A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has solved a Rubik’s cube in five seconds, beating the previous world record time by 0.35 seconds.

    Lucas Etter was taking part in the River Hill Fall competition in Clarksville, Maryland, the U.S., on Saturday when he managed to unmix the 3x3 cube in just 4.9 seconds.

    Video of his feat shows an unruffled Lucas working out his strategy before completing the cube and leaping to his feet as the clock halted at 4.904 seconds.

    The World Cube Association confirmed that Lucas had beaten the previous best, but told Time magazine it was in the process of verifying it as an official world record.

    The previous fastest time was held by another teenager, Collin Burns, whose grip on the record lasted just seven months — an age in speedcube terms — after his 5.25-second victory in the Doylestown spring competition in April.

    Astonishingly, that world record time had already been beaten in the River Hall Fall competition on the same day, when Keaton Ellis managed 5.09 seconds.(SD-Agencies)