Competitions · Chinese Taipei

Hsinchu Winter Open 2018

Hsinchu · 4 February 2018 · 7 events · 72 competitors · 67 personal bests

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) won five of the seven events (3×3, 4×4, 5×5) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Yu-Kai Chen (陳宇楷) by 0.22 seconds. 72 competitors produced 67 personal bests, 20 of which still stand today, and 17 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Chun-He Chen (陳淳和) took a Square-1 single of 49.32 down to 29.30, 41 percent better in one day.

Five wins

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) — 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 6×6, 3×3 one-handed

0.22s

closest final — 2×2, Yu-Kai Chen (陳宇楷) over Yan-Hung Lai (賴彥宏)

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	7.47	8.28
2×2	Yu-Kai Chen (陳宇楷)	1.96	2.37
4×4	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	25.18	28.46
5×5	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	54.61	56.87
6×6	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	1:52.20	1:58.39
3×3 one-handed	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	13.19	14.25
Square-1	Rui-Jun Liu (劉睿鈞)	8.98	11.77

The PB harvest

67 set · 20 still standing

Er-Sheng Kuo (郭爾陞) — 3×3 one-handed single 11.04: into the top 1.9% of the event's history.
Wei-Jyun Wang (王韋鈞) — 3×3 one-handed single 13.16: into the top 4.7% of the event's history.
Gin-Hung Chen (陳俊翰) — 3×3 single 9.35: into the top 5.7% of the event's history.
Hao-Jui Peng (彭晧睿) — 3×3 single 10.05: into the top 7.6% of the event's history.
Yu-Hsuan Chang (張祐瑄) — Square-1 single 12.40: into the top 10.7% of the event's history.
Yue-Sheng Lu (盧悅盛) — 3×3 single 11.24: into the top 11.2% of the event's history.
Chi-Jui Tsai (蔡其叡) — 3×3 one-handed single 17.02: into the top 12.6% of the event's history.
Shi-Xun Qiu (邱世勳) — 2×2 single 3.06: into the top 14.9% of the event's history.

First-timers

17 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

72 competitors · 378 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. Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) won it with a 8.28 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

72 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.