Minh Thai
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Minh Thai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Thai standing next to the timer after setting his 22.95 world record single | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Known for | Rubik's Cube speedsolver | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Minh Thai (born 1965 as Thái Minh) is a Vietnamese-American speedcuber. As a sixteen-year-old Eagle Rock High School student from Los Angeles, he won the first Rubik's Cube world championship on June 5, 1982, in Budapest by solving a Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.[1] He is also the author of the book The Winning Solution (1982), a guide to solving the Rubik's cube.[2] Later, the Ortega Corners-First Solution Method was developed based on Thai's Winning Solution.[3][4][5]
Thai's solution was based on The Ideal Solution, published in 1980 by the Ideal Toy Company. It involves solving the top, bottom, and middle layers, in that order.[6]
World records
| Event | Type | First World Record | Latest World Record | Total |
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| 3×3×3 | Single | 22.95s World Rubik's Cube Championship 1982 5 June | 22.95s World Rubik's Cube Championship 1982 5 June | 1 |
