Competitions · India

Montfort Championship 2016

Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu · 26 November 2016 · 4 events · 98 competitors · 49 personal bests

Vijay Kishore won the 3×3 with a 9.45 and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Vijay Kishore by 1.04 seconds. 98 competitors produced 49 personal bests, 19 of which still stand today, and 61 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Vijay Kishore set the 3×3 single national record: 5.72.

events decided

1.04s

closest final — 3×3, Vijay Kishore over Rakesh M. Vaideeswaran

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Vijay Kishore	7.93	9.45
2×2	Naren Ramesh	2.08	2.41
4×4	Pritesh Lunkad	47.82	50.23
3×3 blindfolded	Hari Anirudh	30.68	—

The PB harvest

49 set · 19 still standing

Vijay Kishore — 3×3 single 5.72: into the top 0.34% of the event's history.
Karthikeyan Eswaran — 3×3 single 10.95: into the top 10.3% of the event's history.
Rishi Nandha — 2×2 single 2.75: into the top 11.5% of the event's history.
Geetha Madhavan Nilavan — 2×2 single 3.94: into the top 25.7% of the event's history.
Sakthivel Rajan — 3×3 single 16.96: into the top 30.9% of the event's history.
Sakthivel Rajan — 2×2 single 4.43: into the top 32.0% of the event's history.
Jameel Nawaz — 3×3 single 17.50: into the top 32.6% of the event's history.
Geetha Madhavan Nilavan — 3×3 single 21.08: into the top 42.9% of the event's history.

First-timers

61 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 17,946 people who made their debut in 2016. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

1 regional record was set at this competition.

The field

98 competitors · 217 results · 4 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. Vijay Kishore won it with a 9.45 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

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solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

98 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.