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Competitions · China

Dongguan Mid-Autumn Festival 2018

Dongguan, Guangdong · 22 September 2018 · 7 events · 107 competitors · 72 personal bests

Zijian Cai (蔡子健) won the 3×3 with a 8.78 and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Jiayi Li (李嘉逸) by 0.09 seconds. 107 competitors produced 72 personal bests, 30 of which still stand today, and 33 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Dekang Liu (刘德康) took a Skewb single of 18.42 down to 6.93, 62 percent better in one day.

7
events decided
0.09s
closest final — 2×2, Jiayi Li (李嘉逸) over Zhuoxi Yin (尹卓曦)
72
personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

EventWinnerSingleAverage
3×3Zijian Cai (蔡子健)7.788.78
2×2Jiayi Li (李嘉逸)1.923.11
4×4Jiahua Zhang (张家华)33.5937.84
MegaminxTianlang Han (韩天朗)53.0856.86
PyraminxYonghao Xu (徐永浩)4.014.97
SkewbMo Ji (季默)3.244.44
Square-1Kun Zhu (朱锟)11.8014.28

The PB harvest

72 set · 30 still standing

First-timers

33 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

107 competitors · 304 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. Zijian Cai (蔡子健) won it with a 8.78 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

107 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.