Tymon Kolasiński breaks 4x4 world record at Spanish Championships
Tymon Kolasiński stunned the Spanish Championships with a 15.18 4x4 single in round one, taking Max Park’s record and resetting the elite bar.
Tymon Kolasiński turned the first round of 4x4 at the Spanish Championship 2025 into a record-breaking moment, and he did it under full championship pressure in Tarragona, Spain. His 15.18-second solve was fast enough to wipe Max Park’s previous world record single of 15.71 off the books and immediately become the new mark to beat.
The timing mattered as much as the number. This was not a quiet practice solve or an isolated exhibition run. It came in a WCA championship round, with judges, timers, and a crowd around the table, which is exactly the kind of setting where 4x4 records tend to feel most dramatic. One scramble and one execution reset the top of the event.
The result also landed in the middle of a rivalry that has helped define the modern 4x4 scene. Park and Kolasiński have repeatedly traded top times, and Kolasiński’s latest breakthrough pushed that contest a step further. Guinness World Records confirmed the 15.18 as the fastest time to solve a 4x4x4 rotating puzzle cube, achieved on 7 December 2025 in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, while Park’s prior record came at the Colorado Mountain Tour - Evergreen 2024 in Evergreen, Colorado, USA, on 8 June 2024.
Kolasiński’s World Cube Association profile underlines how deep his big-cube credentials run. The 15.18 is listed there as his current 4x4 world record single, alongside a 4x4 average personal best of 18.56. His broader profile shows 191 competitions and 9,080 recorded solves, plus elite results elsewhere, including a 3x3 single personal best of 3.56 seconds and a 3x3 average best of 4.62 seconds.
Park still owns the 4x4 world record average at 18.74, which keeps the event picture tight even after the single record changed hands. That balance is part of why the solve resonated so quickly across the community: 4x4 remains complex enough that every tiny advantage matters, yet one clean round can still produce a headline solve that changes the conversation instantly.
A later reconstruction of the solve only added to the buzz around it, showing how much attention a single championship run can draw when it lands on the edge of what the event has ever seen. In Tarragona, Kolasiński did more than win a round. He reopened the ceiling for the entire 4x4 field.
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