By Agence France-Presse

BUDAPEST–Japan’s Yu Nakajima won the Rubik’s Cube World Championships on Sunday in Budapest, the birthplace of the cult puzzle.

Nakajima averaged 12.46 seconds in arranging the six different colors of the six-sided classic 3×3 cube, which has nine panels on each side to arrange.

He beat Andrew Kang of the United States and Mitsuki Gunji, a fellow Japanese national.

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By Pablo Gorondi
Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary–After 25 years, the cube is coming home.

Hundreds of competitors are meeting for the fourth Rubik’s Cube world championship Friday in the Hungarian capital, which hosted the first such event in 1982.

The mechanical puzzle invented by Hungarian Erno Rubik sparked a global craze in the early 1980s. Some seven million cubes were sold last year.

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