''The Speed Cubers'' is a 2020 documentary on the lives of

speedcubing Speedcubing (also known as speedsolving, or cubing) is a competitive sport involving solving a variety of combination puzzles, the most famous being the 3x3x3 puzzle or Rubik's Cube, as quickly as possible. An individual who practices solving tw ...

champions

Max Park Max Park is an American Rubik's Cube speedsolver who is currently tied with Tymon Kolasiński of Poland for the world record average of five 3×3×3 solves (by WCA standards), 4.86 seconds, set on 24 September 2022. Park first held this record ...

and

Feliks Zemdegs Feliks Aleksanders Zemdegs (, lv, Fēlikss Zemdegs; born 20 December 1995) is an Australian Rubik's Cube speedsolver. He is the only speedcuber ever to win the World Cube Association World Championship twice, winning in 2013 and 2015, and is w ...

directed by Sue Kim.

Focus

The documentary's main focus is the rivalry and friendship between two of the fastest speedcubers in the world,

and

. Announced in June 2020, the film was directed by Sue Kim and premiered on July 29, 2020, on

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fil ...

Venue featured

Some of the footage was shot at the World Cube Association's World Championships 2019 held in

Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropol ...

Premise

The documentary captures the "extraordinary twists and turns in the journeys of

Rubik's Cube The Rubik's Cube is a Three-dimensional space, 3-D combination puzzle originally invented in 1974 by Hungarians, Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik t ...

-solving champions Max Park and Feliks Zemdegs."

Reception

On February 9, 2021, the documentary was shortlisted in the Documentary Short Subject category of the

93rd Academy Awards The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released from January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. The ceremony was held on April 25, 2021 ...

. At the 5th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, ''The Speed Cubers'' was nominated for Best Short Documentary. The film also received a nomination for the

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

under the documentaries category.Peabody Awards
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References

External links

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Official trailer
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