Competitions · India

mcubes Cube Open 2023

Trivandrum, Kerala · 29 July 2023 · 8 events · 67 competitors · 71 personal bests

Muhammed Shehzad Khan won two of the eight events (3×3, 3×3 blindfolded) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Muhammed Shehzad Khan by 0.12 seconds. 67 competitors produced 71 personal bests, 27 of which still stand today, and 25 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Philip Philip took a 3×3 single of 59.56 down to 16.01, 73 percent better in one day.

Two wins

Muhammed Shehzad Khan — 3×3, 3×3 blindfolded

0.12s

closest final — 3×3, Muhammed Shehzad Khan over Dhyan C P

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Muhammed Shehzad Khan	9.52	9.77
2×2	VJ Raghav Vidya Sagar	1.91	2.59
4×4	Aman Abdulsalam	36.27	37.33
3×3 blindfolded	Muhammed Shehzad Khan	1:34.77	1:50.10
3×3 one-handed	Sulaiman Mohammed Kabeer	14.63	19.08
Megaminx	Mohamed Bilal	1:00.94	1:04.27
Pyraminx	Viswath Kumaraa Kesavaraj	1.63	2.46
Skewb	Ritesh R Nair	3.34	4.69

The PB harvest

71 set · 27 still standing

Dhyan C P — 3×3 single 7.53: into the top 2.0% of the event's history.
Kedar Sekhar — 2×2 single 1.58: into the top 2.5% of the event's history.
Ratheesh Gnanadoss Maniraj — 3×3 single 8.44: into the top 3.6% of the event's history.
VJ Raghav Vidya Sagar — Pyraminx single 3.19: into the top 4.3% of the event's history.
Nithish Raju — Skewb single 3.84: into the top 9.8% of the event's history.
Madhav Ajith Prasad — 3×3 single 10.84: into the top 10.0% of the event's history.
Viswath Kumaraa Kesavaraj — Megaminx single 1:05.11: into the top 12.8% of the event's history.
Ananth Dharmaraju — 2×2 single 3.09: into the top 15.3% of the event's history.

First-timers

25 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

67 competitors · 333 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. Muhammed Shehzad Khan won it with a 9.77 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

67 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.