World Championship Rubik's Cube 1982 

Fun fact: most of these guys learned their tricks on cubes with the "japanese color scheme" where blue is opposite white. However all the cubes in this competition had the modern color scheme where yellow is opposite white, meaning there's a fair chance a faster time could've been had if they were more used to the color scheme

0:51 "mr rubik and his cubic"

Amazing how much speed cubing has changed. The amount of rotations alone... they constantly were looking around the cube and performing rotations decades ago. I love seeing these things to understand just how far we've come and all we've learned. And I'm still no where close to these times yet, and I have the luxury of using modern cubes designed for speed, with magnets and all that jazz. These people were going at it on the rough original Rubik's branded cubes. That alone is insane!

Oh man. We've come a long way since that, huh

Imagine Felix Zemdegs travel to the past and join this competition

They got Mr. Rubiks for the referee of World Rubiks Championship! What a day.

15:00 for the world record

Couldn't help but notice the names Fridrich and Petrus were in this championship. They would each go on to have solving methods named after them (I think most speedcubers are familiar with the Fridrich method). Pretty interesting that they were both competing in this event.

I was supposedly going to study, but i need to see this I don't regret it

24:33 they never had the championship again 😔

And come again when we are having the championships again in Budapest Bye Bye! 82 🤩 83 😁 84 😄 85 😃 86 😀 87 🙂 88 😌 89 😕 90 🙁 91 ☹️ 92 😞 93 😣 94 😖 95 😫 96 😩 97 😭 98 🫡 99 😮 00 😏 01 🥺 02 😊 03 🥹 04 😎 The last Bye bye for 21 years… In 2003 we said hello again to speedcubing and in 2004 the return was here to stay. Thank you Ron for the WCA. We love you and your idea.

ah yes, “Study the cube for 15 seconds”

Now I know why I learned swedish. :-) I also started cubing in the 1980s, but it took me 36 years to become faster than Minh Thai. :-)

Damn that is some good grafic. My tablet can barely show 3 by 3 pixels man

Quality was VHS quality with CC's in Swedish, but at least it's good enough to see what Petrus and Schultz are doing in slow mo.

Delegates now: 8 seconds, 12 seconds (damn this guy is inspecting forever) Delegates 1982: He doesn’t even want the full 15 seconds! 🕵️‍♂️ 🧐 He only wants 10 how incredibly remarkable, he’s a genius!😮 🤔

A lot of these people are in their 60s now :/

It’s been 40 years since!!!

They get 29 seconds on average but I get 47 seconds on average with CFOP

Mr. van Bruchem, congratulations

Thought the sign said Rubix cube worshiping 1982 for a second

WCA should’ve kept the life story reading that the dude was doing for every contestant

They have no fingertricks, but they're fast.

I guarantee you no one in this room would believe me if i told them 32 years from now there will be a 10 year old kid who solves the cube in under 4.5 seconds ON AVERAGE

A more wholesome time.

I see the inspection time was still 15 seconds.

Man, those days it was so formal, we even had lawyers and juries and sealed cubes.

why dont we have these intros these days

I dreaming about this Rubik's competition and it's took place in Belgia, i thought is was just in my dream and when i search about it It's real 😳. I never heard about this competiton before

this took place at least 38 years ago.... holy hell

i typically get a 25 second average .. about the same as the competitors

it would be amaizing to change a perfect cube change it to a pattern mixed up....do you understand?

he's doing fingertricks :0

nice 😊

Rubik's cube world champion Budapest 1982 (1982-2003) 0:01

I love how this dude is still better than me.

17:05 Lars Petrus

times when 2 weeks was fast...

Anyone know what method they were using? There weren't a lot of pauses just lots of extra movements.

Where the referee come from great britain has 4 countries north ireland wales scotland or england

My mother wasn’t even born when this was aired 😂.

24:40 Outro

my dad is born in 1982 Jul 22

What is this song

15:29 We’ve come for this

HOLA Me suscribo saludos desde Colombia

What is the song at the end?

Funny how the required a lawyer and a sealed case for the scrambles, lmao.

The guys are like “10 MINUTES A NEW RECORD”

apparently USA only has 15 states in 1982.

15:27 Minh Thai (22.95) World Record

Daaaaaamn a good time to compete

I am seen 2024 yo

1:23:00 is the first wr

15:29 minh thai 22.95

Set english translate and start at begining

that intro song sounded like something from willy wonka

Is that the Lars Petrus who invented Petrus and several other method or subset?

Damnn

Study the cube :) Inspecting

15:50

Someone tell me what is the original rubiks cube to buy

wonder what method they use

No way this video is in swedish 😂 I never hear my languege in mainstream media

Vietnam mindful But is go to USA to live (after war)

Yo

cf method

That German had DNF

Viet Nam

HOW DARE THEY TURN THE CUBE WITHOUT FINGER TRICKS.

I love Minh Thai

dat referee lol

We now use more better cubes and now with my gan i average 25 secodns and some. Guys with trash cubes are near my time ;-;

Is it only me, or is the first competitor is somewhat a showoff lier

What is the method

Unbelievable 14 seconds. Even I can beat that. Yeet

A lot of re gripping

23:23 United States of America Wins!!!!