Competitions · Chinese Taipei

Maru X 2018

Tainan · 30 June 2018 · 14 events · 153 competitors · 167 personal bests

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) won five of the 14 events (3×3, 2×2, 4×4) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) by 0.12 seconds. 153 competitors produced 167 personal bests, 48 of which still stand today, and 49 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) set the 3×3 blindfolded single national record: 23.88.

Five wins

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) — 3×3, 2×2, 4×4, 6×6, 3×3 blindfolded

0.12s

closest final — 2×2, Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) over Jun-Rui Rao (饒峻睿)

167

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	6.53	7.45
2×2	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	1.55	2.57
4×4	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	24.84	29.99
5×5	Ping-Yueh Huang (黃品越)	46.42	58.47
6×6	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	1:44.25	1:53.62
7×7	Kuo-Hau Wu (吳國豪)	2:31.79	2:41.10
3×3 blindfolded	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	23.88	—
3×3 one-handed	Ping-Yueh Huang (黃品越)	12.24	13.33
Clock	Chao-Che Chung (鍾肇哲)	8.11	9.63
Megaminx	Shun-Hsin Chang (張舜欣)	46.31	47.86
Pyraminx	Chia-Liang Tai (戴嘉良)	3.21	3.97
Skewb	Chao-Che Chung (鍾肇哲)	3.66	4.26
Square-1	Chung-Han Hsu (許鍾瀚)	12.16	15.40
3×3 with feet	Hua-Ting Lee (李華庭)	53.24	1:02.49

The PB harvest

167 set · 48 still standing

Adrianus Leoputra (洪海朧) — 3×3 single 7.14: into the top 1.5% of the event's history.
Chia-Liang Tai (戴嘉良) — Square-1 single 8.67: into the top 4.0% of the event's history.
Nien-Ping Chen (陳念平) — 3×3 single 8.70: into the top 4.2% of the event's history.
Wei-Qi Liu (劉緯騏) — 3×3 single 9.09: into the top 5.1% of the event's history.
Ciao-Yin Yang (楊喬尹) — Pyraminx single 3.49: into the top 5.4% of the event's history.
Pei-Yu Huang (黃培瑜) — Skewb single 3.19: into the top 6.0% of the event's history.
Jia-He Lai (賴佳禾) — 4×4 single 34.44: into the top 6.2% of the event's history.
Ting-Xian Lin (林廷縣) — 2×2 single 2.45: into the top 8.4% of the event's history.

First-timers

49 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 26,076 people who made their debut in 2018. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

5 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

153 competitors · 901 results · 14 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. Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) won it with a 7.45 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

153 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.