Competitions · Mexico

Cuernavaca Summer 2018

Cuernavaca · 25 August 2018 · 7 events · 63 competitors · 75 personal bests

Benjamin Sanchez Magaña won two of the seven events (2×2, 3×3 one-handed) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Benjamin Sanchez Magaña by 0.05 seconds. 63 competitors produced 75 personal bests, 37 of which still stand today, and 20 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Jose Alejandro Sandoval Garcia took a 4×4 single of 3:38.67 down to 1:30.70, 59 percent better in one day.

Two wins

Benjamin Sanchez Magaña — 2×2, 3×3 one-handed

0.05s

closest final — 2×2, Benjamin Sanchez Magaña over Alexis Rodrigo Cazu Mendoza

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Maximiliano Rojas Zaputovich	7.23	8.38
2×2	Benjamin Sanchez Magaña	2.25	3.63
4×4	Daniel Guardado Cabral	30.20	32.52
3×3 blindfolded	Fernando Israel Zúñiga Macedo	34.13	—
3×3 one-handed	Benjamin Sanchez Magaña	14.62	15.00
Pyraminx	Daniel Guardado Cabral	3.18	3.77
Square-1	Alexis Rodrigo Cazu Mendoza	12.03	13.07

The PB harvest

75 set · 37 still standing

Angel Arrioja Landa — 3×3 single 7.33: into the top 1.7% of the event's history.
Ricardo Bautista Muñoz — 2×2 single 2.44: into the top 8.3% of the event's history.
Arturo Muñoz García — Pyraminx single 4.18: into the top 8.6% of the event's history.
Armando Enciso Mas — 2×2 single 2.81: into the top 12.1% of the event's history.
Luis Octavio Sanvicente Gómez — 3×3 single 11.76: into the top 13.1% of the event's history.
David Govea — 2×2 single 3.11: into the top 15.5% of the event's history.
Alan Emiliano Gómez Morales — 3×3 one-handed single 18.34: into the top 16.0% of the event's history.
Pedro Trujillo García — 2×2 single 3.19: into the top 16.5% of the event's history.

First-timers

20 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 26,076 people who made their debut in 2018. 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

63 competitors · 475 results · 7 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. Maximiliano Rojas Zaputovich won it with a 8.38 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

63 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.