The Rubik's Cube is in fashion at the moment.
While we were away in China the cousins got into it, so when we got back at the end of July Mulan and Miya immediately tried it, too.
At first they were using my old classic early-80s cube, which I got when I was their age. But those ones are incredibly stiff and slow, so when Miya had her birthday a few weeks later we gave her a new, modern speed cube.
The girls have been regularly working on it over the past few months. Mulan has been able to complete it for a while now, and her fastest time has been steadily dropping. Today, she got a new best time of 1 minute 37 seconds.
Miya has been slower to memorise the algorithms, but yesterday she proudly announced to me that she can now complete it, too.
And would you believe it, but Miya did it in 1 minute 14 seconds today! Apparently it was a very lucky scramble, as she had far fewer algorithms to do on the final layer.
UPDATE: Mulan just fact-checked this. She informs me that Miya's other times today were over 2 minutes. But lucky scrambles still count as records, so Miya has the house record for now! Two of the cousins can do it in under 1 minute.
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