Kid Solves Rubik Cube In Seconds

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    • Publish Date: Jan 3 2017 11:56AM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 3 2017 11:56AM
Kid Solves Rubik Cube In Seconds

For 14-year-old Kabyanil Talukdar, it took just 32.709 seconds to solve the Rubik's Cube blindfolded at a competition held on June 28 and 29 in Secunderabad. This feat has earned him the twenty-first position in the blindfolded category of the World Cube Association (WCA). He now ranks 7th in Asia while occupying the top position in India. This young prodigy is on the verge of being included in the Limca Book of Records. He is aiming to break into the top 10 of WCA's blindfolded category and is also practicing hard to topple the reigning champion from Poland, Marcin Zalewski, who holds the record of 23 seconds. A student in the ninth standard at the Asom Jatiya Bidyalaya, Talukdar is the talk of the town with his photogenic memory amazing his peers and adults alike. Without the blindfold, Talukdar takes between 7 and 12 seconds to solve the cube and a speedy 12.06 seconds when he uses only one hand, for which he ranks forty-eighth in this category of the WCA. The whiz kid can also effortlessly solve other forms of the cube and is quite a prolific chess player as well. Since the cube holds the reputation of driving people to their wits' ends, several adults end up questioning their own intelligence quotients when they watch Talukdar demonstrating his expert ability to solve the cube. Talukdar believes that proper memorisation and execution is essential when solving the cube blindfolded. "I imagine a letter in each of the spaces and then try to place the letters in a cyclic manner. It requires proper usage of algorithms to solve it," he said. He shot to fame last year when he took part at Techniche, IIT-G's annual technological and management festival, where he was the champion at Rubik's Cube competition. He now wants young students to take up this skill to enrich their memory power."I want to support the game and my demonstrations have generated curiosity amongst my peers as well," said Talukdar. "We have received a letter from the Limca Book of Records and he will be mentioned in it shortly," said Hari Prasad Talukdar, Kabyanil's father. "He will be taking part in the Asian Championships to be held in Japan in November. It will be an important event and we have to arrange for his travel there," he added, discussing the next step in the list of his son's many achievements.
 

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