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Competitions · Chinese Taipei

Mingdao Cube Carnival 2014

Taichung · 15 June 2014 · 8 events · 42 competitors · 62 personal bests

Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) won four of the eight events (3×3, 2×2, 4×4) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) by 0.02 seconds. 42 competitors produced 62 personal bests, 16 of which still stand today, and nine people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A continental record

Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) set the 4×4 single continental record: 28.09.

Four wins
Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) — 3×3, 2×2, 4×4, 3×3 one-handed
0.02s
closest final — 2×2, Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) over Hao-Zheng Lin (林浩正)
62
personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

EventWinnerSingleAverage
3×3Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)9.339.75
2×2Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)2.223.53
4×4Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)28.0934.74
5×5Yueh-Lin Tsai (蔡岳霖)1:06.341:10.57
3×3 blindfoldedChi-Lun Hung (洪啟倫)40.08
3×3 one-handedYi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)12.9515.65
MegaminxChung-Han Hsu (許鍾瀚)1:19.351:27.81
PyraminxHsiu-Lin Chuang (莊修霖)4.835.12

The PB harvest

62 set · 16 still standing

First-timers

Nine 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

5 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

42 competitors · 269 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. Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) won it with a 9.75 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

42 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.