Sign up for the Rubik’s Cube World Championship

Red Bull joins forces with Rubik’s Cube, the Hungarian puzzle that tests your problem solving abilities. The world famous energy drink brand has decided to give wings to the Rubik’s cube and organize a World Championship, reports funzine.hu.

The single elimination tournament makes sure that the best and brightest players compete against each other in hopes of winning unique trophies and valuable prizes. Winners of the local qualifying rounds will play in Boston. Of course Hungary is one of the 16 countries that send players to this World Championship.

The Hungarian qualifying rounds will be held on the 27^th of May to decide who will represent the home of the Rubik’s Cube.

The competition will be held in Budapest, and the Hungarian inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, Ernő Rubik, is invited.

The Rubik’s Cube is a celebration of intelligence and playfulness, and the sport has grown into epic proportions with fans who show up from all around the world. It is loved by so many people that there are events organized to pay tribute to this amazing toy: read here about the exhibition in New York that was held this February.

Although every seventh person has held a Rubik’s Cube in their hands before, the number of those who can actually solve the puzzle is much less. And in order to become a professional cubist you have to be able to solve the cube in less than a minute. Although it is a famously hard logic puzzle, the current Guinness record for solving it is 4,22 seconds. Read here about Feliks Zemdegs who holds the current record since the Cube for Cambodia 2018 competition and watch the video to see how unbelievably fast he is. There are hundreds of thousands of professional cubists and they have thousands of local and international competitions where they can challenge themselves.