years_active birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name
2008-present the netherlands dutch 4 may 1996 mats valk
 mats valk .
mats valk

mats valk -lrb- born 4 may 1996 -rrb- is a dutch rubik 's cube speedsolver .
mats valk held the world record on the 3 × 3 × 3 cube : single speed solve with a time of 5.55 seconds between 2013 and 2015 .
he is also the former world record holder on the 4x4 cube single speed solve and average of 5 solves .
valk also currently holds multiple dutch and european records for world cube association-hosted events such as 2x2 cube , 4x4 cube , 5x5 cube , 3x3 cube one-handed , square-1 , 6x6 cube , 7x7 cube , and skewb .
mats valk solves the 3x3 with the green or blue face on top .
he is also the creator of vls -lrb- valks last slot -rrb- , a set of algorithms that solves the orientation of the last layer -lrb- oll -rrb- while inserting the last corner-edge pair of the first two layers -lrb- f2l -rrb- .
