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...25th event also saw the speedcubing world championships return to its "home" of Budapest where the Rubik's Cube was invented by academic and architect Erno Rubik in 1974, and where the sport's first world championships were held...
...More than 250 competitors from 33 countries made the trip and competed in events such as the 4X4 cube, the 5X5 cube, and foot solving events, in which cubers shed shoes and socks and manipulated the puzzles with their toes...
...addition to solving the "classic" 3X3 Rubik's Cube five successive times with a world-class average time of 12.46 seconds, Nakajima also earned 5,000 euros ($7,016) in prize money and now stands at the pinnacle of perhaps the world's most unusual sport...
...Arguably, the most challenging was the blind events, where competitors studied puzzles, donned blindfolds, and solved cubes by memory. Matyas Kuti, 14, of home nation Hungary stunned the Rubik's community by solving 18 successive cubes while blindfolded over a span of just 46 minutes (he was able to take off his blindfold between puzzles and briefly study each new cube): a performance that tournament spokesperson Ray Hodges hailed as a work of "genius...
...year-old Grada Ooms, members of the Netherlands' team, traveled to Budapest in an attempt to qualify and compete. Like many others, innate ability propelled Hop and Ooms, respectively the youngest and oldest competitors in the 2007 championships, to the sport's most prestigious tournament. Ooms solved her first cube only six months ago whilst young Hop has been cubing for only a year...