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Brugge Beginners Open 2025

Brugge · 22 March 2025 · 11 events · 94 competitors · 127 personal bests

Matthias Schegers won three of the eleven events (4×4, 5×5, Pyraminx) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Bowen Xie (解博文) by 0.19 seconds. 94 competitors produced 127 personal bests, 50 of which still stand today, and 13 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Artur Korotenko took a 2×2 single of 31.96 down to 9.64, 70 percent better in one day.

Three wins

Matthias Schegers — 4×4, 5×5, Pyraminx

0.19s

closest final — 2×2, Bowen Xie (解博文) over Joran Pauwels

127

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Victor Roets	7.01	7.76
2×2	Bowen Xie (解博文)	2.11	2.54
4×4	Matthias Schegers	28.48	30.81
5×5	Matthias Schegers	55.49	59.41
7×7	Bowen Xie (解博文)	2:53.63	2:57.59
3×3 blindfolded	Tias Claeys	45.86	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Nicolas Dupuis	30 moves	—
3×3 one-handed	Le-Duy Vu	13.74	15.86
Megaminx	Justin Vinckenbosch	44.64	51.23
Pyraminx	Matthias Schegers	2.24	2.77
Skewb	Elias Malomgré	2.41	3.95

The PB harvest

127 set · 50 still standing

Clara Verbraeken — 3×3 single 9.48: into the top 6.1% of the event's history.
Patryk Pałka — Skewb single 3.35: into the top 6.9% of the event's history.
Phyléas Lecomte Wetzel — 3×3 single 9.99: into the top 7.4% of the event's history.
Flor De Meulemeester — 2×2 single 2.48: into the top 8.7% of the event's history.
Vince Deruyter — Pyraminx single 4.51: into the top 10.3% of the event's history.
Nicola Berdzenishvili — 2×2 single 2.66: into the top 10.5% of the event's history.
Justin Vinckenbosch — 3×3 one-handed single 16.37: into the top 11.1% of the event's history.
Patryk Pałka — 3×3 single 11.20: into the top 11.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

13 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 28,483 people who made their debut in 2025. 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

94 competitors · 730 results · 11 events.

Everyone who competed

94 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.