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It's amazing how close Bob's guesses are to the real situation. You do need a judge there to verify the time, and they write it on a score card and both the competitor and the judge need to sign for the time for it to count. Regarding the technical difficulties, it doesn't apply to Keaton, but that very same day, a couple states over, Collin Burns set a time of 5.15 which was also quicker than world record at the time (which he already held). But that time didn't count because he'd received the incorrect scramble. It was an absolute crazy day because two records prior to 2015 each stood for around two years, yet the record was broken 2 or 3 times in a single day (depending on whether you count Collin's). And yes, there are thousands of people solving at competitions all over the world every weekend, and it's really hard tracking the exact moment a solve takes place with time zones, etc. If a record is broken multiple times on the same calendar date, only the best result is recognized as breaking that record.

Initial thoughts: It can't be a case similar to a previous question where the contestant quickly nodded to drop his blindfold over his eyes, and somehow got disqualified? Maybe there was an error with the printing/manufacturing of the cube and there was two sides with the same colour? Or some sides/parts of the cube were already solved right from the (pseudo) random manufacturing/reshuffling? Was it because he was "hand-challenged" and thus used some form of disqualifying assistance or simplification of the task?

This was one of those "I'm shouting the answer at the screen but none of them are listening to me" questions. >_<

This same thing has happened a few times, but instead of 2 different people getting the record, it was Max park beating the World Record TWICE in the same average! So only the best time counted as the official WR. (6x6 cube btw)

As an Australian retail worker I would only accept intact notes.

Recording my guess after Tom says you start blindfolded: was the cube scrambled randomly, and the starting configuration was later judged to be "too easy" to solve?

so Keaton Ellis DID hold the world record .. but for only an hour or so 🤔🤔🤔

My guess was that William wasn't actually answering the phone, but picking up the land line that hadn't yet rung so he could dial someone else, and happened to pick up right when Justin had called.

These captions are amazing! I know Tom did a video about captions, so it should be no surprise. The color-coded text to indicate who's talking I expected. The superscripts over 09 to indicate the two ways she said it is a level after next level!

Tom, you can’t try to enforce the rules of improv on your podcast and then complain when it turns into Whose Line is it Anyway.

Guessed this one immediately. But I have a great story about Meet Joe Black. I had been corresponding online with Ron Osborne (who co-wrote the movie with his long-time writing partner Jeff Reno) because he would come online as a writer for the great Duckman animated series and chat with fans. He was nervous about how the movie would do because it's incredibly long, and I told him "Hey, I can go to the preview if you'd like and report back how the audience reacts." He said that would be great and I did that and the audience seemed to enjoy the film and nobody walked out (during the movie, anyway!) So he was happy to hear that. He then told me he especially appreciated my effort because he was kind of bummed out, as he had just been fired from his other TV job by the producer, a young whippersnapper named Rob Thomas (who would later on become famous as the creator of Veronica Mars). I happen to know Rob from way back, so I called him up at his Hollywood home next door to Britney Spears's house and asked him about the situation. Then I sent another message to Ron saying "Hey man -- Rob says he loves you guys and he never would fire you! That decision came from higher up." And he just about crapped his pants, because he had no idea why this oddball Duckman fan from Austin, Texas was calling his (ex)boss at home in his 8 million dollar brand new Hollywood mansion!!! I love it when the world gets small like that!

Some of us, just some of us, were yelling at RUclips from the first minute. Children, children, children.

I obviously knew the answer to this right away but I feel that this can't be that unusual, surely other sports and hobbies have the same issue? Maybe you can all talk about Matty Hiroto Inaba's 3.08 at US nationals last year next? Or one of the many miscrambles world records? I feel there are many more interesting things for this show in cubing that are unique to cubing.

2:43 Because back in the day people would get into drunken arguments at the bar over obscure records, so Guiness took advantage with a marketing ploy to publish a book of world records and put them in bars. The books were popular in bars to settle the drunken arguments and were plastered with the Guiness brand, encouraging people to celebrate winning the argument by ordering a Guiness. The book became super popular, and they kept updating it to include new records. And then people started trying to do records to get themselves into the book. Now, it's a pretty shady business practice where "winning" the record really means paying an exorbitant fee to Guiness in order to fly out one of their "officials". It's even something used by fascist governments to build press and legitimize their "country", by paying to have a new world record recorded there. And, of course, few of these records mean anything, they're just the most obscure thing someone can find that doesn't already have a record.

4:21 this actually did happen about a year ago. matty hiroto inaba got a 3.08 at us nationals but it didnt count because it was in a practice comp simulation and not the actual round

rip keaton wr holder in our hearts

Shouldn't the 1000 points go to Karen? Technical difficulties?

Ooh, I thought it was that the cube was scrambled but happened to end up in a nearly-solved arrangement. IIRC, there's a rule that if the position is solvable in less than x moves, then that solve doesn't count.

Didn't the same thing happen fairly recently when Max Park got one of the low 4 wr's? EDIT: Actually, I think he beat himself that time.

thought this whas the one where it whas technically world record, but the person didnt have to do enough moves, making it not count

"Episodes 69 and 420 are ones you would celebrate!" The internet summarized in one sentence.

Keaton is still a WR holder to me!

yep

Have they had a similar question (possibly in sport) before? I feel like the actual answer is also the first logical guess to “record performance didn’t become a record.”

Before watching, I have two ideas: 1- It took him 1 hour, 0 minutes and 5.090 seconds, but the clock they use only has seconds and milliseconds. He's just like me. 2- The cube was already done from start except for one flip. It took him 5 seconds to make that single flip. He's like me for real no cap.

Calling it now, before watching: The stingray shuffle, baby!

I thought i hsve seen a video where someone solves a cube, slams the cube on the table, so we see when the clock should stop, but raises their hands in victory so the clock keeps going.

5:16, You actually do need to sign the scorecard, and your time could get removed if you forget.

4:47 It’s actually thing people like to do during DST where cubers will do a solve while the clocks change to get a “negative time”. It’s not official or anything just a fun thing people like to do.

4:50 What’s funny is this is actually something cubers do every year during daylight savings, they call it the negative time solving challenge. You start before the clocks turn back and end after, leaving you with a “negative” solve time.

I don't think it was a record time, but there's a video here on RUclips of a kid getting the tournament time, but one of the cube sides twisted as the cube hit the mat before his hands did and it disqualified his time.

My guess: He did it blindfolded, however blindfolded cubing is its own category thus not valid for the regular (unblindfolded) category which was what was taking place at the time. Edit: Ouch.

The world record at the moment is a staggering 3.13 seconds set by a 21yo Korean American Max Park in 2023.

So proud to have as many world records as Keaton Ellis

This is my first time hearing Lizzy Skrzypiec and I would like her voice to be all general voices, now. Like if I'm talking to someone, I hear their voice, listen to a song, it's the person singing, but everything else, I would be happy to hear her voice, i think. Just glorious.

Yes, Tom, there is an unofficial "negative solving time" record. You start solving just before 3 AM at daylight savings time changeover, and finish just after 2 AM. Many people have times faster than -59:50.00. The difficulty is staying up late, and you can only attempt this once per year, and only in certain countries or states.

Tom has a habit of Tomsplaining answers once someone else has given it.

I was there for that record lol

There is a video out there where a speed cuber completed a cube but on the last turn a corner spun and that nullified his time.

4:57 THANK YOU LIZZY for challeging Tom's weird "yes and" obsession. *If the guess is wrong, it's wrong dammit!!*

Keaton finally gets some more recognition!! spoiler Cubers actually have a term that was invented because of this event; if a competitor is "keatoned", that competitor set a new record (usually a WR) and then lost it to someone else within the same day, causing it to not be counted as a record. While Keaton didn't officially get the record, at least his name still lives on as part of Rubik's cube history.

I thought it might be that the cube was accidentally not mixed enough. I mean, I'm pretty sure I can beat the record if it only takes one move to solve. Maybe two if I get some practice.

Is it possible that When he solved it, when it hit the table it unsolved?

5:28 that almost happened to me

currently at 5:12 and im gonna guess that they tuck the legs cos theyre mimicking the fake-animal/hidden-cameras that are all propped up on one shaft or something edit: okay i was almost right, but kinda missing crucial details. i'll take this as a 0.5. currently at 2.5 out of 62 on these im on fire🔥🔥

RIP Keaton.

man I wish full episodes were on youtube.

The key to why it was not recognized is that both times were recorded _in the same round._ It's equivalent to a foot race in which both the first and second place runners beat the previous record. I don't know if both solves were on the same scramble. I'm sure the answer is somewhere on the official web site.

I love that they call football stadiums an auditorium but multiple people know intricate details about Rubiks Cube tournaments

This one laid an egg.