Competitions · Australia

Cool Down Sydney 2019

Sydney, New South Wales · 10 February 2019 · 8 events · 111 competitors · 118 personal bests

Feliks Zemdegs won five of the eight events (3×3, 6×6, 3×3 one-handed) and the closest final was the Pyraminx, won by Sora Sato by 0.27 seconds. 111 competitors produced 118 personal bests, 33 of which still stand today, and 21 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Paul Dyer took a Pyraminx single of 9.65 down to 3.39, 65 percent better in one day.

Five wins

Feliks Zemdegs — 3×3, 6×6, 3×3 one-handed, Megaminx, 4×4 blindfolded

0.27s

closest final — Pyraminx, Sora Sato over Matthew Cook

118

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Feliks Zemdegs	5.47	6.34
6×6	Feliks Zemdegs	1:25.64	1:26.36
3×3 blindfolded	Jack Cai	20.51	22.40
3×3 one-handed	Feliks Zemdegs	8.70	10.99
Megaminx	Feliks Zemdegs	37.21	39.30
Pyraminx	Sora Sato	3.68	4.30
4×4 blindfolded	Feliks Zemdegs	6:18.11	—
5×5 blindfolded	Jack Cai	—	—

The PB harvest

118 set · 33 still standing

Paul Dyer — Pyraminx single 3.39: into the top 5.0% of the event's history.
Grant Lian — 3×3 single 9.41: into the top 5.9% of the event's history.
Luca Lima Cowdrill — 3×3 single 11.83: into the top 13.3% of the event's history.
Ethan Chawla — Pyraminx single 5.19: into the top 14.4% of the event's history.
Nicholas Gayed — 3×3 single 13.48: into the top 19.1% of the event's history.
Sarah Budiman — 3×3 one-handed single 20.29: into the top 21.3% of the event's history.
Sooyoung Moon — 3×3 single 15.01: into the top 24.5% of the event's history.
Max Rubenstein — 3×3 single 15.78: into the top 27.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

21 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 27,871 people who made their debut in 2019. 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

111 competitors · 433 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. Feliks Zemdegs won it with a 6.34 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

111 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.