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Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025

New Taipei City · 9 November 2025 · 1 events · 417 competitors · 119 personal bests

Gilbert Chen (陳牧灼) won the 3×3 with a 6.49 and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Gilbert Chen (陳牧灼) by 1.03 seconds. 417 competitors produced 119 personal bests, 60 of which still stand today, and 164 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Yi-Cheng Wang (王翊丞) took a 3×3 single of 1:27.08 down to 38.24, 56 percent better in one day.

events decided

1.03s

closest final — 3×3, Gilbert Chen (陳牧灼) over Wei-Chen Hsieh (謝維宸)

119

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Gilbert Chen (陳牧灼)	5.93	6.49

The PB harvest

119 set · 60 still standing

Wei-Chen Hsieh (謝維宸) — 3×3 single 5.50: into the top 0.25% of the event's history.
Kai-Xuan Lin (林楷軒) — 3×3 single 5.57: into the top 0.27% of the event's history.
Chih-Hsiang Yang (楊志翔) — 3×3 single 5.65: into the top 0.31% of the event's history.
Thierry Orland Hung (洪蒂威) — 3×3 single 6.02: into the top 0.49% of the event's history.
Yen-An Chen (陳彥安) — 3×3 single 6.07: into the top 0.53% of the event's history.
James Sebastian Lintong — 3×3 single 6.30: into the top 0.69% of the event's history.
Ting-Yu Tung (董庭佑) — 3×3 single 7.66: into the top 2.2% of the event's history.
Shao-Hua Bai (白少華) — 3×3 single 7.82: into the top 2.5% of the event's history.

First-timers

164 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

417 competitors · 582 results · 1 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. Gilbert Chen (陳牧灼) won it with a 6.49 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

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solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

417 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.