Feliks Zemdegs - The road to 6.77

A short documentary on how Feliks progressed in the speedcubing world.
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[@perhapsperhaps5087]

Feliks 2019: *laughs at 4.22 seconds*

[@arizonaicedtea6438]

Yusheng du: laughs at 3.45 seconds

[@ericzhu6620]

robot: laughs in 0.38 seconds

[@perhapsperhaps5087]

Normal people: *laughs at 5 years and counting*

[@spooderdan9127]

@@arizonaicedtea6438 Feliks has 2 youtube videos of solves faster than that. 3.33 and 3.41 so Feliks still wins.

[@schlong8276]

@@spooderdan9127 Not official time though :>

[@aayush5196]

Can't believe it's been 10 years!! So many memories! I need to start cubing again

[@ZamuCubingLab]

We need a video update! :)

[@pietrovilla15]

Ciao! :D

[@dkrcubing5736]

Ciao

[@rayyanferoz7746]

Ciao

[@keithmasongsong3727]

He set a world record in his secong competition?!? Is Feliks even human?!?

[@graham_lively1732]

Keith Masongsong this was also when records could actually be beaten like that

[@SpeedcubingCentralspeedcuber]

well to be honest it was also considering that his area did not have competitions for a long time. So it was a while until his part of the world had a competition.

[@grease_551]

minh thai set a world record in his first competition

[@KatziiXD]

No it's a robot

[@Chrnan6710]

Feliks: Sub-20 in two months Me: Sub-35 in nine years

[@linuslan6553]

me: sub 20 in 3 years

[@user-uj2cq6rd8n]

mine was sub 35 in 3 months...that was 2 look oll and pll.Now i'm planning to master 1 look oll and pll to improve my speed

[@blankboi162]

Chrnan6710 it took me five months to get sub 30

[@blankboi162]

CGYT yeah very good

[@lorenzopistacio3178]

I agree feliks is so amzing, im sub 25 almost a year

[@welsonliong8607]

0:00 A legend was born

[@SpeedcubingCentralspeedcuber]

At 5:58, did I hear someone shout hacks?

[@omgmlg2490]

Yeah

[@5aketh]

yeah

[@caielm.195]

7:14 lol that kid took his cube right when feliks put his arm on the table

[@ninjabrickmaster234]

That's Tim major

[@ManlyGaga]

Feliks thought he was going to have a high five

[@bboydavid98]

It makes me happy to see his success and also to see your great support for him. It's very inspiring.

[@MaXXedOutCuber]

This has really inspired me! I hope to one day meet Feliks Zemdegs! You are just amazing sir! :D

[@blaecccuebbler7711]

In 2 days he’s in my home town in switzerland doing a competition lol

[@joeycubes68]

After two moths he was able to be sub 20 I have been cubing for a year and my pb is 23.22

[@nitra01]

Joseph Carinci lol ur pb is .3 seconds faster than my old record wow

[@joeycubes68]

My name is Patrick Star now it is 19.40

[@hlj3x379]

Joey Cubes my pb's 15 seconds after 2 years of Cubing

[@joeycubes68]

Teddylirious I just got a 14.04

[@cubingdood0449]

Really? I have been cubing for 4 ish months and I average around 20-22 seconds. I'm not that much behind where feliks was but he is WAYYYY better than I am.

[@kevinli2649]

Woah, so Feliks broke the single that day, and then beat it again, and broke the average wr? Shouldn't that be a wr for beating 3 wr in a day

[@debeastdueeast]

Wait, but if you give him a WR for breaking 3 WR within a day, shouldn't you give him a WR for breaking 4 WR in a day? Wait, if you give him 5 WR for breaking 3 WR within a day, plus the WR for that WR, shouldn't you give him a WR for having a WR WR or 3 WR? What?!?

[@kevinli2649]

no, if he breaks the world record multiple times, only his latest one counts

[@debeastdueeast]

Kevin Li I think you misunderstand me - your original comment was that he should get a World Record for getting 3 World Records within a day. I replied with a joke, saying that if he should get a World Record for getting 3 World Records in a day (Which would be 4 World Records, 3+1), then he should get a World Record for getting 4 World Records within a day (The 3 initial World Records + the World Record for getting 3 World Records), which would then mean that he should have 5 world records. And so on ad infinitum.

[@kevinli2649]

oh.... sry bout that

[@ninjabrickmaster234]

+Alister Haha recursion ftw

[@blaecccuebbler7711]

I was proud of sub 40 in 3 months until I watched this... :(

[@jeremiebazinet]

Wow i really like this video. Its full of hope and purity. You can make sure im taking my cube right now!

[@hoanggiangha6407]

He solve 3x3 Cube faster than I solve 2x2 cube.

[@Retsaleb]

Good information about him! thanks for this video

[@hoaiang7704]

I have watched this video sooo many times

[@lorenzopistacio3178]

I can see how amazing and fascinating the quality of the cubes back then

[@CubeMontster17]

Hey fazdad1, sorry to keep on bugging you about the musci you use, but what are the songs at the beginning and end of this vid? and are they available for download... and where? :P

[@spaztech]

I'm so late to this game, forty years old, started cubing this past December just to say I could solve one.. Currently rocking a solid 3.5 minute solve on the 3x3 and learning to hate "parity errors" on the 4x4. To see Feliks killing the 7 second barrier is awesome and humbling at the same time.. I'll be happy when I learn F2L and can get below 2 minutes.

[@supercoolmunkee]

He said ya sure if anyone can beat his world record, and Mats Valk followed his true champion words.

[@MarkManuel15]

Mats did it only 0.11 seconds faster, and plus, Mats holds only 1 world record, while Feliks holds quite a few.

[@MarkManuel15]

Look it up again Mats holds only one world record. He used to hold those but they've been beaten. Feliks holds right know 5, more than anyone in the cubing history.

[@MarkManuel15]

Feliks also beat his 4x4 world record, and beat him in the competations and holds way more records. So who's better?

[@MarkManuel15]

I know Mats is pretty good but I support Feliks!

[@iso8556]

Marcos Manuel are you some gayshit or something?

[@zacharywong2508]

Amazing!!

[@potofazherbaizan]

Feliks! Du bist immer fantastich!

[@EpicLitez]

awesome video

[@andres3019181510]

Oh men!!!!!! Feliks is my inspiration to be speedcuber, I have kind of the same age when I buy first cube, and I have been speedcubing for more or less 1 year and I am sub 15. My dream is to reach him and have the same spectacular times he have all the competitions. :)

[@IamHiding24]

PLEASE PLEASE DO a road to championship it would be awesome! This video sure was!

[@MrCar651]

1 question...what technik do you use to solve cube...I use f2l,2 look OLL and 2 look PLL do you do that aswell or not? (if you do ofcuorse you don't use 2 look )

[@adamriza9460]

He is one of the speedcuber that inspired me at cubing

[@1fastcubesolver]

that's a fantastic video, you should be proud of your son.

[@FredericCoryn]

So inspiring. good job

[@Thejeditusken2]

what type of cube was feliks using as his main before the lubix ultimate and dayan zanchi? i can't tell if it's a c4u cube or a alpha v because it has c4u stickers but sounds like an alpha v

[@Cheater1231000]

David, i have a question to him, is only practising the best way to get faster? Solving and solving again? Or did he do something else?

[@wefdeas]

do you use full oll and pll and if you do, how long did it take you to learn them all?

[@pgus-zv3cd]

Feliks is an amazing speedcuber!

[@sumitsarkar2007]

awesome video ... loved it :-)

[@jackblk4]

Amazing!

[@CubeChampions9999]

Where did you bought the 3x3 on 0:43 and the 2x2x2 on 1:48 from??

[@brunodu92]

i don't find video in youtube have you a link?

[@nortykid3017]

Hello David. I love the music at the beginning of the video. What is the name of that song?

[@ZemdegsD]

The song is called 'Soneta Nemieram' . It was written by a Latvian rock band I was in back in the eighties.

[@nortykid3017]

@@ZemdegsD Awesome! Thanks for responding.

[@rprb1957]

@fazdad1 Thank you for uploading this video, it is an inspirational journey that will help many people to work harder in order to accomplish their goals. I am one of those people who will try harder to accomplish my goals thanks to this video.

[@kevinli2649]

Feliks started subbing 20s after just 3 months, I've inky been cubing for 3 months and I'm still in the 30s. I hope he realized when he was 13 he would one day be one of the most famous solvers in history

[@KongXJ168]

please will you announce it somehow so that i can be sure that im there to meet him?

[@Thejeditusken2]

@fazdad1 are there any seen videos of him solving a magic?

[@RoSs3897]

is Zemdegs part of his first name or is it his middle name? i just ask because you said that his surname is Latvian. it kind of confused me a little bit.

[@stephenbrush1042]

At 7:27 an image of a speed solving book titled "SPEEDSOLVING THE CUBE" pops up for half a second. Was that a book Feliks used?

[@brunodu92]

who's the song in the beginning of the video??

[@FUkOffMAFFiA112]

Hey fazdad do you know what tutorial Felix watched?

[@sune7482]

How did he get to sub 20 into two months? I'm barely sub 23 into about a year if I am correct.

[@supercoolmunkee]

So how many other talents does Feliks has beside cubing and playing piano. Maybe you should get a film of him doing some piano stuff, I would love to see that and hopefully other people as well! I think it be awesome if you do upload some piano videos that Feliks can do.

[@Matthewc4311]

You should do one called "The road to greatness" And then show every single world record he has (Shortened of course) and then show his most recent one at the end

[@Guinea.Pig-Gaming]

This boy was built for cubing.

[@RonaldGarcia92]

i have 18 years old... this kid 15... wow... he is my hero...

[@mayurak47]

Feliks is really one awesome guy!

[@megaspikedude1]

What kind of speed cube does Felix use? I wanna get one

[@all4Shil]

thanx.

[@r.p.cubers4900]

I've been cubing for 2 months and my average is 18.42 ao100, and my best is 15.24, but this was before the internet was a major part of our lives and the algs and stuff has improved drastically so he is god.

[@BlazertronGames]

How?! I've been cubing on and off for like 7 years and my average is around 25, lol. Do you know full oll?

[@IDK-bg6im]

Took almost a decade for the world record to be half of that

[@tianaaponte1901]

What is that cube for the 9.21

[@marvin_quitalig]

Feliks zemdegs please make a tutorial of all patterns.... in 3rd layer and the last layer movess.. please.... :)

[@lalovelylenea]

Ayyyeee. thx for the inspiration, now I gotta learn a 3x3 cube lol

[@DaniGuhong]

I dont understand one thing , in 0:41 , the photo of feliks's channel is of the Australian championchip 2010 right? , if is , i dont understand the date: 6-14-2008? , in conclusion fazdad1 , your soon is BRILLIANT ;)

[@adityarajsrivastava6580]

Feliks is definitely a legendary cuber.

[@Unigardy]

i started cubing in fifth grade but unfortunately didnt find the community or speedcubes so i sort of forgot about it until seventh grade. however i took long breaks even since then, so i havent progressed as much as i could have. :(

[@81elpedro]

really cool!!!!

[@HermanAnimation]

Things like this slightly discourage me from cubing. My best is 25.56 seconds achieved in about a year of solving, most of the time I didn't even practice. Even though I am not a good speedcuber I try to beat my times. That feeling when you beat your record is just great!

[@dioyt2423]

2019 anybody?........

[@SpeedcubingTV]

Hey,can you please tell me how much does Feliks practice? :D

[@cubingbox1282]

What timer is that?

[@daffy27144504]

what cube is he using at 3.55?

[@59fiftycap]

Nice he is very fast!!! Does he have any plans on beating christian kaserer 0.69 seconds 2x2?

[@rileywoo]

2:35 the guy talking on the mic keeps on glancing at Feliks. Great job!

[@Kenny1476]

Do you know which method Feliks use?

[@aydennguyen162]

0:00 feliks did squan?

[@ileachoffeverything6535]

sqaure-1?

[@rainpaw4]

@fazdad1 Just update and kind of say how he got from 6.77 to current WR (5.66)?

[@5BLD]

Wow, his turning speed was incredibly fast even when he was averaging only 22 seconds. Explains much of his incredible turn speed now...

[@will21ish]

What type of cube does he use now?

[@garnerthecube7524]

Now he’s gotten a solve about half that time! 3.28

[@janess1007]

what cube does he use at 1:27

[@jozzerubik]

feliks, you are the greatest of all time

[@powerofthecube]

@itsdemisselb1 dont worry, fridrich method should probably come next. and btw, pll, oll, f2l are different stages of solving. fridrich is really good b/c it has 2-look pll, 2-look oll, and intuitive 1 step f2l. i can get at around 30 seconds, but ive also just started cubing again.

[@taiduc95]

He improved so fast :O

[@IamHiding24]

PLEASE do a road to championship!

[@coolster01]

its the 1 year anniversary!

[@islwyn96]

In the first clip the 19 second solve, did he use full oll and pll? Cus he would have learnt it pretty quick?!

[@Cheater1231000]

Thank you for fast answer, without fail? what do you mean? thank you!

[@Mushi98]

i remember he said somewhere he first learnt to solve the cube with dan brown's beginners method

[@FCCZJ1903]

Great video! You must be a proud dad ;)

[@YNSYADGDWTC]

Has Feliks ever been to the UK open and if he has will he ever come again?

[@MegaAnonymousJoker]

Was he CN at his first comp ?

[@ghiffarifaza98]

he so unbelieveble

[@oprah62]

cool video!

[@ayoubkherouf652]

yeah

[@MagicCube89]

nice video ! :D

[@Dezu123]

3:58 sub 9 with this locks, on this cube... Its RC I think. Sick

[@MisterPaul1997]

greeteings from Romania

[@robendefinitely]

Wtf 9 years later You sure proud

[@skateaws2010]

did they already happen. if not when is he coming

[@thecubemeister]

That is absolutely insane how fast he got in so little time. I've been cubing for about a year now and im only at a 16ish average

[@justaregularhumanbeing]

How you doing now

[@pawanbasera431]

Who is seeing it in 2020

[@supercoolmunkee]

Yo fazdad1? Is Feliks gonna be teaching his son/daughter how to cube by the time hes a dad? I feel like we 90s kids are awesome like we're going to be awesome parents once we show our kids how to solve the rubiks cubes and then there friends in the future will be amaze at how they can do it!

[@iprohunter1]

i need to kno how to solve it faster all i know is the fredrich method any other methods should i kno pls help?

[@ZemdegsD]

Jack Black You'll need to ask that on the speedcubing forum

[@maps600]

fridrich is a good method.. its what feliks uses. however, alex lau, another very fast cuber ("5BLD" on youtube) Uses the roux method. Both are equal.

[@maps600]

***** faster w/ cfop but switching to roux because its more fun i average 11 with cfop and 14-15 with roux