As a sixteen-year-old Eagle Rock High School student from Los Angeles, he won the first world championship on June 5, 1982 in Budapest by solving a Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.

[1] He is also the author of the book The Winning Solution (1982), a guide to solving the cube.

It involves solving the top, bottom, and middle layers, in that order.

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