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15-yr-old boy wins WCA World Championship
    2019-08-06  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

LOU YUNHAO, a 15-year-old boy from Shenzhen, stood on the winner’s rostrum at the WCA World Championship for solving a Rubik’s Clock in 4.73 seconds, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.

A Rubik’s Clock is a two-sided puzzle, each side presenting nine clocks. Four push buttons are available to control which clocks rotate. The clocks on both sides are intelligently connected, meaning that rotating clocks on one side may rotate several clocks on the other. The goal is to set all of the clocks to 12.

Lou told the reporter with the Daily that he nearly missed out on the championship in the final.

The competition’s rules stipulate that a puzzler has four to five seconds to observe the clock before timing begins. After the observation, the puzzler must keep the clock upright in front of him before he can start.

However, Lou’s clock fell on the table in the fourth round, deeming his result for the round invalid. Lou quickly adjusted his state of mind and his result in the fifth round was 4.42 seconds, which was faster than those in the previous four rounds.

According to the rules, the highest score and the lowest score are removed from the five rounds and the average score of the three remaining rounds is the puzzler’s final result. Lou eventually won the gold medal with an average score of 4.73 seconds.

“I was a little nervous at that time, but I didn’t think much about it. I focused on the next round. Before the competition, I had confidence in myself that I would definitely enter the top three, so winning the championship is not a surprise for me,” Lou told the reporter.

Lou began learning to solve the Rubik’s Clock in the summer of 2017. In October 2017, Lou entered his first competition, the WCA China 10th Anniversary Rubik’s Cube Competition, and came in third place.

At present, Lou has broken the world record four times, three of which were set by him.

To Lou, solving the Rubik’s Clock has opened up a new world for him. “I enjoy the process of solving the clock. At the same time, I have made many friends because of it,” Lou said.

(Zhang Yu)

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