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6-year-old Chinese girl sets women’s Rubik’s Cube speed record

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BEIJING (AP) — A 6-year-old Chinese girl has set a new women’s world record by solving Rubik’s cubes at an average pace of just over four seconds per cube. Lian Yunzhi first broke the record earlier this month with an average time of 4.52 seconds at a World Cube Association-certified competition in the central Chinese...

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