About Feliks Zemdegs
Feliks Zemdegs is an Australian Rubik's Cube speedsolver.
Rubik's Cube Career:
- His surname is Latvian, and his maternal grandparents are from Lithuania.Zemdegs bought his first cube in April 2008 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. He currently uses the Fridrich method to solve the 3x3x3 cube, Modified Yau method to solve the 4x4x4 cube and the CLL method with Ortega to solve the 2x2x2 cube.
- Zemdegs won the first competition he attended, the New Zealand's Championships (July 2009) with an average of 13.74 seconds in the final round. He also won 2x2, 4x4, 5x5, 3x3 Blindfolded, and 3x3 One-Handed.
- At his next competition, the Melbourne Summer Open (January 2010), Zemdegs set his first world records for 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 average, with times of 9.21 seconds and 42.01 seconds respectively. The most world records he has ever held at one time was after the competition in Melbourne in May 2011 where he held all 12 records listed in the first 12 columns of the table below.
- He won the 3x3 event at the Rubik's Cube world championship in Las Vegas in July 2013 and also came first in the 4x4 and 3x3 One handed.In addition, he won the 3x3 event at the next Rubik's Cube World Championships which took place in São Palo in July 2015. He also took first place in 4x4, 5x5, and 2x2. He also placed second in 6x6, 7x7, and megaminx
Feliks Zemdegs Achievements
Records:
- 3x3x3 Cube Average-6.54 seconds
- 3x3x3 Cube One Handed Single-6.88 seconds
- 4x4x4 Cube Single-21.54 seconds
- 5x5x5 Cube Single-47.25 seconds
- 5x5x5 Cube Average-50.23 seconds
- 7x7x7 Cube Single-2:23.55 seconds
- 7x7x7 Cube Mean-2:33.73 seconds
Media Appearances:
2 Jun 2009 - Herald Sun article (Australia)
3 Jun 2009 - Channel 9 Today program (Australia)
18 July 2009 - TVNZ One News (New Zealand)
20 Jul 2009 - Dominion Post article (New Zealand)
21 Jan 2010 - Stonnington Leader article (Australia)
17 Jul 2010 - The Australian newspaper article (Australia)
21 Jul 2010 - Herald Sun article (Australia)
25 Jul 2010 - The Epoch Times (United States)
26 Jul 2010 - Sydney Morning Herald video (Australia)
27 Jul 2010 - The Age newspaper article (Australia)
6 Sep 2010 - Melbourne Leader article (Australia)
9 Nov 2010 - Test Australia: The National IQ Test, solving the Rubik's cube in 8.96 seconds.
16 Nov 2010 - Ninemsn article (Australia)
19 Nov 2010 - Yahoo News (United States) video
2 Jun 2011 - ABC Science Program "Catalyst" (Australia) video
9 Feb 2012 - New York Times (United States)
30 Nov 2012 - Gold FM interview (Australia)
3 May 2014 - The Guardian
27 November 2014 - IOL South Africa
23 July 2015 - Huffington Post
11 September 2015 - Sydney Morning Herald