Competitions · China

Shenzhen Open 2023

Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · 24 December 2023 · 6 events · 186 competitors · 164 personal bests

Shuda Huang (黄黍达) won the 3×3 with a 6.94 and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Shuda Huang (黄黍达) by 0.15 seconds. 186 competitors produced 164 personal bests, 63 of which still stand today, and 39 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Zijian Cai (蔡子健) set the 4×4 single national record: 19.78.

events decided

0.15s

closest final — 3×3, Shuda Huang (黄黍达) over Zijian Cai (蔡子健)

164

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Shuda Huang (黄黍达)	6.61	6.94
2×2	Jack Pan (潘杰康)	1.30	1.67
4×4	Ivan Li Ka Leong (李嘉亮)	22.63	24.42
3×3 one-handed	Xiangmin Zhou (周向民)	8.26	10.84
Megaminx	Ziyu Wu (吴子钰)	29.18	29.84
Skewb	Jiawen Liu (刘佳雯)	2.70	2.93

The PB harvest

164 set · 63 still standing

Shuda Huang (黄黍达) — 2×2 single 0.90: into the top 0.38% of the event's history.
Zhaohong Huang (黄兆鸿) — 3×3 single 6.63: into the top 0.96% of the event's history.
Jiale Li (李家乐) — 3×3 single 7.84: into the top 2.5% of the event's history.
Jingming Xu (许菁铭) — 3×3 single 7.97: into the top 2.7% of the event's history.
Yubin Du (杜宇斌) — 3×3 single 8.11: into the top 3.0% of the event's history.
Jiacheng Cai (蔡嘉成) — 3×3 single 8.13: into the top 3.0% of the event's history.
Bohan Zhuang (庄博涵) — 3×3 single 8.80: into the top 4.4% of the event's history.
Jinxuan Ni (倪锦旋) — 3×3 one-handed single 13.04: into the top 4.5% of the event's history.

First-timers

39 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

3 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

186 competitors · 766 results · 6 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. Shuda Huang (黄黍达) won it with a 6.94 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

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solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

186 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.