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Max Park sets 7x7x7 single and average world records — plus 6x6x6 average — at Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025

Max Park solving a large cube at a competition table, hands in motion over a timer as spectators and judges look on.

A month after the Rubik’s WCA World Championship 2025, the big-cubes era took another leap forward in Southern California. On October 4, 2025, at Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025 in Mission Viejo, United States, Max Park delivered a trio of record-breaking performances: a 7x7x7 single world record of 1:33.48, a 7x7x7 average world record of 1:36.86, and a 6x6x6 average world record of 1:05.04. The clean sweep came in a single-day local competition hosted inside Trabuco Hills High School’s multi-purpose room and was verified on the World Cube Association (WCA) results page shortly after the event.

Background/Context

Park’s Mission Viejo surge caps an already dominant 2025 on big cubes. Back in April, at Burbank Big Cubes 2025, he lowered the 6x6x6 single world record to 57.69, the first official sub-58 and a milestone that underscored how close the event now sits to the once-unthinkable sub-1:00 barrier in average. At the World Championship in October (Atlanta), Park won both 6x6x6 and 7x7x7 titles with commanding finals performances, reaffirming his supremacy on the largest official WCA NxN events.

The Mission Viejo records extend a multi-year stretch in which Park has consistently pushed down big-cube times. He first cracked 7x7 in 2019 with world-beating marks at CubingUSA Nationals, then cut them repeatedly in 2022 and 2024. The latest improvements topple his previous 7x7 single of 1:34.15 and average marks set at the Rubik’s WCA North American Championship 2024 (Minneapolis). They also arrive as the field strengthens: names like Tymon Kolasiński, Lim Hung, and DongSoo Park have all applied pressure on the upper end of big-cubes podiums this season. Even with that competition, Park’s 2025 pace has been relentless.

How the records fell in Mission Viejo

Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025 provided a compact schedule and a quietly electric environment. In 7x7x7, Park posted a blistering 1:33.48 single—now the fastest official time ever recorded—within an average that read 1:33.48 / 1:41.36 / 1:35.75 for a world record mean of 1:36.86. The solve set is notable for its consistency: all three solves were cleanly sub-1:42, with the record single anchored by a smooth last layer and no visible hesitation in the final turns.

In 6x6x6, Park packaged three precise solves—1:04.60, 1:04.80, 1:05.73—to produce a world record average of 1:05.04. The times show both stability and a controlled risk profile: each attempt flirted with the boundary of a sub-1:05 single without sacrificing safety. That balance reflects the strategic evolution of big-cube attempts at the elite level, where maintaining TPS through parity management, center efficiency, and edge pairing decisions can decide records as much as pure turning speed.

For context, here are the headline numbers from Park’s late-season run:

  • 7x7x7 single WR: 1:33.48 (Mission Viejo, Oct 4, 2025)
  • 7x7x7 average WR: 1:36.86 (Mission Viejo, Oct 4, 2025)
  • 6x6x6 average WR: 1:05.04 (Mission Viejo, Oct 4, 2025)
  • 6x6x6 single WR earlier in the year: 57.69 (Burbank, Apr 26, 2025)

The Mission Viejo results page also recorded that Dylan Miller won 3x3x3 with a 5.89 average—an illustration of how local California competitions routinely blend world-class headliners with rising regional talent across events.

Significance/Impact

Park’s latest 7x7 marks tighten the window between the best single and the best average, suggesting that sub-1:35 singles and sub-1:36 averages may be within reach if conditions align. Compared with his 2019 benchmarks—1:40.89 single and 1:52.43 average—the 2025 results represent a dramatic step-change in both efficiency and consistency. The technical gap is closing not only due to improvements in TPS and lookahead but also through refinements in method choices: smarter center workflow, more reliable edge pairing sequences, and robust last-layer strategies that mitigate pauses.

On 6x6, the Mission Viejo average WR of 1:05.04 pairs with the 57.69 single from April to redraw the event’s landscape. The distance between average and single is narrowing, and the community conversation has already shifted to whether the next frontier is a sub-1:05 average barrier or pushing single into mid-56 territory. Either way, Park’s 2025 season has reframed expectations for both events and set a higher bar for contenders aiming to contest big-cube finals at majors.

The records also matter culturally. Local, one-day competitions remain the backbone of the WCA ecosystem, and seeing world records set outside of championship stages reinforces that community-driven meets—supported by regional organizers, delegates, and volunteers—are where much of the sport’s true progression happens. Mission Viejo, Burbank, and similar California venues have become incubators for historic moments precisely because elite athletes like Park use them strategically to test form, hardware feel, and workflow under official conditions.

What’s next

With only a handful of North American events left on the 2025 calendar, Park’s Mission Viejo treble may stand as the season’s final word on big cubes. Looking ahead to 2026 continentals and a busy spring schedule, the immediate questions are clear:

  1. Can 7x7 push toward the low-1:30s for single and mid-1:30s for average?
  2. Will 6x6 averages consistently threaten sub-1:05—and if so, who can follow Park there?
  3. How quickly will the broader field adapt with training and tuning to close the gap?

For now, the numbers from October 4 speak for themselves: three world records, two events, one day. In a year already packed with landmark results, Mission Viejo gave big-cubes fans one more moment to remember—and a new set of targets to chase in 2026.