Max Park reclaims 7x7 world record single with 1:32.07 solve

Max Park has reclaimed the 7x7 world record single, and the number that matters is not just 1:32.07, but how thin the margin has become at the top of big-cube solving. Park’s latest mark edged past Lim Hung’s short-lived 1:32.92, turning the record into the next flashpoint in a rivalry that now feels like the sport is measuring time in fractions of a second and ideas in entire new performance levels.

That is what makes this run feel bigger than a line in the records table. Lim Hung, Seung Hyuk Nahm, Ziyu Wu, DongSoo Park and Emmanuel Kao have all posted times that would have sounded unreal not long ago, and Park’s 1:32.07 pushed the benchmark forward again. His own previous official 7x7 single, 1:33.48, was already a statement; cutting more than a second off that on a puzzle this large is the kind of jump that signals genuine movement at the frontier, not just a clean solve on a good day. Park still holds the 7x7 average world record at 1:36.86, a reminder that this is sustained dominance, not a one-off burst.

The record fell at Western Championship 2026 in Riverside, California, where the World Cube Association listed 335 competitors across the May 23-25 event at the Riverside Convention Center. Guinness World Records says Park set the 1:32.07 single there on May 23, 2026, taking the record back from Lim Hung, who had set 1:32.92 in Dengkil, Selangor, Malaysia, on May 10, 2026. The WCA records page was updated on June 13, 2026, reflecting the new top time.

Park’s 7x7 average remains just as telling. Guinness says he set that 1:36.86 average at Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025 in Mission Viejo, California, on October 4, 2025, with solves of 1:33.48, 1:41.36 and 1:35.75. That same competition also produced his 6x6 average world record of 1:05.04, another sign that his big-cube form has been running at full speed across multiple events.

The WCA profile backs up the scale of the run: Park has competed in 213 competitions, completed 7,944 solves and amassed 91 world records. Lim Hung’s profile shows how close the chase has become, with a 1:32.92 7x7 single and a 1:40.65 average of his own. With every new record coming down to tenths, then hundredths, Max Park remains the name the whole NxN conversation keeps circling back to.