MagicCube4D Hall of Fame

This page is devoted to documenting the milestone achievements by all the brilliant 4D cubists. There are several categories of milestones that deserve proper recognition. Each category tends to have two variations: First person to reach that milestone, and the person with the shortest no-macro solution to it. Macros allow the user to define sets of moves that can be automatically replayed. They remove much of the tedium involved in solving these sorts of puzzles. (Macros are currently only supported in the Linux version of MagicCube4D.) Using macros that you develop is not cheating, but milestones achieved using them should not be compared with ones that don't.

The most important milestone category is clearly that of solving a fully scrambled 4D cube. Only a few people in the world have ever achieved that goal and they clearly deserve much applause. Don Hatch, who is one of the authors, was almost certainly the first person in the world to solve the full 4D cube in or around 1988. This page will continue to list all known solvers along with all other significant achievements. Note that although record holders in "Firsts" categories will hold their records forever, records in "Shortest" categories are always at risk of being broken. Names and links to shortest log files will be updated as those records are broken.

We hope these lists will grow and we encourage you to attempt to join this elite group. Please email us with any questions and especially with your solution log files. We also have a Yahoo mailing list you can join but don't think you must solve it before getting into the discussion. everyone with an interest in the subject is welcome.

Also as mentioned on the main 4D page, Roice Nelson recently wrote a 5D version of this puzzle. Please be sure to see his  5D Hall-Of-Insanity for the completely certifiable solvers of this monster.

First and Shortest Solutions
First 34 Solution Ever Don Hatch
~1988
First 34 No-Macro Solution Roice Nelson
1/15/2000
Shortest 34 Currently 298 twists Roice Nelson
 9/8/2007
First 44 Roice Nelson
4/23/2000
Shortest 44 Currently 1,130 twists Remigiusz Durka 8/5/2007
First 54
Eric Balandraud
2/7/2003
Shortest 54 Currently 3,271 twists 8/21/2006
First 24 Jay Berkenbilt 7/2/2004
Shortest 24 Currently 82 twists Remigiusz Durka 3/5/2007


First and Shortest Checkerboards
First Checkerboard 24 Remigiusz Durka 8/8/2005
First Checkerboard 34 Roger Breitenstein  
Shortest Checkerboard 3 4 24 twists
 Remigiusz Durka 2/1/2008
First Checkerboard 44 20 twists Don Hatch  
Shortest Checkerboard 44 14 twists Remigiusz Durka
 8/26/2006
First And Shortest Checkerboard 54 44 twists Remigiusz Durka 8/6/2005

Full 34 Solutions
in Order of Achievement
1 Don Hatch
~1988
2 Jay Berkenbilt
10/1/1998
3 Roice Nelson
1/15/2000
4 Roger Breitenstein
3/15/2000
5
Sebastian Mrosovsky
4/9/2000
6
Jussi Kumpula
5/1/2000
7
Christian Lundkvist
7/21/2000
8
Jonathan Vaughan
4/23/2001
9
Olav Bakke
10/22/2001
10
Eric Balandraud
1/19/2002
11
Olivier Le Tiec
1/29/2002
12
Douglas Li
4/18/2002
13
Michael Miller
8/1/2002
14
Daniel Hayes
9/30/2002
15
Wolfgang Würfel
3/28/2003
16
Jure Jerkovic
4/22/2003
17
Andy Olsen
6/21/2003
18
Ryan Sarson
7/6/2003
19
Will Bruckert
7/7/2003
20
Tomasz Piotrowski
7/15/2003
21
Rob Harper
9/9/2003
22
Carl-Johan Kjellander11/11/2003
23
Matthew A. Young12/5/2003
24
Mark Oram3/3/2004
25
Denny Köhler4/16/2004
26
Christopher J. Watson6/11/2004
27
Ivan Timofeev6/27/2004
28
Marius Mirea6/27/2004
29
Andras Ecseki7/28/2004
30
Katarzyna Lazar9/14/2004
31
Marcelo Marques10/7/2004
32
Peter Bollerman10/14/2004
33
 Guy Padfield 12/6/2004
34
Phil Tynan
1/17/2005
35
Aron Fay3/5/2005
36
Mark Shaw
3/24/2005
37
Remigiusz Durka4/2/2005
38
Marc Guegueniat5/2/2005
39
Liat Blatman5/16/2005
40
Yiping Zeng
5/20/2005
41
 Sebastian Dumitrescu6/17/2005
42
Michal Wizner
6/27/2005
43
Tomasz Tomaszewski7/4/2005
44
Andrzej Komisarski
10/4/2005
45
 Alan Christiansen
 10/6/2005
46
 Danny Whittaker11/9/2005
47
 Ilia Smilga11/16/2005
48
Kevin McLeod6/7/2006
49
Noel Chalmers 6/7/2006
50
Zoltán S. Márk6/18/2006
51
Konrad Przetacznik
7/18/2006
52
Łukasz Staśko
7/23/2006
53
 Matt Galla
 8/27/2006
54
 Quentin Jouet
 11/22/2006
55
 Wouter Meesen 12/22/2006
56
 Nelson R. Garcia 2/12/2007
57
 P6CoFRen
2/21/2007
58
 Norbert Hantos
 3/3/2007
59
 Christopher B. Gilsdorf
 5/30/2007
60
 Michael Kokosenski
 7/13/2007
61
 Mateusz Burnicki
 7/19/2007
62
 Kamil Górski 7/28/2007
63
 Kamil Pawlak
 7/29/2007
64
 Juan Escamilla Anguiano 7/31/2007
65
 Joseph McKeown
 8/6/2007
66
 Jenelle Levenstein
 9/9/2007
67
 Chester Lian
 10/10/2007
68
 John W. Gibson III
 10/11/2007
69
 Stephen H. Face
 10/16/2007
70
 Chris Ahna
 2/1/2008
71
 Dale Waldo
 2/24/2008
72
 Lucas Awad
 2/25/2008
73
 Marvin Castellon
 3/12/2008
74
 Zsolt Fábián 3/17/2008
75
 Levi Wegner 3/18/2008
76
 Marcin Kostrzewa
 2/25/2008
77
 Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona
 3/31/2008


Full 44 Solutions
in Order of Achievement
1 Roice Nelson
4/23/2000
2 Jay Berkenbilt
7/19/2000
3
 Jonathan Vaughan
4/5/2002
4
 Eric Balandraud
1/17/2003
5 Guy Padfield 4/26/2005
6
 Remigiusz Durka 7/23/2005
7
 Michal Wizner
 12/10/2005
8
 Noel Chalmers 6/15/2006
9
 Konrad Przetacznik
 7/30/2006
10
 Łukasz Staśko
 8/1/2006
11
 Wouter Meesen
 12/27/2006
12
Nelson R. Garcia 3/3/2007
13
John W. Gibson III
10/27/2007
14
 Lucas Awad 4/12/2008
15
 Jenelle Levenstein
 4/27/2008
16
 Marvin Castellon
 5/8/2008


Full 54 Solutions
in Order of Achievement
1 Eric Balandraud
2/7/2003
2 Remigiusz Durka
8/2/2005
3
 Michal Wizner
12/27/2005
4
Noel Chalmers7/4/2006
5
 Konrad Przetacznik 8/8/2006
6
John W. Gibson III
11/3/2007

Notes on playing log files
 

    You can examine log files using the Java version as follows:
    1. Click one of the log file links in the tables above and save the file to your hard drive.
    2. Run MagicCube4D and use File->Open to open that file.
    3. Use Edit->Undo and Edit->Redo to move backwards and forward in the file.


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