Career
He helped create the current resurge of Rubik"s Cube enthusiasm by organizing international competitions. He is also the host of the website speedcubing.com. In 1999 the first modern age speedcubers found each other on internet via Rubik"s Games, a computer game with an electronic version of Rubik"s Cube.
Chris Hardwick from Raleigh, North Carolina founded a Yahoo Group Speedsolvingrubikscube and the Unofficial World Records, a place where cubers could post their personal records.
Because the first cubers were living all over the world they wanted to organize a competition where they could all meet. After failing in 2001, under guidance of Dan Gosbee they finally succeeded to organize World Championship 2003 in Toronto.
This first modern age Rubik"s Cube competition was a huge success, but there were lots of issues because of the lack of good regulations. After WC 2003 Ron van Bruchem and Tyson Mao started organizing competitions in The Netherlands/Germany and at Caltech University in United States of America. In 2004 they started the World Cube Association which nowadays organizes competitions in over 65 countries.
Ron van Bruchem has held official world records for solving the Rubik"s Cube (955 seconds) set at the Dutch Nationals 2007 (lost 2008), the 5x5x5 cube in 2006 (1:4722 minimum) set at Belgian Open 2006 (lost 2006), and 2x2x2 cube (265 seconds) set at United Kingdom Open 2007 (lost 2008).
