Feliks Zemdegs

Who is Feliks Zemdegs?

Feliks Zemdegs is an Australian Rubik's Cube speedsolver. His surname is Latvian, and his maternal grandparents are from Lithuania. Feliks 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, Yau method to solve the 4x4x4 cube and the CLL method to solve the 2x2x2 cube.

Feliks won the first competition he attended, the New Zealand Championships 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, Feliks 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 Rubik's cube world championship in Las Vegas in July 2013 and also came first in the 4x4 and 3x3 One handed.