[1] He formerly held the Guinness World Record for the most 3x3x3 cubes solved in 24 hours, 5800, set from 3–4 October 2013 at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
[3][4] Within five months he had entered a Canadian National speedcubing competition, and managed to finish in the top 25 in the country.
[5] In 2009 a YouTube video of him solving 11 cubes blindfolded aired on an Oprah Winfrey Show segment.
[1] By 2010 he had become one of Canada's top solvers, with a personal best time of as little as 7.1 seconds to solve a fully scrambled cube.
[3] He came to national attention in August of that year, becoming involved in a project to create Rubik's Cube mosaics worth tens of thousands of dollars.