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What just happened? Max just broke the
world record. The atmosphere was electric
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Everybody knew that he broke the record and
I think partially everybody was in shock
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It's a record that has been long standing
for four and a half years by Yusheng Du's 347
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I'm not sure anybody thought that that record was ever going to
be broken. The cubing world has been nothing short of ecstatic
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I think everybody was really waiting to see
who was going to break that 3x347 record
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When Max did it, I think everybody
was very, very happy for him
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It's really exciting anytime anybody breaks a record. But
for the 3x3 single, it's sort of like the creme de la creme
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When that gets broken, I think the whole cubing community knows. Additionally, I think a lot
of people that aren't in the cubing community were generally really surprised and very excited
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A lot of Max's fans from the Netflix documentary,
they all reached out, emailed him or texted him
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They were very, very happy for him. A
few people said that they even cried
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Basically, Max's cubing career started
to help him with his fine motor skills
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because he had fine motor skill
problems as a young kid with autism
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When he was 7, 8, 9 years old, he couldn't hold
pennies or he couldn't open up a water bottle
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I mean, he couldn't do anything with his fingers. The cube
itself was just something that was going to be an exercise
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What is it? 31 seconds. Okay. We
found out about the cubing community
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We decided to go there and exploit the
cubing community for social reasons
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So we could work on Max's social cues. The second competition he
ever went to, he won the 6x6, which really took us all by surprise
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When you actually see the final podium, there's these two
guys that look like they're in college and here's little Max
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He's like literally four feet underneath them. The cubing, actually
being good at cubing or solving cubes or the competitive aspect
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was never a component for us
to get Max involved with. Yes
