Competitions · Chinese Taipei

Taiwan Championship 2016

Taipei · 29 October 2016 · 18 events · 143 competitors · 216 personal bests

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) won three of the 18 events (3×3, 3×3 one-handed, Skewb) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) by 0.10 seconds. 143 competitors produced 216 personal bests, 39 of which still stand today, and 34 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Jia-Hong Lu (陸嘉宏) set the 4×4 blindfolded single national record: 5:03.20.

Three wins

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) — 3×3, 3×3 one-handed, Skewb

0.10s

closest final — 3×3, Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) over Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)

216

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	7.34	7.99
2×2	Yan-Hung Lai (賴彥宏)	1.48	2.27
4×4	Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)	29.31	32.55
5×5	Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)	53.58	59.55
6×6	Jen Yuan Chen (陳楨元)	2:01.00	2:08.93
7×7	Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡)	3:02.57	3:06.31
3×3 blindfolded	Jia-Hong Lu (陸嘉宏)	49.54	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Baiqiang Dong (董百强)	29 moves	—
3×3 one-handed	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	11.08	12.60
Clock	Shao-Heng Hung (洪紹恆)	5.41	7.41
Megaminx	Ping-Yueh Huang (黃品越)	47.41	55.31
Pyraminx	Chia-Liang Tai (戴嘉良)	3.24	3.64
Skewb	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	3.81	4.87
Square-1	Rui-Jun Liu (劉睿鈞)	11.38	11.73
4×4 blindfolded	Jia-Hong Lu (陸嘉宏)	5:03.20	—
5×5 blindfolded	Jia-Hong Lu (陸嘉宏)	12:52.00	—
3×3 Multi-Blind	Rodrigo Zarate	10 of 10 cubes · 56:00	—
3×3 with feet	Shao-Heng Hung (洪紹恆)	45.87	55.28

The PB harvest

216 set · 39 still standing

Jun-Rui Rao (饒峻睿) — 2×2 single 1.23: into the top 1.1% of the event's history.
Mok Man Kit (莫文傑) — 2×2 single 1.38: into the top 1.6% of the event's history.
Shi-Xun Zhou (周世勳) — 3×3 single 7.56: into the top 2.1% of the event's history.
Chun-Hsien Wu (吳俊賢) — 3×3 single 8.71: into the top 4.2% of the event's history.
Chih-Kai Wu (吳之凱) — Megaminx single 52.84: into the top 6.4% of the event's history.
Chih-Kai Wu (吳之凱) — 3×3 single 10.50: into the top 9.0% of the event's history.
Pei-Yin Tien (田沛茵) — 2×2 single 2.68: into the top 10.7% of the event's history.
Jen Yuan Chen (陳楨元) — 6×6 single 2:01.00: into the top 11.4% of the event's history.

First-timers

34 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

16 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

143 competitors · 1143 results · 18 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. Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) won it with a 7.99 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

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solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

143 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.