Toby Mao

Tobias, or Toby, Mao (born on December 21, 1988) is one of the world's top competitive Rubik's Cube solvers. Hailing from Hillsborough, California, Toby graduated from Crystal Springs Uplands School in 2007 and is now a freshman at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he is a music performance major in cello. He is the younger brother of "Beauty and the Geek" second-season participant Tyson Mao, with whom he taught Will Smith to solve a Rubik's Cube for the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness. In 2006, Toby set the world record in speedcubing by solving the 3x3x3 cube in 10.48 seconds. Although this record was upset in 2007, Toby is currently practicing to reclaim his title at the World Rubik's Cube Championship in Hungary.