Cube championship
NZPA-Reuter Budapest A young Vietnamese refugee living in the United States has won the first world championship for the Rubic cube, solving the Hun-garian-invented puzzle in 22.95 seconds. Minh Thia, aged 16. beat Guus Schultz, of the Netherlands. who completed the puzzle in 24.32 seconds, and Zoltan Labas, of Hungary, who had a time of 24.49 seconds, in the 18-nation contest organised by Hungary's Foreign Trade Ministry. Competitors worked with cubes set identically by the
Hungarian Mathematics Instite. The jury included Erno Rubik, who invented the toyin 1975 to teach three-dimen-sional ' geometry to his mathematics students. The winner, who attends high school in Los Angeles, said he got his first Rubik cube in May, 1981, and within a week could solve it in less than two minutes. The first prize was a golden cube. Last month, a New Plymouth schoolboy, Mark Wilkinson, aged 12, solved the cube in 5.51 seconds, beating the world record by almost seven seconds.
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Press, 9 June 1982, Page 23
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