Competitions · Chinese Taipei

WCA Asian Championship 2018

New Taipei City · 17 August 2018 · 18 events · 346 competitors · 480 personal bests

Max Park won five of the 18 events (3×3, 4×4, 5×5) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Max Park by 0.07 seconds. 346 competitors produced 480 personal bests, 109 of which still stand today, and seven people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A world record

Max Park set the 6×6 single world record: 1:13.82.

Five wins

Max Park — 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 6×6, 3×3 one-handed

0.07s

closest final — 3×3, Max Park over Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁)

480

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Max Park	5.63	6.58
2×2	Jack Pan (潘杰康)	1.39	1.73
4×4	Max Park	19.61	21.84
5×5	Max Park	40.81	43.12
6×6	Max Park	1:13.82	1:17.10
7×7	Feliks Zemdegs	1:54.54	2:02.31
3×3 blindfolded	Liam Chen	20.87	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Shuto Ueno (上野柊斗)	24 moves	26.00
3×3 one-handed	Max Park	9.36	11.19
Clock	Tairan Zhong (钟泰然)	4.74	5.56
Megaminx	Feliks Zemdegs	34.67	42.62
Pyraminx	Yi Wang (王旖)	1.78	2.86
Skewb	Zeyu Hu (胡泽宇)	1.55	2.53
Square-1	Makoto Takaoka (高岡誠)	6.71	8.57
4×4 blindfolded	Bill Wang	2:10.00	—
5×5 blindfolded	Shivam Bansal	6:16.24	—
3×3 Multi-Blind	Shivam Bansal	42 of 48 cubes · 1:00:00	—
3×3 with feet	Lim Hung (林弘)	29.80	31.93

The PB harvest

480 set · 109 still standing

Rituraj Sohoni — 3×3 single 6.02: into the top 0.49% of the event's history.
Zeyu Hu (胡泽宇) — Skewb single 1.55: into the top 0.51% of the event's history.
Andre Febriato Jonathan — 3×3 single 6.52: into the top 0.87% of the event's history.
Siyu Wang (王思予) — Pyraminx single 2.02: into the top 1.2% of the event's history.
Yihao Zhao (赵羿皓) — Skewb single 2.01: into the top 1.4% of the event's history.
Andre Febriato Jonathan — 2×2 single 1.37: into the top 1.6% of the event's history.
Tairan Zhong (钟泰然) — Clock single 3.64: into the top 1.7% of the event's history.
Taiga Takaoka (高岡汰虎) — 2×2 single 1.42: into the top 1.8% of the event's history.

First-timers

Seven people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 26,076 people who made their debut in 2018. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

71 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

346 competitors · 2333 results · 18 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. Max Park won it with a 6.58 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

346 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.