George Scholey sets puzzle-cube mile record in just over five minutes
UK speedcuber and runner George Scholey has set a Guinness World Record for the fastest puzzle-cube mile – solving four cubes while running a mile in 5 minutes 9.25 seconds at a Toronto school track.
Forget parkrun PBs. George Scholey, a British speedcuber and runner raised in Northamptonshire, has just claimed a Guinness World Record for the fastest time to complete a puzzle cube mile – and he did it in 5 minutes 9.25 seconds.
The attempt took place on 12 October 2026 at the Central Tech high school track in Toronto, Canada. The method is gloriously mad: solve a cube, run one 400 m lap, repeat four times (the fourth lap stretched an extra 9.344 m so the distance added up to a full mile).
Stock photo: a puzzle cube – not from Scholey’s record attempt. Photo: Miguel Á. Padriñán / Pexels (Pexels Licence).
According to Guinness World Records, his cube solves landed around 9 s, 10.5 s, 8.5 s and 9.5 s, with laps roughly 67 s, 67 s, 70 s and 68 s – which is how you somehow turn brain-twisting plastic into a sub-5:10 mile.
AI illustration – imagined sprint-and-solve chaos; not the actual attempt.
Scholey already collects cube-related records like some people collect fridge magnets: most rotating puzzle cubes on a skateboard (500), most in 24 hours (6,931), and most while running a marathon (520 at the TCS London Marathon 2024 – a mark later broken by Toti Moragas Pardell with 561).
AI illustration – imagined celebration. (Spot Gaz, our gorilla, hiding somewhere in this picture.)
Four cubes. Four laps. Just over five minutes. Next time someone says you can’t multitask, send them Scholey.
Reported by Guinness World Records (6 Nov 2026) and UPI Odd News (6 Nov 2026).
