Competitions · India
Independence Cube Open 2019
Raipur, Chhattisgarh · 11 August 2019 · 6 events · 84 competitors · 73 personal bests
Nischal Nori won the 3×3 with a 10.43 and the closest final was the Skewb, won by Vaishnav Nitesh by 0.21 seconds. 84 competitors produced 73 personal bests, 43 of which still stand today, and 34 people held a competitor card for the first time.
The moment
The day's biggest improvement
Yashad Bambeshwar took a Skewb single of 23.80 down to 10.90, 54 percent better in one day.
Winners & podiums
| Event | Winner | Single | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | Nischal Nori | 9.00 | 10.43 |
| 2×2 | Ashwani Kumar Shivankar | 3.23 | 3.42 |
| 4×4 | Abhishek Sathyanarayanan | 34.58 | 39.78 |
| 5×5 | Aditya Mishra | 1:19.47 | 1:23.19 |
| Pyraminx | Gaurav Kumar | 3.13 | 4.46 |
| Skewb | Vaishnav Nitesh | 4.24 | 6.76 |
The PB harvest
73 set · 43 still standing- Ashwani Kumar Shivankar — 2×2 single 2.18: into the top 6.0% of the event's history.
- Utkarsh Sunita Deshmukh — 3×3 single 9.69: into the top 6.6% of the event's history.
- Aditya Kher — 2×2 single 2.39: into the top 7.9% of the event's history.
- Shourya Upadhyay — 2×2 single 2.55: into the top 9.4% of the event's history.
- Rahul Hegde — Pyraminx single 4.52: into the top 10.3% of the event's history.
- Sayantan Maity — Pyraminx single 4.57: into the top 10.6% of the event's history.
- Nischal Nori — Pyraminx single 5.03: into the top 13.4% of the event's history.
- Raghav Toshniwal — Skewb single 4.49: into the top 14.4% of the event's history.
First-timers
34 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
84 competitors · 363 results · 6 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. Nischal Nori won it with a 10.43 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.
- 1
U' F2 D' R2 D' L2 R2 D R2 F' L R2 D2 F' L' U F2 U' B - 2
B2 U B2 L2 U F2 D' L R2 D F' L U2 R' U F R' D U2 - 3
D R2 B2 R2 D2 R2 D' R2 F2 D R D2 L F' D' B U R' D L - 4
L F' U' L2 D B' D' R' B L2 U2 B2 R' F2 L B2 L2 F2 U2 - 5
B2 L' F2 D2 R2 D2 R2 B2 U' B' D L' U L' R2 F2 L2 B2 U2
solve 1
solve 2
solve 3
solve 4
solve 5
Race this final
Everyone who competed
84 competitors- Aarav Bansija
- Aarush Agrawal
- Aashna Agrawal
- Aayush Singh Shekhawat
- Abhiraj Tiwari
- Abhishek Sathyanarayanan
- Aditya Kher
- Aditya Mishra
- Akula Pavan Kumar
- Alefiya Hussain
- Aman Dhale
- Amritansh Jain
- Anantya Sewak
- Anita Relwani
- Anubhuti Gupta
- Ashwani Kumar Shivankar
- Avinash Sharma
- Chitra Makhija
- Dattatreya Chodavarapu
- Devansh Bansal
- Dhivij Daga
- Gaurav Bachani
- Gaurav Kumar
- Ghanshyam Sahu
- Hargun Kaur Chhabra
- Harrish U. Nair
- Harshvardhan Giri Goswami
- Hemansh Chandnani
- Hrishika Sahu
- Jai Kumar Relwani
- Jainendra Jain
- Jyoti Bharti
- Kabeer Aadtiya Shrivastava
- Kashvi Goel
- Krisha Agrawal
- Laksh Relwani
- Lata Jain
- Manthan Makhija
- Maulik Rathore
- Mohan Kumar Dewangan
- Mohit Agrawal
- Navya Kukreja
- Nidhi Bhoi
- Nischal Nori
- Nitesh Kumar Deshmukh
- Prabhau Bajpai
- Pranav Sahu
- Punyavardhan Baradia
- Raghav Toshniwal
- Rahul Hegde
- Raj Shekhar Lachoria
- Rajadhiraj Dewangan
- Rounak Digania
- Saksham Kumar Gahoi
- Samarth Jhabak
- Sarthak Masta
- Saurish Chandra
- Sayantan Maity
- Shailendra Sahu
- Shantanu Gupta
- Sharique Mahmood
- Shaurya Kumar Agrawal
- Shivam Dubey
- Shourya Upadhyay
- Shresth Agrawal
- Shreyan Kher
- Shreyan Maulik
- Shreyansh Shandilya
- Shubh Gupta
- Siddhi Parekh
- Sudhanshu Mishra
- Sunil Deshmukh
- Tushar Khodiyar
- Usha Kiran Agrawal
- Utkarsh Sunita Deshmukh
- Vaishnav Nitesh
- Varsha Sahu
- Varun Thakkar
- Varunraj Tushar Bhirud
- Vasuki Dubey
- Velidi Venkata Jagan Mohana Murali Krishna
- Vidhi Relwani
- Yash Prabodh Rajimwale
- Yashad Bambeshwar
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.