Competitions · China

Shenyang New Year 2019

Shenyang, Liaoning · 27 January 2019 · 8 events · 140 competitors · 165 personal bests

Weihao Kong (孔维浩) won the 3×3 with a 8.47 and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Shenjie Zhu (朱申杰) by 0.09 seconds. 140 competitors produced 165 personal bests, 88 of which still stand today, and 44 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Haoshi Li (李浩硕) took a 2×2 single of 16.98 down to 7.20, 58 percent better in one day.

events decided

0.09s

closest final — 2×2, Shenjie Zhu (朱申杰) over Yezhen Han (韩业臻)

165

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Weihao Kong (孔维浩)	7.94	8.47
2×2	Shenjie Zhu (朱申杰)	2.99	3.40
4×4	Shuyuan Zhang (张书源)	35.63	36.33
5×5	Pinhua Li (李品华)	1:12.47	1:17.06
3×3 blindfolded	Jiachi Han (韩佳池)	59.55	—
3×3 one-handed	Diwen Xu (许帝文)	12.09	13.56
Pyraminx	Jiaming Zhang (张嘉铭)	3.52	4.50
Skewb	Peixuan Shi (时培轩)	3.08	3.87

The PB harvest

165 set · 88 still standing

Chengda Ge (葛成达) — Skewb single 2.20: into the top 1.9% of the event's history.
Hang Zhou (周航) — Pyraminx single 2.40: into the top 1.9% of the event's history.
Pinhua Li (李品华) — 3×3 single 8.17: into the top 3.1% of the event's history.
Siyu Sun (孙思雨) — 3×3 single 9.02: into the top 4.9% of the event's history.
Zhengyi Zhang (张政一) — Skewb single 3.16: into the top 5.8% of the event's history.
Xiaojian Li (李晓健) — 3×3 single 9.93: into the top 7.3% of the event's history.
Zeqi Zhou (周泽岐) — 3×3 single 10.69: into the top 9.5% of the event's history.
Xiaolong Sun (孙晓龙) — 3×3 single 10.73: into the top 9.7% of the event's history.

First-timers

44 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 27,871 people who made their debut in 2019. 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

140 competitors · 621 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. Weihao Kong (孔维浩) won it with a 8.47 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

140 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.