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CULTURE · SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 It Took Its Inventor a Month. The Record Is Now 2.76 Seconds. Ernő Rubik built the first Rubik's Cube in 1974 to work out a problem in how solid objects can move, and then needed about a month to solve it himself. The official record now belongs to a nine-year-old in Poland at 2.76 seconds. Here is how a Hungarian classroom model became a 1980s craze, and why the times fell so far once the kids came back to it.