Collin Burns

In 2014, Burns set a North American continental record of 5.93 seconds for solving the 3×3×3 cube,^[1] and he beat the world champion at the time, Feliks Zemdegs, in the US Nationals 2014 speedcubing competition.^[2]

On April 25, 2015, Burns set the world record for the fastest 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube single solve with a time of 5.25.^[3][4][5] The solve was recorded at a Rubik's Cube competition at Central Bucks West High School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.^[6] He set the record age 15,^[4][6][7] and used the YuXin brand 3×3×3 cube.^[5][6] Burns solved the cube 0.3 seconds faster than the previous world record of 5.55 seconds, set by Mats Valk.^[8] His record lasted approximately seven months until being broken by Lucas Etter with a time of 4.90 on November 21, 2015.^[9][10]

Burns is now a researcher in the field of AI alignment.^[11] In 2020, a team of researchers, including Dan Hendrycks and Burns, developed the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) model, a benchmark to assess large-language models.^[12][13][14]

• Official website

• Collin Burns at Google Scholar

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