Chris Hardwick (speed cuber)

Christopher Michael Hardwick (born December 6, 1983) is an American competitive speedcuber.

Born in Merritt Island, Florida, he attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (class of 2002) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (class of 2005).

He is known especially for his blindfolded world record solution times of Rubik's Revenge and Rubik's Professor's Cube puzzles, though he started out as a top one-handed cuber. Chris currently holds the world record for the blindfolded solution time of the Rubik's Professor's Cube with 15 minutes 22 seconds.

Hardwick has made a number of television appearances demonstrating the Rubik's Cube, including MTV in 2002, Canada AM and Much Music in the fall of 2003, discussing the 2003 Rubik's Cube World Championships. His home videos have also appeared on numerous online video sites including CollegeHumor and Digg. A home video of Hardwick solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube one-handed appeared on VH1 in 2006 for Web Junk 20. Axe deodorant parodied another one of Hardwick's home videos in their 2006 South African "Get a Girlfriend" commercial campaign.

Chris Hardwick, the actor, recently referenced this particular Chris Hardwick on Web Soup when a comment about the Rubik's Cube was made.

References

• "Hardwick's appearance on Web Junk 20 Episode 105 on IFILM". http://www.ifilm.com/collection/1702/channel/webjunk?sublisting=mostrecent&page=2&numPerPage=15. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 
• "Photos of Hardwick's appearance on Canada AM in 2003". http://www.speedcubing.com/chris/wc2003.html. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 
• "Axe parody of a home video by Hardwick on YouTube". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMGARiJ-FpY. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 
• "Hardwick's original video to the parody mentioned above". http://members.chello.nl/r.vanbruchem/3x3bld1850.wmv. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 
• "4x4 Blindfolded World Records". World Cube Association website. http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/regions.php?regionId=&eventId=444bf&years=&mixed=Mixed. Retrieved 2009-11-18. 
• "5x5 Blindfolded World Records". World Cube Association website. http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/regions.php?regionId=&eventId=555bf&years=&mixed=Mixed. Retrieved 2009-11-18. 
• "The Daily Californian". http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=23947. Retrieved 2007-04-10. 
• "Rubik's 'Speed Cubers' Earning Celebrity Status" (archive). Information Week. Archived from the original on 2007-05-01. http://web.archive.org/web/20070501034311/http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199202398. Retrieved 2007-12-24. 
• "Hardwick on CollegeHumor". http://www.collegehumor.com/video:58160. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 
• "Hardwick on Digg". http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Man_solves_Rubik_s_cube_one-handed_in_under_30_seconds. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 

External links

• Chris Hardwick's listing at the World Cube Association
• Chris Hardwick's webpage

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