![]() “That has really played out … the popularity has just completely exploded.” “The way that it was pitched to me by dad and others was that if I did it, it would raise the profile of speed cubing and more people will get into it,” he says. ![]() As fans lined up for autographs, he didn’t get what all the fuss was about. This has occurred over the course of a decade since 2010 when, as a 14-year-old Melbourne school student, Zemdegs completed the three-layer configuration in a world-record time of 6.77 seconds and suddenly found himself under such a glaring spotlight that his parents became his default media managers. ![]() So fast, in fact, that all of his records have been broken (his personal best is still a cool 4.16 seconds). “I’m gradually, not so much getting slow, but there’s a lot of kids who are getting really, really fast.” “The truth is I am extreme veteran,” he says. Now, at 25 and with a career in finance, he is winding down. In the blue riband event, the 3x3x3, he has broken his own record 13 times, and thus been crowned the Usain Bolt of cubing. When used for sport every millisecond counts and Zemdegs, over the course of his career, has held 121 world records across the 3x3x3, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, 2x2x2, one-handed 3x3x3, 6圆圆, 7x7x7, and blindfolded 4x4x4 categories.
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