Competitions · China

Chengdu Open 2017

Chengdu, Sichuan · 29 April 2017 · 10 events · 139 competitors · 122 personal bests

Yujie Rao (饶喻杰) won two of the ten events (Pyraminx, Skewb) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Dawei Xu (徐大卫) by 0.19 seconds. 139 competitors produced 122 personal bests, 39 of which still stand today, and 72 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Xinyu Li (李欣宇) took a Skewb single of 52.67 down to 13.07, 75 percent better in one day.

Two wins

Yujie Rao (饶喻杰) — Pyraminx, Skewb

0.19s

closest final — 3×3, Dawei Xu (徐大卫) over Fangrui Zeng (曾方锐)

122

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Dawei Xu (徐大卫)	8.45	9.57
2×2	Xiaofeng Zheng (郑晓锋)	2.24	2.40
4×4	Bo Wang (王擘)	34.91	36.90
5×5	Dingze He (何定泽)	1:11.08	1:14.88
3×3 blindfolded	Ruoyu Xia (夏若愚)	1:24.10	—
3×3 one-handed	Haixin Yang (杨海鑫)	12.57	15.48
Megaminx	Tianlang Han (韩天朗)	51.89	1:00.49
Pyraminx	Yujie Rao (饶喻杰)	4.56	4.97
Skewb	Yujie Rao (饶喻杰)	3.74	4.93
Square-1	Junyue Liu (刘俊越)	13.44	14.51

The PB harvest

122 set · 39 still standing

Hongming Zuo (左鸿铭) — 4×4 single 33.49: into the top 5.4% of the event's history.
Hong Wang (王鸿) — 3×3 single 9.63: into the top 6.4% of the event's history.
Hongzhou Chen (陈洪舟) — 3×3 single 9.66: into the top 6.5% of the event's history.
Yihang Tang (唐一航) — 3×3 single 10.29: into the top 8.3% of the event's history.
Kexiu Lu (卢科修) — 3×3 single 10.86: into the top 10.1% of the event's history.
Dingze He (何定泽) — 2×2 single 2.75: into the top 11.5% of the event's history.
Dingze He (何定泽) — 3×3 one-handed single 16.59: into the top 11.6% of the event's history.
Ruoyu Xia (夏若愚) — 4×4 single 39.73: into the top 11.8% of the event's history.

First-timers

72 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 23,482 people who made their debut in 2017. 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

139 competitors · 681 results · 10 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. Dawei Xu (徐大卫) won it with a 9.57 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

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solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

139 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.