Cube Association World Championship twice consecutively, in 2013 and 2015, and is often considered the greatest speedcuber of all time. He has set more than 350 records across various speedcubing events: 121 world records, 223 continental records, and 7 national records.
Feliks Zemdegs is of Latvian descent, and his maternal grandmother is Lithuanian. Zemdegs bought his first speedcube in April 2008 after being inspired by speedcubing videos and tutorials on YouTube. The first unofficial time he recorded was an average of 19.73 seconds on 14 June 2008.
Zemdegs has a website, CubeSkills, which includes tutorials on solving the Rubik's Cube and other puzzles. There are free algorithm sheets and speedsolving tutorial videos. The site also offers a premium membership which enables access to advanced speedsolving videos.
Zemdegs attended St Kevin's College, Toorak, and graduated in 2013 with a perfect study score in VCE English and an ATAR of 99.90. Zemdegs has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, majoring in economics, with a breadth study track in mechanical engineering. Zemdegs currently works in investment finance.
As of July 2025[update], Zemdegs' YouTube channel has more than 477,000 subscribers.
In 2020, Zemdegs was one of the primary subjects of the Netflix documentary The Speed Cubers.
Zemdegs won the 3×3×3 event at the first competition he attended, the New Zealand Championships 2009 on 18 July 2009, with an average of 13.74 seconds in the final round. He also won 2×2×2, 4×4×4, 5×5×5, 3×3×3 blindfolded, and 3×3×3 one-handed. He set 11 Oceanic records at this competition.
At his next competition, the Melbourne Summer Open 2010 on 30 January 2010, Zemdegs set his first world records for 3×3×3 average and 4×4×4 average, with times of 9.21 seconds and 42.01 seconds, respectively. He held the 3×3×3 average world record continuously from then until 23 April, 2017, improving it 8 times, eventually to 6.45 seconds. The most world records he has held at one time is 12 in May 2011.
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Feliks Zemdegs
Feliks Aleksanders Zemdegs (/ˈfɛlɪks ˈzɛmdɛɡz/, Latvian: Fēlikss Zemdegs; born 20 December 1995) is an Australian Rubik's Cube speedsolver. He is the only person to have won the World Cube Association World Championship twice consecutively, in 2013 and 2015, and is often considered the greatest speedcuber of all time. He has set more than 350 records across various speedcubing events: 121 world records, 223 continental records, and 7 national records.
Feliks Zemdegs is of Latvian descent, and his maternal grandmother is Lithuanian. Zemdegs bought his first speedcube in April 2008 after being inspired by speedcubing videos and tutorials on YouTube. The first unofficial time he recorded was an average of 19.73 seconds on 14 June 2008.
Zemdegs has a website, CubeSkills, which includes tutorials on solving the Rubik's Cube and other puzzles. There are free algorithm sheets and speedsolving tutorial videos. The site also offers a premium membership which enables access to advanced speedsolving videos.
Zemdegs attended St Kevin's College, Toorak, and graduated in 2013 with a perfect study score in VCE English and an ATAR of 99.90. Zemdegs has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, majoring in economics, with a breadth study track in mechanical engineering. Zemdegs currently works in investment finance.
As of July 2025[update], Zemdegs' YouTube channel has more than 477,000 subscribers.
In 2020, Zemdegs was one of the primary subjects of the Netflix documentary The Speed Cubers.
Zemdegs won the 3×3×3 event at the first competition he attended, the New Zealand Championships 2009 on 18 July 2009, with an average of 13.74 seconds in the final round. He also won 2×2×2, 4×4×4, 5×5×5, 3×3×3 blindfolded, and 3×3×3 one-handed. He set 11 Oceanic records at this competition.
At his next competition, the Melbourne Summer Open 2010 on 30 January 2010, Zemdegs set his first world records for 3×3×3 average and 4×4×4 average, with times of 9.21 seconds and 42.01 seconds, respectively. He held the 3×3×3 average world record continuously from then until 23 April, 2017, improving it 8 times, eventually to 6.45 seconds. The most world records he has held at one time is 12 in May 2011.
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