Minh Thai

Minh Thai (born 1965 as Thái Minh) is a Vietnamese-American speedcuber. As a sixteen-year-old Eagles Rock High School student from Los Angeles, he won the first world championship on June 5, 1982 in Budapest by solving a Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds. He is also the author of the book The Winning Solution (1982), a guide to solving the cube. Later, Ortega Corners-First Solution Method for Rubik's Cube was based on Minh Thai's Winning Solution.

Method
Minh Thai's solution was based on The Ideal Solution, published in 1980 by the Ideal Toy Company. It involves solving the top, bottom, and middle layers, in that order.

World records
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