Competitions · United States

Bobcat Battle 2023

Las Vegas, Nevada · 1 April 2023 · 6 events · 90 competitors · 87 personal bests

Mulun Yin (阴目仑) won two of the six events (4×4, 3×3 one-handed) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Elijah Poma by 0.07 seconds. 90 competitors produced 87 personal bests, 40 of which still stand today, and 44 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Brock Hamilton took a Skewb single of 19.86 down to 6.08, 69 percent better in one day.

Two wins

Mulun Yin (阴目仑) — 4×4, 3×3 one-handed

0.07s

closest final — 2×2, Elijah Poma over Yuyang Zhen (甄禹扬)

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Jeremy Bulambot	6.30	7.22
2×2	Elijah Poma	1.64	2.19
4×4	Mulun Yin (阴目仑)	26.46	30.74
3×3 one-handed	Mulun Yin (阴目仑)	13.94	14.73
Pyraminx	Preston Schwartz	3.69	4.18
Skewb	Preston Schwartz	4.06	5.85

The PB harvest

87 set · 40 still standing

Jiaxing Li (李佳幸) — 3×3 single 7.87: into the top 2.6% of the event's history.
Elijah Poma — 3×3 single 9.17: into the top 5.3% of the event's history.
Ethan Littlejohn — 4×4 single 36.78: into the top 8.5% of the event's history.
Tek Malášek — 2×2 single 2.50: into the top 8.9% of the event's history.
Kemarui Brass — 3×3 single 11.69: into the top 12.8% of the event's history.
Nathan Lee — 3×3 single 12.09: into the top 14.2% of the event's history.
Andrew Soberano — 3×3 one-handed single 17.97: into the top 15.0% of the event's history.
Ethan Littlejohn — 3×3 one-handed single 18.38: into the top 16.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

44 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

90 competitors · 421 results · 6 events.

Everyone who competed

90 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.