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- Teodor Zajder Crowned 3x3 European Champion in ArnhemMore than 1,000 speedcubers from 53 countries converged on Arnhem for the European Championship 2026, where Teodor Zajder claimed the 3x3 title and Ezra Hirschi set a blindfolded record most competitors can only dream of.
- Zhen Chen Breaks the Sub-7 Barrier in One-Handed SolvingZhen Chen became the first person to average under seven seconds solving one-handed, while a 10-year-old dethroned two European stars in Arnhem.
- BC Championship Sells Out as Vancouver's Field Nearly DoublesVancouver's BC Championship nearly doubled in size this weekend, while China's two fastest solvers went back-to-back and a South Korean FMC specialist quietly rewrote the Asian record books.
- Tarasenko Joins Sub-60 6x6 Club as WCA Overhauls TimersTimofei Tarasenko became just the second person ever to break one minute in 6x6, while the WCA moved to settle the "sliding" debate by mandating a new timer mode.
- Tarasenko Takes the 7x7 World Record From Max Park by 0.06Timofei Tarasenko took Max Park's 7x7 world record by six hundredths of a second. In Cape Town, Juandré Jacobs became African champion and Daniel Rush set three African records.
- CubersDen 1.6 for iPhone and Android + muscle memory modeThe new app brings group rooms, smart cubes in duels and typing times without the dot. And on the website you can now drill a PLL over and over until your hands know it by heart.
- Rush: a new game for your smart cubeA move flies at you, you turn it, the next one comes. Three lives, 30 or 60 seconds or until you miss three times, and a weekly leaderboard. Rush is live on CubersDen today.
- CubersDen comes to Apple TVYour smart cube on the big screen: a scramble you can read from the sofa, a timer the cube starts and stops, and every solve in your account. The app is with Apple for review; here is what it does.
- Your daily streak: a flame, rest days and a reminderCubersDen now counts how many days in a row you pick up the cube. One solve a day is enough, and when today is still empty your phone reminds you about your session.
- FTO in the TimerThe face-turning octahedron now has its own place in the CubersDen timer: random-state scrambles, a net after every scramble, sessions and stats like any other puzzle.
- Your solves now tick the OLLs and PLLs you knowSolve a case on a smart cube in one step and the OLL and PLL pages notice. Cases proven in real solves also count towards the OLL learned and PLL learned badges.
- CubersDen now speaks nine languagesPortuguese, Hindi, Filipino and Ukrainian join English, Polish, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Every lesson, hint and button, written for kids who read only their own language.
- Coach: what your smart-cube solves sayYour smart cube records every turn. The new Coach reads your latest solves and tells you where the seconds are, why your best solves were the best, and what changes week by week.
- Sessions Done Right, the Whole Solve List, and a Megaminx TrainerThree things you asked for on Discord: pick the puzzle first and see its sessions right there, scroll every solve of a session in the timer panel, and train the Megaminx last layer in four steps.
- Geng's 2.51 Still Stands as New England Waits on ResultsXuanyi Geng's 2.51 is still the 3x3 single world record, and the CubingUSA New England Championship results haven't been posted. Here is where the records and the season's big names stand.
- Every WCA event is in the timer now: blindfolded, Fewest Moves, Multi-Blind and relaysUntil last week the timer knew twelve puzzles. Now it knows all seventeen WCA events, plus the FTO and three relays, and the picker shows them in four tidy blocks instead of one long list.