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Asia-Pacific / China · Culture

Six-year-old Chinese girl breaks Rubik's Cube world record

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
12d ago
Final
Outlets
40
Regions
5
Countries
33
Languages
17

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Where it travelled

The 33 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

23%18%42%12%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 5%
  • Americas 9 outlets · 8 countries · 23%
  • Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 6 countries · 18%
  • Europe 17 outlets · 12 countries · 42%
  • Middle East 5 outlets · 5 countries · 12%

The figures

Coverage
40 outlets in 33 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 40 outlets, 3 state-owned, 4 public-service, 33 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Morocco, South Africa. Americas 8: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 6: Australia, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 12: Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Rai News, 21 Sept 2026, 08:26 UTC. First seen 21 Sept 2026, 08:40 UTC. Last seen 23 Sept 2026, 07:11 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, China. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
10.96, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Six-year-old girl breaks Rubik's Cube world record. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
22 Sept 2026 22 38.30 35 30 34 30 2.4 → 3.3
23 Sept 2026 119 10.96 40 33 6 6 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 21 Sept, 08:40 UTC · Updated 23 Sept, 07:11 UTC

Covered by 40 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • IOL South Africa
  • Lakome2 Morocco

Americas 9 outlets

  • CBS News United States
  • El Nacional Venezuela
  • El País (UY) Uruguay
  • Estadão Brazil
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica
  • La Presse Canada
  • Primicias Ecuador

Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

  • 24.kg Kyrgyzstan
  • ARY News Pakistan
  • Dân Trí Vietnam
  • Thairath Thailand
  • The Business Standard Bangladesh
  • The Sydney Morning Herald Australia
  • VnExpress International Vietnam

Europe 17 outlets

  • Aftonbladet Sweden
  • ANSA Italy
  • BBC News United Kingdom
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • ERT Greece
  • HotNews Romania
  • HVG Hungary
  • Le Figaro France
  • N1 Serbia
  • Politis Cyprus
  • Proto Thema Greece
  • Rai News Italy
  • RTL Nieuws Netherlands
  • RTP Portugal
  • Telex Hungary
  • TGCOM24 Italy
  • The Independent United Kingdom

Middle East 5 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • An-Nahar Lebanon
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia
  • Cumhuriyet Turkey
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates

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