This robot solved a Rubik’s Cube faster than you can blink
A robot just solved a Rubik’s Cube faster than you can blink - literally! Check out the mind-blowing moment here.
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, technology pulls another jaw-dropper.
A group of four students from Purdue University in the USA have officially built the fastest robot to ever solve a Rubik’s Cube… and it did it in just 0.103 seconds - breaking the Guinness World Record!
Yup. That’s less time than it takes to blink.
Actually, it’s literally faster than a blink. A typical blink takes around 200 to 300 milliseconds, and this bad boy cracked the cube in 103 milliseconds.
By the time you even register it’s moving, it’s done.
Meet Purdubik’s Cube - a robot born from a university co-op programme, late nights in the lab, and pure obsession with breaking records.
The genius squad behind it: Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta.
Their inspiration? A video from high school of MIT students solving the cube in 380 milliseconds.
Fast-forward a few years, and these Purdue students have smashed that time to pieces, shaving off not just milliseconds, but tenths of a second from the previous record.
Purdubik’s Cube isn’t just fast, it’s smart. The robot recognises colours, calculates its own custom-solving algorithms in real-time.
It uses industrial-grade hardware to twist and turn the cube at breakneck speed.
It’s basically a Formula 1 car for puzzle solving.
Watch the record-breaking moment here:
The coolest part is how insane the evolution of this record has improved over the years:
In 2009, Peter Redmond solved it in 1 min 4 sec
In 2016, Jay Flatland & Paul Rose achieved it in 0.9 sec
In 2024, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation achieved a crazy 0.305 sec
And now - in 2025 - Purdubik killed it in 0.103 sec
You can practically see the milliseconds disappear like magic.
At this rate, in a few years, we might just see it done in zero seconds with AI predicting the scramble.
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