Rowe Hessler of Shirley in Long Island is a Rubik’s Cube winner

A Long Island man came in 3rd place in Rubik’s cube contest this week in Long Island. You remember the Rubik’s Cube right ? Well so does Rowe Hessler of Shirley,NY in Long Island

His days as a speed-cubing champion behind him, Rowe Hessler of Shirley had few expectations coming into this year’s Rubik’s Cube National Championships on August 3,2014.

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At 23, a grizzled veteran with two national championships in this very young man’s game, Hessler said this year’s three-day contest of competitive cubers in Jersey City would be his last.

If Sunday’s last day of competition was indeed his finale, what a way to finish.

Hessler placed third overall among more than 500 entrants in the competition at Governors Hall at the Liberty Science Center Museum. His lightning-quick average speed-cubing time for the event was 8.78 seconds.

“I’m relieved that I ended on a good note,” Hessler said with a smile while waiting for the awards ceremony to begin Sunday

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In an interview Tuesday, Hessler, the back-to-back national champion in 2009 and 2010, said he didn’t expect to place this year.

The competition took place amid a crowd of children and adults who cheered and clapped with each competitor’s impressive solve.

“I think it’s great they have it here for people to see,” said a random Rubik’s cube fan 54, of East Meadow, who came to see the competition with his 17-year-old son, who has been cubing for about six years but was not competing in the national tournament. “You think it’s just a game, but you see that it’s more.”

Throughout Sunday competitors, some as young as 12, wandered near the competition, camping out on cafeteria tables as they waited their turn. My words of wisdom, for anyone and everyone who is trying something new in there life.

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