Competitions · Canada

Imaginaire Quebec 2023

Québec, Quebec · 30 September 2023 · 8 events · 62 competitors · 75 personal bests

Louis-Alex Tremblay won three of the eight events (4×4, 3×3 one-handed, Square-1) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Benjamin Kyle by 0.26 seconds. 62 competitors produced 75 personal bests, 25 of which still stand today, and 27 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Alexandre Tremblay took a 3×3 single of 38.18 down to 16.48, 57 percent better in one day.

Three wins

Louis-Alex Tremblay — 4×4, 3×3 one-handed, Square-1

0.26s

closest final — 3×3, Benjamin Kyle over Clément Lefeuvre

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Benjamin Kyle	6.96	8.77
2×2	Rémi Chrétien	1.41	2.04
4×4	Louis-Alex Tremblay	37.14	38.67
3×3 one-handed	Louis-Alex Tremblay	14.70	17.64
Megaminx	Albert Sanhueza Theriault	56.71	1:04.86
Pyraminx	Benjamin Kyle	2.00	2.95
Skewb	Jack Chicoine	3.84	5.10
Square-1	Louis-Alex Tremblay	14.04	15.81

The PB harvest

75 set · 25 still standing

Clément Lefeuvre — 3×3 single 7.49: into the top 2.0% of the event's history.
Elouan Mounier — 2×2 single 2.13: into the top 5.7% of the event's history.
Tomas Benjamín Trani — 2×2 single 2.22: into the top 6.4% of the event's history.
Yingzhuo Zhang — 3×3 single 9.93: into the top 7.3% of the event's history.
Oziel Raymond — 3×3 single 11.12: into the top 10.9% of the event's history.
Vincent St-Laurent — 3×3 single 11.21: into the top 11.1% of the event's history.
Yingzhuo Zhang — 2×2 single 2.76: into the top 11.6% of the event's history.
Elouan Mounier — 4×4 single 39.99: into the top 12.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

27 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

62 competitors · 410 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. Benjamin Kyle won it with a 8.77 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

62 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.