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the head-to-head with Max and Timone
today everybody's expecting
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fireworks my name is Tim
Kinski I am the Rubik key world record
holder for the
average my name is Schwan Park I'm the
father of Max Park the speaked cuber
Max holds 7 by7
6x6 5x five yeah and
4x4 average and
singles he does have the 3X3 one-handed
single world
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record I solved the cube for the first
time when I was about 10 or 9 I already
knew how to solve a pyramix we always
had a Rubik's Cube laying around the
house at some point I decided it would
be cool to solve one and while learning
I you know saw on the internet that
there are competitions and everything
and so ever since then I've just been
cubing all the time yes basically Max's
cubing career started to help him with
his fine motor skills because he had uh
fine motor skill problems as a young kid
uh with autism when he was 7 8 n years
old so he couldn't like hold pennies or
he couldn't open a a water bot I mean he
could do anything with his fingers the
cube itself was just something that was
going to be an
exercise what is it 31 again okay we
found out about the Cuban Community we
decided to go there and exploit the
Cuban Community for social reasons so we
could work on Max's social cues the
second competition he ever went to he
won the 6x6 which really took us all by
surprise when you actually see the final
Podium there's these two guys that look
like they're in college and here's
little Max he's like literally four F
feet underneath them the cubing actually
being good at cubing or or or solving
cubes or the competitive aspect was
never a component for us to get Max
involved
with last year in about October or
November the world record at the time
was 5.48 I believe and Max broke that
record with a 5.47 so he beat it by 01
yes in a in the next round he beat it
again with a 5.32
so then for the next month I had no
competitions I was just practicing the
whole month I went to my last
competition of the
year I got a 509
average I thought well this is going to
stand for quite a while cuz it was a
massive drop I think it was the biggest
drop in the average world record since
the first sub six
average but then Max got a
508 eting it by point 01 once
again I was just trying to beat that so
I practiced like way too much for my
next competition which was in
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Warsaw the venue was actually quite full
the venue was really hot and people were
leaving and actually me and my friends
were also considering leaving after
lunch but you know I'm here already I
might as well finish the
competition see you can get a record in
four solves for the average because the
worst solve doesn't
count and the fourth
solve I already had the world record
average then I did the fifth solve which
didn't impact the time because it was
the worst one and then we checked how
the cubes were scrambled for each solve
and the fourth solve was incorrect which
meant I did not get the record but I
could redo the forth solve by that point
the whole venue was finished with
solving and they're just watching me I
had one chance
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on the extra Sol I got almost the same
time I thought well there's no way Max
like gets close to this it's just ending
massive drop right well I was
wrong yes Max equaled it once again it
seems that no matter what I do he just
gets either close or equals it at least
he didn't Beat It Again by 01 like he
did when I had the
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509 today's event is the United Kingdom
Championship so we're at the UK
Championship which is quite different
from a normal competition because the 3E
by3 final is a head-to-head format
welcome everybody to the free by3
final I mean it's just a huge
competition lots of spectators
so in the semi-finals Max got first with
a 5.75 average and I got a 612 average
so I second the head-to-head with Max
and tone today is going to be
unbelievably
tense the speed cubing game is kind of
changing now at least at the elite level
it used to be you had to turn Fast Max
right now he I mean he's been sort of
timed at like about 13 all almost all
the way up to 13 turns per second that
was good enough certainly to win all the
competition but not anymore Timone came
on the scene and really changed the
landscape of the game he started doing
the efficiency which is reducing the
turn counts to solve the cube if you
turned really fast but you're solving
the cube in 70 Moves as opposed to
somebody turning mediocrely slow or
average and he's solving it in about 50
moves he's going to win every time the
fast kid there's no way he can make up
for that with speed for me it's easier
to be more efficient than it is to be
faster but I think that differs from
person to person cuz clearly for Max
it's much easier to just get faster so
you got to pick your poison I guess you
know works out about the same and it's
really cool I think to have that
comparison of two people that have the
same times but solve completely
differently it's quite exciting to just
get to go against him for the first time
in three years you have two guys that
are holding the Guinness world record
for the fastest 3x3 average and so for
these two guys to come together and
compete with each other everybody's
expecting fireworks you think you're
going to beat Max
today now our next two competitors need
very little introduction they are
currently the tied world record average
3 by3 holders one thing most people
don't know about Max is that he gets
very very nervous so max yeah you're
going to come in and you're going to go
there just to the right hand I got to
take my time I have a feeling as a
matter of fact with his autism I think
he actually experiences more of a severe
nervousness than just most people could
not be a close so much I get very
nervous sometimes in second seed from
Poland if you don't have any nerves it's
not really fun anymore cuz you might as
well just keep at home we have Timon
Kosinski first seed the fastest
International competitor in the third
round of 3 by3 all the way from the
United States give it up for Max Park
best of luck to both of back
and are you ready
ready
eight S on we made 5.46
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go Max by
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5.61 S on
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6.77 Max by
5.38 12
Simon with six points
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Z6 Max
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5.76 same on seven point two
Z Max 6.71
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SE with 4.76
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665 winning today against somebody as
formidable as Timone was a big giant
challenge for him give it up for our
last two International competitors
Timone and Max Max got 6.01 and then
Timone got 6.10 which is a difference is
just 09 he was his static this is
probably the biggest challenge in his
career so far once you reach the world
record level you can't win more you can
only lose from that point so you're
always looking over your shoulders and I
could see that with Max when there's
this person that popped up Timone
Kinski so good at at 3x3 he was almost
like this monster that was chasing him
it was it was just something that was
really scary a few months ago Max got to
meet Timone and and once he met him he
found a really kindred spirit in him he
realized how much he connected with
somebody who also loves cubing so much
that they instantly bonded when they
were sort of cubing together for a few
hours Timone mentioned to me that was
the most fun that he had in like 2 three
years at least for Max when he looks at
Timone he is in awe of him he's a fan I
think Timone and Max the race is still
on I think that they're going to be
chasing each other I think that they're
going to be besting each other I think
this this is going to go on for a while
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