Melbourne, July 2019
The World Cube Association's list of world champions records the 2019 result plainly: Philipp Weyer of Germany, 6.74 seconds, average, at the championship held in Melbourne from 11 to 14 July.
The word average carries the weight. Speedcubing results are a trimmed mean of five attempts, with the fastest and the slowest discarded and the middle three averaged. A single fast solve cannot win a world title; a competitor has to produce three good ones in a row, under judging, on scrambles set by the organisers.
Nearly two seconds faster than 2011
Set beside earlier championships, Weyer's number shows how quickly the sport accelerated. The 2011 title in Bangkok went to Michal Pleskowicz of Poland with an average of 8.65 seconds. Eight years later the winning mark had fallen by almost two seconds.
In an event decided in single digits, that is a transformation rather than an increment. It came from refined solving methods, from hardware built specifically for competition, and from a field that had grown into the hundreds of thousands of registered competitors. The winning time of one era becomes the entry standard of the next, which is the pattern in every sport that measures itself in fractions of a second.
A title held through a cancellation
The World Championship has run every two years since 2003, with a single exception: the 2021 edition was cancelled because of COVID-19. The next championships on the record are Seattle in 2025 and Uppsala, Sweden, scheduled for 22 to 25 July 2027.
The cancellation is the unusual footnote to Weyer's win. A title normally sits with its holder for two years; the pandemic extended his considerably, through a period when official competitions largely stopped.
The scale of the sport he won
The World Cube Association, founded on 18 October 2004 by Ron van Bruchem and Tyson Mao, sanctions every official competition through its delegates and publishes every ratified record. It employs 464 delegates and 112 committee members across its teams.
As of August 2026 the association counted more than 290,000 competitors across over 17,500 official competitions, and recognises 17 official events, from the 2x2x2 cube to blindfolded solving and one-handed solving. A world championship in the flagship 3x3x3 event is the summit of that structure.
What is documented - and what is not
The evidence used here is secondary: encyclopaedia entries that cite World Cube Association results. The association's own competitor profile could not be read for this page, and that limitation is stated rather than glossed over.
No birth year, age, home city, occupation or subsequent competitive record for Weyer appears in the sources used here. The championship line is firm and everything else is absent, which is the shape of the public record for most competitors in this sport: a name, a country, a number and a date, published by the body that verified it.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Won the 2019 Rubik's Cube World Championship with a 6.74-second average, Melbourne, 11-14 July (Wikipedia, citing WCA)
- The 2021 championship was cancelled because of COVID-19; the next held edition was Seattle 2025
- The WCA recognises 17 official events and had registered over 290,000 competitors by August 2026
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- The WCA competitor profile itself could not be read here; both sources are secondary
- No published age, birth year, home city or occupation
- No documented results before or after the 2019 championship
Questions people ask about Philipp Weyer
What is Philipp Weyer known for?
Winning the 2019 Rubik's Cube World Championship in Melbourne with an average of 6.74 seconds.
How old is Philipp Weyer?
No source used here gives an age or birth year.
What does a 6.74-second average mean?
He solved the cube five times; the fastest and slowest solves were discarded and the remaining three averaged to 6.74 seconds.
How much faster was that than 2011?
Almost two seconds. The 2011 championship was won by Michal Pleskowicz of Poland with an 8.65-second average.
Why did he hold the title so long?
The championship runs every two years, but the 2021 edition was cancelled because of COVID-19.
Who runs speedcubing competitions?
The World Cube Association, founded in 2004, which sanctions competitions through delegates and ratifies every official record.
Is Philipp Weyer on Wikipedia?
He has no article of his own. He is listed as the 2019 world champion in Wikipedia's speedcubing article, which cites WCA results.
Where is Philipp Weyer now?
Nothing after the 2019 championship appears in the sources used here.
Quick quiz: how well do you know Philipp’s story?
What average won Philipp Weyer the 2019 world title?
Why was there no championship in 2021?
Which body ratifies speedcubing world records?
Sources
- Speedcubing (citing World Cube Association results) — Wikipedia, n.d.
- World Cube Association — Wikipedia, n.d.
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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