Specialist coaches and hours of practice a day: the making of China’s six-year-old Rubik’s Cube prodigy

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center · Published: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:00:22 GMT

Mother of Lian Yunzhi says world record a ‘dream come true’ for child who now gets autograph requests from fellow studentsThe mother of the six-year-old girl who broke the women’s world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in an average time of just over four seconds said the accolade was a “dream come true” for her daughter, who trains for up to three hours a day for competitions.“She was overjoyed and felt that all her hard work had paid off,” Lin Yangxi told the Guardian of her daughter’s feat. Continue reading...

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