Competitions · Brazil

III Recife Open 2023

Recife, Pernambuco · 16 December 2023 · 10 events · 46 competitors · 35 personal bests

Arthur Vinicios Medeiros Alves won three of the ten events (3×3, Pyraminx, Square-1) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Gustavo Penaforte Brito by 0.15 seconds. 46 competitors produced 35 personal bests, 17 of which still stand today, and 25 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Lucca Renè Gomes do Amaral took a 3×3 single of 23.72 down to 8.89, 63 percent better in one day.

Three wins

Arthur Vinicios Medeiros Alves — 3×3, Pyraminx, Square-1

0.15s

closest final — 2×2, Gustavo Penaforte Brito over Arthur Vinicios Medeiros Alves

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Arthur Vinicios Medeiros Alves	7.33	9.23
2×2	Gustavo Penaforte Brito	2.56	2.85
4×4	Gabriel Cesar Da Silva Bezerra	32.07	37.00
5×5	Gabriel Cesar Da Silva Bezerra	1:25.52	1:31.14
3×3 blindfolded	Gleiciano Cosmo Santos	1:10.85	1:14.44
3×3 one-handed	Levy Fernandes Pereira	14.76	18.15
Megaminx	Francisco Thales Rocha Sousa	57.22	1:01.43
Pyraminx	Arthur Vinicios Medeiros Alves	2.94	4.16
Skewb	Davi de Andrade Iácono	3.26	4.57
Square-1	Arthur Vinicios Medeiros Alves	10.87	15.23

The PB harvest

35 set · 17 still standing

Davi Dionízio da Silva — 3×3 single 7.77: into the top 2.4% of the event's history.
Levy Fernandes Pereira — 2×2 single 1.64: into the top 2.8% of the event's history.
Gabriel Cesar Da Silva Bezerra — 4×4 single 32.07: into the top 4.2% of the event's history.
Pedro Vieira Bezerra de Araujo — 3×3 single 9.86: into the top 7.1% of the event's history.
Levy Fernandes Pereira — 3×3 one-handed single 14.76: into the top 7.6% of the event's history.
Francisco Thales Rocha Sousa — Skewb single 3.56: into the top 8.1% of the event's history.
Gabriel Cesar Da Silva Bezerra — Pyraminx single 5.27: into the top 14.9% of the event's history.
Anderson Alexandre Soares da Silva — 3×3 single 12.61: into the top 16.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

25 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 37,591 people who made their debut in 2023. 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

46 competitors · 292 results · 10 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. Arthur Vinicios Medeiros Alves won it with a 9.23 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

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solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

46 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.