Competitions · Spain

IndalOpen 2019

Almería · 7 September 2019 · 10 events · 68 competitors · 86 personal bests

Rafael Rodriguez Santana won three of the ten events (3×3, 4×4, 3×3 blindfolded) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Guillermo Cascales Ñíguez by 0.29 seconds. 68 competitors produced 86 personal bests, 39 of which still stand today, and 18 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Francisco Jesús Prieto Molina took a 2×2 single of 11.91 down to 4.19, 65 percent better in one day.

Three wins

Rafael Rodriguez Santana — 3×3, 4×4, 3×3 blindfolded

0.29s

closest final — 2×2, Guillermo Cascales Ñíguez over Álvaro Aguilar Salobreña

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Rafael Rodriguez Santana	8.20	9.52
2×2	Guillermo Cascales Ñíguez	2.35	2.79
4×4	Rafael Rodriguez Santana	32.01	36.88
5×5	Leonard Wetzel	1:13.05	1:18.14
3×3 blindfolded	Rafael Rodriguez Santana	1:37.83	—
3×3 one-handed	Jorge Alfageme Sotillos	12.95	17.30
Megaminx	Leonard Wetzel	59.35	1:02.10
Pyraminx	Andrés Rodríguez Galán	2.61	3.17
Skewb	Fernando Sáez Lázaro	3.21	3.82
Square-1	Miguel Ángel González-Herrero García	15.02	16.36

The PB harvest

86 set · 39 still standing

Isaac Rodríguez Santiago — Skewb single 2.39: into the top 2.5% of the event's history.
Javier Tovar Castro — Pyraminx single 2.85: into the top 3.1% of the event's history.
Javier Tovar Castro — 3×3 single 8.68: into the top 4.1% of the event's history.
Jesús Conejo Boraita — 3×3 single 8.96: into the top 4.8% of the event's history.
Mantas Žemaitis — Pyraminx single 4.39: into the top 9.6% of the event's history.
Francisco Huertas Molina — 2×2 single 2.89: into the top 13.0% of the event's history.
Celia López Martín — Pyraminx single 5.03: into the top 13.4% of the event's history.
Isaac Rodríguez Santiago — 3×3 single 12.16: into the top 14.4% of the event's history.

First-timers

18 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 27,871 people who made their debut in 2019. 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

68 competitors · 546 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. Rafael Rodriguez Santana won it with a 9.52 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

68 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.