Competitions · United States

Cubing in the Valley 2023

Thousand Oaks, California · 8 April 2023 · 5 events · 96 competitors · 100 personal bests

Owen Yepeng Sun (孙叶芃) won two of the five events (Clock, Pyraminx) and the closest final was the Pyraminx, won by Owen Yepeng Sun (孙叶芃) by 0.18 seconds. 96 competitors produced 100 personal bests, 35 of which still stand today, and 20 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Nora Y. Kester took a Skewb single of 15.32 down to 6.04, 61 percent better in one day.

Two wins

Owen Yepeng Sun (孙叶芃) — Clock, Pyraminx

0.18s

closest final — Pyraminx, Owen Yepeng Sun (孙叶芃) over Elijah Brown

100

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Max Park	4.28	5.20
Clock	Owen Yepeng Sun (孙叶芃)	5.30	5.88
Pyraminx	Owen Yepeng Sun (孙叶芃)	1.35	2.04
Skewb	Jack Flynn Stewart	3.39	3.97
Square-1	Kyeongmin Choi (최경민)	7.29	7.98

The PB harvest

100 set · 35 still standing

Ryan Wen — 3×3 single 7.84: into the top 2.5% of the event's history.
Robert Kagramanyan — Pyraminx single 2.72: into the top 2.8% of the event's history.
Jason Zhang — Skewb single 3.40: into the top 7.1% of the event's history.
Eric Jingze Dai (戴竞择) — Clock single 7.40: into the top 12.6% of the event's history.
Alvaro De Almeida Felix — Pyraminx single 4.95: into the top 12.9% of the event's history.
Aydin Neishaboori — Pyraminx single 5.03: into the top 13.4% of the event's history.
Ohannes Tenkerian — Skewb single 4.38: into the top 13.6% of the event's history.
Jacob Bote — Pyraminx single 5.18: into the top 14.3% of the event's history.

First-timers

20 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

96 competitors · 454 results · 5 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 5.20 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

96 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.