Competitions · Mexico

Minerva Zapopan 2025

Zapopan, Jalisco · 1 August 2025 · 16 events · 101 competitors · 174 personal bests

Luis Sinhue Medina Salas won three of the 16 events (Megaminx, 4×4 blindfolded, 5×5 blindfolded) and the closest final was the Pyraminx, won by Ricardo Iñiguez de la Torre by 0.08 seconds. 101 competitors produced 174 personal bests, 79 of which still stand today, and 20 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Mario Alberto López González took a 7×7 single of 8:59.61 down to 3:22.49, 62 percent better in one day.

Three wins

Luis Sinhue Medina Salas — Megaminx, 4×4 blindfolded, 5×5 blindfolded

0.08s

closest final — Pyraminx, Ricardo Iñiguez de la Torre over Christian Alexis Hurtado Lopez

174

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Yahir Iván Sánchez Sánchez	7.86	8.42
2×2	Iker Santiago Castro Parra	2.00	2.65
4×4	Fidel Urias Godínez	28.37	32.48
5×5	Eduardo Daniel Perez Miramontes	1:00.09	1:02.43
6×6	Christian Yael Rivera Rivera	1:42.56	1:47.81
7×7	Christian Yael Rivera Rivera	2:44.49	2:47.03
3×3 blindfolded	Kevin Gerard Castro Parra	43.43	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Salma Sydykov Méndez	27 moves	35.67
3×3 one-handed	Juan Bernardo Mora Alonso	13.20	13.97
Clock	Alvaro Perez Posas	4.13	4.39
Megaminx	Luis Sinhue Medina Salas	44.00	46.37
Pyraminx	Ricardo Iñiguez de la Torre	3.09	3.84
Skewb	Eric Zahid López Parra	2.63	3.01
Square-1	Leonardo Moisés Santamaria Reyes	10.77	12.19
4×4 blindfolded	Luis Sinhue Medina Salas	6:10.78	—
5×5 blindfolded	Luis Sinhue Medina Salas	12:59.00	—

The PB harvest

174 set · 79 still standing

Christofer Alejandro Aguirre Robledo — Pyraminx single 2.47: into the top 2.1% of the event's history.
Ariel Eduardo Cruz Martínez — 3×3 single 7.61: into the top 2.1% of the event's history.
Arturo Dubletti Artunduaga — Pyraminx single 2.64: into the top 2.6% of the event's history.
Eric Zahid López Parra — 3×3 single 8.20: into the top 3.1% of the event's history.
Diego Gualajara — Clock single 4.94: into the top 4.3% of the event's history.
Miguel Angel Zamorano Beltran — 2×2 single 1.93: into the top 4.3% of the event's history.
Carlos Alberto Hernández Montaño — 3×3 one-handed single 13.32: into the top 4.9% of the event's history.
Leonardo López Cianca — 3×3 single 9.11: into the top 5.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

20 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 28,483 people who made their debut in 2025. 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

101 competitors · 903 results · 16 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. Yahir Iván Sánchez Sánchez won it with a 8.42 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

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Race this final

Everyone who competed

101 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.