Competitions · China

Fuzhou Open 2018

Fuzhou, Fujian · 24 November 2018 · 12 events · 118 competitors · 124 personal bests

Ivan Li Ka Leong (李嘉亮) won four of the twelve events (2×2, 4×4, 5×5) and the closest final was the Pyraminx, won by Yunqi Ouyang (欧阳韵奇) by 0.06 seconds. 118 competitors produced 124 personal bests, 67 of which still stand today, and 43 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Xiaocheng Jiang (蒋孝诚) took a 3×3 blindfolded single of 3:10.34 down to 1:04.12, 66 percent better in one day.

Four wins

Ivan Li Ka Leong (李嘉亮) — 2×2, 4×4, 5×5, 3×3 one-handed

0.06s

closest final — Pyraminx, Yunqi Ouyang (欧阳韵奇) over Ruihang Xu (许瑞航)

124

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Yuxuan Guo (郭雨轩)	8.50	9.31
2×2	Ivan Li Ka Leong (李嘉亮)	2.13	2.54
4×4	Ivan Li Ka Leong (李嘉亮)	24.07	27.75
5×5	Ivan Li Ka Leong (李嘉亮)	54.70	55.83
6×6	Zixuan Liu (刘子瑄)	1:37.61	1:48.18
7×7	Zixuan Liu (刘子瑄)	2:35.54	2:36.27
3×3 blindfolded	Hongjie Zhang (张鸿杰)	39.96	—
3×3 one-handed	Ivan Li Ka Leong (李嘉亮)	12.89	14.75
Megaminx	Renxin Tang (汤任欣)	39.49	45.61
Pyraminx	Yunqi Ouyang (欧阳韵奇)	4.50	4.88
Skewb	Xuan Gong (龚轩)	3.53	4.67
Square-1	Liang He (何梁)	13.05	15.86

The PB harvest

124 set · 67 still standing

Jingweichi Chen (陈经纬赤) — 3×3 one-handed single 12.89: into the top 4.2% of the event's history.
Zhiyuan Liao (廖智远) — Megaminx single 50.26: into the top 5.2% of the event's history.
Haohua Wang (王昊华) — 3×3 single 10.00: into the top 7.4% of the event's history.
Hetong Fang (方贺同) — Skewb single 3.61: into the top 8.4% of the event's history.
Yuxuan Guo (郭雨轩) — Pyraminx single 4.34: into the top 9.4% of the event's history.
Liuming Lin (林刘明) — 3×3 single 10.69: into the top 9.5% of the event's history.
Haoyuan Zheng (郑皓元) — 4×4 single 39.23: into the top 11.2% of the event's history.
Ye Liu (刘烨) — Pyraminx single 4.83: into the top 12.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

43 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

118 competitors · 655 results · 12 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. Yuxuan Guo (郭雨轩) won it with a 9.31 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

118 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.