I did the Rubik’s cube in 26 seconds in my household back in 1982 when I was 15.
That was about the world record at the time but I didn’t do it at an official contest and nobody saw me do it except for my own two eyes.
I guess if I kept at it I could have been absolutely good at the thing and broken some records; however, so what, it was a crazy amount of time spent staring at the darn puzzle and I knew there was more to life than a cube record, the heating, ventilation and A/C corporation where I worked had a cube and I did it in 20 seconds one time when I was working on an cooling system in the storeroom one day… However, a few people saw me do it, however so what, it was just for fun and the world record of 8 seconds was way out of reach for me. The heating rep told me the other day that the world record for the cube is now under 3.5 seconds, which is just deranged if you guess about it. I could rest in front of my fireplace the rest of my life working on the cube and never come close to that time. I bet the ultimate fastest I could do it if I absolutely inspected it would be about 15 seconds. My furnace broke the other day and I was doing my cube waiting for the heating tech to come by and help me, and I ended up doing the cube in 23 seconds that day.