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Competitions · Chinese Taipei

Hsinchu Winter Open 2016

Hsinchu · 31 January 2016 · 8 events · 49 competitors · 64 personal bests

Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) won three of the eight events (3×3, 4×4, 3×3 one-handed) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) by 0.03 seconds. 49 competitors produced 64 personal bests, 8 of which still stand today, and six people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Rui-Jun Liu (劉睿鈞) set the Square-1 single national record: 8.81.

Three wins
Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) — 3×3, 4×4, 3×3 one-handed
0.03s
closest final — 3×3, Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) over Jr-Wei Jang (張智瑋)
64
personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

EventWinnerSingleAverage
3×3Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)8.099.18
2×2Yan-Hung Lai (賴彥宏)2.022.96
4×4Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)30.7634.35
5×5Hao-Zheng Lin (林浩正)1:03.191:06.22
3×3 one-handedYi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)10.9814.65
PyraminxChia-Liang Tai (戴嘉良)3.034.27
SkewbKai-Wen Wang (王楷文)4.114.74
Square-1Rui-Jun Liu (劉睿鈞)8.8112.32

The PB harvest

64 set · 8 still standing

First-timers

Six people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 17,946 people who made their debut in 2016. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

2 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

49 competitors · 324 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. Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) won it with a 9.18 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

49 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.