My feeble record is just under one minute. But I spent a lot of time thinking about how to represent the cube in a computer. Yes think pieces, not stickers. But

My feeble record is just under one minute. But I spent a lot of time thinking about how to represent the cube in a computer. Yes think pieces, not stickers. But for a long time I thought pieces had position and orientation. More recently I noticed that if we imagine each piece of a solved cube being connected to the cube center (an imaginary extension of the piece) it becomes clear that rotation is the only real freedom, and if a piece is in the correct orientation it is automatically in the right position! The reverse is not true of course. I don't think this is helpful for humans solving, but for computers it largely takes position out of it. Position does determine which pieces are rotated by any given move though.