Chris Hardwick (speed cuber)

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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 national record solution times of Rubik's Revenge and Rubik's Professor's Cube puzzles, though he started out as a top one-handed cuber. He holds the United States record for fastest time solving a 4x4x4 cube, at 55.38 seconds, set at the Caltech Dallas 2005 competition.

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, explaining about 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.

[edit] References

• Hardwick's appearance on Web Junk 20 Episode 105 on IFILM. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
• Photos of Hardwick's appearance on Canada AM in 2003. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
• Axe parody of a home video by Hardwick on YouTube. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
• Hardwick's original video to the parody mentioned above. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
• United States Rubik's Cube National Records. World Cube Association website. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.
• The Daily Californian. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.
• Rubik's 'Speed Cubers' Earning Celebrity Status (archive). Information Week. Retrieved on 2007-12-24.
• Hardwick on CollegeHumor. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
• Hardwick on Digg. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.

[edit] External links

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

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