Competitions · Republic of Korea

KAIST Fall 2014

Daejeon · 27 December 2014 · 6 events · 70 competitors · 55 personal bests

Sungho Hong (홍성호) won two of the six events (3×3, 3×3 one-handed) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Sungho Hong (홍성호) by 0.04 seconds. 70 competitors produced 55 personal bests, 16 of which still stand today, and 27 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Sungho Hong (홍성호) set the 3×3 one-handed single national record: 12.12.

Two wins

Sungho Hong (홍성호) — 3×3, 3×3 one-handed

0.04s

closest final — 3×3, Sungho Hong (홍성호) over Jun-Hyuk Jang

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Sungho Hong (홍성호)	9.22	10.51
2×2	Jun-Hyuk Jang	2.08	2.59
5×5	SeungWook Eun (은승욱)	1:02.33	1:06.84
3×3 blindfolded	Jong-Ho Jeong (정종호)	53.78	—
3×3 one-handed	Sungho Hong (홍성호)	12.12	14.27
Skewb	Sun Woo Park (박선우)	4.04	4.63

The PB harvest

55 set · 16 still standing

SeungWook Eun (은승욱) — 3×3 single 7.51: into the top 2.0% of the event's history.
Jun-Hyuk Jang — 3×3 single 7.57: into the top 2.1% of the event's history.
Taewon Hwang (황태원) — 2×2 single 1.64: into the top 2.8% of the event's history.
Sun Woo Park (박선우) — 2×2 single 1.97: into the top 4.5% of the event's history.
SeungWook Eun (은승욱) — 2×2 single 2.49: into the top 8.8% of the event's history.
Ji Hoon Song (송지훈) — 3×3 single 11.65: into the top 12.7% of the event's history.
Eojin Jeon — 2×2 single 3.04: into the top 14.7% of the event's history.
Taewon Hwang (황태원) — 3×3 blindfolded single 1:07.76: into the top 15.5% of the event's history.

First-timers

27 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 9,275 people who made their debut in 2014. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

1 regional record was set at this competition.

The field

70 competitors · 283 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. Sungho Hong (홍성호) won it with a 10.51 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

70 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.