1. Mats Valk was born on 4 May 1996 and is a Dutch Rubik's Cube speedsolver.
15 Facts About Mats Valk
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Mats Valk broke the Rubik's cube single solve world record twice with times of 5.55 seconds in 2013 and 4.74 seconds in 2016.
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Mats Valk won the Rubik's Cube European Championship in 2018 and was runner-up for 3x3x3 at the Rubik's Cube World Championships in 2013 and 2015.
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Mats Valk is most famous for breaking the Rubik's cube world record twice and being the runner-up at both the Rubik's cube world championships of 2013 and 2015.
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Mats Valk first broke the world record with a time of 5.55 seconds at the Zonhoven Open 2013 in Belgium on 3 March 2013.
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Mats Valk later broke the world record again with a time of 4.74 seconds at the Jawa Timur Open 2016 in Indonesia on 6 November 2016.
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In December 2016, Mats Valk looked on as Feliks Zemdegs overtook his world record by just 0.01 seconds.
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Mats Valk has set three 4x4x4 world records, two for single solve and one for an average of 5.
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Altogether, Mats Valk has broken 5 WCA world records, 17 European records, and 127 Dutch national records.
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Mats Valk currently holds the world record for solving the most Rubik's cubes in 1 hour, 374 cubes, set in Paris on 21 October 2015.
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Mats Valk is known as a creator of the VLS 3x3x3 algorithm set, which correctly orients the last layer while inserting the last corner-edge pair of the first two layers.
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Mats Valk used one of these algorithms to complete the cube in his 2016 3x3x3 world record.
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Mats Valk collaborated with the Chinese brand QiYi MoFangGe to set up his own brand, The Mats Valk, creating cubes according to his own specifications.
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Mats Valk set his 2016 3x3x3 world record using a special magnetized version of this cube put together by TheCubicle.
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Lastly, Qiyi released the newest Valk 3x3 called the Valk 3 Elite M It has a dual magnet setting that no cube previously has had.