Collin Burns

Collin Burns is an American speedcuber who formerly held the world record for solving the Rubik’s Cube in 5.25 seconds.

Biography In 2014, Burns set a North American continental record of 5.93 seconds for solving the 3×3×3 cube,

On April 25, 2015, Burns set the world record for the fastest 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube single solve with a time of 5.25. and used the YuXin brand 3×3×3 cube. His record lasted approximately seven months until being broken by Lucas Etter with a time of 4.90 on November 21, 2015.

Burns is now a researcher in the field of AI alignment. In 2020, a team of researchers, including Dan Hendrycks and Burns, developed the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) model, a benchmark to assess large-language models.