A 14-year-old Argentine teenager broke up this Saturday national record of building magic cubes obtaining it in just 5.3 seconds in the 3×3 category, during the South American Rubik’s Cube tournament that takes place in Brasilia.

Gael Lapeyre was the one who got the impressive score, but not the only one to make noise in the race that takes place in the capital of Brazil. Is that the Argentine team, represented by 13 young people and a 55-year-old man, remained with 7 of the 8 gold medals up for grabs.

There are more than 200 Brazilian competitors in the race, which makes the challenge for the Argentine “cuberos” even greater.

Another of the Argentine guys who gets people talking in the Brazilian tournament is Nicolás Campanario, who is also 14 years old and this Saturday he achieved a surprising result: in his first attempt in the multi-blind category, which consists of solving without watching a series of cubes, he got 9/9.

So explained his father, Sebastián: “He is a BEAST. He memorized 9 cubes in less than an hour, solved them mentally, covered his eyes and performed the 9 solutions blindly without a single mistake”, he said.

The Argentine team is made up of 13 boys and a 55-year-old man. This is Javier Rossi, who lives in Quilmes and is the most experienced of the Argentine participants.

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