Competitions · Australia

Adelaide Summer 2023

Adelaide, South Australia · 28 January 2023 · 8 events · 166 competitors · 169 personal bests

Tu Pham won two of the eight events (3×3, 3×3 one-handed) and the closest final was the Skewb, won by Austen Au by 0.12 seconds. 166 competitors produced 169 personal bests, 67 of which still stand today, and 58 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Kadin Jamieson took a Skewb single of 26.33 down to 6.50, 75 percent better in one day.

Two wins

Tu Pham — 3×3, 3×3 one-handed

0.12s

closest final — Skewb, Austen Au over Trung Tran

169

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Tu Pham	5.88	7.13
2×2	Gerard McGinley	2.22	2.65
4×4	Seth Ferry	33.87	36.68
5×5	Seth Ferry	1:08.27	1:16.00
3×3 blindfolded	Yinhao Ding	1:28.35	1:56.45
3×3 one-handed	Tu Pham	9.28	13.46
Pyraminx	Nathan Nairn	2.71	4.26
Skewb	Austen Au	4.50	5.83

The PB harvest

169 set · 67 still standing

Byron Gronning — 3×3 single 8.97: into the top 4.8% of the event's history.
Mehul Tandon — 3×3 single 9.11: into the top 5.1% of the event's history.
Lachlan Samuel — 3×3 single 10.37: into the top 8.6% of the event's history.
Curtis Tham — 3×3 single 10.77: into the top 9.8% of the event's history.
Lucas Chung — Skewb single 4.14: into the top 11.9% of the event's history.
Tom Nguyen Ngo — 3×3 single 11.79: into the top 13.2% of the event's history.
Curtis Tham — Pyraminx single 5.11: into the top 13.9% of the event's history.
Tom Nguyen Ngo — Pyraminx single 5.27: into the top 14.9% of the event's history.

First-timers

58 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 37,591 people who made their debut in 2023. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

No national, continental or world records were set at this competition. That is true of most competitions.

The field

166 competitors · 845 results · 8 events.

Solve this final yourself

how this works →

The 3×3 final here ran on one scramble group, so these five sequences are exactly what the finalists faced. Tu Pham won it with a 7.13 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

1U' L' F' B2 D L B R' L2 D' F2 L2 D' F2 U L2 U R2 B2 F'
2R2 U2 L2 D2 F2 D' R2 B2 U' R' F2 L2 B R2 F' L F U R'
3R' B' U R2 D' R2 B2 D F2 L2 U2 R2 F R' B F' U2 L' D2 B
4L' F' D2 F D2 R2 F' U' R' U2 F' D L' B2 D2 R U2
5B R U B2 D' R2 D2 L2 D U L U' B2 F' D L' U2 R' B'

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

166 competitors

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.