You may have seen my blog post last week letting everyone know the news that Chinese Speedcuber, ZiYu Wu had broken the megaminx world record average, well somehow, he did it again last weekend too at Guangzhou special 2025.
He first achieved an average of 24.87 seconds, beating his previous world record average of 25.15 seconds from last weekend and becoming the first cuber to ever achieve a sub-25 second average in megaminx. During this average he also achieved a single of 22.86 which was an Asian Record single and 2nd only to Timofei Taresenko's single of 22.05 (I guess Russia is considered Europe for the WCA even though the majority of their land is in Asia).
But in the final, he went on to break his own world record average yet again as he achieved an average of 24.76 seconds, it is quite rare we see the world record go down twice on the same day and at the same competition. When this happens, the WCA doesn't actually count the first World Record as a real World Record, the famous incident of this was when Keaton Ellis's 5.09 world record single in 2015 never actually counted because Lucas Etter achieved a 4.90 single a few hours later at the same competition! Of course, in this case, it was the same cuber 'keatoning' himself.
There have been a few accusations of ZiYu Wu deliberately slowing down his previous times to keep breaking world records as it is quite evident he waited over a second before stopping the timer on his final solve but it will be very difficult to prove that it was 100% deliberate and intentional and megaminx is very competitive anyway. I have heard that ZiYu Wu practices with two megaminxes, his dad will scramble one of them while he solves the other one, this means that he is constantly solving megaminxes during the practice sessions and is thus more efficient!
