A 9-year old boy from Xuzhou in our very own Jiangsu Province has broken the world record for the fastest-average time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle, also known famously as the Rubik’s Cube, with a staggering time of 4.69 seconds.
来自江苏徐州的一名 9 岁男孩打破了解决 3x3x3 旋转拼图（又称魔方）最快平均时间的世界纪录，用时为 4.69 秒。
Wang Yiheng set the new world record in the recent semi-final of the Yong Jun KL Speedcubing 2023 event, held in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
不久前，在马来西亚首都吉隆坡举行的2023年勇军吉隆坡魔方赛事半决赛中，王一恒创造了新的世界纪录。
Yiheng took the record away from the joint holders, Max Park of the USA and Tymon Kolasiński of Poland, as GuinnessWorldRecords.com reported on 23 March.
据吉尼斯世界纪录网 3 月 23 日报道，一恒从共同保持者美国的马克斯·帕克 (Max Park) 和波兰的泰蒙·科拉辛斯基 (Tymon Kolasiński) 手中夺走了该纪录。
For competition events of this sort, the World Cube Association (WCA) requires entrants to complete five “solves”, after which the fastest and slowest times are discounted, before calculating the average time between the remaining solves, to produce a final score.
对于此类竞赛活动，世界魔方协会（WCA）要求参赛者完成五次“解决”，之后扣除最快和最慢的时间，然后计算剩余解决之间的平均时间，得出最终分数。
Yiheng recorded times of 4.35, 3.91, 4.41, 5.31 and 6.16 seconds, to complete the three-dimensional, rotating puzzle, which many a layman could not perform in a lifetime.
一恒的成绩分别为4.35秒、3.91秒、4.41秒、5.31秒和6.16秒，完成了许多外行人一生都无法完成的三维旋转拼图。
Post COVID, speedcubing has been among the first such gaming meets to take place in Asia. Of the three speedcubing competitions he has entered in 2023, Yiheng has won the entire set.
新冠疫情之后，速魔方成为亚洲首批举办的此类游戏赛事之一。在2023年参加的三场速魔比赛中，一恒赢得了整组比赛的冠军。
In Singapore, he even defeated Xu Ruihang, who is one of only a handful of people on Earth to have completed a cube on camera in under 3 seconds. That achievement, however, did not qualify as a world record, since it was not performed in an official WCA competition, and as such was not recognised by Guinness World Records.
在新加坡，他甚至击败了徐瑞航，徐瑞航是地球上少数几个在3秒内完成一个立方体的人之一。然而，这一成就并没有资格成为世界纪录，因为它不是在 WCA 正式比赛中进行的，因此没有得到吉尼斯世界纪录的认可。
Yiheng is sponsored by Guangzhou-based, cube-manufacturer, GanCube. A world leader in the speedcube industry, GanCube has diversified the puzzle into spinoff products, such as a 2x2x2 version, an octagonal version and even a logic-defying pyramid which can twist and turn just like the original.
亿恒由广州魔方制造商 GanCube 赞助。作为 SpeedCube 行业的全球领导者，GanCube 将拼图多样化为衍生产品，例如 2x2x2 版本、八角形版本，甚至是可以像原始版本一样扭曲和转动的反逻辑金字塔。
The Rubik’s Cube was an invention of Erno Rubik, a Hungarian professor who came up with the idea in 1974 as a teaching aid for his students.
魔方是匈牙利教授埃尔诺·鲁比克 (Erno Rubik) 的发明，他于 1974 年提出这个想法，作为学生的教具。
But even after he had created it, Rubik himself required over a month of research to solve the puzzle. Speaking with CNN Business in 2012, Rubik said, “[I was] thinking to myself things like, ‘I have one side and one turn is 90 degrees and if you turn it four times I’ll be back where I was’, and so on. You have to find rules and then you find the law of symmetry, the law of movements”.
但即使在他创造了这个难题之后，鲁比克本人也需要一个多月的研究才能解决这个难题。 2012 年，鲁比克在接受 CNN Business 采访时表示，“我当时在心里想，‘我有一侧，一圈是 90 度，如果你把它转四次，我就会回到原来的位置’，等等。你必须找到规则，然后找到对称定律、运动定律”。
There are supposedly 43 quintillion possible combinations, but only one solution, for the Rubik’s Cube. It remains the biggest selling toy in history.
据说有 43 亿种可能的组合，但只有一种解决方案，即魔方。它仍然是历史上最畅销的玩具。
